Posts from — May 2008

The letters linked below — courtesy of the Salt Lake Tribune — were written by Hill Country Community Mental Health-Mental Retardation Center staff, in San Angelo, Texas. They assisted FLDS victims of CPS abuse in San Angelo shelters in early April 2008. The letters document what would in an international context be considered genocide or other war crimes. Despite these atrocities, it is doubtful that anyone in Texas CPS will be held accountable.

• “This was a travesty.”
• “This situation was a tragedy.”
• “It was heartwrenching.”
• “Our roles bacame… confidant and a broker.”
• “That is a very good question.”
• “Ashamed of being a Texan.”
• “I often felt helpless.”
• “Vast amounts of hypocrisy.”
• “Even to be an observer was difficult.”
• “This incident… is not what America or Texas stands for.”
• “Even the simplest request was discounted.”

Having failed in their attempt to confiscate all FLDS children on the grounds that living with “polygamists” trains up the FLDS young to be “perps” or victims, Texas CPS has set it’s sights on a bigger, easier target: the Catholic Church. Abundant, hard evidence (unlike the flimsy crapolla in the FLDS case) shows that high percentages of young Catholic boys and girls have been victimized by Catholic priests who, as everyone knows, refuse — unlike normal Americans — to marry at all. As a result, they take out their pent-up sexual fantasies on children. Lambs for the slaughter, as it were. [Read more →]

Perhaps justice can be found in Texas, after all. The Texas Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, has just upheld the decision of the Texas Third Appeals Court that the Texas CPS and infamous Judge Barbara “Defarge” Walther had no legal right to take FLDS kids from their homes.

Having read the opinion, I can say that while it is a major victory for FLDS and parents generally, it still gives scofflaw Judge Walther and CPS considerable leeway to make life difficult and costly for the FLDS. It will however, make it harder for them to behave as barbarically as they have to date. At the very least, the children will all — with few exceptions — be reunited with their parents. The central question is what strictures Walther will attempt to place on their free movement after they return home.

Happily, for the foreseeable future, Texas CPS will have to live with the fear that other parents whom they have abused (and may in future try to abuse) will have new power to combat the inhumane fraud that is Texas CPS. “Protective Services,” indeed.

Time for a look-back — all the way back to what seems ages ago, April 8 — at one example of the loose logic and uninformed, irresponsible commentary that filled the blogosphere in early April, in the week following Texas CPS’ now infamous FLDS raid. Our subject du Jour is Marci Hamilton (pictured right), an “internationally recognized expert on constitutional and copyright law”and endowed professor at the Cardozo School of Law. I first read Marci’s inflammatory piece, Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado, on the Huffington Post. It is worth noting that the illogic that permeates Marci’s writing continues to raise its ugly head in such popular climes as the O’Reilly Factor. Marci herself continues unrepentant.

On the basis of the very flimsiest sort of “evidence” then available, Marci — like many others at the time — showcased gullibility or bigotry in condemning people about whom she personally knew nothing and against whom Texas CPS had offered no real evidence of misconduct. This star of the Cardozo School of Law relied on CPS propaganda and assumed it was all true about everyone living at the FLDS ranch in Eldorado, Texas. I suppose we should be grateful that blogomobocracy, without more, leaves no physical scars. But blogmobocrats can incite others to physical violence and intimidation just as occurred in this case.

As an opener, watch the following clip from Monty Python’s Holy Grail. As you watch, substitute the word “child abuser” in place of “witch” and “Professor Hamilton” in place of “King Arthur”. “Sir Bedevere” is “Judge Walther.” You’ll get a good feel for the quality of Professor Hamilton’s thought process on the FLDS. Perhaps, after reading this piece, you’ll be ready to join her round table.

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Much has been made on this blog and elsewhere of Barack Obama’s ties to terror players — such as William Ayers — in and out of Islam. We’ve also previously mentioned some of Hillary Clinton’s own ties to the Black Panthers and the Communist Party of America. Today, Ron Kolb explores Hillary’s connections to the Puerto Rican FALN, an organization responsible for 138 bombings in five major U.S. cities. Kolb provides plenty of factual detail. It’s a real dilemma for Democrats and a great shame that Republicans can’t offer a better candidate than John McCain to go up against one of them.

Texas CPS and Judge Barbara Walther should be gloating this morning at the results of their FLDS disinformation campaign. Last night, they snookered Bill O’Reilly and Dennis Miller into making fools of themselves — each in a different way — over the Warren Jeffs pictures (purporting to show Jeffs kissing teenage girls) admitted into “evidence” on Monday.

O’Reilly and Miller are both smart guys. The fact that neither of them senses the real danger presented by CPS and Walther — that of an out-of-control, frighteningly powerful government agency subject to no real judicial oversight — shows how easily the country as a whole is distracted by official-sounding, sensationalistic lies. This is not good news.

