It is my guess that we will no doubt be seeing the entire community of Gloucester, Mass. being raided by the CPS, local sheriff, FBI, etc. for the despicable outbreak of pregnancy amongst teenage girls in the high school there. What kind of school system are they running anyway? I thought underage pregnancy was pretty good proof of statutory rape. Isn’t that why we called the pretty sexy girls “jail bait” when we were in high school?

Read any news articles connected with this, to quote one from Time, “She noted that some of the girls involved had been identified as being at risk of becoming teen mothers as early as sixth grade , when they began to request pregnancy tests in middle school.(note: who would they be requesting pregnancy tests from at that age, these would be 11 year olds!) “What we’ve seen is the girls fit a certain profile,” Todd said. “They’re socially isolated, and they don’t have the support of their families.” The Time article states that ” seven or eight sophomore girls” are involved and presumably pregnant – let’s see, freshman is 9th grade – 14 year olds, so sophomore girls are 15 years old, aren’t they? – it certainly sounds like these girls live in an environment that perpetuates their abuse by – we would suppose if they are pregnant – male members of this community – who we can assume are being “groomed” to abuse these vulnerable girls. However, as of this writing I can find no information regarding the identity of these male perpetrators and any mention of them and their complicity is – should we say, “pregnantly absent.”

Of course the public schools systems response will be to issue condoms and birth control pills – presumably without the knowledge of the parents of these children.

And in the meantime – California courts are trying to decide if homeschooling parents are enemies of the State – as is being decided in Germany where homeschooling parents have been sentenced to 3 months in jail and accused of a crime similar to drunk driving.

In the California case the initial ruling against home schooling stated that ” the trial court had found that “keeping the children at home deprived them of situations where (1) they could interact with people outside the family, (2) there are people who could provide help if something is amiss in the children’s lives, and (3) they could develop emotionally in a broader world than the parents’ ‘cloistered’ setting.”

And we are supposed to believe that the environment that provides this valuable interaction and protection is the public school system? There is case after sordid case, from teen pregnancy, to suicide, drug abuse, violence, mass murder, teacher/student sex, and a pervasive lack of basic educational skills that are the facts of life in far too many public schools – especially in California. According to one website the following authors were all home schooled: Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Irving Berlin, Charles Dickens and C.S. Lewis; as were the following US Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Harrison and Theodore F. Roosevelt.

We can only guess how many famous and well adjusted, well educated people were schooled at home – and how many possibly productive lives have been stunted, distorted, and literally cut short in the public school system.

An analysis of the “news”

Let me keynote this by saying that I don’t regularly take an AP article and critique it, but that is what I am about to do – believe me, the following comments will be my opinion and as such – there is a good possibility that I may be soft on some of the facts. However, it gets tiring to read without some response. My comments are in red.

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — The members of a polygamist sect (also known as US citizens) raided by authorities two months ago have their children back, but with a criminal investigation looming, the sect’s troubles may not be over. Good lead – let’s be sure that we don’t coddle these people any – let’s keep the heat up – shall we? If we do that it will make it seem that the CPS was justified – when the Texas Supreme Court says they overstepped their authority. Keep reading – this is a great propaganda article to convince you that the CPS are the good guys. Where is the public outcry at misuse of public funds and resources? Where are the calls for the dismissal of those in public office who mishandled this situation?

A mother and son shriek with delight as they are reunited two months after the FLDS raid in Texas.

“There have been criminal problems located out there,” said Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran, who was with state troopers and child welfare authorities when they raided the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas on April 3. I certainly hope they are going to take into account the single bogus complaint that the entire raid was hinged on as cause to dismiss any evidence gathered by breaking and entering, seizing property without a warrant, etc. In Germany under the Gestapo, by the time they came in numbers, armed, waving a single piece of paper as their mandate – and kicked in your door, terrorized your family, and carted them away to places unknown, and then ransacked your home to get what ever “evidence” of any wrongdoing on your part that they could find – I think you could sleep well that night knowing you were going to be prosecuted no matter what they found.

The Texas Department of Public Safety and the attorney general’s office have taken over the criminal investigation at the request of authorities in the rural ranching community. Although they confirm that they are investigating, neither will say how long the investigation may take. 7 million dollars and counting! If you divvy that up among 460 children you get $15,217.39 per child. I bet you wish the State was spending that kind of money on you and your children. Where did all this money go? Who spent it – will there be an itemized accounting of this reckless waste of public money?

Child-welfare officials have alleged that members of the church that runs the ranch pushed underage girls into marriages with older men, but the evidence needed to support a criminal case could prove elusive. Allegations are pretty hard to prosecute – unless you have evidence, a plaintiff, a crime – supposedly the basis of why authorities raided these people’s homes in the first place – because they had a crime being committed – so why should it now prove to be elusive to substantiate? I thought that is what the original search and seizure was based on? Did I miss something?

DNA evidence acquired in the custody case is off limits to criminal investigators without a court order, and a prosecution probably would go nowhere without at least one willing witness in the insular ranch community. Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had a strong distrust of outsiders even before all the children at the ranch were taken away. Gee, I wonder why they would have any distrust?

