What About the Boys?
On 4 April, 2008, news reports from various sources, including CBS and the Wall Street Journal, announced that authorities removed fifty‑two girls from a polygamist compound/ranch and placed eighteen of these into foster care. A raid, which included an armored vehicle, by Texas State Troopers, Texas Child Protection Services, and Texas Rangers, confiscated all the girls found in the compound. Some of the girls were isolated for interrogation.
The raid was precipitated by a telephone call alleging the caller, living in the compound, was sixteen and in a forced marriage to a fifty‑year‑old man. The compound is associated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Warren Jeffs, their spiritual leader, is presently in an Arizona jail.
Local Baptists joined in by loaning school busses for the raid on this Texas ranch. All girls through the age of seventeen were taken but, the boys were left behind. Obviously, if girls are at risk, so are boys. But, headlines are more salacious if the girl’s angle is stressed. And sexism is still alive and well in the United States.
One part of this activity is the continual effort by gender feminists to claim that all females on the planet are at risk and the Gender Fems are obligated to save them. This has led to some bold fabrications in the past such as the Super Bowl Hoax.
Several years ago, gender feminists managed to con people into believing that a group, “The Irish Travelers” was marrying twelve‑ and thirteen‑year‑old girls to much older men. The propaganda was that this was group of grifters and thieves. One southern district attorney was buffoon enough to launch an investigation into the practice. Any idea that, if the allegations were true, that boys could be steered from life of crime was totally missing.
There are other typically American stereotypes and prejudgments involved as well. Americans love all things cults as a vehicle for self‑proclaimed superiority. Critical thinking is not a pastime for citizens of the United States.
Any kind of sex attachment makes this better case for police and prosecutors. They could even have a shot at another Fells Acres or Little Rascals.
Why were Baptist school busses used rather than public school busses? Is there a turf war involved? Baptists versus Mormons? Why can’t authorities in Texas separate politics from the Baptist Denomination? Supposedly “local community centers” are now involved. More likely a chance for proselytizing and haranguing the captives.
Above all, the rampant sexism in law enforcement and child protection has been demonstrated again.
In the real world, boys are more fragile than girls. In poor conditions, many more boys than girls will die. And, the maturity and intellectual development of girls is greater than boys, at least after puberty.
A recent “20/20” piece by John Stossel demonstrates how far out of touch Americans can be. He interviewed parents who let their fifteen‑year‑old son run rampant but cloistered their seventeen‑year‑old daughter. From my point of view, this is criminal behavior to allow their son to be placed in danger by their lackadaisical lack of supervision. And, the choke chain on their daughter can have other results when she finally breaks free from their absurd restrictions.
The world maintains a sex ratio of more males than females in each age cohort until about age sixty‑five. The United States begins killing off boys at an early age and the females have a numerical superiority beginning with the age twenty‑nine cohort. The American social policy also incarcerates ten percent of the remaining males.
What is the motivation of the Texas authorities to confiscate all the girls from a community while leaving the boys? I suspect they want a big time sex and cult case. Next will come the coercion of girls into victims. But, if the situation were as bad at this ranch as Texas wants us to believe, the idea that boys are not at risk is ludicrous. Such is the mental state of those who claim to be protectors.
Another thing is that sometimes police and Social Services will use children as hostages to coerce mothers into giving false testimony. This thuggish practice has gone unnoticed when the news media gets overly excited over cult and sex allegations.
Apparently, the Texas bunch is now removing the adult women from the ranch and placing them in “community centers” as well. But, the boys and men remain. What’s next? A Srebrenica style massacre?
by Brian McCorkle
in category FLDS,Seeking Perspective
