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.<br>
<a href="http://extras.sltrib.com/specials/polygamy/shortcreek/Gallery.asp">http://extras.sltrib.com/specials/polygamy/shortcreek/Gallery.asp</a><br><br>~ Alissa<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Alissa Catalan <<a href="mailto:mamascasa@gmail.com">mamascasa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.<br>
<br>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 <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by Naomi Wolf</span><p>
<b>"When was the last anti-polygamy prosecution?</b></p>
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<p>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." </p>
</blockquote>from <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy" target="_blank">http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy</a><br><br>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.<br>
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<br>~ Alissa<br>
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