The children were allowed to leave foster care (“allowed to leave”? – how hardhearted are you? CPS had no right to have them in custody in the first place – the Court stated that they must be “released from custody” – not “allowed to leave”. Remember, half of these children were under the age of 5. after a judge bowed to a Texas Supreme Court ruling last week that the state overreached by taking all the children even though evidence of sexual abuse was limited to five teenage girls. What evidence? Half the children taken from the ranch were no older than 5. Well, if they weren’t abused before they were taken into custody – they certainly have been abused now – haven’t they?

All 440 children were returned to parents by Wednesday, Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins said. Watch a happy family reunion »

The high court ruling and state District Judge Barbara Walther’s orders returning the children do not affect the criminal investigation, which involves several trailer loads of documents confiscated during a raid lasting nearly a week. Authorities removed all documents and photos they say might show relationships between underage girls and older men. Wow, they did all that on one phone call from one alleged victim who they now admit was never in their custody? And they believe that they have several trailer loads of pertinent and revealing documents (by the which we mean, all your personal letters, photo albums, school records, religious records, and legal and financial documents) – On the one hand they say the evidence is elusive, and on the other hand they say they have several trailer loads of it, that doesn’t sound elusive to me. Which is it?

“It’s going to take a while. And more money, looks like the people of Texas will be footing the bill for more expenses. With any criminal case we investigate, we do as much as we possibly can before turning the case over to the prosecutors,” said public safety spokeswoman Tela Mange.

Last week, investigators from the attorney general’s office took DNA from Warren Jeffs, the jailed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, saying they were looking for evidence of relationships between Jeffs and four girls ages 12 to 15.

Under Texas law, girls younger than 17 generally cannot consent to sex with an adult. At a custody hearing, state attorneys introduced a photo they said was a wedding picture showing Jeffs embracing a girl and kissing her on the mouth.

Jeffs has been convicted in Utah as an accomplice to rape in the marriage of an underage sect member. He faces similar charges in Arizona, though no trial date has been set. I won’t comment on a criminal case where I have not seen the evidence, but if you have a criminal case with a victim, I say prosecute it. One thing is certain, they are trying to link Jeffs who they have convicted to these girls from the YFZ Ranch so they can justify their actions. It was all a big fishing expedition by the authorities at the expense of the children and their welfare. I do not believe it when the CPS spokesperson says they care about the children. That is what Janet Reno said in her authorizing the actions of authorities that resulted in the deaths of 21 children at the Branch Davidian community in Waco.

Authorities have DNA from all the children and many of the parents at the YFZ Ranch — 603 samples in all — but those results cannot be used by law enforcers without a court order because they were taken from parents and children as part of the custody case, not under a criminal search warrant. Forced DNA testing is going to be standard for a lot of investigations in the future, probably before the fact – DNA samples of everyone on record. And since when was it a custody case? I thought it was a case of abuse? Or do they mean that the CPS was fighting to get custody of children they had no evidence to take into custody, and ordered the forced DNA tests to try to shore up this lack of evidence. Well, while they were at it the CPS also ordered forced immunizations (how can that be part of a custody case?), and separated younger children from their older brothers and sisters who could comfort and uphold them through the ordeal they were facing. How were they able to do all of this without any evidence except some unverifiable phone calls? It now surfaces that the phone calls came from Colorado – not even from Texas. Do you mean to tell us that the authorities didn’t know the calls were from Colorado? My cell phone tells me where calls are from – are we expected to believe that the CPS or other Texas authorities don’t have that technology?

Even if the DNA shows that children were born to underage girls and adult men, any prosecution will probably be difficult unless a victim testifies. Without a victim there is no crime. They are insinuating that these people will not testify against each other for fear – and that could be one reason – but it could also be because they love and trust each other a lot more then they trust the authorities? – and it seems with good reason.

Utah prosecuted three FLDS members and got a no-contest plea from Jeffs after years of investigation, but Arizona authorities have had to drop some charges because the victim quit cooperating. Ha! I wonder why?

Without a victim’s testimony, it’s impossible to establish jurisdiction for prosecution, a key element that has prevented some charges of members who frequently move among the sect’s residences in Arizona, Utah, Texas and elsewhere. I believe this statement is misleading – lots of people move for a lot of reasons – especially when they could be subject to the kind of heavy handed dealings that these people have had to endure. It is a free country, and you are free to move if you want – ever heard of extradition? The reason they can’t prosecute is because they don’t have a crime.

In any sexual assault case, it can be difficult to persuade victims to assist in prosecutions, but such cases are even more challenging when they involve a community as insular as the FLDS, said Paul Murphy, a spokesman for the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Of course it is difficult – in a lot of cases it is a boyfriend/girlfriend situation that has gotten out of hand – and it doesn’t just happen with these people – it happens all the time. And what makes them more “insular” then you or me. Do you live by yourself with your family?

Sect members are raised and work within the community, developing few financial or personal resources away from other members. How many of us have very many financial or personal resources away from our present chosen situations, our families, our jobs, our schools, even our little Podunk town no matter how much we dislike it? Remember, these are children we are talking about – are children supposed to have resources to be able to leave home – or outside contacts that can finance their doing so? This statement is here for the sole purpose of casting these people in a bad light.

After a raid by Arizona authorities in 1953, FLDS members lived on the Arizona-Utah line with little interaction with government officials, who got involved only when allegations of underage marriages and abuse surfaced in 2001.Because the public realized that the 1953 raid was horrible and these officials wanted to keep their jobs; and also if they were not breaking any laws – they couldn’t prosecute them.

