jeffs is FINALLY arrested

BUT let's just see what happens. did you know that polygamy is VERY rarely prosecuted? if and when someone gets busted, it's usually on ANOTHER charge and NOT polygamy. the sentences are a matter of days or months. some of the crimes are VERY young girls being forced into marriage with older men, sometimes relatives. how effed up is that?

Fugitive Mormon leader's reign of fear ended by traffic violation

Head of polygamous sect caught near Las Vegas· Charges of forcing underage girls to marry Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday August 30, 2006 The Guardian

Warren Jeffs, the fugitive leader of a fanatical polygamous sect and one of the FBI's most wanted men, had told his 10,000 followers he would never be taken alive. His words raised fears that he might try to conclude his fearsome reign in a blaze of glory. But the end, when it came, was far more mundane.
After three years on the run, his red Cadillac was pulled over just north of Las Vegas late on Monday night by a traffic police officer who noticed his licence plate was not fully visible.
The chance arrest brings to an end one of the stranger chapters in the modern history of the American west. For the past four years Mr Jeffs has run the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (known as the FLDS) like the feudal chief of a polygamous tribe from a string of fortified compounds almost entirely outside the reach of state law, which prohibits polygamy..........


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Reports Reconfirm Hatch Said He Condones Polygamy

Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 1:38 pm Article: Suzan Mazur

Last week on these pages I cited a polygamy political coverup, which includes US Senator Orrin Hatch (Rep-UT), who is on record as condoning polygamy. With US Senator Patrick Leahy (Dem-VT) several days after the Scoop story appeared taking on Hatch over Hatch's now-infamous polygamy comments at a southern Utah town meeting in April 2003, just 35 miles from the fundamentalist Mormon polygamy cult's headquarters in Utah, and Hatch in denial about the statements -- I decided to revisit the event by contacting questioners present at the time. I also took another look at published reports of the meeting.
Hatch, in a further attempt to shake off accusations about defending polygamy, said last week he's helped to secure a federal grant to aid those fleeing polygamy in Utah.
But, both questioners at the town meeting in St. George, Utah -- anti-polygamy activists Robert Curran and Sonja Blancke -- have told me Hatch definitely made the statements as reported in newspaper accounts. And Nancy Perkins of the Deseret News, one of two news organizations present, stands by the accuracy of what she wrote (story below).
Rachael Olsen's coverage of the Hatch talk originally appeared in the St. George Spectrum and is linked here.........

......Hatch spars about polygamy at town meeting
ST. GEORGE - Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, found himself in a verbal sparring match with a couple of residents Thursday night when the pair challenged the senator's stance on polygamy.
Bob Curran, director of an anti-polygamy group in St. George called Help the Child Brides, asked Hatch if he knew girls as young as 13 and 14 were being forced into marriages with older men living in the nearby twin polygamous towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. "I wouldn't throw accusations around unless you know they're true," Hatch cautioned Curran and another speaker, Sonja Blancke, who also questioned the senator on his position.
"I'm not here to justify polygamy," Hatch said. "All I can say is, I know people in Hildale who are polygamists who are very fine people. You come and show me evidence of children being abused there and I'll get involved. Bring the evidence to me."............