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Friday, May 09, 2008 --- 75 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Leatherneckm31/~3/283434874/oddz-unt-endz.html
| As soon as I read that the basis of the Gestapo-like raid on a fundamentalist sect down in Eldorado last month was triggered by an anonymous, false report of sexual assault, I knew the charges were unlikely to stick. So it was no surprise to learn today that the arrest warrant for a man thought to be the "husband" of "a teenage girl" which triggered the now-infamous raid on the compound of the polygamous sect--Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS)--has been dismissed. Let me digress to point out to the nation's numbskulls that this is not the LDS which had banned polygamy more than 100 years ago and often referred to as "Mormons". (Sub-text note: if you're gonna run around calling people "African-Americans" when it's an absolute misnomer... know that the word "mormon" is seldom used... legally and officially it's The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Anyway, an FLDS spokesman, said the now-vanished warrant shows the weakness of the state's case against residents of the ranch. "I think that's just one more piece of evidence that the whole basis on which this raid was premised was unfounded and was inadequately checked out, to the formulation of what basically amounted to an army that went in there and took their children," the spokesman said. The only result in this debacle so far is that since the April 3 raid, in which state welfare workers terrorized and traumatized, and forcibly removed 464 c ... |
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