Sometimes we need to step back and take a long hard look at what we, as a society, are doing to ourselves. The recent raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, near San Angelo, Texas is a case in point. Citizens all over the country are feeling the pain that the children must be enduring. Further, and perhaps more important, is the sense that our government is not responsive to our needs and is no longer true to the constitution of the United States. Reading between the lines, we see an immense distrust of our government at all levels.

Can we trust our government to do the correct thing? Can the government be trusted to follow the constitution without citizen intervention? Read what others have to say!

Posted by homespunlady on CBS

The OTHER thing the MEDIA IS GLOSSING OVER is that a LOT of these kids are being sent to so-called "CHILD RANCHES" that HAVE HAD serious COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST THEM.

The VERY thing that the "polygamists" are being accused of has ALSO been some of the SAME COMPLAINTS AGAINST the "group-homes" and children''s "ranches or "towns" that they''re being sent to!!

Guess if they''re molested in "foster care" it''ll be a good "cover" to blame it on their "previous life".

Whats that saying about "people who live in GLASS HOUSES"???

On the one hand, the article vaguely alludes to the foster homes needing to serve BETTER FOOD rather than the toxin filled JUNK in the common American diet and the NEED to "train" these kids that they''re now facing a world of:
JERRY SPRINGER TEE-VEE
Iraq WAR propaganda
Shoot-em all and pick up streetwalkers video games
Lord of the Flies style schools
RUDENESS and Disrespect EVERYWHERE
FOSTER CARE experimental DRUGS
freely available PORNO
HIV infected illegitimate babies
Misogynist music AND
DISCRIMINATION based on every excuse under the sun.

Yep, they REALLY needed to be RIPPED FROM THEIR MOTHERS so the "American Culture" the REST OF THE WORLD DEPLORES NOW can "educate" them.

Posted by ojama
Does it seem to anyone else that the media is burying the information that the call from the 16 year old in the compound that started all this was a hoax?

Why is this not being investigated by the media?

The people posting here seem well informed as to the facts, but most people do not know this information and how it should effect the situation.

The government is doing here as it did in Iraq, a poorly researched justification to attack, a poorly planned strategy, no vision for the consequenses of their action, creating martyrdoom status for extremists, and now desperately seeking a smoking gun to prove the raid was the right thing to do.
(maybe I took the analogy a little too far, but you get my point)

Meanwhile, a bunch of innocents are being damaged.

We really need a third political party in this country.

Posted by godofredo29
The Amish are next.

The way the press focusses on this and not on that reminds me of the press''s focus on the Catholic priests but not on the same time of individuals in the Boy Scouts. It''s an example of McJournalism at its most heinous.

Of course, the next scandal is going to be foster care. This story is going shine a glaring light on the dysfunctional nature of foster care where the 400lb. foster dad and the foster parents keeping their wards in cages are the norm rather than the exception.

Posted by itgrammy
This whole ordeal has gotten way out of hand. Because of the stupid way it''s being handled, some slick lawyers are going to get them off, and the taxpayers are going to have to pay big bucks due to the lawsuits that ensue.

They should have sent people in to investigate the charges. yes, these people would have been outsiders and gotten the cold shoulder, but observation goes a long way in figuring out what might be going on. We also live in the times where you don''t need court approval wiretapping why should they be so afraid of getting a search warrant? Are you telling me that there''s not a judge in the state of texas that wouldn''t give the ok for investigators to go into these homes and snoop?

Where will this end? Maybe taking your 5 year old to sunday school should be looked upon as brainwashing and you will have them taken away. Or visa versa, maybe NOT taking your five year old the the APPROVED church is going to get them taken away.

Old men marrying a 15 year old as their 5th wife... throw him in jail... If the guy''s got 5 wives and 20 some kids that he can''t afford to take care of, take his money/property and watch the kids for signs of neglect and abuse, but you don''t uproot all the kids for what a few have done.

Posted by jcphus
It seems that the more the government screws up our standing in the world,the tighter controls it places on its people.i,e,TSA ,Homeland scuarity,etc

Posted by rushlimpdrug
"It''s confusing and scary for any kids to be removed from their home and put in foster care," Dr. Lisa Boesky"

What a bunch of krap.

This is EXACTLY what is wrong with today''s journalism.

EVERYONE knows the kids will suffer.

The problem is the absolute injustice being done to ALL the innocent folks.

Not all the kids and parents were abusers or being
abused, yet because of some reeetard making a call
everyone gets hauled in.

It is the old "kill''em all, let God sort them out"
mentality.

Sad
Very Sad
What this country has become.

This is just a small sampling of what the citizens are posting on public sites. The only thing I see wrong with this is that these same people that are posting these thoughts need to become politically active and vocal. Only through the political process can we ever hope to effect a change for the good of the country. Not voting is a vote that allows the status quo to continue.