Older citizens still live in the world of Andy Griffith where Mayberry had one deputy named Barney Fife which never even put the bullets in his pistol. The citizens would have laughed at Sheriff Andy had he demanded a budget to justify swatt teams, bullet proof vests, and comando tactics!

The judicial system is now vast, deep, and wide with everybody from the newest cop to the oldest lawyer part of the system. Like a factory, medical practice, or grocery store, inorder to expand they must have more customers! It’s like the “Crazy Fireman” that becomes an arsonist to create job security.(It happens.) America’s judicial system now opperates on a “Revenue Generating Policy” of:

“Throw everybody in the system, and the guilty go to prison and the innocent go home broke!”………….A former attorney friend of mine was told by his senior partners of the firm, “No longer in America are you innocent untill proven guilty. At this firm, your innocent untill proven broke, and we don’t work on peoples cases after their broke!”…………….We are rapidly moving in the direction of a fascist police state. Soon you will need papers to cross state lines.

We are either a nation of laws, or we are not. There is no in-between.

If you ask me, they State of Texas, the several manifestations of the Federal Beast, and the “honorable” AG Greg Abbot himself oughtta be going back there, FLDS kids in tow, personnally kissing the feet of each and every parent, begging their forgiveness.

I mean, seriously, we were discussing this in my Sunday school class last week. I was the only one in the room that saw the negative implications of the unconstitutional power of organizations like the CPS being allowed to do this. (Granted, I probably bring the aveerage age in the room down considerably; the other men there, save one or two, probably served in Korea, or were old enough to have done) “It’s for the children” was the tired refrain they used to justify this tyranny. And while I understand they grew up in a totally different world, one where we would never be lied into an aggressive foreign war, one where the central bank would never act to send our economy into a tailspin, I am shocked — shocked! — that I have heard so little concern over the way the rule of law is being trampled.

The fact remains that no charges have been filed, no evidence presented. The one scrap of justification they had was a hoax call from a reportedly disturbed woman who has made, if not a career, at least a hobby of these sort of baseless accusations.

I’m sorry. I’m so ticked about this thing that I’m having to heavily censor myself, and I keep mistyping. (In fact, my lovely bride is prolly getting tired of me yelling at the newscast every time this story comes up) I have to cut this rant short.

By the way, I wanted to point out that, in my understanding of common law, none of these men are polygamists. The multiple marriages were not legal; they were performed without benefit of the government’s involvement — no marriage licenses. So the “polygamists” turn out to be guys with one wife and multiple live-in girlfriends.

As far as the “abuse” accusations, I categorically oppose empowering the State to seize anything without due process. The call that started the ball moving has been admitted to have been fraudulent. That, as far as I’m concerned, is case closed.

The smarmy, self-satisfied AG was on NBC tonight saying that the ends justifies the means in this case, that, if there are no signs of abuse, the kids’ll be returned to their parents (earlier in this fiasco, he said the state is going to use DNA evidence to bypass statute of limitations restrictions for bringing charges against YFZ members). I guess that’s the law of the land in this post-constitutional America.

I wonder if CPS investigates everytime an underage girl from a public housing project delivers a baby? (I don’t know the answer. Maybe they do.)

Considering the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on sodomy I don’t think polygamy, between consenting adults, can be prosecuted. We will probably see the constitutional challenges in the next few years.

I have to say that I disagree. The polygamy and heresy totally undermines anything else they have to say, and I think that is what is being portrayed in the media. I don’t know that it is the fact that they are modest, polite and homeschooled that the media is reacting to. I it is the fact that they are FORCED to homeschool (by their cult “leaders”), COERCED to be polite, etc.

I advocate all of the above. But I do not advocate forcing people to choose these things.

Also, I believe that polygamy and teenage marriage, especially when the children have no say, IS child abuse, or at the very least, a breeding ground for child abuse to propagate.

That said, I do distrust Child Protective Services, and in general agree with your comments about them.

I’m just not comfortable with this action at all, and begin to worry that Texas has become the “Social Laboratory” for many radical programs that the Feds start?……..It is Texas where the mock urban marshall law pilot programs are being practiced in the event of NSPD-51 and HSPD-20 being put into effect giving the Executive Branch Dictatorial Powers.

“Do it for the children!” has been a huge sucess in implementing many programs that circumvent liberty, even on a small scale as bicycle helmet laws.

I guess on a positive note, it was good of the Government to not set them on fire as they did in Waco!………Had it been a community of homosexuals with an alternative lifestyle teaching children that God was gay, they would have been a benchmark sucess for multiculturalism.