The news surrounding the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup is still churning fast and furious. Here are the most recent highlights:
First things first, Judge Walther signed the release order allowing most kids to go home. The blogger at I Perceive examines the release order and suggests that FLDS' attorneys may be the ones suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome."
Still bristling from her highly public bench slapping by the appellate courts, Judge Walther then convened a grand jury yesterday which issued 18 indictments, all of which so far remain sealed. No way to tell how many, if any, are related to the YFZ Ranch.
If they actually pursue charges, we'll soon find out whether Judge Walther's interpretation that the 1,700 acre ranch is a single "household" gets overturned or if the original search warrant holds up. Since the Third Court of Appeals already shot down her "one household" interpretation in the child custody cases, I personally doubt it will hold up on the criminal side, either.
Meanwhile, see this must-read story from the Deseret News in which state Rep. Harvey Hildebran described how he changed Texas' law specifically hoping to drive FLDS out of the state.
Also, an FLDS official says the group will henceforth abide by marriage age laws in whatever jurisdiction it operates.
In Canada, events in Texas have inspired the British Colombia Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate FLDS members there. Actually pursuing charges, though, has proved difficult.
In a thematically related story, at The Mex Files we find a terrific discussion of polygamous Mormonism in Mexico, including connections between such groups and the country's most famous polygamist, Pancho Villa.
See more recent coverage from The Common Room.
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I perceived the same thing.
Any who wants to sign a petition to remove Walthers from the bench.
Go here:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/19682.html
It is not the "henceforth we will abide by all marriage laws" that is the concern. Rather, it is the young women who had their youth stolen from them by a bunch of hairy old men that should be concerning you.
Honestly, do you have no pity for the young lives stolen falsely in the name of the Lord?
"young lives falsely stolen in the name of the Lord." ????
You must be one of those baptist who helped kidnap, at gunpoint, 465 children...uh...which the Supreme Court made the great state of TX give back.
Have you no pity for the constitution --anonymous---'holier than thou.'
I hope bubba comes for you next.
"young lives stolen falsely in the name of the Lord"
Hmmmmm ... You mean like when the law brought in buses from the local Baptist church to haul away FLDS kids en masse based on a hoax phone call?
"I perceive" makes a lot of good points, but I don't know that it was Stockholm Syndrome. To me, it looks more like paying the ransom to get the kids back.
The conditions are harmful to the children, but so is every additional day of foster care. I don't see a good option for the families.
I hope they can fight, case by case, once the children are returned.
Richard Wexler
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
www.nccpr.org
I wondered how the conditional release of the children could be required. Both the Supreme Court and the 3rd Court had their authority undermined by a judge who felt that she could impose her own conditions (ifs/ands/buts) on the release of illegally held citizens and by attorneys who chose not to appeal it.
Contrary to public opinion, CPS and family law judges have not had their wings clipped, but rather have seen their authority expanded as they are now free to ignore the orders of SCOTx.
Simply put, the TRLA lawyers sold the FLDS down the river.
To easy.
TRLA is funded by the fed. govt. LSC, Inc. and TX locals, power-political lawyering,societies, grants, etc.
GW Bush appoints the 11 member commission of the LSC.
How do ya'll think the TRLA got to be the 3rd largest legal aide org. in the nation? Did you know that?
How about a good guess--GW helping out his good bud-GW's lt. gov. Rick Perry with tons of 'competitive' LSC grant money. Did you all know that LSC was created by CONGRESS to give our tax dollars to--to then be doled out to local legal aide?
TRLA "Stockholm Syndrome"?--not really.
Try... follow the money.
It will get you to the correct explanation every time.
Let's see?
Jeffs was put away for 'accessory to a rape'---meaning...a made-up, when he wants even there.
Does anyone think we can get gov. Rick Prairie on charges of accessory to kidnapping 465 children?
falsely in the name of the Lord?
Most things done in his name are done falsely.
It's good to see that I Perceive works from the original sources.
But Stockholm Syndrome? I think that's straying a little far from reportage, into the realm of drama.
The ruling by the SCOT plainly gave Judge Walther leverage. TRLA had to take that into account in dealing with her.
Besides, I Perceive uses way too much bold, RED, italic, and BOLD RED ITALIC in his writing. Whew!
Tip to my favorite new blog-meister, I Perceive: a small amount of this dramatic emphasis and sensationalistic analogy - while sometimes just the right zing - goes a long way.
Though, after white-knuckling it through the three-hanky soap-opera, I agree that I Perceive is perceptive!
