Would You Lie?

Every one of us has lied at some point in our lives. It's unavoidable. We want to avoid getting in trouble. "I'm sorry, officer, I didn't see the 35 mph sign." "Sorry, sir, my dog ate my homework."

Would you lie to your wife about where you were till 1 a.m.? Would you lie to the IRS about how much cash income you received last year?

Would you lie in a court of law?
Would you give false testimony to get a lighter sentence for yourself?
Would you lie about a defendant out of mere spite?
Would you falsify medical records to mislead a jury (see the movie, "The Verdict", [with Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling and James Mason])?

I get the feeling that a decent sized group of people really despises Warren Jeffs - maybe for his religion or maybe for his leadership or personality. Either way, I think certain individuals hate him so much that they have staked their careers and reputations and self-worth on destroying him. They wish him harm. They would dance on his grave. They would relish hurting or annihilating him. They would conspire to cook up an elaborate scheme of lies and deceit if it could bring sorrow and torment upon him. This can perhaps be attributed to their lust for revenge for things they (or their friends) allege he has done to them, or is it simply because they have an uncontrollable hatred for POLYGAMY (the marriage model that gave them life)?

If enough time goes by, even the most stalwart haters will realize they have gone too far. Hopefully, the pangs of conscience have stricken midwife, Jane Blackmore, and, after years of not being able to sleep, she will fess up that she and her posse, the Hooligans and their puppet plaintiffs, cooked up phony miscarriages and a miscarriage of justice.

The A.G.'s Office said it learned of the development from the Arizona county attorney prosecuting Jeffs, noting that according to his report "it is possible that Elissa -- either wittingly or unwittingly -- helped the midwife in re-creating the records." (from a SL Tribune article by Brooke Adams)
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14891690

Now, as I have said before, I am not perfect, and, presumably, neither is Warren Jeffs. However, nobody should lie in a trial to get any person imprisoned for life just to further a campaign of spite or revenge.

I am gratified that Utah A.G., Mark Shurtleff has had the (C.Y.A.) fortitude to come forward and face up to the new developments:

" . . . . given the potential exculpatory—impeachment—nature of the information, if Jeffs requests it, the State would not oppose a stay of the appeal and a remand to the trial court for the purpose of developing a factual record on these allegations, and thereafter to further briefing and argument as warranted."
(from a notice filed by deputy A.G., Laura DuPaix)
http://166.70.44.68/blogs/plurallife/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/JeffsNotice-1.pdf

Oh boy! This house of cards smells like it is about to tumble down spectacularly. Can you say "N-E-W T-R-I-A-L"? I can see it now - ELIESsa Wall on the witness stand - - - -

DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Elissa, did you have sex with other boys before your wedding with Allen?

ELISSA: Uh, Um, Uh, I don't remember, I was too innocent to understand what was happening to me.

DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Did you claim (to Jane Blackmore) that you had had miscarriages during your marriage to Allen that really did not happen?

ELISSA: Uh, Um, Uh, I don't remember, I'm too innocent to know what a miscarriage is.

DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Did you fabricate your story so that you and the Hooles could extort a large amount of money from the FLDS people?

ELISSA: Uh, Um, Uh, I don't remember, I'm too innocent to know what money is.

So here is Renn's prayer:

I pray that all the legal officials, A.G.s, lawyers, attorneys, judges, jurors, witnesses, accusers, clerks, sheriffs, police officers, and everyone who had or has anything to do with Warren Jeffs' court cases will realize that, even though our President and the Congress have in their bag "diverse weights and measures", we should all tell the truth and not distort it, especially when these charges involve lengthy prison terms. I pray that Warren Jeffs will have the opportunity to be vindicated - especially since he had NOTHING WHATSOEVER with arranging Allen Steed's marriage to Elissa Wall.

Pick me, Renn, to be on the jury for the new trial, because I will acquit him faster than you can say "Brute Wisass".

Would you lie?

