For The Sake Of The Children. (Trees And Things)

PenitenziAgite: Re: rape the whirlwind

Mon, 5 May 2008 14:16:12 EST

Well, tayyib, al hamdulillah for you.

JimmyHavok: Re: For The Sake Of The Children.

Sat, 3 May 2008 01:24:53 EST

Heard about this the other day on NPR:

switching IDs

CPS officials also accused sect members of

zyxwvutsr: Re: rape the whirlwind

Fri, 2 May 2008 21:20:55 EST

Muslims have a pretty good reputation in America

That's true. And that's why I'm voting for Obama bin Barrak.

thefadd: Re: There you go?

Thu, 1 May 2008 00:50:36 EST

But these charges are completely baseless given the information provided to the public.

port1080: Re: There you go?

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:00:34 EST

It wasn't meant to be a criticism of your writeup at all - just more of a bit of general smart-assing on my part. Neither you nor the ACLU had any reason to know at that point that these additional abuse charges would come up.

MayorBob: There you go?

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:39:29 EST

That reads like I should have known something. "It also included all the boys, who were never the subjects of any alleged abuse." At the time that was written in the write up it was correct. To quote the newspaper article: "The disclosures ar

port1080: Re: For The Sake Of The Children.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:12:24 EST

"It also included all the boys, who were never the subjects of any alleged abuse."

Texas officials looking at possible abuse among FLDS boys

AUS

PenitenziAgite: Re: reap the whirlwind

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:02:16 EST
Despite the poor reputation of muslims in America, I'd argue that muslim polygamists get a pass from the government because they aren't seeking welfare from the government.
Muslims have a pretty good reputation in America. Generally, they a

ms sue: Re: For The Sake Of The Children.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:02:30 EST
http://cbs5.com/national/polygamist.ranch.pregnancies.2.710562.html

wetkarma: Re: reap the whirlwind

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:08:35 EST

It's an interesting theoretical point but how much did receiving government funds really increase the spotlight on them in this particular case?
One of the conclusions that came out of the Waco/Branch Davidians assault by the ATF was that the

postillion: Re: For The Sake Of The Children.

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:58:58 EST
Originally I was inclined to agree with you, joshv, and say that this should be a matter where we should separate out the religion and look at this without that context. However, in

thefadd: Re: reap the whirlwind

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:47:18 EST
It's an interesting theoretical point but how much did receiving government funds really increase the spotlight on them in this particular case?

port1080: Re: For The Sake Of The Children.

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:58:33 EST
It's funny to me that we have opposite views on both this and the NYC police shooting case. In the police shooting case you come down for the government, I against, and here you are against the government and I am for it. My justification for supporting

wetkarma: reap the whirlwind

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:43:34 EST
So Joshv gets there way ahead of me -- Texas seems to have overreached wildly here.
However this didn't happen in a vacuum -- these folks and their kids are the very same ones who took Caesar's welfare gold. A core tenet of my belief re: government is

joshv: Re: For The Sake Of The Children.

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:24:26 EST
I am no fan of religious cults, and consider some practices of even mainstream religions to be tantamount to child abuse (at least psychologically), but come on already. Most of these kids appear to be well taken care of and are not suffering from an