Texas authorities raided the YFZ Ranch after three calls to a domestic abuse hot line, purportedly from a 16-year-old mother who said she was being abused by her middle-age husband. The calls, which Doran said continued even after all the children were removed from the ranch, are now being investigated as a hoax. Really, you don’t try to find out if the calls are genuine before you take these kinds of actions? Wow – it sounds like a real abuse of authority to me. Why did they wait until now to investigate this? – because they didn’t do this raid based on the phone calls in the first place. Do you really believe that they got all that fire power together on an unverifiable complaint? Buses waiting to move mothers and children to the San Angelo Arena – armored personnel carriers, Texas Rangers, local police and sheriffs – CPS, trucks waiting to take away documents and personal belongings – if you believe that this was all based on one call for help from an abused 16-year-old – you should ask a friend to slap you.

The children and their mothers were taken to a shelter in San Angelo, where they were separated. Separated in the most disgusting way – children ripped from their mother’s arms and driven off to sites unknown in vans with darkened windows – children terrorized – let’s all be thankful that it was for their “own good.” E-mails obtained by The Dallas Morning News under Texas public records laws show that state officials had proposed sending them to another location because of fears of violence. A judge rejected conducting the separations in Midlothian, and the children were taken from their mothers without incident. Once again, this is pure propaganda to portray these people as unstable and liable to be violent. These people suffered violence at the hands of the CPS and other authorities – who was planning for violence in the first place? And to say that the children were taken from their mothers without incident is a lie – or should we say a damned lie – it sure wasn’t without incident for the children or the mothers – these children will be haunted by this action that took place “without incident” probably for a long time to come except for the grace of God.

The e-mails also showed state officials’ concerns that some of the mothers were planning a “run” from the shelter before they were separated, something FLDS elder Willie Jessop called absurd. Do you really expect us to believe they were going to try to run away in Texas! That is so funny! Janet Reno again, “The children were still being abused, so we had to step in.” The mothers were there to take care of their children, and had cooperated completely – this is just more propaganda to put the blame on the FLDS mothers – saying that the action was because mothers planned to “run” and that was why the authorities had to step in and grab the kids – this is just what Willie Jessop says it is, “absurd.”

“We never, never did anything other than to comply and to endure what they put us through,” he told the newspaper in a story published Wednesday. Exactly – with all their rights denied – these folks acted in an exemplary manner.

The FLDS, which believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven, is a breakaway sect of the Mormon church, which renounced polygamy more than a century ago. What bearing does their belief in the afterlife have on anything? – once again, this statement is here to make it look like these people have to abuse little girls to have a good place in Heaven. The statement is no doubt a gross misrepresentation of anything that these folks believe – these kinds of statements cater to a mob justice mentality. On another note – consider this, any man willing and able to live with more than one woman, have children, and keep the peace in his own home under said circumstances probably is a saint. Most men cannot do that with one woman. Jessop said this week that the church would not preside over marriages between sect members who were not of legal age. Good for them – this is a wise move on their part and in no way qualifies as an admission of previous crimes.

He sidestepped questions about whether such marriages ever occurred but has said the sect has been unfairly portrayed. Duh. This is fair reporting, right – including a the mandatory “token” quote or comment from the persecuted – “but let’s make sure that we take one last shot at them – even while we allow them to make a statement – let’s see, how can we do that – let’s say he “sidestepped” – it will make him sound guilty – we can make him look like a liar.”

I only find one thing surprising about this article – and that is in this article they failed to call these people’s homes and community a “compound” – a much employed pejorative used to cast a certain air of fanaticism and outright ridicule upon innocent people that live in homes and communities just like you and I do. These people are US citizens.

I personally am relieved to see the children of US Citizens living in a small west Texas village being returned to their parents. We will all be watching the continued harassment of these children and their parents with great interest. The latest twist is that the State is waiting for DNA testing to determine the parentage of these children – I suppose with the hope that they can then criminally prosecute someone, and regain custody of the children.

World Net Daily is doing a poll on its readers response to the ongoing investigation – you can find the news article link below called “WND Forum”. As of this writing a full 35% of respondents believe that these families should sue the state of Texas for damages. I agree 100%.

Since polygamy seems to be one of the central issues in what has been taking place there – we might want to ask ourselves whether we believe in polygamy or not? I believe we do – and in a resounding way – we have just limited the definition that we find acceptable.

It might be somewhat unfair to give an example of serial polygamy (officially termed serial monogamy)- and it could be considered taking a cheap shot at a single individual – however, an example is necessary for reference. Elizabeth Taylor – a much applauded and loved actress was married 8 times – (7 if you count her 2 marriages to Richard Burton as being a single marriage – marriages which by themselves would make Richard Burton a serial polygamist with just one woman – although he also qualifies being married to 3 women besides Elizabeth Taylor.)

To say that we as a society believe in serial monogamy would be misleading at best. Again, examples are necessary. The most famous recent example would be Bill Clinton and Monika Lewinsky – you couldn’t say that Bill and Hillary’s marriage was monogamous since it included, at least for a time – Monika. Any sexual activity outside the monogamous relationship nullifies the “mono” in the term.

