Texas Did NOT Have A Right To...

[DaGip]

Yep! Finally, some justice in America. Texas had absolutely NO right to bust into the FDLS complex and kidnap children...I smell lawsuits galore!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/22/fld ... nnSTCVideo

[Dancing Mustard]

I shagged Texas' mum last night.

[Balsiefen]

Rather strange people but definatly not worth that. Sometimes the law tends to act before thinking.

[got tonkaed]

it will be interesting to see how it all eventually winds up, i cant imagine they are going to be able to provide much in the way of legal basis for each individual case, which seems to be how the council representing the mothers seems to be trying to direct the case toward.

[InkL0sed]

Texas did NOT have a right to George Bush, however it had a perfect right to Alamo and to possum.

[muy_thaiguy]

Texas did NOT have a right to George Bush, however it had a perfect right to Alamo and to possum.

Yeah! That's Connecticut.

[DaGip]

Texas authorities acted on no evidence, only a faked phone call. That means that I can call the authorities in Texas, make up some wacky shit, and the police can march into your private property without a warrant and arrest you or take away your children...all from a single phone call with NO EVIDENCE to back it up. People are just that paranoid and prejudiced about the FDLS that they were just willing to jump to conclusions. Not every single case is a child abuse or rape case. Most were just honest families that did nothing wrong EXCEPT belonging to a nutty church.

This is why all peoples need to convert to 'Gippism, the world would be a much better and loving place!

I mean, you can pray to Allah in the morning, meditate on the Buddha in the afternoon, ask for forgiveness from Jesus in the evening, and eat BBQ ribs on Saturday! You must learn to play the didjeridoo, however. It's just one of those things that is expected from all my new converts.

Here is a video to prepare you for entering into your new life as a DaGippite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivymRS3iEZk

[cmckinney]

Texas reserves the right to do whatever the hell it wants to. Got it?

[Frigidus]

Texas is one of those "Yee-haw" states that I can't stand.

[DaGip]

Texas is one of those "Yee-haw" states that I can't stand.

You must watch this video then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhne ... re=related

[MeDeFe]

No evidence you say? Not quite, there is some evidence that things not in accordance with the law went on at that ranch, let me quote the article.

After interviewing five minors who were or had been pregnant, CPS removed all of the children, based on the assumption that the community's belief system allowed minor females to marry and bear children, lawyers for the women argued.

So, minors were getting pregnant there, presumably due to being married to adult men, which btw the cult's belief system considers as being perfectly fine. Are you really saying that 5 girls, pregnant or already mothers and married to older men is perfectly fine and lawful and does not constitute evidence that they were effectively being sexually abused when seen from the viewpoint of mainstream standards?

And to continue:

"Evidence that children raised in this particular environment may someday have their physical health and safety threatened is not evidence that the danger is imminent enough to warrant invoking the extreme measure of immediate removal prior to full litigation of the issue," the panel wrote.

To me this sounds mostly like splitting hairs, there is evidence that children raised in that particular environment are more likely to have their physical health and safety threatened than is the case with children raised in the surrounding mainstream environment. But because the danger is "not imminent" the state does not have a right to remove the children from this environment. Well, what is this moment when the danger can be considered imminent then? The moment a marriage between a 14 year old girl and someone twice her age is arranged? The moment when they are wed? The moment they're about to "consume their marriage"?

While I'm generally against the state intervening with people's private lives, this is a case where I think it's necessary because it involves children which have no means of defending themselves.

[Freetymes]

That means that I can call the authorities in Texas, make up some wacky shit, and the police can march into your private property without a warrant and arrest you or take away your children...all from a single phone call with NO EVIDENCE to back it up.

This is not just in Texas either. My next door neighbor's kid got pissed at his folks because they grounded him for drinking and made him miss his Junior Prom. So the kid told a teacher that his dad beat him and was messing with his 15 year old sister. The teacher reported this (as she should). The cops came with child protective services and removed the kids from the home that evening. Put them in temp foster care and took mom and dad down town and questioned them for hours. It took a lawyer, a bunch of money, and over a week to get the kids back. The funniest part was that Dave told them to keep his son since he hated life at home so much and they told him if he did not allow him back into the house (he is 16) it would be considered abuse! TFF

Sadly society has become so over protective and big brotherish that you have no rights if someone is willing to accuse you! It seems pretty bad in the FDLS and there are a couple of women who have "Escaped" telling some really bad chit about their experiences and it is important to protect kids but due process is just as important and should not be abandoned in the name of protectionism.

[t-o-m]

I shagged Texas' mum last night.