printAnother prosecutorial team is on the make, this time in Utah, where the state has been pursuing Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prosecutors have been egged on by a histrionic media—cable coquettes, especially, with their mangled maternal instincts.
First came District Attorney Michael Nifong of the Duke “rape” case fame. By the admission of the accuser’s co-striper, her story lacks credibility. The accused has an alibi. The DNA found on the accuser is not his. And the lineup was in violation of procedures. Yet this DA run amok forges on, oblivious to the constitutional and procedural safeguards to which an accused is entitled. (Here’s another superb source on the case.)
Mary Lacy, Boulder County’s inept DA, arrested a man in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, based on no other corroborating evidence than a confession, a practice that was once prohibited, for obvious reasons. Lacy attended Patsy Ramsey’s funeral and was clearly personally invested in the intruder-theory of the case. Lacy and Nifong appear to represent a decaying legal system festooned with incompetents, who substitute the constraints of the law with their “grand” visions.
As to Jeffs, the mindless media has always been enthralled by child-abuse crusaders. Janet Reno, one of the most murderous DAs, established her career by launching the day care child sex abuse witch hunt that gripped the nation in the 1980s. She used fabricated accusations elicited from children (who never lie, right?) with the aid of highly suggestive techniques, to imprison her victims absent corroborative evidence. These cases served as a professional stepping stone for Reno, who went on to commit even greater crimes.
Here are the Jeffs arrest warrant and affidavit. It’s ludicrous. He is charged with being an accomplice to rape, no less. Such an accusation conjures visions of Jeffs holding the victim down while another commits the act. Jeffs, however, is charged, based on hearsay, with encouraging a girl, then under 18, to submit to intercourse with her husband, who was a little older. How does urging someone to consummate a marriage amount to being complicit in a rape, a very brutal crime indeed? By this standard or test, aren’t the girl’s parents also complicit?
The sect is wealthy and owns large compounds in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, South Dakota, and British Columbia. Despite the fact that they live in peace and are non-violent, the federal government has described Jeffs, who was unarmed and did not resist arrest, as extremely dangerous.
The polygamist was placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list in May, alongside Bin Laden. In this way, presumably, when the federal and state police storm these compounds and remove the children (with a view to seizing the valuable property too, no doubt), the public, dimmed and dulled by state-worshipping media, will shrug it off. After all, it’s all for “The Children,” isn’t it?
Question: Islam permits multiple marriages, doesn’t it? I have no doubt that devout American Muslims follow the dictates of their faith here in the US. Have you ever heard of any such prosecutions against members of that community?
What was really scary about Waco was that I have heard Americans (Americans dammit!) defend the murder of those harmless religious lunatics because then had, (gasp!) lots of guns.
The child advocates would respond that rape occurs whenever the “victim” is under 18. So, by their standards, Jeffs would be turning a blind eye by not trying to stop “child abuse.”
Ilana writes: “Lacy and Nifong appear to represent a decaying legal system festooned with incompetents, who substitute the constraints of the law with their ‘grand’ visions.”
That sums it up quite nicely. As someone mentioned not too long ago, a prosector can indict a ham sandwich these days. Indictments, which once upon a time raised questions about a defendant’s claims of innocence, are handed out upon the basis of any old whim or hunch in the present day.
Also, Ilana is quite correct about the complete lack of prosecution of Muslim polygamists. That’s hardly surprising in today’s Alice-in-Wonderland world of jurisprudence and “law-enforcement”, either.
Ever hear of the illustrious Waffen-BATFE going after a drug gang like MS-13, the Crips, the Bloods, or Al Quaeda – who posess far more illegal machine guns than the Davidians ever dreamt of? Heck no! The fearless protectors of our Homeland security only carry out military operations against those they know haven’t a ghost of a chance of actually inflicting casulties upon the Kevlar Kowboyz.
They wouldn’t dare go after an Al-Quaeda cell sporting full-auto AK’s, out of sheer terror from their ACLU and CAIR masters. You have to be a white male or child thereof to be a legitimate target in a BATFE or FBI agent’s gunsights. Can’t be a turban on your head, either.
[A great letter; thanks.]
I would agree wholeheartedly with Ilana’s points — all of them. Prosecutors today are publicity hounds who no longer are constrained by that thing the ancients once called law. That is because in modern Amerikan “justice” (sic), prosecutors ARE the law. If you don’t believe me, just ask them.
[Bill Anderson’s columns documenting injustice are here]
The Branch Davidians lived in the Waco area for at least 30 years before Reno went after them. My mother taught some of the children in the sixties; she said they were polite and studious. The group was a danger to no one. David Koresh could have been arrested without harming the others. But that wasn’t their plan, was it?