and Dahlia Lithwick’s ridiculous reasoning in comparing it with Guantanamo . . . when so many other, better comparisons might be drawn to other excesses of the Nanny State. In other words, both are characterized by trumped-up stupidity.
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Nononono…it’s just like Selma.
hmmmmm…
Islamist combatants captured on the field of battle in a war are the equivalent of 400 children taken from their parents.
Yeah, that works.
Islamist combatants, the little dears.
Jeeezus H. Christ on a crutch. Does nobody remember the Branch Davidians?
Everybody else is walking away. The Davidians, well, they’re ashes.
Thank you, Janet Reno^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBill Clinton.
I just did a lot of mental twisting and back flips trying to follow her logic. (I am always game for some complaining and pearl-clutching about Guantanamo.)
Now I need some IcyHot for the brain. That hurt.
These people are going to have no reason to live after Booooooooooooosh leaves office, are they?
Well, there is the incoming McCain administration.
I feel terrible for those kids – particularly the girls. They may be going back to their parents, but their parents are a bunch of loons who will marry them off to some creeptastic Methuselah before the poor girl can even get familiar with using a tampon. It is always so sad that the stupid, pathetic shit religions that people are free to practice in this beautifully free country always seem to include fucking over women and children, particularly girls. They always pay – in virgin’s blood – for some bunch of old fucking cranks’ freedom to practice their religion.
Yet, I am not comfortable with the actions of the authorities. These people are not dogs rounded up by the pound.
Oy. I won’t be surprised if every last one of them is be dead from poisoned grape kool-aid before this year is out.
Whoa. That’s dark. For real a lot the methusalahs aren’t necessarily the most carnal guys from what I’ve seen. Back in Texas, using Pentecostals as a proxy. Like they’re not necessarily really all about getting them some. Not in the way attractive people play the game anyway. I think it’s all just very different. But not the mostest evilest thing. Just very odd.
Oh. My point is that sex and all that in the normal real world can be every bit as tawdry and cheap and icky if you look for it, and a lot even if you don’t.
– To a group that merrily described Saddams pre-war Iraq as all butterflies and kite flying children frolicking next to rivers flowing with chocolate in order to bolster their pacifist/cowardice screeds, I do not expect logical acuity at anything higher than Kindergarten level, and I’m never disappointed.
I am always game for some complaining and pearl-clutching about Guantanamo.
These people are not dogs rounded up by the pound.
Don’t know if I have said it out loud yet, but I do enjoy having you around, Lisa.
Sounds like Texas really messed up from the legal side.
However, to me, this is pretty creepy. Religion that locks people away from free will deeming it sinful seems like it sucks the essence of life out of living.
Even though they appear to be happy living as they do, it seems just at “brainwashy” as with any cult. But, I guess it is satisfying to feel special in your special world.
I don’t much care what the adults do, but I do feel sympathy for the children. There is a potential (true, for good or bad) that most of them will never know in their lives.
And …. isn’t polygamy illegal in Texas? Is that still not an issue?
Oops. Should have said….
” Isn’t polygamy illegal in Texas? Isn’t that still an issue?”
Bigamy laws only relates to legal marriages. “Spiritual” marriages don’t count.
The parallels are striking.
They both involve people.
And, uh, um, they’re alive people.
Texas and Cuba are both in the middle latitudes of the Northern and Western hemispheres.
Both places were colonized by Spain
The flags of both are red, white, and blue with a single star.
Striking, indeed.
Both on the Gulf of Mexico.
Both subject to hurricanes.
Funny hats are popular in both places (cowboy hats and berets, respectively).
Seeing as the FLDSers don’t have a full fledged public relations campaign funded by theocratic oligarchs; I’d say there’s not much difference.