Point of View
Disgrace In America
By Tommy Garrett
Apr 13, 2008 - 11:26:26 PM

    The latest Polygamy case going on in Texas is something that simply becomes unbelievable in today’s society. Sure the fallen away Mormon sect is no longer acceptable in the new Mormon Church. Today Mormon’s are extremely educated, have careers and are no longer persecuted by Americans or the U.S. government. The faces that have given the Mormons their good name include recent presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and we all remember the face of innocent Elizabeth Smart, the girl who was kidnapped from her parents’ Salt Lake City mansion and was believed dead, only to return home months later after being found by authorities. The good news on Miss Smart is that she’s doing very well and luckily the media has kept its promise and allowed her to live in privacy and to go on with what will become a very successful life.

Warren Jeffs. Photo courtesy of mugshots.com

    But then there are the faces of evil. One in particular is Warren Jeffs. How Americans like me, who support the war in Iraq and believe that Saddam’s son’s rape rooms were unacceptable in a civilized world can turn a blind eye to the rampant pedophilia and child abuse as well as abuse and brainwashing of women starting from birth right here in America, is beyond me. FOX News is ranting on and on about Americans boycotting visiting Aruba because of the apparent death and cover up of Natalie Halloway. CNN is ranting about the planet in peril. All the while we forget that we have thousands of missing young girls and people in America and no one is boycotting any of our cities. Ridiculous. Viewers become fixated on an almost brainwashing mantra that Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly and others spew on a daily basis and forget about the innocent among us. Those who have no voice or have no powerful media talking heads fighting for their rights get no attention. I get thousands of emails every week, but not one of them mentioned this horrific situation in Texas. Nor is there any interest in Americans to realize that it is going on in epidemic proportions not just in Texas, but Arizona, Utah and Colorado. That these pedophile sects are now becoming entrenched in South Dakota, Mexico and Canada as well.

    To his credit, Anderson Cooper has previously featured this very group on his CNN hit show, Anderson Cooper 360. FOX covered about a week of the story of the convicted felon Warren Jeffs, but spends far more time on Natalie Halloway and the late Anna Nicole Smith than is sensible, fair or balanced. But viewers don’t seem to care about the injustice handed to the children of these groups, who not only teach subservient behavior to toddlers and teens, but racism, to hate the very nation from which they receive millions of dollars per year in social services and welfare. They are instructed to “bleed the beast,” the beast being the U.S. taxpayers who pay for services for people who are being raped and violated on a daily basis. Until this young 16-year-old girl called outside of the complex to authorities, Americans were and still are comfortable pretending the evil is simply in Afghanistan and parts of the Middle East. It’s certainly there. No doubt about it. But it’s at home too. We need to protect children in America. If the Catholic church is suffering from one thing today, it’s the fact that it failed and was even apathetic about the safety of children. If we are to remain viable arguing human rights in Darfur, the Congo and all throughout the Middle East, we’d better start paying closer attention to our very same problems at home.

    For years I heard people say, most children who are making a claim of sexual abuse have been brainwashed by psychiatrists. Yes, it does happen, but it is very minimal. Most children who make the claim are telling the truth. And we should always believe the children first. God Bless our nation.