We accept men and women who marry, divorce and remarry as many times as they want – and we even accept other relationships that do not include marriage – even “sleeping around”, casual sex, one time encounters, and complete promiscuity – “girls gone wild.”

The statistics with homosexual relationships are even more revealing. In an atmosphere where we are being given the impression that homosexual “marriage” is an important institution – the actual statistics point to relationships that are anything but monogamous. An article in the Washington Times dated 2003 reports, “The Dutch study — which focused on transmission of HIV — found that men in homosexual relationships on average have eight partners a year outside those relationships. Earlier studies also indicated that homosexual men are not monogamous, even when they are involved in long-term relationships.”

And does it stop there? How about sharing your monogamous partner with the family pet? Again, World Net Daily Reports that the US Constitution is now being cited as basis for individuals to pursue sexual relationships with their pets as and “unalienable right”. In fact, the person promoting the idea is someone who is presently honored by both the Smithsonian and The National Museum of American History. (see article: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66060)

The families in Texas are not being investigated for multiple marriages or sexual relationships – they are being investigated for simultaneous multiple marriages, with the supposition that these relationships are taking place with minors and are forced. I think they are very wise to officially limit marriage to those of legal age.

With those safeguards in place – would it make sense to prosecute them for practicing concurrent polygamy – actually keeping, protecting and providing for additional wives and children – and not prosecute those who do not keep, protect and provide for additional wives and children, or additional sexual partners outside their “significant other” relationship (IE: most of the rest of us?)

In the final analysis – it is the pot calling the kettle black.

When I started this blog I had no intention of commenting on politics, and I will attempt to refrain from doing so. Politics is a business that I have no stomach for, and as such know little about – other than my nauseous reaction to it. However, when “The Establishment” chooses to use its transitory powers to oppress the innocent in the name of the innocent – then it is no longer politics – it moves to center stage in the battle between Good and Evil – the Battle for the Earth that we are now witnessing and that is unfolding around us.

A brave woman journalist in Cleveland has written about her experience of being raped. The editors of this article state:”Almost every six minutes, a woman reports being raped in the United States, according to the most recent figures from the FBI. That added up to more than 90,000 women who were raped in 2006 — a number that experts consider a gross undercount.” The radio program interviewing this woman stated that 1 in 6 women in the USA will be raped or suffer attempted rape.

Meanwhile African “Peacekeepers” have been accused of the following heinous crimes by Save the Children, www.savethechildren.org “Save the Children, in a report based on interviews with hundreds of children in the Ivory Coast, Sudan and Haiti, said a minority of peacekeepers and relief workers were preying on children as young as six years. The group called for a watchdog agency to provide more support to vulnerable children.”

And in the State of Texas? – “With no ‘Sarah,’ CPS asks to drop her case”.

The CPS continues to say that the basis of taking 460 innocent children into custody is that they are in “imminent danger of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse” , (meaning of course ‘when they become adults’.) I would guess that they are preparing to lock up entire communities in Texas – because if facing a 1 in 6 chance of rape is an established fact for American women – then all children, especially female children, are at risk and will need to be taken into State custody as soon as possible.

Could somebody please slap me – or douse me with ice water. When is the nightmare going to end for these children in Texas? These people are being persecuted for their religious beliefs, and nothing else; save for the fact that they, within their “abusive compound” – were able to carve a thriving community out of the desolation of West Texas. Have you ever been there? – as my granddaughter stated, “Nona, there is nothing here to see.”

Changes are upon us. It is time to wake up and realize that we are in an ongoing Crisis – and what to come?

(I have posted some news links below)

I am in complete awe of this mother’s power to communicate her situation – for she not only understands, she can teach it to you.

Be sure you read the whole letter – in real humility.

Then – your life can change.

Before you begin reading ask yourself this question. If I no longer trust the individuals running for the highest office in the land, and I no longer agree with the type of media being presented on television, radio and music, and I am shocked by what is taking place in the public school system, and I do not agree with the various agenda’s of what is known as “diversity” acceptance – then why would I believe what I am being told about a small group in a west Texas village?

“Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard” – Solomon the King

Hello, America!

by Maggie Jessop

So, you want to hear from the FLDS women, huh? Okay, you asked for it! However, I ought to warn you that I may not have it within my psychological or emotional capacity to communicate appropriately or effectively due to the widespread supposition that I belong to an uneducated, underprivileged, information-deprived, brainless, spineless, poor, picked on, dependent, misled class of women identified as “brain-washed”. But, I’ll give it my best shot.

Regardless of the incredible events of the last month in the development of the “Raid of 2008″ and the massive media “coverage” that has resulted, I am still of the opinion that most people want to know the real truth and nothing but the truth, right? Okay, hold that thought. Let’s think this through. If you want to know the truth about someone, do you go to their worst enemy to find it out? If Aunt Hilda has an intense dislike for Uncle Henry, and you hear some deliciously disgusting rumor about Uncle Henry, are you going to give him a fair trial by getting the “facts” from Aunt Hilda? Is it not fair and reasonable and just plain right to seek the truth from those who really know? Now, I mean first-hand knowledge, not that all-knowing, self-righteous, pre-determined “wisdom” spreading like cancer through the mainstream public resulting from the tales of the hateful, that vicious stuff called vindictive prejudice? Is it not wisdom to hear all sides, and search deep, and feel your way through the muck before forming an opinion? Come on, John Doe-Head, do you revel in crude and erroneous sensationalism? What kind of a person are you, anyway? Can you really be content with that crud, or do you want to know the truth?