... But it's a matter perception. I think TRLA is a good bunch, did a good job taking a workable stance from within a compromised predicament.
''I think TRLA is a good bunch, did a good job taking a workable stance from within a compromised predicament.''
Compromised? I'll say--just follow the money.
'GOOD JOB?' you say. "Workable" for whom?
No one but CPS/Walther/TX.
The Supreme Court's "no evidence" against the accused still gets: House arrest essentially of hundreds of families/kids, psycho. exams, medical (i.e.: pelvic exams --may as well get right to it)--mug shots, fingerprints, travel limits, unannounced visits, searches, seizures, kids taken out at will by state.
You gotta be brain-dead.
You must be from there, aren't you?
I believe the FLDS parents justed wanted their children home and took what they could get without going through a lengthy court battle over terms. Now that they have their children back, can they regroup and resume their fight to get the CPS conditions removed?
The FLDS needed their kid back, yes.
But, moreover...and this is what they missed (and where the lawyers misled):
To ensure the safety of the future of the children/families--the FLDS needed their rights preserved in the process.
Because, the FLDS, without their rights (which Walther coerced away--as she held the children captive) they have given up the utmost thing they needed to STOP CPS in its track from a life-long persecution by the state of Tx.
Now, the lawyers have left the door of the FLDS lives/homes wide open...for continued state-sponsored terrorism.
After I read the new order walthers put out yesterday, I wondered why she had backed off so much over the weekend.
A good explanation would be because she should and it was the correct thing to do, but walthers hasn't showed us she is capable of such a level headed approach to this mess yet.
The sealed warrants from that Grand Jury may explain it, as walthers moves on to Plan B.
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To all that I keep seeing in various comments every place, I am clueless WTH any mean by TRLA "selling out" or "agreements" signed, blah, blah, blah....
The SCOT and the 3rd did NOT close out any of the suits faced by the parents of the 460+ children. They ruled on the action taken under the 262.201. All of the suits are still active.
If any of the Temporary Orders walthers put out are out of line, TRLA and attorneys for any other parents should challenge them.
If the orders are within what walthers can do, the parents need to get through the process the best way they can.
I think the new FLDS policy statement "clarifying" the marriagable age of females is very big, quite possibly of historically-pivotal dimensions.
I also think it gives us good cause to keep an eye peeled for further important 'upgrades' to the FLDS lifestyle.
This is an element of the assorted backfire phenomena that were predictable from Texas' rash approach to their unwanted new immigrant group in Schleicher Co., from the outset.
The malfunctions of the FLDS/YFZ just aren't that unfixable. Fix the problems, and how will Texas be able get a handle on them?
They evidently didn't give that matter much quality thought.
I should add that many of us DO suspect a law or 2+ were violated and the pregnant 14-17 YO (only one now), along with those that may have given birth to a baby conceived while under the age of consent, could possibly be a part of the evidence needed to show violations or a need for investigation.
I never said or pushed the theory there was no crimes. I do not recall the ranch residents saying that either. I did say the methods used to uncover any is very questionable and that taking ALL the children should not have happened.
The limits of what the CPS can use to say are actual reasons to suspect problems needing investigation still seem to be applied as if the ranch is a single household. I am not in agreement that the blanket orders look proper for all families.
I see little or no reason for suits for a few of the families we have learned specific facts about recently, but they need to be addressed individually and I believe they will be now.
If even a single child sex offense is uncovered, that may be reason enough for CPS or the court to suspect all at the ranch knew of it without reporting such.
My opinion is that none should go to the extreme opposite position of letting all off the hook. It's possible an INDIVIDUAL or more did commit a crime.
Anon 10:32
"You gotta be brain-dead.
You must be from there, aren't you?"
Actually, I like & appreciate a good 'opposition'. You certainly have the passion for the role. A bit of self-discipline would help. Passionate people can also have a degree of self-control. Drop the fantastic and obviously-nonsensical wild accusations, and whatever you have to say won't be covered by the dross.
I'm from the Olympic Peninsula, west of Seattle. Beautiful, rugged country. I live on the beach, and look across the water to Vancouver Island (Canada).
And no, I'm hardly braindead.
Hey: kbp
you write:
''If any of the Temporary Orders walthers put out are out of line, TRLA and attorneys for any other parents should challenge them.''
To address your confusion:
Are you NOT aware that TRLA lawyers negotiated with parties over the weekend to cook up the orders/'deal' that Walther's signed Mon.
