Willie Jessop, head of a group called Mothers and Children of YFZ, has written a letter dated May 10 (full text) to President George W. Bush. The letter has been posted on the "Captive FLDS Children" website. The letter begins:
We appeal to you, as President of the United States of America and Leader of the Free World, to intercede in behalf of an American community which has been invaded and devastated by an armed militant force. Mr. President, it does not require a foreign country to commit terrorist acts on American soil. Terrorist acts can be committed by federal, local, and private entities that are operating under the guise of “protecting the public.”Near the end of his 10-page letter, Jessop says:
It has been customary for a President to visit the site of a disaster of this magnitude where so many innocent people are involved.... We personally invite you, First Lady Laura Bush, and members of your staff to visit the YFZ community and witness firsthand the site of these gross violations of human rights that have occurred in your peaceful neighboring west-Texas community. Reunite these children with their loving parents, and return families to their homes!Deseret News says the letter was hand delivered to President Bush's staff yesterday near the Bush ranch in Texas where the President was attending the wedding of his daughter Jenna.
We call upon you to ... hold accountable those who perpetrated these acts of terror and now are determined to save the state from embarrassment by selectively prosecuting members of the FLDS faith.
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Good luck to them with that. Bush won't even see that letter. His handlers will make sure it never sees the light of day. And if it hadn't been posted on their website, they'd deny it ever existed.
And I can't imagine the "authorities" in Texas are gonna be too pleased to be called terrorists, either.
I don't know why Bushies would deny the letter existed or suppress it.
I'm sure he easily and comfortably upholds the law on this one.
It scares me to think that the U.S. government can terrorize anyone at any time. Al-Kida can`t even do that.
Homes invaded by men with big guns, children taken - what else can you call it but terrorism?
Seems like the 'govenment' in American do whatever it wants to the people they just need to shout a few fear words.
- polygamy
- child abuse
- terrorist
- drug dealer
I think its high time a few were shouted back -
- gestapo
I love reading about this shit. Finally FLDS has been exposed and is now the laughing stock of the western world.
To try and deflect some of the attention away from FLDS by pulling Bush and 'terrorism' into it is the move of amateurs. The only people fooled by this is other narrow-minded hillbillies that think it is cool to keep harems.
Make no mistake. I am no fan of Bush and I think most of his policies just suck. But compared to the child-romping free-for-all lifestyle showed by FLDS, Bush looks like an innocent 12 year old.
By the way, 400+ children. Hello!! These kids did not came to be from devine intervention. They were conceived by horny old men with miniture tools in their sheds and to musch time on their hands. Absolutely disgusting!!
This is the work of the state of Texas at it's finest. Gross miscarriage of justice. I can't wait to see what this will cost Texas.
Do these people act in your daily life do they DESERVE your energy. If they want to they can WALK away. WHO FUCKING cares what goes on in the hillybilly fucking part of texas.
I care. I would not want polygamy to spread and it surely will with their birth rates. Think of the eventual potential of inbreeding --with so many of the offspring coming from a handful of fathers.
this is against our laws, end of story --the marriage laws have good purpose behind them.
Anon, language, hm? And wipe your chin. You're out of control.
"I care."
Why? What impact would it have on you? Why should you care about what other people choose to do in their own lives?
"Inbreeding" is a feeble excuse. There is not much in the way of evidence that it's a prevalent pattern among polyamorists, anymore than it's considered to be prevalent among the citizens of Tennessee or Arkansas or Alaska or anywhere else. It's not a cultural norm. As a matter of fact, since most polyamory groups are agrarian in nature, they are more aware of the dangers of inbreeding than you are, and they take steps to avoid it.
"...against our laws, end of story..."
Again, feeble. It used to be against our laws to do a lot of things. But cultures evolve and change with time, and people change their minds and ideas to suit themselves.
You will never be forced into a polyamory society, Barb, so why are you so invested in preventing anyone else from making that choice if they want to?
I'm getting tired of saying it over and over --
I think it's unfair to women
I don't want a society where all the men think they are entitled to multiple and ever-younger wives as they age
I don't want the risk of the in-breeding. Don't kid yourself, chimera, that it wouldn't become a problem or that polygamy wouldn't become popular if men could only convince themselves it was OK ---even moral and religious.
The idea that it is immoral and too expensive and women's opposition keeps many from favoring it in law, I'm sure.
I don't want to live in the messy, loosey goosey society that your low standards would create Chimera.
"I think it's unfair to women."
But who are you, that you think you have the right to speak for other women? What if those other women think it's just fine with them? What if they disagree with you about what's fair?
I think you're speaking for yourself. You think it would be unfair to you if your husband were to take another wife. And that's fine. That's between you and your husband. You fix it between you. Nobody is gonna force you to accept another wife.
But keep away from "fixing" what ain't broke in someone else's life.
"I'm getting tired of saying it over and over."
Then think before you talk for everyone. You can only speak for yourself. You don't get to speak for all. Nobody does.
"I don't want to live in the messy, loosey goosey society that your low standards would create Chimera."
It would only be "messy" if people continue to refuse to mind their own business and leave other people alone.
Low standards, high standards -- how about individual standards? Subjectivity for everyone. You get to live the way you want and I get to live the way I want. How could that possibly impact negatively on you?
People's immoral life choices DO affect the rest of us. OUr kids are told to approve these other lifestyles so it becomes difficult to raise our children in what we view as a wholesome moral climate.
I can't guarantee that they won't come under the corrosive deceiving influence of homosexuals, people shacked up without marriage, porn, prostitutes beckoning, sex clubs beckoning. That's why the Hebrews were so separatist --Samson was tempted by the women and ways of the Philistines --to his peril. that's one reason why God was angry with Solomon for HIS immorality--with it he brought pagan wives and concubines and their idols into Israel. Sin is contagious.
However, since Pentecost, some Christians do have the indwelling Holy Spirit who makes us temptation-proof in the morals department--but children and youth and the weak-willed and uncommitted are vulnerable to temptation and deceit, seduction and molestation --and evil examples.
One has to desire and seek the Holy Spirit to be temptation-proof. and our kids hear another message from media --that sin is more fun than the joy of discipleship--and everyone is doing IT --before they have a chance to know how good they have it as Christian-raised kids--before they've experienced the fullness of the Spirit in Christ. Certain sins are addictive --including illicit sex and using drugs including alcohol to excess-- and nicotine.
Also, individual subjective standards of morality overlook the fact that some lifestyles are posing public health hazards and pockets of poverty and dysfunction in our nation--which cost all of us --on several levels--more juvenile delinquency, more drug addiction, more emotional illness, more fatherless kids, more divorce, more transiency for school kids, more physical diseases --even death.
Mind your own business --and observe what kind of culture we inherit for future generations.
"People's immoral life choices DO affect the rest of us."
"Immoral" is subjective, and can be interpretted differently by every person on earth. That which is "moral" to you (such as prying into other peoples' lives and telling them how they must live) is immoral to someone else. So let's dump that word and see what's left:
"People's life choices DO affect the rest of us."
Only if you don't mind your own business.
No, you are wrong about choices not affecting the rest of us -- and I explained that above on another topic -- the Cynthia Dixon case.
I don't "pry" into other people's lives as you allege. I will tell you what the Bible says is moral vs. immoral if the topic is being discussed --as it is sure to be on the "religion clause" blog. But I'm not nosing into your private life.
I said life choices. Not just choices.
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