Quote from Yannis:
Isn't it true that they found several 14, 15 and 16 years old girls who had given birth, some more than once?
That is true and is almost certainly true in all of these cult-type compounds. That fact doesn't seem to be enough for some in this thread to be able to justify busting the operation up.
If you're asking where the victims are, some of them have escaped and are telling anyone who will listen that underage girls are being forced to marry and have sex against their will.
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
It is an outrage and clearly a violation of these people's rights to due process.
(cough) Guantanamo Bay (cough)
AAA, something very ironic just occurred to me. You're constantly saying that it is only white Christian males who can be defamed in PC thinking, and that any volley fired at another special interest group is condemned by the PC police as racism or whatever (and there's quite a bit of truth in that)
Here, though, we're condemning a group that is as deserving of condemnation as the radical Muslims, but you don't seem to like it. Why is that? In this case, you seem to be using the same arguments in defense of the lawbreakers (and lawbreakers they surely are) as those who would defend radical Muslims. The PC argument goes like this - 'You have no proof against this or that bearded, Qu'ran-reading, desert-camp-attending, Western-lifestyle-condemning Islamic jihadi. Your (detention of him, surveillance of him, suspicion of him) is illegal'.
Substitute 'polygamist, our-leader-is-God-incarnate-believing, 14-year-old-child-marrying, closed-compound-with-huge-church-living, weird-Christian-sect devotee', and you have the same argument!! How much evidence do you need before you say 'That's enough'?
You know goddamn well that 14 year old girls have been married off, forced into sex, impregnated and forced to bear children on this property. Don't give me the 'you have no evidence' argument.