Texas Polygamist Compound

[R1100R]

There have been numerous atrocities committed through out history in the name of

religion. To me this is just same.

[Moped]

I think it was last week or late the week before last that the State of Texas took one of the "under aged" girls to the hospital under guard to have her baby. Late last week the State admitted that she was 22 years old. Apparently there is another young lady that is being held as a ward of the state that is also pregnent and she has also be found to older than the proscribed age.

I don't hold with forcing under aged girls to marry older men either. I think it's pretty sick, but it seems to me that the State of Texas' case is starting to unravel just a bit. I also would like to point out that just about half the families there were of monogamist. They lived in their on houses separate for the others and their kids were seized too. Also the phone call that was made to the authorities is now thought to have been a hoax and a woman in Colorado has been charged. Again Texas' case is starting to look weaker and weaker.

This brings us back to the original topic of the US looking more and more like a Police State. I have to agree with this statement. My parents just got back from a two week vacation out west, where they were stopped several times by the US Border Patrol at different check points. At each stop they had to prove who they were and tell what they were doing. They weren't at the border either. They were 75 to 100 miles away from the border. My dad found them to be rude and arrogent in their questioning. I might add that my parents look like white anglo saxons, which they are.

Now cities are putting up cameras every where. Washington, DC may be the most under surveillance city in the country now. Chicago and New York City are right there with them. Even in Knoxville, they are have cameras up at all major intersections. Of course we that live here, know all about the traffic citation cameras at dangerous intersections. But there are numerous others that mounted at other intersections as well. It just seems to me that we are trading freedom for security and I'm not sure it's worth it.

I guess I belong to the Tin Hat crowd too. Go ahead and hand one!

[Fallguy]

There have been numerous atrocities committed through out history in the name of

religion. To me this is just same.

Been a fair amount committed to protect the general welfare too.

[memphismason]

I think it was last week or late the week before last that the State of Texas took one of the "under aged" girls to the hospital under guard to have her baby. Late last week the State admitted that she was 22 years old. Apparently there is another young lady that is being held as a ward of the state that is also pregnent and she has also be found to older than the proscribed age.

I don't hold with forcing under aged girls to marry older men either. I think it's pretty sick, but it seems to me that the State of Texas' case is starting to unravel just a bit. I also would like to point out that just about half the families there were of monogamist. They lived in their on houses separate for the others and their kids were seized too. Also the phone call that was made to the authorities is now thought to have been a hoax and a woman in Colorado has been charged. Again Texas' case is starting to look weaker and weaker.

This brings us back to the original topic of the US looking more and more like a Police State. I have to agree with this statement. My parents just got back from a two week vacation out west, where they were stopped several times by the US Border Patrol at different check points. At each stop they had to prove who they were and tell what they were doing. They weren't at the border either. They were 75 to 100 miles away from the border. My dad found them to be rude and arrogent in their questioning. I might add that my parents look like white anglo saxons, which they are.

Now cities are putting up cameras every where. Washington, DC may be the most under surveillance city in the country now. Chicago and New York City are right there with them. Even in Knoxville, they are have cameras up at all major intersections. Of course we that live here, know all about the traffic citation cameras at dangerous intersections. But there are numerous others that mounted at other intersections as well. It just seems to me that we are trading freedom for security and I'm not sure it's worth it.

I guess I belong to the Tin Hat crowd too. Go ahead and hand one!

+1

The City of Memphis has started putting up cameras as a "Crime tracker and Terrorist Prevention". They are programmed to turn on and adjust to the sound of a gun shot. This is done without consent of the people, in the name of "terror defense". What a bunch of BS!