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00:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8h4SOwWXdc&NR=1%22
Watch this and tell me if you share the HORROR and DISGUST.
00:10
There needs to be a whole category for the CPS gestapo raid in Texas.
Here is one ladies blog site with incredible photos of the Texas Gestapo in action:
July 3, 2008
15:19
July 1, 2008
00:16
FLDS handmade Children's Clothing
00:14
http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_9737603
By Brooke Adams - The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/30/2008 08:47:40 AM MDT
ELDORADO, Texas - A new clothing brand may be born out of the Texas raid on a polygamous sect.
FLDS women for the first time are offering their handmade, distinctive style of children's clothes to the public through the Web site
FLDS Dress
Launched initially to provide Texas authorities with clothing for FLDS children in custody, the online store now is aimed at helping their mothers earn a living.
The venture, which has already drawn queries from throughout the U.S., is banking on interest in modest clothes, curiosity and charity to be a success.
00:03
The raid at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints polygamist compound in Texas has drawn national attention in recent weeks. In fact there are several similar Mormon fundamentalist sects scattered throughout the western U.S. The reason for these polygamist splinter groups today is due to followers of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, taking his revelation seriously: live polygamy or be damned.
June 30, 2008
22:31
http://www.johntfloyd.com/blog/2008/06/10/flds-a-look-at-an-unnecessary-...
Swift Justice? Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John Floyd Opines on the FLDS Debacle
This column has examined the FLDS case extensively since the military-style raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas on April 3, 2008. There are two things that stand out about this tragic case: First, the raid was totally unnecessary and most certainly unlawful; and, second, the financial cost to the state of Texas is a staggering $7 million and the emotional cost to the FLDS parents and children is immeasurable.
22:09
This lawyer has a good legal opinion of the law violations of the CPS in the FLDS raid.
Interesting page:
http://www.johntfloyd.com/comments/may08/05a.htm
FLDS: A TEXAS-SIZED LEGAL DILEMMA
Houston Criminal Defense Attorney John T. Floyd Continues the Discussion about Government Raid at Yearning For Zion and the Potential Criminal Charges to be Filed Against FLDS Members
21:53
LIKE I SAID BEFORE, TEXAS SHOULD BE FISCALLY BLED FOR TRAMPLING THE CONSTITUTION.
HANG 'EM HIGH!
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700239409,00.html
The tiny county that has been the eye of the storm over the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch says it could go bankrupt if the state of Texas doesn't indemnify it against millions of dollars in bills.
chleicher County recently passed a resolution declaring that it has limited financial resources and its taxpayers are burdened beyond their means by the raid's extraordinary costs. The resolution says Texas Child Protective Services instituted "a costly procedure without the knowledge of Schleicher County against residents," and county officials have no way of controlling it.
21:18
Wow! Mr. Savage tells it like it is!
He nails the YELLOW JOURNALISTS AND TEXAS RANGERS. He is also objective. Take a listen:
02:34
http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_9720101
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 06/27/2008 01:26:37 PM MDT
Posted: 1:25 PM- AUSTIN, Texas - The head of the Texas agency behind the seizure of more than 400 children from a polygamist group announced Friday that he is retiring.
The news release announcing Carey Cockerell's retirement as commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services offered no reason for his departure, but he said in the announcement that he had been thinking about stepping down since late last year.
"I'll soon be a grandfather and I'm looking forward to a lot of quality time with my family after four decades of working in state and local programs," said Cockerell, 61.
June 27, 2008
23:03
In the 50's a black man in Alabama drank from a water fountain labeled 'WHITES ONLY'.
The man was arrested. The town ran water out of the pipes to flush out any black contaminants. The towns people called for strict enforcement of the separate but 'equal' laws in their town. The man paid a fine after a sham trial and with no due process.
The attack of the government against polygamists is parallel to this in many respects:
1. Bigotry - the Flora Jessops of the world hate polygamists of any flavor...even secular consenting polygamists. This is pure bigotry.
2. Irrational - the government is making irrational claims about polygamists and paints with a broad brush in a manner experienced by blacks during that magnificent 'separate but equal' time.
