Comments on: Texas Polygamist Compound Moms Speak http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/04/16/texas-polygamist-compound-moms-speak/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:44:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: mitzibel http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/04/16/texas-polygamist-compound-moms-speak/#comment-72477 mitzibel Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:05:09 +0000 http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/04/16/texas-polygamist-compound-moms-speak/#comment-72477 Oh, I don't think these ladies are retarded. I think they've had their free will programmed out of them, and I think they're scared shitless of saying the wrong thing. They were obviously trying very hard to stick with coached dialogue ('specially that lady there at the end) given them by their lawyer, and I'd bet money that at least two of them were stoned to the gills on benzodiazepam, not to mention the fact that they've lived very isolated, sheltered lives, and just speaking with a man not of their church has to be terrifying for them, even without the added pressure of trying to represent their community and lifestyle to a public who, in their eyes, not only doesn't understand, but doesn't *want* to understand, wants only to separate them from their children. I doubt I'd be terribly eloquent under those circumstances. The issue of taking all children from the community, though, is one that is actually *less* complicated, in my mind, because they are CrazyLDS. With these communities, you're not just dealing with the abuse of marrying off underaged girls to old pervs--there's the flip side of that, which is the widespread abuse and abandonment of underaged boys. Think about it--you have a small, insular community under the absolute rule and authority of one man, or a very small group of men, a community that revolves around an ideal of family values and submission of the individual to the family. These men, and their cronies, snatch up all the hot young things as soon as they get their first visit from the Cardinal. When the boys come of age and start wanting wives of their own, they're SOL because Mr. Righteous McHornyPants over there has married everything female under the age of 50 himself. A large population of unmarried, unanchored young men is a recipe for dissension and disaster. So they abuse them, as families and as a community, drive them out, and when they don't run away of their own accord, drive them outside of town and abandon them. There are towns in Colorado that are overrun with uneducated teenaged boys with no survival skills who have been driven out of their homes and communities. See, that's the problem with polygamy--it works great for nomadic folks, but when you settle down and start building communities, numbers start screwing with the model. Oh, I don’t think these ladies are retarded. I think they’ve had their free will programmed out of them, and I think they’re scared shitless of saying the wrong thing. They were obviously trying very hard to stick with coached dialogue (’specially that lady there at the end) given them by their lawyer, and I’d bet money that at least two of them were stoned to the gills on benzodiazepam, not to mention the fact that they’ve lived very isolated, sheltered lives, and just speaking with a man not of their church has to be terrifying for them, even without the added pressure of trying to represent their community and lifestyle to a public who, in their eyes, not only doesn’t understand, but doesn’t *want* to understand, wants only to separate them from their children. I doubt I’d be terribly eloquent under those circumstances.

The issue of taking all children from the community, though, is one that is actually *less* complicated, in my mind, because they are CrazyLDS. With these communities, you’re not just dealing with the abuse of marrying off underaged girls to old pervs–there’s the flip side of that, which is the widespread abuse and abandonment of underaged boys. Think about it–you have a small, insular community under the absolute rule and authority of one man, or a very small group of men, a community that revolves around an ideal of family values and submission of the individual to the family. These men, and their cronies, snatch up all the hot young things as soon as they get their first visit from the Cardinal. When the boys come of age and start wanting wives of their own, they’re SOL because Mr. Righteous McHornyPants over there has married everything female under the age of 50 himself. A large population of unmarried, unanchored young men is a recipe for dissension and disaster. So they abuse them, as families and as a community, drive them out, and when they don’t run away of their own accord, drive them outside of town and abandon them. There are towns in Colorado that are overrun with uneducated teenaged boys with no survival skills who have been driven out of their homes and communities.

See, that’s the problem with polygamy–it works great for nomadic folks, but when you settle down and start building communities, numbers start screwing with the model.

]]> By: Theresa, MSgt (ret), USAF http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/04/16/texas-polygamist-compound-moms-speak/#comment-72491 Theresa, MSgt (ret), USAF Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:04:52 +0000 http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/04/16/texas-polygamist-compound-moms-speak/#comment-72491 So, when the "compounds" of islam worshipers, like the ones springing up across the country are monitored and found to be in violation of whatever laws, will the authorities react as aggressively against them or will they be held up by the PC bullshit currently in place when we deal with "islam"? So, when the “compounds” of islam worshipers, like the ones springing up across the country are monitored and found to be in violation of whatever laws, will the authorities react as aggressively against them or will they be held up by the PC bullshit currently in place when we deal with “islam”?

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