[CitizensTruth] Raid on polygamist community

[Walterb306 at cs.com]

Alissa and All,

Thanks for checking this out. The contrast between now and 1953 is disturbing.  Not that I condone the polygamists, but the fact is that if this treatment is allowed to go uncontested, it knocks down yet another domino in the chain.

Suggest we start calling/writing to protest the excesses.  Does anyone have contact information for the appropriate officials to contact?

Beverley

  

"Alissa Catalan" <mamascasa at gmail.com> wrote:


>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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