Texas FLDS
The 4th Amendment says the state must have a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate that describes the persons to be arrested, describes with particularity the things to be seized and identifies the location with specifics to be searched.
It is almost certainly unlikely the State of Texas had any such particularity as it regards the warrants they served in Eldorado TX.
The state of Texas took the word of one informant as to some narrow set of facts circumstances and individuals and tarred each and every individual in that little community as pedophiles and abusers.
What’s wrong with that picture?
Each person whose rights have been disturbed or trammeled has and was deprived of the full protections of the Constitution. The state was required under law to have served each household individually with warrants for search and seizure describing in particularity the things and persons to be searched and seized.
Instead it appears that the state served some small number of warrants seeking to sweep the entire community up. They then treated all those individuals like they were the members of some foreign army on foreign soil and not citizens of the USA.
The State’s burden was to figure out who the pedophiles and abusers were and to go after the individual persons. Instead they attacked a whole community.
If you can’t see what is wrong you are crazy.
The state should have used an undercover agent sent in to penetrate the community and discover the facts then to report b back and obtain warrants. They do it with the Mob, with biker gangs, with street gangs. Why not religious communities~? Why not? Could it be there is no patina of machismo for the undercover cop?
So instead they treat them like animals~?
The FLDS are not a very sympathetic group but there is no degree of unpopularity that absolves the state from it’s burdens under the constitution.
The 4th Amendment says the state must have a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate that describes the persons to be arrested, describes with particularity the things to be seized and identifies the location with specifics to be searched.
It is almost certainly unlikely the State of Texas had any such particularity as it regards the warrants they served in Eldorado TX.
The state of Texas took the word of one informant as to some narrow set of facts circumstances and individuals and tarred each and every individual in that little community as pedophiles and abusers.
What’s wrong with that picture?
Each person whose rights have been disturbed or trammeled has and was deprived of the full protections of the Constitution. The state was required under law to have served each household individually with warrants for search and seizure describing in particularity the things and persons to be searched and seized.
Instead it appears that the state served some small number of warrants seeking to sweep the entire community up. They then treated all those individuals like they were the members of some foreign army on foreign soil and not citizens of the USA.
The State’s burden was to figure out who the pedophiles and abusers were and to go after the individual persons. Instead they attacked a whole community.
If you can’t see what is wrong you are crazy.
The state should have used an undercover agent sent in to penetrate the community and discover the facts then to report b back and obtain warrants. They do it with the Mob, with biker gangs, with street gangs. Why not religious communities~? Why not? Could it be there is no patina of machismo for the undercover cop?
So instead they treat them like animals~?
The FLDS are not a very sympathetic group but there is no degree of unpopularity that absolves the state from it’s burdens under the constitution.
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