The mind of the State

A spokesman for the recently reunited FLDS families makes an outstanding analogy:

Jessop told the News there was little evidence of any abuse on the ranch. In calling for criminal prosecutions, he said (Texas Governor) Perry was showing the same stubbornness as President Bush on the Iraq war.

"Rather than acknowledging we're in there on bad intelligence, we keep fighting the fight," Jessop told the Dallas newspaper. "I don't know if that's a Texas thing or what that is. But he's in that same mentality — let's continue to justify why we're there rather than acknowledging it wasn't true."

Being the State means never having to say you're sorry, it would seem. It's entirely possible Texas may yet come up with a credible instance of child abuse... but the wholesale manner in which an entire community's rights have been violated and ignored on the basis of a flawed anonymous tip should give cold chills to every American. And this community still lives as second-class citizens, having been forced to abdicate their constitutional rights as a precondition to the return of 400+ of their children!

When you're forced to choose between your "inalienable, Creator-given" Constitutional rights and your children, it seems to me the ruling authority is forfeiting the "mandate of Heaven." Just a thought.