Comments on: Texas Supreme Court Orders Return of Children in Polygamy Case http://jonathanturley.org/2008/05/30/texas-supreme-court-orders-returns-of-child-in-polygamy-case/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rcampbell http://jonathanturley.org/2008/05/30/texas-supreme-court-orders-returns-of-child-in-polygamy-case/#comment-14069 Fri, 30 May 2008 21:42:56 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1960#comment-14069 I don’t know Texas law (that strkes me an oxymoron on its face, however), but I have no sympathy whatsoever for the members of that cult and compaound or the wives. The “adults”, both male and female, have wrecklessly endangered those children by subjecting them to an unlawful lifestyle that practices polygamy, incest, statutory rape of boys and girls and they’ve jointly condemned them to thinking this perverted lifestyle is normal. Those children should never be returned to the mothers and the men of the compound should be arrested, prosecuted and jailed for very long stretches.

]]> By: Susan http://jonathanturley.org/2008/05/30/texas-supreme-court-orders-returns-of-child-in-polygamy-case/#comment-14034 Fri, 30 May 2008 12:44:36 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1960#comment-14034 “The line between investigation and persecution is a fine one, and the Jr. Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.”
- EDWARD R. MURROW

Mr. Murrow was, of course, referring to Sen. Joseph McCarthy and McCarthy’s rather irrational pursuit of “communists,” but I think that quote applies here also. Not to mention Mr. Murrow’s other reminder, that “…accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends on evidence and due process of law.” It is obvious, to me anyway, that TX law enforcement and Judge Walther blatantly disregarded both in this case. Thank goodness the TX Supreme Court had the courage to restore it.

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