[CitizensTruth] Raid on polygamist community

[Alissa Catalan]

When I first glanced at it, I initially saw this story simply as a tabloid
style / whip the public into a frenzy over nothing so we can really do
something meaningful back here kind of thing.

However doing a bit of internet reading alarms started going off in my
head... reading things like this quote sounded a lot less like the usual
simple media hysteria and a lot more to me like actions of a shifting
society as described in The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young
Patriot by Naomi Wolf

*"When was the last anti-polygamy prosecution?*

About 1953, the state of Arizona National Guard raided a polygamist colony
called Short Creek on the Utah/Arizona border, and separated the kids from
their mothers, and threw the men in jail. The people of the nation were so
outraged by it, that there have not been polygamy prosecutions since.
(Unless you want to consider Waco to be an anti-polygamist raid.) So while
polygamy is not legal, the laws against it are not enforced."

from http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy

So reading that law enforcement has removed over 400 children from their
homes based on an prank call sounds pretty darned alarming to me from that
perspective.

~ Alissa
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