Truth Will Prevail

CPS workers really did huddle outside at night; and with this new information, in all fairness to this much-maligned agency, I hasten to set the record straight.

The Eldorado Investigation report released by CPS on December 22, 2008, brings into focus again all of the issues related to the raid on the YFZ Ranch. Among the most important of these is the validity of the search warrant that provided law-enforcement officials access to the Ranch in the first place.

The Eldorado Investigation Report released by CPS on December 22, is as false and fraudulent as the original hoax telephone call that triggered the raid.

On December 22, 2008, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services issued its final report on the YFZ Ranch raid and its aftermath, continuing the same practice we have seen them use from the first of justifying their illegal and inhumane actions in this raid by resorting to half-truths and distortions.

Documents filed in Utah’s Third District Court on Wednesday November 12, 2008, clearly show that the Diversity Foundation, Dan Fischer’s instrument for maintaining a professional distance while still attacking the FLDS Church, has played a highly significant role in having the UEP placed under court management and in shaping the way in which the Trust has been administered since the court takeover.

In a previous article, I asked the question, “What happened to the $7.95 million [Bruce Wisan has] already realized from the sale of UEP assets?” The following information answers, in part, that very question.

On November 14, 2008, a hearing will be held in Judge Denise Lindberg’s court in St. George, Utah, to determine whether court-appointed fiduciary Bruce Wisan can proceed with his contemplated sale of 711 acres of UEP land known as Berry Knoll Farms for $3 million. Wisan claims that the trust is out of money and that he and his attorney firm are currently owed in excess of $1 million and have not been paid in over a year. The proposed sale of this land is just the latest piece of evidence showing that the man appointed to protect the assets of the

The following affidavit, which was filed in Federal Court November 5, 2008, expresses the heartfelt concerns shared by every FLDS member regarding the State of Utah's actions in the UEP Case. The extent of the devastation, spiritual and economic, that Bruce Wisan and the State of Utah's actions in this matter have visited and are continuing to visit upon our community of faith cannot be overstated. We ask the court for nothing more than to apply the United States Constitution to the actions of the State in this case.

The Supreme Court decision of June 11, 1993 in the case of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah established the legal precedent that a law which is aimed at targeting a particular religion violates the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional.

Enough harm has already been done to innocent children and parents. It is past time for CPS to bow out gracefully and leave these families alone.

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