Harrassment

I didn't post a comment yet about the 75-year sentence imposed upon Merril Leroy Jessop in Texas. Other bloggers did justice to this topic. Suffice it to say that a sentence of 75 years is a signal that somebody is "out-to-get' the FLDS. Such a sentence for sex with a 15-year-old is unprecedented (especially when the two parties were effectively married). Why did they not simply haul Merril out to a stake and burn him to a crisp? I can almost hear the cackle of the Carolyn/Flora/Mackert/Ignatin harpies as they dance in the flames yet complain that it still is not sufficient punishment. One of them recently lamented that the YFZ raid was a sellout because Texas did not keep the children. Have we come to the point now where a significant number of U.S. corporate subjects believe that all FLDS infants must be snatched from their mothers at birth, or that all FLDS people must be sterilized?

In the heading of my blog I allude to the concept that there is a rather hysterical, almost supernatural animus against polygamy in this world. Our world is often spoken of as being a "telestial" world - that is - it is distant from God and akin to the lowest of the "three kingdoms". How true!!! Though our God Himself has many wives, His children here on earth harbor a hatred for the marriage pattern that gave them life - no less so in Texas and Utah.

Texas (through Hildy Harfabrain) has cooked up this contorted legislative logic that, if a person cannot legally marry his partner, then the sentence for the crime of sex with a minor can be enhanced by an additional 79 years. This statutory language was carefully tailored to target Fundamentalist Mormons. When this nation devolves into complete anarchy, will it be "open season" on us? Will the riot-crazed, looting mob come storming in to snatch our TVs and our lives/wives? God forbid!

Yesterday's invasion is evidence that such behavior is not far off. Mohave County (AZ) law enforcement swooped in on the Fire Department and substations in Colorado City/Hildale and took computers and documents. Can you say "FISHING EXPEDITION"? It must also be no coincidence that yesterday was April 6th (a date significant for many Mormons).

This action is not much different from the recent raid on the school district. Lengthy articles were written about the alleged rampant misuse of school district (public) funds. After years of investigation and oversight, no infractions were discovered, and control was relinquished, but not back to the community.

Bruise Wisass hates the FLDS. He and his feral cronies, Fetcher, Bowser and Fangles, cannot sleep at night for lusting for FLDS blood. This thinly-veiled and likely illegal invasion is another step in an effort to take municipal governance away from the local community.

Come on, folks, can't we see the REALLY BIG picture? Such unbridled oppression of a minority can only go on so long without eternal spiritual implications.

I pray for the conspirators/-trices that they will turn from their evil spite and lust and soften their hearts. No FLDS member is perfect. I am not perfect. That is still no excuse for flagrant persecution, especially the institutional kind (under color of law) perpetrated by this state-sponsored cabal and Brute Winsane.

Healthcare Jihad-Nancy!

Oh my gosh! Nasty Pelosi is waging health care Jihad! She wants to turn the entire American health care system over to a pack of power-mongering oligarchs. On top of that, she wants to blend into her Satanic health care reform bill a provision which will give control of student loans to the federal government. Like one commentator said today - this would allow the government to choose to withhold student loans for colleges that do not consent to teach a "pro-government" message.

What surprises me most is the brazenness of these progressive liberal statists. They must be confident that the masses won't revolt, because they make no effort to hide their wickedness. Pelosi says that we should just pass this health care reform bill so that we can then have a chance to see how good it is. Ten years of taxation for four years of benefits!!! I can't wait . . .

When the jockey is fatter than the horse, you lose the race. Obama is starving the horse and fattening the jockey.

Glenn Beck made a comment recently that struck a nerve with me. He said that this is not Europe. Bishop John Koyle said that, too.

I think that the statists might have read the prophecies in scripture, but I am convinced that they do not believe they will be fulfilled. It makes me look at them with a touch of pathos. George Washington had a vision concerning a war to end all wars. President John Taylor had a vision in which he saw many great eastern cities burning. He saw starving women eating their babies. It is such an amazing blessing to have been born in the latter part of the 20th century and to be alive to witness the tremendous events of our day. It is the titanic clash between the forces of evil and the forces for good. One godless politician pointed out the other day that it will be good to allow federal funds to pay for abortions because that will result in a smaller number of children who need to be supported by a government health care system.