...and the FLDS parents were required (coerced) by Walther--and were obviously advised by TRLA lawyers too, to agree to this order. FLDS had to agree with the 'deal' to 'sign' before Walther would sign it--per her!
Fri. Walther advised TRLA that she would not sign any order to vacate (and release the children)until the FLDS "signed first." That is what Walther's demanded when she walked off the bench Friday.
Subsequently, the TRLA lawyers/CPS, and crew meetings were held all weekend, reported all over the media..."negotiation" meetings ending late Sunday night.
Mon. elder Willie Jessop stated to media: "We wanted a better deal...but, we'll take it."
There will be no TRLA 'challenge' to Walther's order--as you want to believe--because, the lawyers approve of it and FLDS desperately followed along.
Anon 11:23
I disagree with your take on what happened.
I have read that many attorneys did not agree with each other and there were numerous plans submitted to walthers Monday morning, which I doubt she even took the time to read.
I have read nothing that said walthers was involved in any negotiations, only that some CPS representatives were involved some.
Any that mention "agree[ment]" have to base that on the parents not challeging the order, because there is no "agreement" to sign that I can find.
WALTHERS WAS NOT IN THE NEGOTATIONS
"...Lawyers representing FLDS mothers, children and the Texas Department
of Family and Protective Services met for several hours Sunday at a
state office building, hammering out a new order for Judge Barbara
Walther's consideration.
"It's not an agreed order," Hawkins said. "It's the judge's order. We're just hoping she'll sign an order. You can't get 400 lawyers to agree. We just went over her order and tried to clean up the language
some.""
IT IS NOT AN ORDER FROM TRLA
"...Attorneys for two legal aid firms who successfully petitioned the Third Court of Appeals arrived at the courthouse at 8:15 a.m. and submitted their own order for the judge to sign. But Walther had already come up with her own plan, a slightly modified version of the proposal she made Friday."
I am open to being corrected by a credible source, but at this point, I still see it the same way I commented earlier.
kbp
wrote:
''I have read nothing that said walthers was involved in any negotiations, only that some CPS representatives were involved some.''
* * *
Walther was in the last Friday's aborted--supposed 'hearing' to vacate, when she walked off the bench and demanded FLDS agree to and 'sign' first her new order.
Naturally, the lawyers were stunned. On Fri., CPS/TRLA had presented version 1 order and Walther presented said no, and presented her own version 2.
Lawyers said "no" to her version 2.
Walther suddenly jumped up and demanded 'all 38' parents 'sign' it and then she would--then, she abruptly left. This was detailed in Salt Lake Tribune which had both 'deal' versions posted--it may still.
These attempts to force an 'agreement' to her order are detailed in various media accounts--you can google if you want further 'credible' sources. We all understand that Walther did finally sign to vacate the TO.
Attorneys/CPS met Sunday too...that was reported in various media--trying to decide what to do with the thing. I don't have time to go back to haul out articles for you.
What they all settled on Mon. then, was Walther's order #2 that she presented and demanded 'be signed' on the previous bizzare Friday--with a few concessions to it.
I know, because I compared Monday's final order to Walter's Friday order--which at that time, Walther demanded FLDS must agree--as stated: 'sign it.'
Friday's version 2 (Walther's) is what the TRLA attorneys ultimately agreed to...with a few concession. How do you think those concession came about? You can go compare Fri. vs. Monday's order and you will see the concession Walther negotiated down.
And, what do you make of FLDS elder Jessop's comment reported in various media outlets --that I recall was Salt Lake Tribune, for one, and many more saying "we wanted a better deal..but, we'll take it" Jessop conceded.
I read these things from credible sources--not just one.
You, are free to look up any sources that suit you... just start googling.
As many have said, the main objective was to get the kids home. Once the kids are home, then the real "negotiations" begin.
From where I sit, it can be a reasonable affair, with FLDS and CPS preserving their dignity, or it can be constantly adversarial from the onset.....it will depend on how CPS approaches it.
When the media hoopala dies down, my gut tells me that Willie Jessop can be a pretty savvy negotiator....he is both smart and affable....
And I'm also guessing that Warren Jeffs may find Texas in line after Az. to prosecute him.....
Even in the instance of other underage births that may be found, I'm betting that prosecutions may start...may even have an indictment or two handed down, but in the absense of anyone from the FLDS claiming to be a "victim", and the hornets nest of challenging "God's Will", bargains are apt to be struck in short order....
