Under The Olive Tree

I hope you have seen the article on what is happening in West Texas. We are now led to believe that if a particular group has ideas that are not in line with the status quo - then their children can be subject to being taken into “protective custody” when a crime is committed in their midst. Since when does a warrant for the arrest of individuals charged with a crime extend to the incarceration of women and children in the same community? What kind of society does that?

If that was the norm, then every one of you and your children could be subject to “protective custody” whenever a crime is committed in your community - which I would think would be something like on a daily basis.

Of course, we are comforted to know that these women and children were taken from a “sect”, that they “were taken from a compound”, and that “authorities prepare “for the worst” in a conflict with members of the compound”, and that “medical workers are being sent “in case this were to a go in a way that no one wants. She (Prosecutor Allison Palmer) says that law enforcers are “preparing for the worst.”"

We all must be very careful when it comes to “sects, compounds, and unexpected responses from people whose civil rights are being violated” - and all on the anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr..

And with all their rights denied - how are these folks doing? To quote the owner of the Sutton County Steak House in nearby Sonora, Linda Love, a woman who fed the children dinner on Friday and breakfast on Saturday, –”They’re singing songs. So happy and sweet and precious. It’s heart-breaking.”