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Nobody cares much about this except for Mormons and except for just being appalled at the way these people conducted their lives.
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If you have testified in the form of an expert, then surely you can clearly state the Texas definition for "imminent danger." Is the definition statutory? I honestly dont know, which is why I am asking.
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See the problem with this is that when the perception is that the govt. is failing in its responsibilities....when you have the executive (CPS and Gov. Perry) and the Judiciary acting in concert, in what appears to many as a huge power grab.....that just causes some people to believe that the system cannot be trusted. That you cannot work through the system to make change. In other words, this is how radicalization occurs.
This is also how facism occurs. Where people assent to a loss of liberties, because the cause seems justified. This is a situation the the govt. has handled extremely poorly. (btw, I think the tendency towards facism is more the issue). |
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I will concede that the "competing rights" angle is mainly a debate among the LDS.
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That's my point, though probably not well stated. People are agape at the grotesque spectacle, but only Mormons are attuned to the civil rights or competing rights isssue.
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because in the US no one really cares about the civil rights of mormons or mormon offshoot groups.
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Nobody except the ACLU. That's why there's an ACLU. To make sure that seemingly loathsome people like accused pedophiles and Nazis receive due process. We need the ACLU because of people like the FLDS.
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