When the rabble in San Angelo and Eldorado sat there and did and said nothing while the children were un-mercifully abused by barbie and her Gestapo and the mob said nothing, I knew we were dealing with a different kind of animal.
In the best tradition of Madame Defarge, barbie sits there with a remorseless bloodlust that permeates her every word if it involves the hated Mormons. From the day they dared to move into their new home, the Mormons were attacked from the air, from the local sleazeball press and from the politicians who saw an opportunity to exploit the Mormons as a group since the blacks, hispanics, gays and indians were off the table as being politically incorrect.
The Mormons had no NAACP. They had no LaRaza. They had no casino’s and Federal protection. They had no Lawrence v. Texas. All they had was their Heavenly Father on their side and what they thought were the laws of Texas as those law had been followed since before the State even existed.
In the eyes of the locals, it must have been a good law because Texas led the Nation in teen births when the law existed, and once the law was changed to keep the State “Pure” from the Mormons, the locals knew that the law did not apply to them since it was specifically crafted against only one group, those hated Mormons. To this day, Texas leads the Country in Teen births, and to find 12 and 13 year olds pregnant or with child, all barbie has to do is to visit the local middle schools.
With no complaining Witnesses against him, barbie had to conjure up visions of little children being debauched in the juries mind. That was not hard for her to do; for over 5 years the constant drumbeat of libel and slander coming from Mankin’s rag for his fun and profit had already turned the townsfolk into a lynch mob against a people they knew absolutely nothing about which MUST mean they were evil and corrupt. How dare these people not display their dirty laundry for them to inspect? What were they hiding behind their bedroom doors? And worst of all; How dare they succeed in turning a barren wasteland into a Garden of Eden when they could not do it themselves? Where the mocking them and trying to make them look foolish?
The bigots sent Allan to prison for 33 years for taking a wife and supporting her and her children as is part of his and the girls religious beliefs. There are no complaining witnesses and no one was harmed or claims harm.
When there IS harm to a victim, which is lacking in this case and only in the mind of barbie, these are an example of the sentences Texas gives to it’s “Approved” residents:
The majority of the sentences below were given to people who either caused death or permanent and lasting injuries.
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January 8, 2005 - A 26 year-old Austin Texas man was convicted of injury to a child in the death of his 21-month-old son and sentenced to 22 years in prison, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
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In August 2004, an woman in Atlanta heated a pair of scissors on a stove and held it to her six-year-old son’s neck before cutting off a piece of his tongue was given ten years of probation.
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April 23, 2004 - A 23 year-old Arlington Texas woman was convicted of reckless injury to a child in the scalding death of her 7-month-old son and sentenced to 10 years probation, according to the Austin American-Statesman, April 25, 2004
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24-year-old University of Texas man convicted in Travis County of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the beating death of another student and sentenced to 4 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to the Austin American-Statesman, May 2, 2004
- On December 25, 2003, a grandmother in Bexar County, Texas, was sentenced for 10 years for the starvation of her four-year-old grandson.
- A Texas woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted of all charges by reason of insanity and was committed to a maximum security state hospital. Medical evaluations dictate when she will be released.
- In 1996, a 37-year-old Travis County, Texas man was charged with punching his 6-year-old daughter in the face. In 1997, he was charged with tying up, beating and raping his estranged wife. In 1998, he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to 10 years for that rape. While free on bail, awaiting that trial, he was charged with attempting to run three bicyclists off the road, including world cycling champion Lance Armstrong. When the judge lowered his bail from $300,000 to $30,000, he went free, according to the Austin American-Statesman, December 15, 1998.
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In June, 2000, a 34-year-old Travis County, Texas man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his stepson in 1990, and sentenced to 10 years, according to the Austin American-Statesman, June 9, 2000.
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A 26-year-old Travis County, Texas man pleaded guilty to three counts of theft and a count each of burglary, aggravated robbery with serious bodily injury and robbery with bodily injury in 1994 after snatching a woman’s purse in a mall parking lot and running over her 16-month-old son with a car while fleeing, and was sentenced to 22 years in prison, according to the Austin American-Statesman, July 16, 1994.
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In 2000, a Delaware man was was sentenced to five years in prison for beating his eight-year-old son so severely that he ruptured his son’s intestinal tract and fractured four of his ribs.
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A Cibola County, NM man who shoved a bottle down the throat of his infant son was sentenced to 23-1/2 years in prison for child abuse resulting in death, possession of drugs, for escape from jail, and for being a habitual offender.
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A 32-year-old Williamson County, Texas man who was convicted of reckless injury to a child got off with six years probation and $2,791. Further, his plea bargain included deferred adjudication, meaning he will have no record of a conviction if he completes his probation, according to the Austin American-Statesman, February 23, 2000.
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A New Braunfels, Texas couple who was charged with endangering a child and reckless injury to a child in the starvation of their daughter were sentenced to 2 years in state jail and fined $10,000 each, according to the Austin American-Statesman, May 10, 2001.
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Recently, U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum gave Martha Stewart the minimum sentence allowed because she had no prior criminal record and had done a lot of good. Additionally, Cedarbaum said she believed that Stewart “had suffered and will suffer enough”, according to an article in the Austin American-Statesman, July 17, 2004.
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A 23-year-old Austin, Texas man was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison in the stabbing death of a 37-year-old Austin man, according to the Austin American-Statesman. He would be eligible for parole after 2 and a half years.
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A San Antonio man received 9 years in prison for strangling his wife because of excessive phone bills she racked up by calling relatives in China, according to the Austin American-Statesman, May 21, 2004.
Obviously, it’s OK in Texas to kill and maim, but don’t you DARE be a Mormon and take care of your family as your Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfathers did.
As for barbie, all she lacks are the white sheets of her friends and neighbors, and the picture would be complete.
I fully expected the outcome we saw, and knew from the outset that it will take the Court of Appeals to reverse what is potentially a life sentence based upon religious intolerance, bigotry and the use of stolen records to further fan the flames of prosecutorial misconduct from the Bench and from the State.
The only thing lacking in this travesty is barbie knitting the names of the FLDS men and burning a Cross as she sends them to the Guillotine. Trust me, if she could, she would. We’ve seen her compassion towards children and babies, why would we expect anything less?
As with all the people of the FLDS, the 12 victims of barbie have my total support. Applying the Scarlet Letter of child abuse may work on the ignorant and bigoted locals, but these trials have nothing whatsoever to do with sexual abuse of a child, that label is already fully represented in the statistics of the State of Texas and it’s non-Mormon population.
Allan Keate now stands in the company of some pretty impressive people; Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Abinadi, the children and wives of Ammonihah and Barbara Jessop who died committed to her Faith regardless of the oppression and persecution heaped upon her and her family.
I firmly believe that 100 years from now, people will read of the accounts inflicted upon the FLDS and shake their heads in dis-belief at the gross atrocity’s commited in Texas in 2008 - 2010 and thank their lucky stars that the Inquisition against the Mormons could never happen again, it was a tragedy inspired and perpetrated by some very ignorant people who were never really Americans anyway.
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