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Dear Senator:

 

I read this article on the Truth will Prevail web site:
http://www.truthwillprevail.org/index.php?parentid=1&index=100

"In Washington Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is attempting to promote a federal witch hunt among the FLDS by gathering witnesses to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 24. Among his potential witnesses are Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, and ex-FLDS members Carolyn Jessop and Dan Fischer. Reid is assuring a collection of ex parte testimony by failing to invite any FLDS members or supporters.

”In a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in April, Reid solicited his help to fight ‘pervasive criminal activity’ in polygamous groups, particularly the FLDS.   Jon Summers, an employee in Reid’s office stated to the Salt Lake Tribune, ‘He is trying to step up federal enforcement against abuses that often occur in these polygamous sects.’ Both of these statements indicate the prejudiced view that the FLDS people must be guilty of crimes and that with sufficient investigation something is bound to turn up."

I live and vote in California.  I would at least hope that some of the current members of the FLDS would be allowed to be heard by this committee.

I flew to Texas to research the FLDS story firsthand.  I arrived in Texas the day Judge Walther signed the order to return the children to their parents.  I was granted access to the YFZ ranch, and I was able to interview Willie Jessop and several members of the FLDS.

Three of the people I interviewed were young men who were all 17 at the time of the raid on April 3rd.

The three young men along with over 450 other children were taken into custody. The three young men were all searched before getting on the bus. They were told before getting on the bus they were being taken to see their parents.

Once on the bus they were informed of their true destination, a shelter where they were denied access to their parents and had no access to lawyers for thirty days or more. Their cell phones were taken; they were denied the right to write in their journals; they were not even allowed to wave at their parents from a distance.

The CPS workers that treated them with compassion and understanding were replaced.
They were told they were uneducated.

It brought me to tears to hear firsthand the abuse these innocent people went through at the hands over over-zealous officials acting on unsound evidence.

Senator, most of these people are honest, hard-working, forgiving people.  They are not on welfare, and the FLDS ranch in Texas paid over $ 450,000.00 in property taxes last year.

They have taken one of the rockiest sections of ground in West Texas and turned into a productive section of land.

They have their own dairy, grow a lot of their own food, have their own cement plant and rock quarry—it is truly amazing the hard work these people have done.

Please grant these people the right to have a say before the committee.

If a judiciary hearing is held on the FLDS, the hearing should be about the abuse these peaceful and forgiving people have suffered at the hands of officials in Texas in taking over 450 innocent children into custody and abusing the civil rights of their innocent parents.

I will send a copy of this letter to all the members of the judiciary committee in hopes the FLDS will have their day before the Senate and freedom will be restored to these good people.

A couple of links that may be helpful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLblI0WdbVg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdaJMX-nbRo

It is so hard to see this abuse of American citizens happen in America. The news never gave us the true facts on this raid from the start.  If it was not for the Appeals Court in Texas, the over 450 children would still be in state custody.

Yes, the time is way past due for the Federal government to get involved, not on a witch hunt but on finding out the truth why the civil rights of so many FLDS members were denied.

Please hold the officials of Texas accountable for the abuse of their powers.

Best regards,
Raymond  Anderson