KBR is covering up another rape case, and in my own backyard, FLDS sect members call their religious freedom a shield against charges in their ongoing system of pedophilia, rape and domestic abuse.
The part I find hardest to stomach is that the mother, a rape victim working as an EMT in Iraq, was afraid that if she reported what happened to her, her son, who is a soldier in the same uniform, would be unhappy with her for betraying the service.
(Dawn) Leamon, who says she cannot sleep, appears exhausted. She tells her story without affect, little inflection and tamped emotion. She only tears up twice, most visibly when speaking about one of her sons, a 22-year-old US soldier who served in the Middle East recently. While she was in the process of debating whether—and how—to go about reporting her assault, she contacted him to see what his feelings were on the matter. “I didn’t want him upset with his mom,” she says, explaining that she was very loyal to the mission in Iraq and that he was similarly loyal to his service. “I was assaulted by somebody who was wearing the same uniform as him, and I just didn’t want him to think bad of me. My children are pretty much my world.” Leamon’s eyes fill with tears, and she pauses to collect herself. “I didn’t want him to be upset because I was calling out somebody who was wearing his same uniform. They’re supposed to be proud of what they do. And I’m proud of my sons. And in my mind, I live that war every day. I can make all sorts of excuses under the sun for bad behavior.”
Her son advised her to make the formal complaint.
“He was like, ’Of course you’re going to talk to CID, Mom. Of course you are.’” Leamon smiles. “He doesn’t think people should be allowed to wear his uniform and act like that. He’s been in the war too and says it’s no excuse. They’re better trained than that. That’s what my son thought. And he’s not angry at his mom.”
The part I am most grateful for is that the Texas Rangers, DPS, Schleicher County and Texas Parks and Wildlife officials who brought more than 400 children and more than 130 women out of the “Yearning for Zion Ranch” compound over the past five days managed to avoid creating a situation like Ruby Ridge or the Branch Davidian siege outside Waco.
Any God who condones child rape is no God I care to dignify in any way, shape or form; and any sect, preacher, imam, priest or other form of “pastor” who wants to advocate rape (those 72 virgins “promised” to Islamic martyrs, IIRC) — or genital mutilation, or honor killings — as part of the “faith” is not speaking for any God I choose to recognize.
We are told that Lucifer was the handsomest of angels. In the service of evil, even the devil can quote scriptures.
To that end, let me say that Rulon Jeffs, his spawn Warren, and all their ilk should not be allowed to hide behind their cult’s superstitious rules when confronted with charges of child abuse, rape, domestic violence, and pedophilia.
Indeed — they are not immune by virtue of their faith, but indicted.
Front page
Raisins. 72 raisins.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story…
Luxenberg tries to show that many obscurities of the Koran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic. We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg ’s new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields “white raisins” of “crystal clarity” rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris. Luxenberg claims that the context makes it clear that it is food and drink that is being offerred, and not unsullied maidens or houris.
I think some martyrs might be a little disappointed.
“The part I am most
“The part I am most grateful for is that the Texas Rangers, DPS, Schleicher County and Texas Parks and Wildlife officials who brought more than 400 children and more than 130 women out of the “Yearning for Zion Ranch” compound over the past five days managed to avoid creating a situation like Ruby Ridge or the Branch Davidian siege outside Waco.” By Sarah
Isn’t it amazing…the comparisons of Waco, 1993 with Janet Reno and President Clinton to this event in 2008. President Bush and AG Mukasey left this for the locals like the Waco tragedy should have been. Everybody comes out alive today…very few come out of Waco alive.
I second your thought…I’m most grateful to those you mentioned and add Governor Perry to your list. I’m also grateful that any federal involvement didn’t come to pass. That they did leave this for the locals.
I'm quite thankful Governor Perry stayed out of it too
to be honest.
What happened here is how it should have been done in the Branch Davidian incident, IMNVHO.
But try to tell that to the Amateur True Fools who’d been spoiling to join the Flyin’ Big Idiots on a raid since June before BushI left office. “Federal firearms violations” were used to trump the local charges regarding the state the children at the Branch Davidian compound were kempt in, and the results were … well, unforgettable is one word.
A lot of people have let out a sigh of relief over El Dorado
Ever since the Branch fiasco the potential for another one has just been hanging there, waiting to drop. For all those poor children and suffering women, there is now a chance at something human and decent in this life.
FLDS are criminal scum, the lot of them. Polygamy I could care, anyone wants that kind of complexity in their lives I say welcome to the hell of your own making. Coercing women, raping and abusing children - boys too, who are driven from the compound when they reach 15 to reduce competition, turned out into the streets to fend for themselves - welfare fraud, demeaning and devouring and destroying for power and lust, no excuse. No god that demands such behavior should be allowed to have worshipers.
Bringiton: We Agree Again -- and there's a whole lot of
people in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, South Dakota, Mexico and Canada who agree with us — the neighbors of these “believers”’ other outposts.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! Knowing that we’re not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
It has been far too long in coming
One of my many windmill tilts was campaigning for investigation into the FLDS when I lived in Utah. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the DA I was trying to convince, who patiently listened to my impassioned speeches with what seemed full sincerity, was a closet FLDS polyg. Next meeting I filled that office with blue air, and then got asked by the rest of the action committee to go find something else to champion; apparently swearing at the lying cheating sneaking lower than a snake’s belly opposition just isn’t done in Utah. Who knew?
Poor little children. Those men should be hung.
Y'know there's tens and tens of thousands of these fools
and not just in enclaves but spread all around, some living openly with the long dresses and many others in secret like on Big Love, a show that has a lot of people very, very nervous.
The depiction there shows some form of enlightened polygamy that doesn’t actually exist much; the vast majority of the practice is vicious cultist domination. The smarter ones now wait until the girls are 17 to “marry” them off, usually right to the day – Happy Birthday, sweetie; now lift your skirts.
You walk around any town in Utah, Idaho and the Four Corners and know what to look for, you’ll see that the polygs are everywhere; cops, DAs, judges, city council, teachers, welfare people, you name it. Taking down the Jeffs clan is literally nothing more than a good start; doing the rest will rip the living hell out of a century of guilty silence. About damn time.
Hi, Sarah.