Freedom? Maybe Not: By Mike Folkerth

[Demeter]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_fol_080416_freedom_3f_maybe_not_3a.htm




Good Morning Middle America, your King of Simple News is on the air......


Ya see, this is all a connection to the same FLDS who operated the compound in West Texas where authorities recently seized more than 401 children and 133 women in a raid. The people living there were believed to be polygamists. The men are not allowed to leave the ranch.

The raid was conducted due to a supposed 16 year old calling in a complaint of abuse, but thus far has not been located. I suppose the raid went something like this, “Have you found the girl Ralph?” “Not yet Earl, why don’t we just haul ‘em all off to be sure we got her?”

The cost for housing those removed is now reported as $25,000 to $35,000 per day! Marleigh Meisner, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said that every child will be provided their own lawyer. The Texas Bar Association will be holding a celebration gala later this week. Oh yeah, the children have now been taken away from their mothers.

Wow, can you imagine what might have happened should these folks have been known to be guilty of something? They could have been sentenced to death, or even worse, forced to live in Washington D.C.
So what’s my point in all of this rambling? I have no affiliation with the FDLS and I don’t know any of them. What I do know is that freedom to be different is no longer possible; even if you are suspected of being different. If these people were breaking the law or harming children, they should be held accountable, but thus far there is no evidence, just suspicion, which seems to be grounds for imprisonment and persecution. Which brings me to this:


United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The version inscribed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. reads:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -

because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -

because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -

because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.



Authors Website: www.kingofsimple.com

Authors Bio: Mike Folkerth is the author of "The Biggest Lie Ever Believed" and is not your run-of-the-mill author of finance and economics. The former real estate broker, developer, private real estate fund manager, auctioneer, Alaskan bush pilot, restaurateur, U.S. Navy veteran, heavy equipment operator, taxi cab driver, fishing guide, horse packer and few jobs too embarrassing to mention, writes from experience and plain common sense. Mike’s humorous systems of “Mikeronomics” and “Mikemathics” drastically simplify the economic and mathematic formulas commonly used by very smart, but terribly sheltered individuals.

[lapfog_1]

1. "First they came for the child molesters, and I did not speak"

Is that what the author is trying to sell us?

Are YOU trying to sell us that too?

Hell, I'll speak... "YOU GO GET THOSE ASSHOLES, GUYS! LOCK THEM UP SO THEY CAN'T MOLEST LITTLE GIRLS ANYMORE, OK?"

[Hannah Bell]

2. so if i call cps on you & accuse you of molestation, i'm sure

you'll be happy to surrender your kids, right?

[lapfog_1]

3. Well, if I live in a "compound" and I marry

a bunch of stepford wives, and one of the children in the compound calls the police because she doesn't want to get married at 14 or 15. Yeah, I think you should.

Should we CARE if these people are "happy" surrendering their kids?

Or do YOU think forced marriage at 13 or 14 to a polygamist man of 50 is just hunky-dorry as long as it's in the name of God?

[Hannah Bell]

4. i didn't realize there were laws against living in compounds. or marrying stepford wives.

as for the rest, how will it be determined if those things are indeed occurring? by anonymous tip, as in this case? or through a public, legal trial by the rule of law?

it doesn't matter what my views on polygamy are. i support the rule of law, even for those accused of being pedophiles. if you don't, then you should have no problem with your kids being taken from you on the strength of an anonymous tip. Thus far, the person who called hasn't fessed up.