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Polygamists Stockpiling Weapons ??

AlbertLumAlbertLum Member Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 2006 in General Discussion
looks like we are heading for another Waco. That polygamist in Utah that is wanted by the FBI is supposedly having his people "stock pile" weapons. The media makes you think its illegal. I think the government and media just use it as a excuse to raid peoples homes
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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Makes sense to me. If they can have multiple wives they should be able to have multiple guns. might even make it easier cause you could tell one wife about one gun and another wife about another gun and they'd never know how many guns you had so they couldnt nag you about having too many guns.
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    I'm hoping that this government learned the lessons from Waco and won't turn the Jeffs thing into another fiasco. Of course, I don't put it past this government, but we don't have Butch Reno at the helm and we don't have a Democrat-controlled Congress to hold mock hearings.
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    FWIW, I'm wondering why any man would want to go through the hassle of having more than one wife. I love my wife to death, but my God, I can barely keep myself sane trying to figure out what she's thinking/wanting, let alone multiple wives.
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  • AlbertLumAlbertLum Member Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    althought we have an FBI apparently who puts a man on the top 10 list for 2 counts of child molestation.
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    Yeah, I know. Leave it to Albert to leave out important facts of the story.

    Of course, he's probably of the opinion that 16th Amendment was never really ratified, which explains why he left out those charges.
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  • AlbertLumAlbertLum Member Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    according to the FBI he has never been CONVICTED of a crime and he is only charged with......

    http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/fugitives/cac/jeffs_ws.htm

    where are the other crimes and charges you guys are talking about ?
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    http://www.abc4.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=6127A7BF-3538-420D-A1CD-76E3AFD814CC

    quote:Warren Jeffs, the leader of a large polygamist sect, is now a state fugitive as well as a federal one. Jeffs, who has been hiding from the law for over a year, had new charges filed against him Thursday. For the first time, Utah has made a criminal complaint against the man whose followers revere him as a a prophet.

    He had already been federally charged for child rape several months ago, as well as for, in some cases, personally conducting, marriages of underage girls to older men; some of whom were three times as old as their young "spiritual wives."

    Now, the state of Utah has charged him with two counts of being an accomplice in the rape of a child. The charges stem from a case of one particular underage marriage. Details are meager, but authorities say the victim is between the age of 15 to 18.

    ALSO:

    http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special45/articles/0526colocity26.html

    quote:Goddard said he and Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff agreed two years ago to try again based on numerous complaints of sexual exploitation, welfare fraud and tax evasion. Instead of a frontal assault, however, they settled on a coordinated crackdown using law and education.
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  • meunkemeunke Member Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Because, hey, ya need at least one gun for each wife! [:D][:D][:D]
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "He is SUSPECTED of those crimes that I listed. Saw it on America's Most Armed and Dangerous"

    Well, what more could you ask for? With proof like that, dispence with the trial and go straight to jail or maybe call in a sniper or burn down his house.
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  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    honestly I wouldn't miss them if they were Waco-ed, only one wife is legally recognized by the state, the rest are "single mothers" and are on welfare [:(!]
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  • jabronij3jabronij3 Member Posts: 4,686
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by AlbertLum
    althought we have an FBI apparently who puts a man on the top 10 list for 2 counts of child molestation.
    should be on top then tracked down and be sentenced to be "kicked in the 'nads 'till dead"
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  • Red223Red223 Member Posts: 7,946
    edited November -1
    I remember seeing that Utah polygamist camp on tv years ago and wondering when the FBI would raid it. It appears they are affraid of them as they have been putting it off this long.

    They should call in military support like they did last time and use tanks, tear gas, flash grenades, and Delta Force as advisors to the invasion/cremation.
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