If there is one word that could be used to capture the bottom line of this whole mess, one word to describe the probable motive that has resulted in the heinous crime against human rights, the Raid of 2008, it would be FEAR. We all know that human nature tends to automatically shun the outcast, the underdog, the oddball. If someone is really different, people get scared and suspicious, perhaps even jealous, and start assuming the worst. How do we find the good by looking for the bad? I admit, I am different. So what. You are really different to me. That’s okay. What you do and how you behave is your business so long as you are not injuring anyone else. I have no desire or intention to impose my beliefs upon you, so why on earth would anyone want to turn around and point the finger at me? I have broken no law. I have never abused my children. I have injured no one, not even myself in the choices I have made in my life. I understand that I am a citizen of the United States of America and I am entitled to the same rights as you are, and I expect to exercise my right and privilege to worship God after the dictates of my own conscience, and allow all men, AND WOMEN, to do the same.

I have studied the Constitution of our fair country, and I understand that I have the right to freedom of speech. Why haven’t you heard from me before? I will tell you. I am a Mother. That is my privilege, my career, and my duty. My self-appointed job is to take care of my children, and that keeps me pretty busy. I like it that way, and up until now, I have left it up to the government to protect my right to be a Mother. I have depended on the legal system, the laws of the land, the law enforcement organizations, the lawmakers and the judges to ensure my freedom in this beautiful country which our honest forefathers bled and died for that I might live after the manner of happiness. I find joy and peace in the God-given role of Mother here on earth. I enjoy being completely involved with my children, and I don’t need multitudinous projects and selfish distractions to keep me happy and fulfilled.

I have never in my life been guilty of intentionally breaking the law. I have never been in a courtroom. I have never before even spoken to an attorney. I have never needed to. I have spent my days in mothering my children, and that is where I find true commitment and content. I don’t get a thrill by running up and down the state sleuthing out the location of my children. I don’t get turned on by blabbering off my rights to whoever will listen, or spending my time with a cell phone pasted to my ear, or taking up residence in a stuffy courtroom in a fiasco called a “fourteen day hearing” held for two solid days as the “system” put on a infamous circus show for over a hundred innocent and unsuspecting women. How could I describe my feelings during that event as three thousand attorneys buzzed incessantly with legal terminology and professional jargon in a confused and chaotic environment, while a high-minded judicial monarch, boasting a collegiate degree in sarcasm more than unbiased law, found six hundred ways to tell me I can’t have my children back. Not my idea of a picnic. Why were my children taken in the first place?

Put yourself in my shoes. That is an important thing for you to do because history tends to repeat itself. If the governing powers of our illustrious country continue in their present mentality, you and your children could be next. You think you are safe because you belong to the “general public” and are not part of any “cult or compound”? I am denied my rights as an American citizen because they think I am part of a foreign entity. Frankly, they are dead wrong! I am just a normal person. I have eyes and ears, not to mention a big mouth, and I have a heart to feel my way through life, and I have a brain to reason and discern and choose. And they take my children away from me because they say my religious beliefs could damage my children ten years from now? How ridiculous can they get? Yesterday, it was an attack on Christianity. Today, it is an attack against the FLDS people. Tomorrow, it will be the annihilation of anyone who believes in God. Why else did the Savior Himself say, “Oh, will there be any faith left when I come?”

Let’s say you come home one night and find your beautiful and peaceful home ransacked and desecrated in the name of the law? In your heart, you know you are innocent of any crime, yet you are accused of gross and abominable atrocities, some of which you have never even heard of and didn’t even know existed in this whole wide world. Picture this. You find that your pride and joy, your precious, innocent children, have been traumatized and terrorized (in their perspective) by not just a few, but hundreds of demonic characters dressed for war and prepared to destroy. Your children, not the neighbors, but yours, weeping and devastated, have been dragged off your premises and imprisoned in a strange and terrifying environment, and for the first time in their lives, your sweet, innocent children are being subjected to the abuse of yelling, screaming, intimidation, humiliation, degradation, interrogation, and accusation. “What in tarnation is going on,” you say? Who would commit this outrage against your little ones? The very individuals who are pledged to protect them.

What has happened to America? What has happened to freedom of religion? What has happened to lawmakers and law enforcement organizations? They say I am breaking the law, yet they can bring no evidence against me or my children personally — NO evidence, not even a shred, yet they continue to hold my children hostage and are content with nothing less than my denial of my religion. And what about my religion? I know it to be pure and wholesome, and its laws and principles DO NOT conflict with the laws of God or of the Constitution as it was instigated by our Founding Fathers. The big, bad, ugly “they” say we are dangerous to society because we follow one man. Do we indeed? YES! His name is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He is the One Man we follow. Get out your Bibles, all you high-minded, self-righteous, pious, sanctimonious, self-appointed judges of our characters and our religion. Get them out and prove where I have broken a single law of God; and after that, since He comes first, get out your law books and prove where I have broken a single law of this land. Okay, I admit, I got a speeding ticket once about twenty-five years ago, but I repented of that sin very quickly, and I haven’t got one since. What else have I done? You mean they have my children in state custody because of what I believe? What an incredible outrage!

