[CitizensTruth] Raid on polygamist community

[Alissa Catalan]

Adding one more link as I found this photo gallery of the 1953 raid
interesting.  Lining up entire families, numbering them and taking
pictures.  Removing adult males from the homes... separating children from
their mothers in AZ.
http://extras.sltrib.com/specials/polygamy/shortcreek/Gallery.asp

~ Alissa

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Alissa Catalan <mamascasa at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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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