All of the above stuff is sinister and galling, but let's take a look at something a little more disturbing -

In the last few days, the news channels have been crowded with reports about two alleged terrorist women. First it was "Jihad-Jane", a middle-aged woman who has apparently been promoting Islamic Jihad and encouraging others to resist American anti-terrorism efforts. Today, we learned of a second activist woman - "Jihad-Jamie". She went to Ireland to pursue her crazed terrorist aspirations and was arrested. Then she was set free.

http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/archive/2010/03/15/some-thoughts-on-jihad-jamie-and-jihad-jane.aspx

Both women were taken into police custody. Both are alleged to be "troubled", "mentally-unstable" women who were easily duped and seduced into a radicalized mindset, in hopes that they would become active terrorists. Now, I am a patriotic American citizen, and I have no patience for terrorism, covert warfare and senseless aggression (- which is what makes me so fearful of Nasty Pelosi !!!). Anyway, the scary thing about this Jihad-Jane and Jihad-Jamie situation is that neither of them has physically harmed anyone or committed a palpable crime as far as I can tell. So what will be the charges on which they will be tried? I agree that, if a wacko is making chemical weapons in his basement and makes threats to blow up the houses of parliament, he should be detained, questioned, monitored and even restrained.

The frightening part is what happens when someone in government decides that she doesn't like you and decides that your conservative mindset is dangerous or "radicalized". Then you might be detained and charged with heresy, blasphemy, sedition, treason, conspiratorialism, white supremacy or religious fanaticism. Then you will be dubbed "Jihad-Steve". You will be the first resident of your local FEMA camp. Who is "the government" anyway? Isn't it just other Americans who have seized power over the rest of us? Or has some nefarious entity seized power over the government representatives? Or, are they in it together (see Gadianton robbers)?

Read the book of Job. Remember that God and Satan are not just competing for Job's soul. They are competing for yours. I just don't get why so many of the ones who are working for Satan's side can be so oblivious of the nature and eternal impact of what they are doing. I think, if you leave out any discussion of the pre-existence, none of it will ever make any sense. Solutions are coming, but I suspect they will all be divine, and we will be forced to simply observe. Meanwhile, I pray that we will root for the right team (not the team with Geithner, Bernanke, Soros, Axelrod, Pelosi and Emanuel !!!).

Lost Boys

I have been trying to get my head around a tired old controversy. I don't like to comment about something if I cannot make some sense out of the matter in my own brain. In the tireless crusade against Mormon fundamentalism, one popular rallying cry deals with the allegedly "lost" boys of the Arizona Strip.

I believe that Utah's public officials and the supposedly "lost" boys themselves already genuinely resent the "Lost Boy" term. I actually resent the whole concept. I do think I have figured out why the whole controversy is cheap and over-inflated.

First, however, I cannot resist mentioning that Silsby lady from Boise. I mean the one who enlisted a bunch of her fellow church-members to race down to earthquake-stricken Haiti to scoop up a bus-load of cute little black kids (it didn't go well . . . . ). Some people lust after kids. Some are imprisoned. Some are just busybody do-gooders. Either way, one trait in human nature drives some people to want to "rescue" children from family situations they see as unworthy. They think it is right to confiscate the children and place them by force in a new environment. That Silsby lady reminds me of some Utah and Texas folk.

When the pilgrims showed up on our eastern shores, they formed closed, faith-based communities. I mean they blended religion with geography. All the folk in the village were of largely like mind and went to the same Sunday services. Dissension was looked upon with disapproval.

So lets look at the hue and cry over the "Lost Boys" of Colorado City and Hildale. I don't know any of them, but I am sure about one thing. There are two ways to become a "Lost Boy [or girl]":

1. Conduct yourself in a manner which is utterly unacceptable to your family - perhaps to the extent that it is no longer appropriate or safe (considering other siblings) for you to remain in your home. In this case you will probably end up being asked to find alternative accommodations.

2. Decide that you are not ideologically in tune with the secular or religious guidelines set forth for your faith-based community. In this case, you will probably end up wanting to seek alternative accommodations.

So now back to the ideological poachers - there seems to be no shortage of crusaders who want to swoop in and rescue you. My point is that ungovernability and disaffection among youth are an aspect of human life in all parts of the globe. It's just infinitely easier to criticize a faith-based community for challenges among its youth when that community is concentrated in one geographic location. It's also convenient and tantalizing when you hate that community's religion. However, when you look at the two scenarios mentioned above, each has complete legitimacy, and for both parties. Should a religious congregation not have the right to maintain homogeneity and order in its society? Should people not have the right to leave a church and choose a new one (or none)?

