Scary, Scary, Scary ……. How a whole community can be tormented over a prank call. There are good and bad in all. Press charges against those who need it and leave the rest of these poor people alone. (I personally do not agree with the life style, but I don’t see the government ripping the children out of the arms of family members of Jamie Lynn Spears, or Miley Cirus. Weren’t these girls “abused and taken advantage of?”) Let us not pretend for one minute that these are the only young girls in this country being abused.

I think that they are whining for nothing. They shouldn’t be abusing their kids and they would not have had to have them taken away. The state did the right thing regardless if the phone call was a hoax or not.

Calling the raid to remove endangered children is hardly an act of terrorism. These people knew that what they were doing was against the law - that is evident from the secretiveness and isolationism of the sect at the ranch. If Child Protective Services had left the children with their parents and gone back day after day to determine who was being abused and who was not, the underage girls with husbands and children would probably have been moved to a “house of hiding”. The logistics of unraveling who was who when the children were taught not to say who their parents were would have been a nightmare; CPS had to err on the side of caution when it comes to protecting children.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

Funny, I sort of think of the terrorism here being the rape of young pubescent girls by men who brainwash them to think the glory of God lies in their submissiveness. One would think about the “terror” of a young girl forced to have sex with old men, bear their children and commit a federal crime of sharing that “husband” with a dozen or so other sister-wives.

Thank God for Texas. Only Texans would go in and get those kids without messing around.

I ask again; why does it have come down to age or broken bones?
Will someone explain how the loss of freedom of movement, freedom to have universal education, and the loss of freedom of religion for the drones born into these camps is not a serious enough abuse issue to send in the authorities?
I don’t care how many partners that adults in a free society want to have, but to teach polygamy to entrapped young children is child abuse in my opinion.
Do they study geography? What if they wanted to do a field trip to Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon? It would not be allowed because they might discover there is a world. Regardless of underage sex or broken bones, which are great reasons for intervention, the enforced brain washing should be curtailed by the authorities!
There should be ‘monitors’ in these camps to check on what teachings they subject their children to. Polygamy should be in the the curriculum at the age of consent and if they choose it, let them.

I thought polygamy was against the law. If it is, then what’s the problem. Shouldn’t this cult have been shut down a long time ago and the ones breaking the law arrested? This lifestyle is not fair to the poor children born into it. Argue all they want….but we can just about imagine what goes on in these kind of compounds. Just hard to prove because most have probably had some kind of brainwashing so they will never tell. Like all the ladies dressing alike, their hair, their meak voices, etc….come on. This is not normal.

It’s a very fine line you walk in a situation like this - especially when it comes to separating children from the only environment they’ve ever known. However, abuse of any kind cannot be tolerated- we have an obligation to those children to protect them. I don’t think we have enough facts - such as- did the government ask for cooperation and not get it- why did these people find it necessary to allow the situation to escalate to the point where “invasion” was necessary? Either way, I personally think it was justified if even one child was rescued from an
abusive situation.

Read some of the books on these ‘cults’. The belief system they have been taught without exposure to any outside information is mind control. The only way to heaven for women is marriage and child bearing. And men have to have 3 wives.
Ask them about black people. Ask them how women that cannot have children get to heaven. Ask them if they believe puberty is the age of consent.

Somebody needed to rescue those children
my question is what took it so long?