Comments on: Protecting the Innocent or Religious Persecution? http://www.undertheolivetree.com/2008/04/09/protecting-the-innocent-or-religious-persecution/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:10:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mnuez http://www.undertheolivetree.com/2008/04/09/protecting-the-innocent-or-religious-persecution/comment-page-1/#comment-1336 mnuez Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:05:48 +0000 http://www.undertheolivetree.com/2008/04/09/protecting-the-innocent-or-religious-persecution/#comment-1336 I know almost nothing about this polygamist sect but if everyone else has a right to have an opinion about them then I suppose that I (who visited their communities, spoke with them to the extent that they allowed it and spent many an hour researching them) have at least as much a right to an opinion as everyone else. And my opinion is that we are witnessing the largest and most frightening act of government persecution of its citizens in our lifetime. I don't give a <i>fuck</i> about these Mormons, their "way of life" or their funny beliefs, but they are being persecuted and having their rights violated to an extent I would have thought unimaginable in this country. By not protesting this enraging action, politicians everywhere - on both sides of the aisle - are getting the message that tiny minority communities can be harassed beyond reason... and with impunity. One fine day, some years in the future, when we might find ourselves to be members of some non-right-thinking community whom everyone else considers "weird" because we don't think exactly as the masses do... and armed men come to kidnap our children in the name of the United States Government, we can look ourselves in the mirror and honestly say that we brought this upon ourselves. We were silent when the mocked and despised Mormons were having their worlds ripped apart and in doing so we gave those with "the money, the guns and the lawyers" all the emboldening they would ever need to continue to violently remake the world in their own image. mnuez <a href="http://www.mnuez.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">www.mnuez.blogspot.com</a> P.S. I wrote of this subject before, including here <a href="http://mnuez.blogspot.com/2006/09/arrested-prophet-has-many-sons-but.html" rel="nofollow">http://mnuez.blogspot.com/2006/09/arrested-prophet-has-many-sons-but.html</a> I know almost nothing about this polygamist sect but if everyone else has a right to have an opinion about them then I suppose that I (who visited their communities, spoke with them to the extent that they allowed it and spent many an hour researching them) have at least as much a right to an opinion as everyone else.

And my opinion is that we are witnessing the largest and most frightening act of government persecution of its citizens in our lifetime.

I don’t give a fuck about these Mormons, their “way of life” or their funny beliefs, but they are being persecuted and having their rights violated to an extent I would have thought unimaginable in this country. By not protesting this enraging action, politicians everywhere – on both sides of the aisle – are getting the message that tiny minority communities can be harassed beyond reason… and with impunity.

One fine day, some years in the future, when we might find ourselves to be members of some non-right-thinking community whom everyone else considers “weird” because we don’t think exactly as the masses do… and armed men come to kidnap our children in the name of the United States Government, we can look ourselves in the mirror and honestly say that we brought this upon ourselves. We were silent when the mocked and despised Mormons were having their worlds ripped apart and in doing so we gave those with “the money, the guns and the lawyers” all the emboldening they would ever need to continue to violently remake the world in their own image.

mnuez
http://www.mnuez.blogspot.com

P.S. I wrote of this subject before, including here http://mnuez.blogspot.com/2006/09/arrested-prophet-has-many-sons-but.html

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