In the one instance where there may be actual abuse with a victim, to wit a claim of unwillingness, we may see some real prosecution...and since we don't yet know the details of the young woman who is remaining in CPS care, there may be real cooperation from the FLDS....From all that I've seen, they don't want their children abused any more than anyone else does.....
The atty's didn't 'sell-out' their clients...given the temperment of Walthers, and much of the local sentiment against them, I think they did pretty well.....CPS is going to back way down when the media goes away....there will be a few cursory visits, up front...and hopefully there will be other, although way less splashy than yesterday's declaration about the age of marriage, 'systemic' changes.
The travel ban will expire....
the local rep. will still try to get ugly, biased laws passed....the FLDS will continue to pay their taxes....
And many of us are a little smarter, and a little more paranoid than before....
But maybe, through all of this, some folks have made a few unlikely friends....
And maybe the Flora's won't make quite as much money on their sensationalist books....
rerickson:
'CPS is going to back way down when the media goes away'
bruhahahahahahaha
When the media goes away, Walther/Rick Perry will ensure the state-sponsored terrorism will escalate. Marleigh Meisner will gladly assist.
Media will be back--but, only to blare any forthcoming 'indictments' over the nation.
The daily state-sponsored terrorism will not get media exposure, which is sure to escalate---for the very reason 465 children were unlawfully taken at gunpoint.
I should add that many of us DO suspect a law or 2+ were violated and the pregnant 14-17 YO (only one now), along with those that may have given birth to a baby conceived while under the age of consent, could possibly be a part of the evidence needed to show violations or a need for investigation.
I never said or pushed the theory there was no crimes. I do not recall the ranch residents saying that either. I did say the methods used to uncover any is very questionable and that taking ALL the children should not have happened.
Kpb, agreed.
Rericson, I disagree that when the media goes away, CPS will play a kinder, gentler, more constitutional role. I think public scrutiny has been a very useful tool in preventing worse abuses- as evidenced by Elias-perciful's bitter diatribe against the media (which was amusing, since the MSM basically swallowed CPS pronouncements at a gulp) as well as others.
CPS objects to attention- hence the NDA required of the mental health workers, the removal of cell phones, an attempt to require Lori and Joseph Jessop not to talk to the media as a condition for getting their children back, the rude CPS worker who physically tried to remove Dan's arm from his wife's shoulder as she physically prodded 22 y.o. Louisa and her newborn baby away from the television cameras and towards their car, etc, etc.
This agency and those who work for it have shown that they cannot abide scrutiny, and there's a reason for that.
rerickson 01:17 -
Very good point, that "... CPS is going to back way down when the media goes away...".
We could go through the media-stories with scissors and fill a scrap-book with quotes by CPS reps & surrogates, all crafted & delivered purely in the face of & for the benefit of the media.
CPS has been conducting itself & communicating overweening in view of it's media-image. When the media hustle off to the car-wreck, we will see another demeanor from CPS ... and that will make a real difference 'on the ground'.
Agreed!
Headmistress, Zookeeper 01:53 -
While I do think from the pro-FLDS viewpoint things will go better with CPS after things cool off, I wouldn't go so far as to say the agency is chastened & reformed.
You are right about their scurrilous motives for general attention-sensitivity.
In this case, though, CPS' actions have been found wanting by a One-Two judicial punch, and they have to get themselves aligned with the law before the next round of legal proceedings get underway. Otherwise, the Court could end up just shutting them down.
Besides, CPS has had a chance to thoroughly examine the FLDS people, and I honestly imagine that they have been shocked at the lack of punishable behavior that's been uncovered. A decent case probably just isn't there, group-wise. Better to cut their losses and slip quietly off ...
Headmistress, et al.....
Again, I wasn't as clear as I should have been in this type of forum....sorry....
I have strongly advocated for ongoing, external oversight, since the inception of this mess...and long before that in a more general sort of way, for all CPS organizations/agencies/offices.....
I do believe that the many, many attorneys who have gotten involved in this will maintain a vigilent "eye" over things...and I do believe that Willie Jessop and the other leaders in the community are way smarter now about local politics and how to "play the game" than before this mess....so I am confident that if CPS behaves badly, the world will know about it....
I think that now that the kids are home, or when they are all home, the first order of business between the FLDS community, their lawyers, and CPS is to set up an oversight and advisory committee to define and work through issues.....
I just don't think even something that simple can happen in the midst of cameras and national media attention....
CPS, and actually any government agency, love the media....to the extent they can control it....they do everything they can to avoid wild-card situations....and the last two months has been a hotbed of wild-cards for them....*smile*
And there are lots of things that can be done as just 'good practice' within the community....
