Monday, June 2, 2008

FLDS: Good day and bad day...

It is truly great news that the FLDS children will be returning to their parents! It is sad and angering that the parents were held hostage by their own government in order to get their children back. Sign an agreement to abrogate their own civil rights or don't get their children back. Talk about choice...

After what the Sheriff claimed was 4 years of investigation with an inside informant, over 2 months of intense investigation after the raid, search, and confiscation of materials from the ranch, and after over 2 months of questioning of children, often without their parents or an appropriate legal guardian present, there is zero evidence of abuse of any kind for the vast majority of the families. In only 2 families is there any evidence of any kind of abuse and that evidence is shaky.

What we do have evidence of is a lot of lying by Texas authorities regarding what evidence they had, how many underage children were pregnant or had already born children, ...

More later...

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