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if the allegations of child abuse and sexual abuse are true, why have there been NO ARRESTS?? and why remove ALL the kids? are we to believe the government so completely in EVERYTHING they say?? didn't you hear that "spokeswoman" for the texas cps who said "every child was a victim of abuse, or in danger of being abused"? and we the people are to accept without question such blanket statements from anyone?? one more statement i have trouble with is the one made by the same "spokeswoman" when she said "we removed the boys too, because they were being raised to be polygamists". huh??
if there was any kind of sexual abuse going on. then most absolutely, LOCK THE PERPETRATORS UP!! but is the removal of ALL the kids really to "protect them from POSSIBLE abuse"??? or is it simply a power play by the government over the people once again?????
and if the state of texas (or ANY government authority) was truly intent on "protecting" ANY child from "POTENTIAL" abuse of ANY kind, then why don't they simply remove each and every child from each and every home? after all, each and every child out there is in danger of potential abuse of some kind.
one last thing to consider.... the ONLY reason polygamy is illegal in the USA and europe, is because of CHRISTIANITY AND ITS BELIEFS AND DOCTRINES!!!

It is not just about the civil rights of polygamists, it is about your civil rights as well. What is to stop the government from saying that your marriage is invalid because of something. I actually agree with space alien on this if there is abuse going on lock up the abusers, I don't agree with polygamy either and my 1 wife is more than I can handle, but who am I or you to say someones religion is wrong, do you have a problem with the amish too, they are a little weird as well. as far as potential abuse and taking the kids away there are potential abusers and they should be locked up with out commiting a crime. If you have kids maybe your a potential abuser lets take your kids away, and take you to jail you don't care about other peoples civil rights you must not care about your own. Freedom of speech and relegion is sacred in this country and it should be defended by every American for every American not just the ones you agree with.

Bubbapit, like everyone else has already said, this case is about so much more then some crazy polygamists. If you trully want to see these men prosecuted (like we all do), then what is going on in Texas should make you cringe. Whats going to happen is that eventually the women and even the men from this polygamist sect will sue and win big, and everything the state did will be for nothing, and it will be even harder to stop these polygamist groups in the future. If your going to prosecute these radical polygamist then do it right. And Scotsman hit it right on, if these were Muslims (and polygamy is very common in Islam) every politician would be screaming bloody murder.

Just remember if the state continues. Then what happens when your way of life is deemed unsafe by the State, will you stand down when they come into your community with tanks and guns?

Texas should have done some actual investigating before barging into peoples homes with machine guns and tanks. It seems that the old texas philosiphy of shoot first, shoot often, shoot some more, and then shoot agian to make sure everyone is dead than ask questions is still the normal practice. I do not agree with the practice of polygamy, but I do condem the practice of child abuse, and underage marriages, and people who hurt children should be sent to prison naked and never given any clothes and forced to sleep chained up to a wall (the 8th amendment should not apply to these people only.) But raiding a compound based on a lie is not acceptable in this country, what if it had beeen your home? what if someone said that you were abusing your kids, and the police came into your home with tanks and guns? would you be so quick to defend them?