I used to think anyone in this country was innocent until proven guilty. I thought I lived in America, the Land of the Free, but I am starting to think I took a wrong turn back there somewhere and ended up in East Berlin. What on earth is going on? You mean I am guilty because the rumors, the lies of our enemies, the “legal” allegations, the press, the media, the CPS, the FBI, the law enforcement, the honorable judge, the religious bigots, and the adversary, think or say or hear or suspect I am wicked and immoral and unloving and abusive? Good grief! Seems like I went to sleep one night in a peaceful home on a ranch in Texas, and the next morning, I wake up in ancient Rome during the unholy reign of Nero. What a horrible nightmare! Ever heard of the colosseum where thousands of Christians lost their lives because of their belief? There is something dreadful about that word, coliseum. Remember Hurricane Katrina? And are you aware of the outrages against innocence in the coliseum in San Angelo as a result of the Raid of 2008? Do you realize that hundreds of people are being incredibly misunderstood and grossly misrepresented right here, right now in America? Are you one of the hundreds we have heard say, “I’m just doing my job.” or “There must be something wrong with you guys because everyone is against you.” or “Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you.” Majority rules, huh? Pathetic. Where are the honest Americans who love freedom and right? Where are those who really want to know the truth? Where are those who will not allow the innocent and the virtuous to be maliciously slaughtered by the government, the public, and the anti-FLDS crusaders? Where are those who have any influence or power to monitor and correct and govern those who monitor and correct and govern?

Oh, never mind, America. Our God will see us through as we stay faithful to Him. But, I pity you. I would hate to be in your shoes. I feel sorry for what the Lord will bring upon those who love evil. I cringe to think of the inevitable suffering of tomorrow for those who destroy innocence and purity in the name of the law today. Your days are numbered, and you will yet know
Who is really in charge. Why don’t you do all the good you can before that day? Why don’t you do right because it is right? Why don’t you stand up for liberty and justice right now, today? It is awful to live in regret, you know. I have no regrets about my choices. I do not live with a guilty conscience. My heart hurts very deeply, but not with guilt. My whole soul weeps in sorrow at the crime being committed against innocent children, innocent mothers and fathers, whose only desire and intent, now and always, is to raise up children clean, honest, lovely, virtuous, respectable, dependable, and pure. I am a Mother. I hate evil. I despise immorality. I love children. I adore innocence. I would never allow my innocent children to be hurt or abused, not physically, not emotionally, not psychologically, and especially not sexually. If there was actually a “perpetrator” in my household, a person who was abusive in any way, I would be the first one to turn them in to the law. I wouldn’t stand for abuse for two seconds. How can the general public who is so saturated with moral crime point the finger at us? How can you do it with even a speck of clear conscience?

I ask you to think about something. We all know that it is a common thing in the world, an age-old, basic principle of human existence, that those who repeatedly and vehemently accuse others are guilty themselves. Generally, people judge others by their own standards. If you persist in accusing someone of immorality without any proof whatsoever, it is very evident that you are groveling in that sin yourself. There are people who hate us. Who are they? They are former members of our church. I know them personally, and it is sad to hear their lies. We don’t hate them. Why do they hate us? We are not accusing them. Why are they accusing us? It is not uncommon for someone in any organization anywhere in the world to become disaffected and choose another route from those whom they were once a part. That is fine. No one is stopping them from going their way, but why do they become hateful and jealous? Why do they turn from the very ones who would bless them the most and sling mud upon them? The sad thing is to see a person turn into a liar. You know, when people tell lies, the more they do it, the more blinded and hateful they become, and they actually deteriorate to the point where they believe their own lies. A liar is bad news, and a rich liar is even worse. I guess if a person makes a million, that makes his lies worth marketing, right? WRONG!! The nature of lying is that a spoken untruth will compound upon itself, and if a person doesn’t desist in their lying, they can do great damage to innocent people, and especially, they damage themselves. Eventually, a liar will become so despicable that even the fair-weather friends, the purchased puppets they find to soak up their lies will turn and rend them, and the liar destroys himself or herself. I have heard that to publicly lie about people is called slander, and I understand there is a law against it. So, who is going to defend the truth and enforce that law in our behalf?

In the meantime, I will just do the best I can to get my children back. But, I am like a tiny speck in an ocean of conflict. How does an innocent mother fight back against a system that is like a monster without a face, no real person that I could speak to and reason with? Yes, we do have attorneys, and many of them are fighting hard in our behalf, but even they say they have never heard or seen anything like this. They tell us our rights are being trampled upon ruthlessly, but it is unclear what can be done about it. Many of them are shrugging in disbelief at the unfounded and illegal injustices being heaped upon us. Many say they have never experienced anything remotely close to this mess, that there is no rhyme or reason to it. I have personally seen many attorneys and even CPS workers break down and weep at the atrocities we have experienced at the hand of the government. Texas is a pretty big place. I have never seen a bigger mess. I have never heard of bigger lies. I have never known of anyone reacting in a bigger way to rumor and supposition. I am shocked that people in responsible positions would stoop so low as to be a part of this tyrannical injustice. “You can appeal”, they say. What a comfort. An appeal can take months or even years. It is very evident that their intention is to bind us with the strong cords of red tape, run us through the gauntlet of justice? dangle us on the bungee of delay; and in the meantime, what about our innocent children? What’s with you, Texas? How do you intend to brainwash our children in order to “de-program” them (as per actual quote of a predator)? Will you continue with your Gestapo-like tactics, or will you resort to the “kill them with kindness” approach, the slow exposure, the careful integration, the bit-by-bit compromise?

