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Big Love in West Texas

By Gritsforbreakfast

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"I can understand executing a search warrant at the El Dorado polygamist compound to look for a 16 year old girl who phoned in an anonymous complainant about her forcible marriage at 15 to a 50-year old. But I don't immediately see under what authority the Department of Public Safety forcibly removed more than 200 women and children from the compound in the process. Indeed, "A caravan of K-9 unit vehicles were seen headed down the road to the compound on Sunday morning." But they've already removed everyone who might be the victim (at this time they still haven't identified her), what are they looking for with the dogs?That must be quite a search warrant some judge signed off on, though I suppose we should be thankful they didn't bring in ATF again and burn the place down like in Waco...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).