[ExI] Sorry..flds raid, was general repudiation...

[Anna Taylor]

Sorry about the post.  I'm not sure why yahoo does that.  It never used to come out in that format.

Anyway, again my apology, i'll fix it before posting again.

--- On Mon, 5/5/08, Anna Taylor <femmechakra at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> From: Anna Taylor <femmechakra at yahoo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] flds raid, was general repudiation...
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Received: Monday, May 5, 2008, 2:40 PM
> --- On Mon, 5/5/08, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Having one's children taken is the worst
> possible thing I can imagine, losing contact with
> one's own mother is abominable, and yet nearly all
> of the victims here DID NO CRIMES!  We can justify
> rounding up the perps who actually impregnated
> underage girls, fine, do that full stop.  But how
> in the hell can we justify punishing the victims by taking
> their children? 
  
> Good point Spike. I hadn't thought of that when I
> posted. I thought about >how unfair it is that these
> teen mothers will never understand what real love is
> about (as there husbands are old and chosen for them) or
> that they will never have there own choices. It makes
> me sad.  What if one of these girls could have been a
> doctor, a scientist or an artist?  Their lives are
> pre-ordained by elders that have alternative motives, how
> can this be good for women?  I thought the idea was to
> progress, how can we progress when we still will not
> acknowledge that certain mentalities are not worth
> keeping? What if nobody had taken action to stop slavery?
> The mentality had to have affected enough people to
> warrant change.  
> 
> As for taking the children away from the mother, I get
> your point.  So what is the alternative?  Let the
> children stay in the same circumstances and create a
> whole new generation of such manipulation?  I can only
> think that maybe taking the mother and child away from
> the environment may be a better idea.  I wonder if a
> year or two away from the manipulation if the mentality
> would change?   
> 
> I will not say that going in with guns a blaze and
> snatching the children away was the best solution but I
> do not understand how some do not see the injustice
> being done to these girls.  (As for the old manipulating
> geezers, I hope there peckers fall off:) Sex with
> minors is an offence in the United States, that alone
> should warrant that these men be convicted. 
> 
> Enough from me on the subject and thanks to whoever
> brought the subject up, it has given me much to think
> and write about.  
> Thank you Amara for the links.
> 
> Anna
> 
> 
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