Who is brainwashed after all, may I ask? The closest I come to being brainwashed is the fact that I have a clean mind. Excuse me, please, but I feel completely indignant that authorities in the state of Texas would insult my level of intelligence, however minimal it may be, and label me a half-wit when I have witnessed hundreds of numbskulls, CPS workers, law-enforcement officials, and even the great and the noble, the epitome of unflinching courage and timeless valor, the Texas Rangers, lower themselves so pathetically, descending in all their pride and power, without conscience responding in blind obedience to orders from the Gestapo, and they call me brainwashed? Amazing. And with their cruel invasion of our basic, fundamental rights protected under the Constitution, these big bullies brought nothing short of ruthless terror upon innocent women and children when even a person of moderate intelligence can readily discern that things just aren’t stacking up the way the allegations claim. John Wayne would be horrified at your audacity, and I expect he would turn over in his grave as he reaches for his long barrel to set you straight. The KGB would have had more finesse. I ask you brave cowboys, are you actually so insensitive, so blind and numb and irresponsible, that you would follow orders no matter how wrong and unjust they are? How do you sleep at night? Can’t you hear the cries and screams of our children? Do you realize that the image of the unconquerable Texas Rangers is forever imprinted upon the minds of our little ones, and it is NOT with admiration they remember you. You will always be recalled in nightmares of terror. Do you realize you are guilty of the crime of GENOCIDE? Who are you going after next? If all that you have done to us were exposed to the public, if America really knew of your outrageous behavior during the Raid, would you still be considered an honorable organization? You say you would give your life for an American citizen? Let’s see you back up your mouth with your might. Millions of people are watching you, and your illustrious reputation is on the line like never before.

The pressure is intense, but I do feel cheerful. I am encouraged to think that there are real people out there who have deep hearts. I believe there are people who not only believe in the Bible, but also practice its precepts. I believe that the truth shall be known, and right will prevail. I would love to personally thank all the people who can still feel the truth, those who are not taken by prowling wolves, thirsty for the blood of the innocent, those who have helped us in any way. I am thankful for you. Heaven bless you. I don’t know how long it will take, but I will continue to lug around my fifty pound briefcase as I continue my search for my children. You know, that briefcase really ought to be a diaper bag. My day planner really ought to be filled with plans and ideas for a day of learning and improvement with my children, for nothing is more joyful than witnessing the development of a child from heaven, nothing more pleasant than watching a beautiful bud of the rarest flower on earth blossom into a picture of loveliness, a precious bloom in the garden of life, nourished by that eternal, all-powerful element of unconditional love, continually replenished from the fountains of heaven, a gift from our Eternal Father, which He makes available to His children through the instrumentality of unselfish Motherhood. Besides that, my cell phone really ought to be a microphone in which to sing soft lullabies to four hundred broken-hearted children to fill their hearts with courage and the hope of a new tomorrow. My pillow really ought to be a sacred place where I can rest my weary head after a satisfying day of interaction with precious angel children, not a sponge of sorrow to mop and absorb the tears of a childless mother.

Perhaps tomorrow will be a brighter day. Perhaps tomorrow, big bully Texas will realize their big mistake against a small people, but will they be humble enough to admit it and withdraw? Or, will they cling to their “brave and noble”, unconquered pride, “Don’t Mess With Texas”? Will they continue their effort to crush an innocent people, staining the escutcheon of the biggest hunk of a state in this part of the Union, looking for trouble where trouble is not until they fabricate trouble of their own so big, so ugly, so wrong, that recompense is impossible and damages irreparable? I do forgive you already. All I ask is that you be fair and honest and give us an unbiased opportunity to tell our story. I challenge you, Sheriff Doran, Angie Voss, Brooks Long, all the rest of you who have admitted even under oath in a courtroom, as well as in court documents, that you have been listening to your “expert advisors”. Most definitely, you have been saturated with the lies of our enemies. Meet us on fair grounds. Listen to our side of the story without prejudice. Stop assuming we are bad. Give up your false idea that our children are being abused, and give us a chance to protect our innocent children before you destroy them. Give us back our children and then sort out this mess you made in Texas. The name “CPS” now has a horrific connotation in the minds of our children. One little boy in the Pavilion commented to his mother that he knew what CPS stands for — Child Persecution Services.

You may ask why we live the way we do, why we would be so different as to invite this persecution. I will tell you in one word. Perfection. I am after perfection. I want to be like One Person, and that is Jesus Christ. That is why I remain calm and composed in this time of great crisis. That is why I smile even though my heart is shredded and torn. The religion I practice requires a level of self-discipline and a moral standard that is unprecedented by any other in the world. I expect a great deal of myself, and I must be continually learning and growing and increasing in knowledge and experience to meet my goal, and I can never rest until I conquer myself. Persecution doesn’t surprise me. That is what our Savior had to put up with. That is what every Prophet who has ever lived on this earth had to put up with. That is what every person who has ever tried to live like our Savior and the Prophets has had to put up with. So, where do you stand? Can you really afford to be caught in the role of the persecutor? Just doing your job, are you? That is just what the Roman soldiers were doing when they crucified the Savior.