As outlined here yesterday, the “shocking” Jeffs pictures have been authenticated by no one and have no demonstrated relevance to any decision on custody of FLDS children. Jeffs is already in prison without the ability to harm anyone’s kids even if he had the inclination to do so. And the evidence that most of the FLDS are model parents is considerable. Yes, there may be some bad apples, but the word from experts without an agenda — try here and here — is that other parents in this country could learn a thing or two about parenting from the FLDS.

In the age of Photoshop, a middling intellect with a PC can make photos up to show just about anything she wants.Despite their irrelevance and suspicious pedigrees, Texas CPS, in characteristic form, threw the pics down in court without explanation (and without challenge by the pro-CPS Judge Walther) and has refused to answer questions about them.

As an indicator of how covert CPS has become in the FLDS case, consider that the official CPS “news” page has featured no FLDS-case update since April 30. Thirty days without a single written update. That says a lot. Perhaps CPS finally caught on that the salacious lies and innuendo were too easy targets for bloggers.

One of my personal favorites is this one from the April 30 CPS update:

Medical exams and reports by the children indicate that at least 41 children have had broken bones in the past. We do not have X-rays or complete medical information on many children so it is too early to draw any conclusions based on this information, but it is cause for concern and something we’ll continue to examine.

Too eary, indeed. Since when are 41 cases of past broken bones among 460+ kids who lived on a ranch and rode horses a “cause for concern”? Talk about making mountains of molehills. This is the kind of “evidence” of “abuse” that CPS had to offer after breaking into the FLDS homes and grilling the little kids for over three weeks.

Anyway, in The O’Reilly Factor clip shown above, Miller demonstrates how little he reads up on current events with this sage observation:

“I think that Jeffs is a demented pig and the quicker he goes to prison and is on the other side and the sooner he is on the other side of an inequitous power relationship, the better off the planet will be.”

Memo to Miller: Jeffs is already in prison!

Miller, to his credit, accuses O’Reilly of voyeuristically exploiting the Jeffs pics on TV. O’Reilly’s response reveals O’Reilly as a regular mobocrat, anxious to take a torch and pitchfork to anyone who claims to be FLDS:

To build outrage, you almost have to do this, just like the girl-fight stuff ahead of you . . . Unless people get angry, unless folks mobilize . . . we’re going to lose the country . . .

This kind of rhetoric is unfair and irresponsible. You don’t save a country whose life blood is due process and deliberation by fomenting “outrage” and “anger” against offbeat religious minorities on the basis of a few photographs of a guy already serving time. Shame on Mr. O’Reilly. We won’t say “shame on Fox” since its been done so many times before. And, Dennis, dude! Do a bit of reading before shooting off your mouth on major issues of the day.

The sheer volume of Texas CPS lies, deceit and rule-breaking in the FLDS case is a severe test of blogosphere processing capacity. Could it be that CPS breeds lies polygamously? If so, Marleigh Meisner, pictured right, must have many husbands and a remarkably short gestation period.  She pops out lies at breathtaking velocity.

Yesterday, CPS lied yet again, this time to the Texas Supreme Court, telling the Court that it should not allow FLDS kids to go back home because . . . (drumroll) . . . CPS can’t identify which FLDS children go with which FLDS parents. Contradicting this nonsensical claim is the fact — highlighted in the parents responsive motion — that CPS has matched all of the children to parents for the purposes of so called “service plans.” In the Alice-in-Wonderland world of CPS, “service plans” describe what parents must do in order to get their kids back after they have been kidnapped by CPS. [Read more →]

In the face of a stinging indictment of Judge Barbara Walther and its own agents by a unanimous three-judge appellate panel, a bullheaded, small-hearted Texas CPS announced yesterday its intention to appeal its appellate humiliation to the Supreme Court of Texas.  If Texas CPS really wanted to discourage the FLDS from practicing polygamy or marrying younger than other Americans, it could hardly pursue a worse strategy. [Read more →]

Today’s 3rd Appeals Court ruling potentially liberating FLDS children and parents from Texas State tyranny is a wonderful thing for parents around the United States whether they know it or not. The Texas Appeals Court has exposed one of America’s best kept, dirtiest, most dangerous secrets: every state in the Union has been infiltrated by bad CPS actors and judges like those in Texas. They have been quietly grabbing kids and power, under the radar, destroying the Constitution, bit by bit.

Now, with the great Texas child-snatching of 2008, they are finally in the open. Look around you. Some of them live near you, maybe even in your neighborhood. And they are trouble. Today, ABCNews reports — with odd understatement — that Texas mental health workers involved in the FLDS case are finally stepping up to reveal the sinister, lawless underbelly of Texas CPS. CPS looks much the same in your neighborhood: [Read more →]