Venting 24/7

take 2 on my opinion

Before anyone reads this I want to make myself clean, I do not in any way, shape or form believe in their lifestyle, I think it is deplorable, but they have a constitutional right to live the way they want, so who am I to stop them.

In this society there are a common misconception that has begun to happen about people and their personal characteristics. It seems to be that if a person has a different perspective on the earth and religion and takes this to be a way to live their life, that they must be brainwashed by a sadistic leader. Yet even when these people said that they are happy, healthy, and living where they wish, the government believes that they must implore their own ideals on the people of that group. I have seen this time and time again, on the news with the sights of government agents raiding a compound where men, women, and children live. So long as they are not harming anyone else they what does it matter to the government, and how is it constitutional for them interrupting their lives. This still is America, right, I still have my civil liberties or are the police going to be breaking down my door any minute to arrest me to speaking my mind.

                I watch the news on a regular basis, which in this day in age is something that is somewhat of a rarity. I have seen the news outlets flooded with the images of the Polygamist sect of the FLDS having their children taken away from them, and stored like grain inside of a stadium. If a person were to truly look at the sect, the homes, and the people who call the Yearning for Zion ranch home, you would realize that these people are not as evil or barbaric as they have been made out to be. The news has been taking the side of the ridiculous Texas Attorney General over the civil rights of an entire group of people. To go into a place where men, women, and children live, with tanks, 2 SWAT teams, and hundreds of police officers, looking for a woman who made a call asking for help. Yet there has been resent speculation that the call made to the police was not made by a girl named Sarah, but a women outside of the compound, who has a history of making fake phone calls using this persona. I can understand going into the compound looking for Sarah but why were 416 children taken away at the same time. That not only but the children’s parents were never given papers, were never told were their children are, and were told that they had to choose between their children (whom if they didn’t choose they would most likely never see again) or to go back to the ranch. Most went back to the ranch hoping that the government would give them back their children.  Yet I am defend their civil rights, it does not mean I agree with their politics and policies. They may not be “mainstream” or like a so called normal life, but they have the same rights that every human being has. In America we have the right to practice whatever religion that we want. The government has no right to impose their own morals and opinions into the private lives of individuals. I hope that the FLDS sues the Texan government for the vast violations of their civil liberties, and the fact that their children were basically stolen from their parents. 

Elliotte Spencer