Talk about rude. The Peoples Republic of Texas was back at it yesterday, terrorizing little children and getting in the faces, literally, of members of the FLDS Church in an attempt to salvage at least a criminal case against . . . who else? Warren Jeffs. Brooke Adams reports the Texas Attorney General — a weirdo with a fetish for FLDS saliva — sent agents to the home of 19-year-old Veda Keate to collect DNA samples by swabbing the mouths of her and her 2-year-old daughter.
When Keate asked why the AG couldn’t use samples already collected back in April, agents said merely, “This is for something different.” Adams reports:
Keate gave her sample but her daughter began screaming when the nurse attempted to swab the child’s mouth.
“They wanted me to get her in their car and I said, ‘No, I’m going to stand right here.’ They finally just forced it into her mouth,” Keate said.
Switzer [Keate's defense attorney] said the child’s fear was understandable given that “the last time guys with a couple guns came, it didn’t work out so good.”
Can you imagine the idiocy of these Texas AG agents thinking that any mother or child, having been abused and repeatedly lied to by the State of Texas as they have, would ever willingly get inside an official Texas State vehicle? Brain-dead is too polite a term. You’d think, after all of the rude, illegal behavior that the AG and company have already perpetrated against Keate, they would be somewhat apologetic or bashful about getting so personal, once again. But these are not people. They are animals – braying jackasses.
Switzer said that rather than seek a court order requiring CPS to share its DNA results, the AG’s office appears to want new evidence not attained by the “debacle” surrounding the initial investigation at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in April.
Switzer said any evidence problems surrounding the search warrant used to enter the ranch also taints the new search warrants.
“How would they even know that [about Keate's child] if it weren’t for the illegal raid on the ranch to begin with?” he said.
In other words, the Texas AG — who, to his credit was smart enough not to support Texas CPS at the Supreme Court back in May — has pretty much admitted that DNA evidence gathered following the illegal raid in April won’t be useable in any criminal case.
More at SL Trib.
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Did they come with proper warrants this time? By what authority do they invade a woman’s and child’s mouths like that? This is indeed the People’s Republic of Texas. (And speaking of People’s Republics, expect more of this sort of thing when Obama assumes office in January. He is an autocrat, right out of the Texas mold, by way of Kansas and Kenya. Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you…)
What the goons did not know, and only found out after they shoved
the swab into the childs mouth with force was that reporters from the New York Times, who were there doing a story on the women and children for the past 3 days, was inside the apartment and got the entire thing on video.
Expect the video to come out tomorrow, it will be on every blog we can find, and Kurt will be sent a copy.
Watch when the cop finds out that he’s being taped, how he goes to his car and gets his hat and gloves to hide himself.
They went to another house, and the exact same thing happened,
it’s all caught in living color with their pants down and the goons stroking. Smile boys, you’re in the New York Times !
Mr. Medvecky: all I can say is “fabulous.” I am licking my chops! For once, I like the New York Times.
Maybe we should take up a collection for hats and gloves for the West Texas cops and CPS. Or maybe they can just wear their KKK get-ups and save time.
I’ve been searching for that video high and low. I guess it’s not out yet. I smell “Imminent Case Collapse Syndrome.”
Gravitas, the Republicans have been in total charge of the government of the State of Texas since at least 2003, in charge of the Governor’s office (the executive branch, which includes CPS) for years and years before then, and in charge of the Judiciary for about the same number of years and years. It is during the reign of this Party that CPS has grown like a tumor, that the power of police/goons vs people has increased, and that individual rights under the State constitution have been diminished by the Court of Criminal Appeals. Your attempt to connect this somehow to an Obama Presidency is absurd.
Doran, this isn’t republican vs. democrat. Gravitas is simply saying that this is the same type of behavior to expect from Obama. Whether or not that’s founded, I leave for gravitas to prove. Everything isn’t always about parties. Gravitas is talking about a persons tendencies, Obama’s marxist leanings, not the democrats. The “people’s republic” that Gravitas alludes to is, if I guess aright, the one we know and love in China.
