Incest is a crime in all 50 states of the Union. A Texas judge

[Bobbieo]

has ruled that the more than 400 Texas Compound children will stay in state custody and will be subject to genetic testing. In fact, all parents and children will be given genetic testing to determine how the children and parents are related.

It is doubtful this ruling ever would be made in AZ or Utah!

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. ...but

if I wear a flag lapel, is it OK?

[crikkett]

5. >snort

:spray:

[Donnachaidh]

9. wrong forum

please take the pins back to the swamp of GDP. :puke:

[keep_it_real]

2. Judge is doing the right thing; get the facts and truth first

But it will be costly.

[derby378]

3. I'm sure Warren Jeffs has a few gray-market weapons caches lying around...

If any of them are in Texas, dig 'em up and sell 'em to law-abiding folk like yours truly, and the courts will (hopefully) have enough money to pay for the DNA tests.

Hey, it's just a thought...

[Bobbieo]

4. I'm certain Texas is already paying out welfare

to the single mothers with children in the compound.

[MichiganVote]

6. Justice dept. faud case? Should fill the air waves away from the McSame non message.

[derby378]

7. Tell me about it

The first time I heard about the compound a few years ago, the word was that the FLDS was going to do in Eldorado what a bunch of hyper-Libertarians tried and failed to do in Loving County, which has a total population of (last I heard) less than a hundred. The FLDS would take up residence in Eldorado, file all of the appropriate papers, get all of the FLDS men registered to vote, and then overpower the locals by sheer force of numbers at the ballot box. Once the FLDS was in charge of the city council, they would simply write their own laws and dig in their heels for the long haul.

Intentional communities like the FLDS Eldorado compound are fascinating social experiments from a sociological standpoint, but so many of them go so wrong in the end.

[Bobbieo]

11. This is what has happened on the AZ-Utah border in

Colorado City and Hilldale.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. don't know for sure, but the children from the Branch Davidian

compound were placed in the Methodist Home for Children which is in Waco, I think. These kids may be placed in foster care ...not sure about the women

an attorney friend of mine is down in San Angelo to be counsel for some of the victims

[Donnachaidh]

10. that's the added benefit of *spiritual* marriages

And these groups have certainly learned the angles. Got the fifth, sixth or seventh wife, get all of them pregnant, and then apply for food stamps and welfare.

What a frigging racket. :grr:

[Bobbieo]

12. This thing should have been taken care of in 1953 with the Short Creek,

AZ episode but the state just let it slip by with a slap on the wrist for the men and sent the women back to the compound.

Within a few years it was back to the same polygamous group. The only thing that changed was the name from Short Creek to Colorado City. Then Utah got in on the act!!!!