This may seem foreign to the average cosmopolitan, but the united states of America were not established to build Cosmopolis, they were established to ensure Constitutional and religious freedoms to Christian townships and their residents.

Our modern, maritime society has played Robin Hood, confiscating from the have's to cater to the have-not's. Welfare entitlements purchase votes at elections. Society cannot quite decide whether to besiege the FLDS for encouraging their young people to stay or for coaxing them to leave, yet it anxiously awaits the opportunity to gather them up and re-program them (with promises of soda pop and candy). Let me venture to say that the whole "Lost Boy" charade has been mostly about political fodder and self-aggrandizing kid-poachers.

I want also to add the post-script that this argument about "not enough girls to go around" is absurd. How many 21st century men are clamoring to get married (or are honorable and worthy enough to be married)? One of the biggest problems the LDS Church faces is the extraordinarily large number of spinsters and divorcees.

With all due respect to those young men and women who have become displaced and needy, I say that exploiting the disaffected for political or personal gain is reprehensible (and Ruth Stubbs would agree).

Bill Medvecky makes some good points

I was reading the FREE THE FLDS CHILDREN website today and found the following post from Bill Medvecky. There are also several intelligent comments below his post.

http://www.flds.ws/2010/02/17/when-is-a-co-operative-not-a-co-operative/

I have noticed that the Utah Supreme Court has a handful of FLDS cases in its lap, and much of Christendom waits with bated breath (or is it baited hook ???) for the decisions.

I know it's cheap, but I am tickled to watch what this august panel will do. I read with great gusto the language of the majority in the Rodney Holm (State v. Holm) case. One of the justices (I can't remember if it was Wilkins or Nehring) launched into a bizarre diatribe about how he would never want to be seen to be worrying about public backlash, but he didn't dare be the first judge to legitimize fundamentalist Mormon polygamy when so many people cringe and shudder at the practice.

In my experience (and I don't know which ones of the Justices are card-carrying LDS) the anti-polygamy sentiment in the mother Church is institutional and hard-coded in the DNA. The message to Latter-day Saints, whether overt or subliminal, is - "We hate polygamy/ists so deeply, that, if you get a chance to do some harm to one of them - get him or her fired, get them out of the neighborhood, avoid associating with them, etc., - then do it, and all will be well with you at the last day."

So, back to the Utah supremes - how should they rule? In the Warren Jeffs "rape-as-an-accomplice" appeal, Wally Bugden made enough brilliant arguments (about the absurdity of the conviction), that any self-respecting Constitutionalist would acquit Warren. However, there is the sticky part. If you vote for Jeffs, you are voting against Monson, irrespective of the Constitution and good legal principles.

In the question of whether District Court Judge Disease Lintbag did the right thing when she corrupted the 1998 UEP trust intents and installed Bruise (LDS) Weaselin to plunder the trust and besiege the beneficiaries, - again, it is sticky. Some would say that the beneficiaries are foreclosed from protesting because they did not do it soon enough. That is kind of like a passport for Shurtless and Weasan to trample on the FLDS ad libitum/ad infinitum. When the A.G. alleges abuse on the part of the UEP trustee, he can do whatever and whenever. When the FLDS people point out the hubris and barbarism of the "S.O.B." Fiduciary, they are told they are out of time and out of luck.

The third of these cases to be adjudicated involves whether an attorney for the earlier incarnation of the UEP trust may maintain his attorney/client confidentiality privilege in the face of Weaselin's demand to invade it after it has been reworked beyond recognition.

How the majority will rule and write may hinge on their fealty to the Mother-Ship or on their allegiance to to the God-given principles of the Constitution, but the beautiful thing is that they have to SAY SOMETHING. They have to come up with some kind of rationale (however contorted) to explain why they are ruling against the FLDS (if they do). They cannot simply parrot the words of Justice Morrison Waite, who wrote that "Polygamy has always been odious among the northern and western nations of Europe . . " http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/reynoldsvus.html

Sincerely, I wish that these decisions were not so fraught with political and ecclesiastical implications, but I do pray that common sense will prevail (as it clearly did in Justice Durham's stinging rebuke of the majority in Holm) - - GO CHRISTINE !!!!!, (and GO Mike Z. !!!). Plus, I pray that, despite the individual failings and imperfections of FLDS members, the people and courts of the state of Utah will realize that bullying defenseless citizens will not accelerate their journey towards glory in this life or the next.

