That is a good question, and would best be answered by the man who was accussed of it, the man whos wife and children were taken from him. I don't know of any crime of "wanting" listed in the law of our country.
You're assuming that these women are first and foremost ignorant. From that assumption, you desire to reeducate them. From your first assumption, the women can only be intellectually inferior to you, and or savages. Otherwise, you'd see no reason for âreeducationâ.
If your saying I desire to reeducate them, that would mean you are saying I believe them to be educated already. That would mean if I believe them to be educated already, than I do not believe them to be ignorant. Since it is proven that the women and men of this community do obey the word of their prophet, and when that prophet tells them they must dispose of their son outside of their home, or that their daughter must marry a man she may not want to be with, than I believe their religion is asking them to commit a crime. It might not be a crime in their religion, but it is a crime in the country they live in. So do the laws of religion have more power than the laws of a country? I am 100% for freedom of religion, I don't see my opinion about this as religious persecution.
If you read the article again, the word "wanting" was in an affidavit quoting the man whos wife and children were taken from him. The man himself used the word to answer why he was told to leave his job, then his wife and children reassigned to another man. And no matter what the meaning of "wanting" is" what law in our country allows a mans wife and children to be reassigned to another man?
No, I'm saying you are full of assumptions. You have to reevaluate your assumptions, or at least acknowledge them, before you can discover where the line between fact and fiction becomes blurred.
Ok chuck ells, first I will try to find out what my assumptions are, then if I find any, I will discover the line between fact and fiction. I will tell you an assumption I am guilty of. I assume many of the women and men of the ranch are peaceful, hardworking, god fearing and god loving people. When they do a savage act such as leaving their minor son on a street in a town he has never been to, (and this not assumption but proven fact) when all his life he has been told the outsiders are evil, but now he is put with the evil ones to fend for himself and left by his parents, I wouldn't call those people savage becasue they performed a savage act. Why? Becasue in their minds it is what the prophet wanted, and they love their prophet and obey their prophet becasue this is what they are taught to do. I am logging off to make dinner now.
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas officials told legislators Wednesday that they're investigating the possible sexual abuse of some young boys taken from a polygamist sect's ranch, as well as broken bones among other children. ADVERTISEMENT The disclosures are the first suggestions that anyone other than teenage girls may have been sexually or physically abused at the ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon sect. In written and oral testimony provided to lawmakers Wednesday, officials with the state Department of Family and Protective Services said interviews and journal entries suggested that boys may have been sexually abused. Earlier, the department's commissioner, Carey Cockerell, told lawmakers that at least 41 children, some of them "very young," have evidence of broken bones. The state has custody of 464 children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch in the west Texas prairie town of Eldorado, including a baby born to a teen mother Tuesday. Although Cockerell didn't elaborate on the broken bones, a report by his department's Child Protective Services division said medical exams and interviews indicated "that at least 41 children have had broken bones in the past." "We do not have X-rays or complete medical information on many children so it is too early to draw any conclusions based on this information, but it is cause for concern and something we'll continue to examine," the CPS report said. The state Senate Health and Human Services Committee's hearing on Texas' foster care system had been planned for Wednesday before the April 3 raid on the ranch. But for the morning part of the hearing, the polygamous sect took center stage. The state has been criticized for taking all the children from the ranch, including infants and boys, on the theory that the girls may be abused when they are teens. State authorities raided the ranch in search of evidence of underage girls being forced into polygamous marriages. Since then, the state won temporary custody of the children, now scattered around the state in group foster-care facilities. FLDS spokesman Rod Parker called Cockerell's testimony "a deliberate effort to mislead the public." Although the ranch has a small medical facility, Parker said any broken bones would have been treated away from the ranch and that doctors are required to report suspected abuse. Parker said state officials were "trying to politically inoculate themselves from the consequences of this horrible tragedy." Cockerell told a legislative committee the investigation has been difficult because members of the church have refused to cooperate. Mothers who stayed with their children for two weeks after the raid launched a coordinated effort to stymie investigators, coaching their children to not answer questions, Cockerell said. He said the women and children would gather into apparent family units, with the children referring to several women as their mother, then the "women switched children in these family units ... making it difficult." "When asked, women and children would change their names and ages," he said. The CPS report also said authorities "tried to use bracelets to identify children, but the women and children removed the bracelets or rubbed the wording off them." The report also said mothers at first refused to let the children undergo basic health screenings and that "many" teen girls declined to take pregnancy tests. On Monday, CPS announced that almost 60 percent of the underage girls living on the Eldorado ranch are pregnant or already have children. Under Texas law, children under the age of 17 generally cannot consent to sex with an adult. A girl can get married with parental permission at 16, but none of the sect's girls is believed to have had a legal marriage under state law. Church officials have denied that any children were abused at the ranch and say the state's actions are a form of religious persecution. They also dispute the count of teen mothers, saying at least some are likely adults. ___
If you read my post again, you'll see the words âjustification to take actionâ, which puts the post in clear context. What law prohibits a wife and children from being âreassignedâ? Are we ASSUMING that the wife was unwilling?
Broken Bones. I'm begining to understand the situation. I can violate the constitution and prevent broken bones, this is the only way I can get some sleep. I can go to jail and and least live with myself On the other hand, others can put me in jail for violating the constituion, so they too can live with themselves and get some sleep. America is a great country. We both can do what we want. You're happy, I'm happy (of course I'm in jail but this is beside the point). No more broken bones.