Of course it is Republican vs. Democrat. McBush is the only other candidate with any chance of prevailing, if the anti-Obama propaganda such as yours and that of Gravitas finds traction.
I’m not an Obama booster. I think any main-stream Democrat is just only slightly less offensive than McBush. But I cannot tolerate political bs. I am horribly offended by it. I don’t like it here, I don’t like it at No Quarter. I want to see reasoned and thoughtful discussion of issues, not slanderous comments about any of the candidates. The Republic does not have time left for that sort of juvenile, high-school rah-rah baloney.
Let Gravitas speak for himself. He linked the police state tactics of Texas Republicans to Obaman by innuedo. That is preposterous and absurd.
Gravitas
Did they come with proper warrants this time? By what authority do they invade a woman’s and child’s mouths like that?
The question should be, as Switzer pointed out, how could they know which mouth to swab for testing without using information they are evidently worried about a court suppressing?
Was it from the CPS test results, the Bishop’s records or questioning the CPS conducted (maybe as they held adults and denied them legal counsel as they questioned them)?
I know of no evidence that is not in question which could tell the AG’s office who they should test so that Warren (a non-resident of the ranch) may be charged.
Next they’ll tell us about a fellow prisoner who overheard Warren telling what mouths they needed to swab!
There is a difference between connections and comparisons. My comments were a comparison, not a connection. I am no fan of Rick Perry any more than I am of Obama. Being a horse’s rear end heeds no party lines.
Re what the question should be about mouth-swabbing: excellent point.
Doran & Gravitas —
I think you’re both right, but J. Steiner is the rightest of all. The top-level politicians and judges driving the FLDS debacle in Texas are all RINOs — Perry, O’Neill, Walther — but many of the boots on the ground are dyed-in-the-wool Dems or worse.
Regardless of political party, they are all serving the fundamentally Marxist objective of destroying families. And no one in today’s American political universe is so immersed in Marxist thought and community as Barack Obama. He’s dripping with red ink. And, as such, he should be expected to dramatically enhance the power of CPS organizations around the country because Marxist hate families.
McCain, on the other hand, has stood up for polygamist minorities when given the opportunity. While he would be bad news (in my view) in some other respects, I see him as fundamentally different from GW and Rick Perry on this issue.
Most importantly, I think you can count on a Pres McCain (unlike GW) to voluntarily appoint judges and justices who would follow the Constitution. GW was pushed kicking and screaming in that direction, especially after Harriet Miers “withdrew” her SCOTUS nomination. The two Harriets — Miers and O’Neill (whom GW also appointed to the Tex Court of Appeals) — differ only in age.
My two cents.
K
I would love to know where he:
“has stood up for polygamist minorities when given the opportunity”
I have seen Senator Orrin Hatch do it a few years ago (much to his political detriment) But I have never seen or heard of Mcwalkingstick doing it. Any refrences of this Mt Schulzke? I guess you could say that not pulling a Dirty Harry means he “doesn’t” agree with the persecution, but Obama is a closet polygamist too, remember?
I care nothing for the Republicon or Democrat partisan nonsense, the labels are indescernable when it comes to ignoring the Constitution. War on euphemisms and red herrings, and tax and borrow the people into the ground to change the weather, is coming from all of the “No, YOU flip flop the most” professional politicians.
All “for the children” of course.
“Closet polygamist”? Closet adulterer is always theoretically possible – the more successful/rich/famous the man, the more temptations to adultery, after all – but “polygamist”?
Many believe he is a closet Muslim, right?
His grandfather was a polygamist, and that is allowed in that culture.
“Successful” is up to interpretation as well
You’re not serious? Oh wait, you are.
