Free The Animal

Then there’s this news, which I happened to just catch splattered all over the TV at the local mini mart moments ago. First off, the legal sense of the word means nothing to me. I couldn’t care less if 400 people of whatever gender get together in whatever combinations suit them and make like rabbits all goddammed day long, for all the world to see. What’s it to me? Now that that’s out of the way, let me just say this: in a rational world, that mess would have been dealt with long, long ago, and definitively so. …By real men concerned more that women and children, who may be rationally presumed not to want to endure rape at the age of 13 or 15 by 50-yr-old men, and who are unable to cry out for help, would have welcomed it. Those who didn’t would have been free to carry on. This is telling. Dressed in home-sewn, ankle-length dresses with their hair pinned up in braids, some 133 women left the Yearning for Zion Ranch of their own volition along with the children. Yea. Fucking perverted, impotent bastards. Afraid of real, independent women with minds of their own. So why…

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First off, I really don’t care about Jeffs, and I personally loath that whole racket they’ve got going. But 10 years to life for “forcing a 14-yr-old to marry her 19-yr-old first cousin?” How does one “force” people to marry, presuming that means we’re talking about something more than a 10-minute ceremony where two people are tied to adjoining telephone polls. And when it comes to conjugation, one’s imagination runs pretty wild imagining how Jeffs is the culpable one. But what do I know? I’ve a simple question though: where was her dad, or mom, or grandfather, or grandmother; a responsible older sibling; an aunt, uncle, or a guardian? I guess it’s easier to just run to the state to solve all our problems. As one “dissident” (oh, they’re “dissidents?”) is quoted as saying: Thousands of children can sleep safer tonight with Jeffs in jail “Thousands.” “Thousands!” She added: It is a positive first step, although much more needs to be done … to protect women and children who want out of the community Uh, maybe I’m missing something, but it sounds to me like if ya’ can’t already leave, then the state — hell, the feds — already got…

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