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

[Lee Corbin]

Amara comments on Spike's question

>>have nothing to live for until I had my child back.  I would camp out on the
>>steps of the courthouse and give the news people plenty to talk about.
> 
> Me too, but aren't some/many of the parents in custody in various places
> too? It's really a hellish situation.
> 
>>Speaking of which, where in the GODDAM hell are the national news media?

It's a question of sympathies, not logic, and certainly not due
process. It's okay to hate the FLDS. None of this would be
tolerated for a minute if it were any kind of group that had
an iota of popularity among the American citizens, or even
an iota of popularity with the all-important foreigners.

I think that that explains it all.

Lee

> It looks the most detailed news still comes from the Salt Lake Tribune
> http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9374637
> 
> But upon searching in Google News:
> http://news.google.com/news?ned=tus&hl=en&ned=tus&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1215072194
> 
> National news finally picked it up yesterday (Newsweek, Associated Press,
> CBS, NY Times, USA Today, CNN...)
> http://www.newsweek.com/id/138376
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/25/national/main4125851.shtml
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/us/24raid.html?ref=us
> http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/12-children-fro.html
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIdMpRHjN4hpNKBhfYyAsR4DDo4QD90RLMA01
> http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/23/flds.next/
> 
> And the news is trickling outside the US too
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7417776.stm
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/no-justification-for-raid-on-texas-mormon-ranch-833590.html
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3994699.ece
> 
> I don't know if it is on TV (I haven't yet turned on the used TV I bought
> last January...), but the printed news media are getting it, at least.
> 
> Amara