I am thinking that those FLDS folks didn't do much in the way of advance planning when they started getting rid of their boys. Because, like, if they'd gone ahead and murdered them and hid the bodies, at least you wouldn't have cherubic, traumatized youths talking to the press, you know?
I suppose they could have arrested all these kids, and put them in the town/county jail for eternity, but I am sure if they did that lawyers would swoop in with vast glee, appealing and suing till the cows came home.
The first stop for many boys is Hurricane or St. George, where a network for exiles exists. They often share apartments or sleep on couches while trying to find work. Some end up in Las Vegas or Salt Lake City.
Oh dear. Vegas freaked
me
out and I'm a freakin' New Yorker. They must get there and think the rest of the planet IS a den of sin.
I am thinking that those FLDS folks didn't do much in the way of advance planning when they started getting rid of their boys. Because, like, if they'd gone ahead and murdered them and hid the bodies, at least you wouldn't have cherubic, traumatized youths talking to the press, you know?
There has been some buzz that they
brace yourself for the "shock"
think the end is imminent. And they're probably convinced the outside world doesn't care about children anyway.
The community in question was in the process of shifting operations to El Paso, Texas. Their leader is missing and may be hiding at the compound they're building. (I always get nervous when religious groups start building compounds.) The state of Utah froze the FLDS' assets for fear that the chosen few were in the process of abandoning the "excess" members of the community while the faithful scarpered for texas.
people saying such a law was biased against large families
It would get a tricky once you get past five kids.
It would get a tricky once you get past five kids.
So does keeping them clothed or sending them to school or getting them medical attention. More kids requires more money.
FUCK.
No car until tomorrow.
The shipment came in late.
Mandatory seat belts also runs into "How dare you infringe on my freedom to die messily!" thing around here. I'm thinking somebody intelligent pointed out that five-year-olds aren't old enough to decide they want to die messily in car wrecks.
Note to upwardly-mobile cults (i.e., aspiring to religion-hood): long-term plans are your
best friends.
I don't care how imminent a rapture may be; if the ATF, FBI, DEA, or Social Services shows up first, you are still screwed. That goes double if they bring national news reporters with them.
I think a long-term plan is pretty much what differentiates a cult from a religion. Even the doctrine doesn't have to have a long-term plan, but the leaders sure better have one. Basic advice, about the level of:
Hey, Giant Accounting Firms: Don't let evil corporations cook your books in wildly obvious ways! Even if the Supreme Court doesn't hold you responsible in the end, you will still be squashed like a fraudulent bug.
And:
Hey, Evil Corporation: if you're gonna snooker the state of California, for CRYING OUT LOUD don't do it on tape! That is what meetings in underground parking structures are FOR!! Prove to me you're at least as smart as Hal Holbrook, you seething, rapacious pile of shmuckery!!!
Actually, this is kind of therapeutic.
