I live in SoCal. Pretty amazing place. There are homeless people here who get no support from anywhere, they don't even beg. They live off what they can forage, sleep in alleys and culverts. People pretend they just aren't there. There are African immigrant communities where female genital mutilation is commonly practiced. African, Asian and South Asian cultural groups here arrange marriages. For girls, this often takes place at or before the onset of puberty. Mothers bring wedding pictures to work and pass them around, no one says a thing. On a nice day, you can see women in cut off jeans so low rise, if you get close and look down, you can see the clitoral hood, standing at the checkout line in K-Mart, right next to a lady swathed head to toe in heavy black velvet robes, go figure. There are slaves here. Some do agricultural work. Some work in sweat shops. Some are whores, locked away from the light of day for years at a time and not even sure what country they are in. There are neighborhoods here where rich young girls can stumble down the street at two in the morning, totally messed up, in a ton of real jewelry, and be perfectly safe. There are places the police never go, even at noon. Some people call this a nanny state, I don't really see it, myself. I mean, it does have functional plumbing but other than that, it's pretty much Calcutta. If you're going down for the third time, their's no Mother Teresa here, not for a long time. There's still a big neon downtown, above the Nickle, that flashes on and off, Jesus Saves and he may but not here, not lately.
In Eldorado, Texas, there is a community of fundamentalist Mormons. I don't doubt their culture is pretty aberrant. I don't doubt there is child fucking going on there. Wherever fundamentalist Christians congregate, there always is. On the other hand, they are quiet, clean, self contained, drug free, don't commit crimes, and keep up the landscaping. What's not to like. They are just living their lives and not bothering anybody else. Another thing to keep in mind here, is nobody is complaining about the situation. Nobody is making first hand accusations of abuse. Not the children. Not the parents.
The local police raided the place and removed all the children on the basis of a single bogus, anonymous phone tip, alleging sexual abuse, that was easily discredited. They have no witnesses, no evidence and they are never going to, just animosity toward the community. This is going to come to a bad end. It's not even inconceivable it could be a repeat of Ruby Ridge or Waco. I hope not. In the meantime, these 400 children are going to experience the wonders of the Texas foster care system for an indefinite and probably extended period of time. Whichever ones of them have not already been raped by old, tobacco chewing, syphilitics, that's about to be remediated. It's not clear they wouldn't be better off at home, in their own beds, no matter who else might be in there with them.
The main charge here seems to be that a group of evil men are keeping large numbers of women as sex slaves and "marrying" girls as young as 13. These men don't seem to be around at this time. The women of the community are and they seem pretty fierce. By all accounts, they out number the men by at least five or six to one. Once again, I have no doubt that the sexual culture of these fundamentalist Christians is truly nauseating. It is ever so with fundamentalist Christians. The fact is though, if these women wanted to leave, they could. If they wanted to take their daughters with them, they could. As far as I know, none of them have.
Why is there no outrage about the boy children of this community? Most of whom are thrown out of the community, penniless into the street, by the time they are fifteen. Why aren't the social workers busy documenting their suffering. They have been cluttering up the street corners of downtown Eldorado for years.
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