Comments on: Sheriff Had Polygamy Informant For 4 Years

Texas Authorities Defend Handling Of Polygamist Sect, Say Their Hands Were Tied Until Now

[walker1209]

I am no fan of President Bush''s, but no one can lay this at his feet, nor can we blame religion for what these people do. We live in a country of laws and no one can just make them up as they please.

These people appear to be pedophiles and if charged and found guilty, should be put in jail for a very long time.

I will pray for the women who were held against their will and for all the children involved in this horror.

[bdrlnt4rl]

fibonacci

dont show your intellegence with a stupid comment like this, these people are not the mormons.

[tejasdemo]

A muslim sneezes and we freak out but teenage girls are getting raped in the middle of Texas and we need more evidence ?

[eggy1620]

There should not even be any claim to religious freedom or privacy. It is not a religion. It is a pedophile cult that was in the business of breeding bed slaves.

[hoosiermoon]

In all the uproar of this story, I haven''t heard anyone explain why a man would want more than one wife in the first place. If a man has two wives, that would mean that he would have TWO JCPenney charge cards maxed out that he somehow is obligated to pay off. It would mean that whatever amount of money he tried to save would be blown twice as quickly as in having just one wife. Having two wives would mean having to deal with twice as many demands, twice as many expectations, twice as much complaining. Twice as many excuses for not wanting to be intimate with her husband. Any man dumb enough to want two wives deserves to put up with two wives.

[vadersdad-2009]

We are allowed Freedom to practice our religion as long as practicing said religion does not break Federal or State Law. Polygamy is against the law. When pedophiles such as the FLDS, practice their so called religion/cultism they are breaking the law and should be punished. It is no different than a Rastafarian being convicted for smoking pot. To start your own relgion, you simply have to be convicted of being a Charlatan/Imposter like Joseph Smith was in 1826 and then collect millions on of dollars a year from the weak minded people searching for the answers to life eternal.

[j-whitman]

They didn''t tell anyone for 4 years ??? --- Bush Country''s "Don''t ask, Don''t tell"

[j-whitman]

200 Miles from Bush''s ranch & he''s on vacation again.

[davidlar2]

Underage girls is another story, but I don''t see how it can be constitutional to outlaw polygamy if it is part of a religion. Last time I checked, we were supposed to have freedom of religion in this country, not just freedom to be a mainstream Protestant.

It''d be great if the government and the Supreme Court actually read the Constitution. Perhaps that is asking too much.

[klingon69]

The people at Waco killed themselves. They were obviously breaking the law too and they chose to put up a fight, unlike the cult in San Angelo. The kids the officials kidnapped are the moms.

Posted by Displeased at 10:28 PM : Apr 10, 2008
You are wrong. Janet Reno, the ATF, National Guard and yes even the Clintoons killed those people.
How about breaking the Posse-Comitatus act, US National Guard Troops and equipment were used against the people at Waco? Why did the Feds wait until the people were bunkered in, when they had met with Koresh in town? Why did the feds refuse when Koresh invited them back out to the ranch/compound to inspect the weapons? Why in any crime scene, meticulous care is taken to preserve evidence, but here the dozers and tanks kept pushing in the rubble onto the fire to destroy it? Why on video can you see jets of flame shooting out the front of the "gas canister insertion tank"?