Don't Be FLDS !!!!!!

I have been wracking my brains for a good while now to understand what is wrong with being an FLDS member. I mean, the way the media presents it, it must not be fun to be FLDS; it must not be financially rewarding or intellectually liberating. However, today it finally hit me, and everything fell into place. Now I understand what the problem is and I can honestly say to any enquirer -"DON'T BE FLDS!" Here is why:

If you are FLDS, you will not be entitled to:

Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Assembly
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Association
Freedom from unlawful searches and seizures

You will not be entitled to:

Believe what you want
Follow the guidance of a Prophet (like LDS people can)
Own a business
Relocate to a different state
Raise your children according to your religion
Love several partners
Wear your favorite clothes without getting laughed at
Enjoy attorney-client privilege
Get your stuff back after the government steals it
Use a cell-phone
Have your day in court
Own a trust
Hold public office
Be a judge or a police officer
Adopt children
Build a temple and protect it
Have "all things in common"
Home-school your children
Keep to yourself

It's a good thing there were no FLDS at the time the Constitution was framed - or else there would have been a phrase in it such as, "This Constitution affords limitations on government powers and assures God-given protections to all except FLDS members."

Now you know why you wouldn't want to be FLDS. Just be glad you are an American and you live in a country that promises "Liberty and Justice for most".

The Wall Is Cracking

GRITS FOR BREAKFAST has an intelligent discussion brewing over Mohave County Judge Steven Conn's decision to accept the stipulation of both the defense and the prosecution in Warren Jeffs' Arizona case.

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/02/az-judge-suppresses-evidence-from.html

Bottom line: the mountain of evidence submitted by Michael Piccarreta alleging that the YFZ Ranch raid court orders and evidence seizures were illegal has gotten the attention of at least one judge. One would think that many humans in public service have an instinctive animus towards the practitioners of plural marriage. Look at the Rozita Swinton prosecution. In a multitude of states, the prosecution and law enforcement community is collaborating to build a wall of silence and obfuscation. A vast array of polygamy-haters is doing its best to keep the wall from cracking.

"The FLDS are grooming young boys to become sex abusers"

"The babies (male and female) are at risk of imminent physical harm"

"FLDS leaders systematically fracture the bones of all the children"

"At least 25 girls under the age of 15 were pregnant"

"All YFZ Ranch residents were residents of a single family dwelling"

"The FLDS religion (Mormonism) constitutes a culture of abuse"

"Pubic hairs were discovered in FLDS beds"

"The FLDS plan to take over the political machinery in Texas"

"FLDS marriage ceremonies are inherently criminal"

"Dale Evans Barlow can be in Arizona and Texas at the same time"

Come on, people! If you embrace this hysteria, you are like the Judeans of 33 A.D. who lusted for the crucifixion of the Nazarene for performing too many miracles and for catching the Pharisees in their false doctrines. As one blogger put it, Warren Jeffs was probably the real culprit in the Kennedy assassination.

I admit, there are a few people I passionately dislike. However, it is entirely beneath me to stoop to using legal machinations unjustly to make their lives miserable and confiscate their children.

So, here's what I think: the wall is cracking. Barbarous Wart-hog can't go on forever punishing the FLDS at the expense of justice. Judge Steven Conn has seen the light. The Texas Appeals courts can see the light. The raid was a shameless cabal. The conspirators/(-trices) muddied the evidence and lied about their collusion. You simply cannot cover up this much dirtyness forever. This is the stuff of a good Eastwood movie. How many movies have you seen where the corrupt government official commits evil and fraud, and the poor protagonist(s) struggles for 95 minutes to expose the dastardly deceit? It's formulaic. The tide is turning (just like the support for Obaminacare). Pretty soon, the perpetrators will be running for deeper cover and pointing fingers at each other.

