This photo of the FLDS mothers from the Yearning for Zion cult in El Dorado, Texas brings to mind a couple things. First is that it is little wonder these women have to share husbands. And secondly, why aren’t they in jail waiting bond hearings for felony conspiracy in the sexual abuse of a child?
In 1953 a FLDS compound in Colorado City, Ariz was raided and 260 children were removed for the same reasons we are seeing today. The backlash from Arizona Christians was so intense that then Gov. Howard Pyle lost his bid for a third term because of the raid. For the past 50 years, until FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs was indicted for child rape in 2006, Americans have looked the other way, after all, these men – with the help of their many wives – who sexually abused 12, 13, 14 and 15 year old girls are Christians, so its okay.
Beyond the FLDS chapters breaking felony statutes regarding polygamy and child sexual abuse, they are also White Supremacists, and as their name suggests, wetting their pants to see everyone in the world eliminated by God, this afternoon if not sooner. In fact their is special stitching holding the women’s frontier outfits together which are prayers for the end of the world. But back to the law, FLDS businesses with multi-million dollar defense contracts are using the women as unpaid slave labor. But they are Christians so its okay.
Down here in Dumbutt, Texas there is no regulation or credidation of private schools or home schooling. The FLDS children are taught only to read, write and indoctrinated with so much fundamentalist religous crap they don’t even know it’s wrong for 60 year old mean to be having sex with mulitple 13 year olds.
These kindly mothers we see on tv not only promote and encourage their underage daughters to join harems for old men, but they also help the old men throw their sons out of the sect so there are more little girls to spread around between them. Records (the DNA test results are a month off) show that some of the girls gave birth at the age of 13, meaning they were possibly having sex with old men at the age of 12. These mothers see nothing wrong with any of this. Why they are pictured in pioneer garb rather than shackled in orange jumpsuits – just as any other mother would be under the same circumstances – reflects poorly on our religious soaked society.
Enter Rozita Swinton who was arrested in Colorado Springs Wednesday for suspicion of fraud in pretending to be the 15 year old girl who made the call to the hotline that initiated the raid in El Dorado. Swinton is charged with making a similar call in Colorado Springs two months ago.
"If you rescue me, and I get out of here, do you think the black people will hurt me?" Swinton said in an unrelated call to the Yearning for Zion cult. Though not one of the many cult detractors who have escaped, she is quite knowledgeable in the cult and took it upon herself to blow the whistle. Possibly more driven by the racism than the sex of it. Without Rozita Swinton these child abusers would have got away with this for another 50 years.
So while the mothers who help, and the husbands who pork the little girls are all free while they whine, whimper, snivel and gain the sympathy of the people of Dumbutt, Texas, the woman who blew the whistle is in jail. Get Rozita Swinton out of jail and to the rose garden at the White House for a medal pinning ceremony. This afternoon if not sooner.
I must give the cult a couple things. The women have been very successful in accomplishing what FLDS expert John Llewellyn recently said, "[they dress] so that they’re unattractive to the outside world and other men." Old John sure got that right. Also, though they are little different than the Taliban we are at war with in Afghanistan, they do not push their garbage religion on others, and unlike the Branch Dividians they are not violent gun nuts. So give them a break. 25 years in jail for the men and 10 years for the mothers who sold out their sons and daughters for a pile of crap.
Update: Rozita Swinton also happens to be a Barack Obama delegate. In the real world that would be good for Obama, but here in LA LA Land I don’t know…