What does perfection mean to me? I will tell you by quoting the words of Orson F. Whitney, author of the “Life of Heber C. Kimball”, one of the greatest prophets of all time.

“It is marvelous that this should be; that a work of such magnitude should require preparation; that Zion, City of Holiness, should be built up only by the pure in heart? Ah, reader, the Redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions. Greater is he who subdues himself, who captures and maintains the citadel of his own soul, than he who, misnamed conqueror, fills the world with the roar of drums, the thunder of cannon, the lightning of swords and bayonets, overturns and sets up kingdoms, lives and reigns a king, yet wears to the grave the fetters of unbridled lust, and dies the slave of sin.”

Hello, America! Go ahead and ask your questions about the most misunderstood people on earth. Seek the truth, and we will answer with truth. There is an honest and reasonable explanation for every rumor you have ever heard. Just ask.

by Maggie Jessop, Mother of four children in captivity

It makes little difference if there was a crime committed in this community – I challenge you to find children as well care for as these. Look at their faces – these are not the faces of children in an abusive environment.

If you believe that these children are being “protected” by being taken into state custody – then you probably also believe that the following 21 children, all under age 16, and all killed at Waco, Texas were also “being protected”.

Lisa Martin 13 Sheila Martin Jr. 15

Rachel Sylvia 12 Hollywood Sylvia 1

Joseph Martinez 8 Abigail Martinez 11

Crystal Martinez 3 Isaiah Martinez 4

Audrey Martinez 13 Melissa Morrison 6

Chanel Andrade 1 Cyrus Koresh 8

Star Koresh 6 Bobbie Lane Koresh 2

Dayland Gent 3 Page Gent 1

Mayanah Schneider 2 Startle Summers 1

Serenity Jones 4 Chica Jones 2

Little One Jones 2

An article on Waco in Wikipedia states: The newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno approved recommendations by the FBI to mount an assault after being told that conditions were deteriorating and children were being abused inside the compound. (bold and italics are mine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_Siege

Can you imagine a more abusive way to treat children than to train intense lights on their home at night, play concert volume recordings of rabbits being slaughtered, and insert CS gas into their home by ramming a tank through the wall – and if that isn’t abusive enough, then shooting and burning them to death?

“CS gas is banned under the Paris Convention on chemical warfare. The U.S. could not use it in war. It is illegal, but they would use it against their own citizens.” _ The Washington Times, April 23, 1993. At a Rose Garden press conference, then President Bill Clinton stated: “I am frankly surprised to say that anyone would suggest that the Attorney General should resign because some religious fanatics murdered themselves.”

Whose children do you think will be next? – will they be yours?

These people’s homes and village are continually derided in the press as “a compound”. We are being fed a pejorative view of these people – and they are being accused in the press of criminal activity within their community. We are told that the young men in this community are “groomed to perpetuate the cycle.”

If we are to believe that the authorities are stepping in to “protect” these children on the grounds that “Court documents said a number of teen girls at the 1,700-acre compound were pregnant, and all the children were removed on the grounds that they were in danger of “emotional, physical, and-or sexual abuse.” – then we had better look closer to home to see if our children are next.

In a quick search on the Internet, the following official statics for the United States can be found:

The teenage birth rate in United States is the highest in the developed world, One million teens in the USA will become pregnant over the next twelve months. More than half of them are 17 years old or younger when they have their first pregnancy.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there were 854,122 legal induced abortions in the US in 2003. That is 1.6 abortions per minute day and night, 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the year 2003.

During 2005, an estimated 899,000 children in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico were determined to be victims of abuse or neglect.

An estimated 1,460 children died due to child abuse or neglect.

In 2005, more than three-quarters of perpetrators of child maltreatment (79.4%) were parents, and another 6.8 percent were other relatives of the victim.

According to United States Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, there were overall 111,490 white and 36,620 black victims of rape or sexual assault reported in 2005 or a total of 148,110. That is one rape every 3 1/2 minutes in the US.

You might want to ask yourself if any of these things are taking place in your community, or your church, or your child’s school, or even your own home.

Our children attend public schools – compounds really – where access is through a metal detector, drugs are rampant, sexual activity takes place on a regular basis, student/teacher liaisons are common, and condoms and contraceptives are distributed to students.

In 16 States a child can have an abortion without parental consent.

Can we as a society honestly say we are not grooming our children to perpetrate a cycle of exposure to possible emotional, physical, and-or sexual abuse? Have all the siblings and parents of the girls who beat a classmate deaf and nearly blind, and then posted it on the Internet, been taken into “protective custody”? Have all the children in their community been put in legal custody of the State? What about the Michigan community where a man was gruesomely killed? Is that community under lock down?

Remember, in Texas “all the children were removed on the grounds that they were in danger of “emotional, physical, and-or sexual abuse.”

What is the real reason for what is taking place in Texas? Is it to protect anyone? Are we kidding ourselves?

We all might want to ask ourselves the question as to whether or not this is religious persecution. Remember, all of this is being done on the power of one warrant to investigate one accusation of the abuse of one individual.

Remember the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany, and the Jews.

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.” – a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892–1984)

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.”