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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 08/29/2006 : 11:17:14
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/29/polygamist.arrest.ap/index.html
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The leader of a polygamist sect who was on the FBI's Most Wanted List has been arrested and faces sexual misconduct charges for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men, authorities said Tuesday.
Warren Steed Jeffs, 50, was taken into custody after he and two other people were pulled over late Monday by a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas, FBI spokesman David Staretz said.
The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was wanted in Utah and Arizona on suspicion of sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.
Hopefully this is
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"the beginning of the end of ... the tyrannical rule of a small group of people over the practically 10,000 followers of the FLDS sect."
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
 Posted - 08/29/2006 : 11:34:17 [Permalink]
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| When was the last time taking out the leader of a fanatical group was sucessful in thwarting the problem? |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
USA
446 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2006 : 11:42:59 [Permalink]
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Ya, I know. They will just rase him to marter status if he gets jail time. But if they can prove that he arranging marriages between underage girls and older men, contributing to what is legilly statutory rape of these girls, I hope they follow up with the other members of the group.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2006 : 20:10:10 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
When was the last time taking out the leader of a fanatical group was sucessful in thwarting the problem?
It sure worked with the Christians. You don't hear about them no more!
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