I'm not calling for my gracious readers to revere me or Warren Jeffs (or any mortal man, for that matter), I'm simply saying that we should esteem justice, not lies. The Constitution was set aside in the 1860's, but that is no excuse for us to trample on its precepts.

Payback's a Bishop

I want to offer an opinion of a somewhat Karmic nature. The sub-heading caption of my blog suggests that there is a force in the Cosmos that deeply resents plural marriage and its practitioners. That force is so adamant - it would seem that it ought ultimately to prove victorious. Nevertheless, the universe has a way of exacting balance out of all the entropy.

Wally Offal caught the disease - I mean the "polygamy-hater's" disease. He couldn't sleep at night until he got a kilo of flesh from those filthy plyg' pedophiles in Bountiful. He prosecutor shopped. Judge Stromberg-Stein caught him red-handed. She openly and publicly ruled that Offal abused his office. Little mention was made of the months and years of financial loss, stress, torment, anguish, fear, frustration, harassment and wasted time inflicted on Winston Blackmore and his family (and on Jimmy Oler and his family, too) because Weasly Offal had to do the dirty work of Bramham and Mereska. So, today, we learned the following:

Polygamist leader suing B.C. government

Winston Blackmore says rights were violated

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/polygamist-leader-suing-bc-government/article1430320/

I applaud Winston for his courage and indignation. The Canadian legal machinery made a huge gaffe and has been found guilty (not unlike Texas). I pray that Winston will be able to recoup every penny that this orchestrated assault on him has cost.

You see, folks, mercy cannot rob justice. Many would say that it is Winston who should be disciplined - not the B.C. government. However, I expect that few of them can unequivocally state what specific harm Winston has done to them - so let him who is without spot cast the "first stone". I don't believe in abortion, but would it be right for me to form a crusading pro-life organization to stamp out or punish those individuals who commit abortions?

If the B.C. government targets and victimizes a religious minority for political or purely sanctimonious purposes, it will inevitably face retribution (remember Governor Howard Pyle of Arizona). Thank you, Winston, for standing up to their abuse.

Perhaps Jimmy will add his voice to the complaint. Stay tuned, America - those divine balancing forces are inexorable.

Rozita Swinton - More Sleaze

I have to give praise to Modern Pharisee for his impassioned indignation over the recent Rozita Swinetown shenanigans. Follow this link -

http://hughmcbryde.blogspot.com/2010/01/rozita-swinton-pleads-guilty.html

Not unlike the PR machinery of the Mother Church, the sleazy West Texas legal machinery is in heightened panic management mode, trying to head off the enemy at every turn. The enemy in this case is the highly questionable conduct of Rozita Swinebag and the potentially embarrassing fallout from a revelation that she was, in fact, a co-conspiratrice. Maybe they just don't want her to start "singing". Just think of the tales she could tell. Dirty, dirty, dirty!

This is sticky for Texas. You would think that Texas would view the equation like this -

Rozita master-minded this vicious anti-FLDS allegation and and single-handedly triggered the uncontrolled wasting of twenty million dollars of Tex-payer money. So let's throw the book at her !!! Put her away for twenty (or 99) years !!! It seems, however, that Texas and Colorado are doing everything they can do to help Rozita to ride off into her blissful, twisted sunset.

Here's the problem as I see it -

If Rozita is just a poor, innocent, mentally unbalanced retard, then WHO REALLY DID THE MASTER-MINDING of the YFZ invasion? You can't have it both ways, Texas.

If Rozita was just an unwitting pawn, then was it Intestinal Flora who set things in motion? or Brooks Long?, Sheriff Doran?, Barbara Walther?, Hildy Harferbrain?, Marleigh Meisner?, Carey Cockroach?, Diversity Foundation?, or all of the above?

I quote from an article in today's Salt Lake Tribune -

Lawyer: No Colorado crime in Texas polygamy calls:
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* * * * * "Kemp [Texas Ranger Philip -] also said that a review of Swinton's phone records showed she made numerous calls to the NewBridge crisis center in late March [2008]. That review also showed Swinton placed several calls to anti-polygamy activist Flora Jessop and a Washington state shelter around the same time. "

What creature runs for cover when the sun is starting to shine?