The bad thing about this case is what the authorities are putting the children through. Children should not have to be separated from their parents and their familiar environment unless absolutely necessary. As it stands the woman who made the original call to them was supposedly mentally disturbed. Frankly, it looks as if the authorities used it as an excuse to go into the compound. It remains me too much of the Waco situation. However, I supposed they learned their lesson with that one not to go too strong. When you see something like this compound raid and you think about them taking away over 400 children from the only life they've ever known and that the authorities are already talking about placing them in foster homes (which we know often doesn't turn out good) you got to wonder if it isn't all a serious mistake. If they can take away all of those children they can take anyone away!! Do you honestly think the "powers that be" would ever interfere like that 40 or 50 years ago? Now some experts might say that back then they might never get to the bottom of any serious abuse case. However, it seems that nowadays they are much too quick sometimes to make charges of abuse. Too many witchhunts if you ask me. I'm susupicious of the whole thing. Having been through the Hurricane Katrina aftermath I know how authorities can overreact to be sure! Take a look at the whole No Tolerance policies in the school system nowadays. Now that's something way out of control. What about Homeland Security and the Patriot Act? Almost all of the politicos didn't even review that stuff before they voted on it. They seriously overreacted when they went ahead and pushed that through so quickly without any serious review and revision. They don't care if they throw out democracy completely! What shocks me is not enough people have the courage to be angry about it and raise cane to get some of that stuff revised. How much more of this garbage are we supposed to tolerate coming from these bozos in Washington and elsewhere??!! Back to this problem in Texas--everyone should sit back and take a good long look at the whole situation. Surely one can see where they might have overreacted? When the authorities take it upon themselves to do something like that one has got to ask themselves if this doesn't smack more of authoritarianism
than any genuine concern for the children. They are completely disrupting their lives! And regarding the issue about people getting married or involved too young--they do that in some foreign countries and our great grandparents or great great grandparents often married extremely young (have we such short memories or no knowledge of history?!). Today we are way too quick to consider someone an abuser and to judge them. One has to review the whole situation with some objectivity instead of reacting like some Joseph McCarthyite. McCarthy might have thought there was a Communist under every bed in the 1950s but there are people nowadays who think there is an abuser or someone wanted by Homeland Security under every bed or around every corner, etc., etc.This situation in Texas also smacks of religious persecution. I know a lot of people don't like or approve of the lifestyle of that group at the compound but one has got to wonder if sometimes this concern about how those people live their lives is not genuine concern for the children but an over zealous reaction to polygamy?? Perhaps it's because Americans have that Puritan heritage. That might have something to do with it. Personally I don't care for their polygamist lifestyle but I also think maybe outsiders should mind their own business and leave them well enough alone just as long as they aren't
genuinely hurting any children. Note the emphasis on "genuinely". But frankly I don't think those hotshots in Texas will play fair. They will probably take the children away regardless of the evidence because some evidence can often be open to interpretation. I seriously doubt they have the wisdom of Solomon.