Two things: First, the fact that “many believe” a thing does not make it true. If he’s a Muslim, I want to know what mosque he attends, and/or when he’s been seen using a prayer mat.
Secondly: the actions of a grandfather who didn’t have all that much hand in his upbringing are not his actions.
Oh, and BTW – I’d say anyone who is elected to Congress is de facto successful. He’s famous, at any rate.
Ok I get it.
You support B. Hussein Obama and being elected to congress defines successful to you.
Kurt supports the war hero and thinks RINO doesn’t include Mcwalkingstick.
And I support anyone who will get out of the way of religious freedom and family and human rights and stops spending the money we buy stuff from China with and then borrow back at interest. My political motto: “Read my lips, its the stupid economy.” I wish I could vote for James Madison or Andrew Jackson, but they are not running this year.
I would love to see Obama defend his grandfather, and I would love to see McCain defend the rights of polyg’s. I hope they do in the future.
And I define successful as one who smiles when they think of standing before their God on judgement day.
You support B. Hussein Obama
Yes, because thinking you’re making up nonsense means I intend to vote for him.
and being elected to congress defines successful to you.
It’s a good indicator of earthly success, yes. It’s a definable achievement.
Oh, and a president who directed genocidal campaigns is one of your ideal candidates?
Umm. Maybe I’ve miscommunicated.
McCain is definitely a RINO but he’s taken positions on key issues — Sup Ct for one — that make him a better candidate, in my view. He’s also free of the Marxist taint that dogs Obama.
And I’ll find something on the McCain polyg thing. He’s at the very least actively avoided saying anything bad about polygamy. That’s better than Romney who has dissed his own polygamous ancestors.
The ‘lesser of evils’ debate!
R R’s are ar’tfully ar’ranged!
“who directed genocidal campaigns”
I bet know what kind of school you went to!
Those were the last two presidents to get rid of the private Central Bank that runs the U.S. economy.
Jon Stewart: Many people are free-market capitalists, and they always talk about free-market capitalism, and that is our economic theory. So why do we have a Fed? Is the free market – wouldn’t the market take care of interest rates and all that? Why do we have someone adjusting the rates if we are a free-market society?
Alan Greenspan: You’re raising a very fundamental question. … You didn’t need central bank when we were on the gold standard, which was back in the nineteenth century. And all of the automatic things occurred because people would buy and sell gold, and the market would do what the Fed does now. But: most everybody in the world by the 1930s decided that the gold standard was strangling the economy. And universally this gold standard was abandoned. But: you need somebody to determine –or some mechanism – how much money is out there, because remember, the amount of money relates to the amount of inflation in the economy. … In any event the more money you have, relative to the amount of goods, the more inflation you have, and that’s not good. So:
Stewart: So we’re not a free market then.
Greenspan: No. No.
Stewart: There’s a visible – there’s a benevolent hand that touches us.
Greenspan: Absolutely. You’re quite correct. To the extent that there is a central bank governing the amount of money in the system, that is not a free market.
“It is no accident that inflationary policies are generally advocated by those who want more government control. The increased dependence of the individual upon government which inflation produces and the demand for more government action to which this leads may for the socialist be an argument in its favor. All who wish to stop the drift toward increasing control should concentrate their efforts on monetary policies.” -Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Von Hayek
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened” – Winston Churchill
//I bet know what kind of school you went to!//
Take a guess.
Would that be the one with the history books showing that cowboys were evil? The United States public school system.
Ole Hickory did blow it once in Florida, and was once a part of the slave trade, but “grandpa” Bill would be living in Spain still, and we may still be singing “God Save the Queen” had it not been for him.
I recommend the book “The life and times of Andrew Jackson” by H.W. Brands.
Nope, sorry.
I went to a conservative Evangelical school.
//Ole Hickory did blow it once in Florida, and was once a part of the slave trade,//
Minor details!
//we may still be singing “God Save the Queen” had it not been for him.//
I can think of worse fates.