22:34
"...Asked if it was just about wanting sex with more women, the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as saying: "Yeah it can be, but having it in the right way instead of having it in like go to prostitute or just date."
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=77105
Sydney, June 24 : The wife of the president of an Islamic representative body in Australia, has said that polygamy is fine and acceptable as long as it is done in the right way.
Mrs Keysar Trad, the wife of Keysar Trad, president of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, said many people in polygamous marriages kept it a secret - not only because it was illegal, but because society did not accept it.
22:32
"...I believe that it is appropriate to congratulate the UK government for going beyond the hysteria and looking earnestly at the needs of those minority of women who enter such relationships."
http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20080625-UK-is-right-to-recognise-poly...
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Keysar Trad, founder of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, writes:
Yesterday afternoon, the Australian media seemed abuzz with headlines about Muslims calling for the legalisation of polygamy. Articles ran on at least three Australian news websites of which I became personally aware, and by this morning, the international media had bought into the debate.
22:27
http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-sheik-backs-calls-to-legalis...
Wish our country would follow the UK.
* Barney Zwartz and Sarah Smiles
* June 26, 2008
THE leader of Melbourne's Somali community yesterday backed calls for polygamy to be made legal, as an Islamic women's organisation said it was on the rise in Victoria.
African community leader Berhan Ahmed estimated there were perhaps 20 polygamous families in Melbourne's African community, mostly Somalis and mostly refugees.
Two Sydney Muslims, Sheik Khalil Chami and Islamic Friendship Association president Keysar Trad, ignited a debate when they said that some imams were performing polygamous marriages, which should be recognised.
21:28
LOCAL NEWS
Friday, June 27, 2008 4:24 PM
By: Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Mormon church has largely stayed on the sidelines as authorities investigate a polygamist sect in West Texas.
The mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Thursday launched a public relations campaign that seeks a delicate balance.
The Mormon church is trying to distinguish itself from a small, separate group that claims some of the same history -- while not denigrating someone else's beliefs.
The initiative details how it considers its 19th century practice of polygamy different from present-day practitioners like the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
June 26, 2008
20:07
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 25 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressing a constitutional riddle almost as old as the republic over what it means to say the people may keep and bear arms.
The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and imperiled similar prohibitions in other cities, Chicago and San Francisco among them. Federal gun restrictions, however, were expected to remain largely intact.
The court's historic awakening on the meaning of the Second Amendment brought a curiously mixed response, muted in some unexpected places.
19:57
By Thomas Ferraro
Wed Jun 25, 7:18 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House-backed spy bill to protect telecommunication companies from billions of dollars in possible privacy lawsuits passed a Senate test vote on Wednesday and headed toward final congressional approval.
On a vote of 80-15, mostly Republican supporters of the bipartisan measure, which would also implement the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. spy laws in decades, easily mustered the 60 needed to clear a Democratic procedural roadblock.
Overwhelmingly approved by the House of Representatives on Friday, the bill may win needed Senate concurrence before Congress begins a holiday break the end of this week.
19:52
By Lisa Hinojosa (Contact)
Originally published 04:19 a.m., June 26, 2008
Updated 04:19 a.m., June 26, 2008
The shelter that temporarily housed 17 children and four young women removed in April from a polygamist ranch in West Texas has announced that a former resident from a polygamy sect in Utah will serve as guest speaker at the annual fundraiser.
Kathy Nicholson is scheduled to speak at the Sept. 18 gala for the Ark Assessment Center and Emergency Shelter for Youth.
"When we had the children here (from the polygamist ranch), people were asking questions about the lifestyle that I can't answer, but she can," said Delma Trejo, executive director and administrator for the Ark.
19:50
A Texas court heard five hours of debate on a judge's alleged bias, an attorney's conduct and if a teenager from a polygamous sect could make her own decisions.
Teresa Jeffs, 16, was weary as she left the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo.
"I'm sick of everything," she said to a reporter from The Salt Lake Tribune after clashing with her own attorney, Natalie Malonis.
The hearing addressed Malonis' successful request for extension of a temporary restraining order barring contact between Jeffs and Willie Jessop, a spokesman for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Malonis alleges Jessop is interfering in her relationship with her client.