Set up a central information point. Everytime anyone is contacted by CPS or its agents, make sure it is documented....who contacted whom, what time was it, what was the stated purpose of the contact, what, if any, follow-up is required.....
Again, if any one in the community needs to contact any CPS person or agent, centrally document it...what, when, why, who was spoken to.....
After a few weeks look at it for patterns....
Make it available to the attys in the event they need to petition the court on the group's, or an individual's, behalf for any reason.....
At this central point keep a log of meetings that occur to discuss changes....keep a list of participants.....
log any changes that are made...when, by whom, for what purpose...then log their efficacy, or failure....
And most importantly, keep it all informal....do not publically announce the inception of this kind of record keeping, nor what/who the central point is....or make sure that the only 'true' copies of this documentation go to the atty's everyday, or every week....I mean the attys representing the community, not the individual attys....
Anyway, these are just a couple of suggestions off the top of my head.....
Anon
I'm not seeing so much that we disagree on in your revised approach there.
Most that could conflict with what I stated are your suppositions.
Some BIG concessions was the psychological / psychiatric exams parents would have been subject to, the limitations on time CPS can visit "households" and NOT having to sign an agreement that includes ALL the orders of the original custody order (with exception of the managing conservatorship vacated).
Comparing Walthers Friday and Monday plans only, and knowing Friday's required signatures agreeing with them, is overlooking the problems many complained of that are still a part of the recent order by-way of the original order that is a part of this most recent order.
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On to a more entertaining laugh:
Are CPS liars??
Headmistress,
The other thing I thought of, that may or may not be important....is always follow up every conversation or encounter with CPS with a letter....
If you talk on the phone...even if it is just a quick, "calling to see if everything is okay" type phone call, document it, and follow up with a letter, with a copy to the atty for the parent, and child(ren)...and one to the atty for the community...
i.e. Dear Ms. Smith,
Thank you for your call Tues, morning at 10:00 to check in with me and ask me if everything was going well.
Since in your phone call you did not ask me to do anything or provide you with any new information, nor did you request that I go anywhere or do anything extraordinary, at this time, that at this time all of our agreements remain the same. If this is not correct, please notify me immediately.
Cordially,
So and So.....
If they come to your house, if you go to their offices, anything...
I tell parents who are having trouble with schools to do this....and it has proven helpful time after time....
They keep records...you keep records.....
More humor?
DNA testing results arriving
"...She said the reports will be shared with attorneys, parents and DFPS - but not with anyone conducting a criminal investigation at this point.
"They would have to seek a court order [for that]," she said.
It's not real clear if the "She" above is walthers or "Janece Rolfe, a spokeswoman for the Texas Attorney General's Office".
And if you notice in the top right corner of the Trib article KBP linked to just a short while ago, the 18 indictments from the convened Grand Jury of yesterday apparently have nothing to do with YFZ. Wonder what they *are* about?
Yeah, yeah, curiosity killed the cat and all that. Good thing I'm not a cat. ;-)
"A grand jury was convened Monday in Schleicher County, but Doran said that panel is only dealing with local issues and is not taking up cases related to child abuse allegations at the sect's compound. He said the Texas Rangers, who are the lead agency in the investigation, are moving deliberately."
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/679414.html
Rericson, that makes sense, and it applies in many situations.
I spent many years as a military wife, and there were times I felt like there were people in the military whose entire job was simply to lie to everybody who called to ask them for information. Seriously, I think it's just a bureaucratic mindset. It was amazing to me how the answers to my questions would change when I would ask, "I'm sorry, I need to write this down to make sure I understand correctly. And to whom am I speaking? And what regulation is that you're quoting, again?"
A nationally recognized expert in Constitutional Law, Marci Hamilton has an interesting take on the recent SCOT decision at FindLaw.
I comment on it more extensively at my blog, Coram Non Judice.
In any event, I like her position. She thought the 3COA was wrong, and she hopes "that the Texas Attorney General’s Office soon files criminal charges against the obvious felons within the group, and holds very public trials that further educate the American public on the sexual abuse of American children."
Plus she's not bad looking...
Damn, smart and good looking....
I'm often curious, if charges are filed, how long it will take them to make any wife from the ranch realize she's a victim, if it can be accomplished.
kbp,
LOL, that's easy.
When you file on the men for Bigamy, you file on the women as well...
Then they can understand that they were victimized and testify against the husband, or they can go to prison too.
Quoting Marci Hamilton is like the losers of the Super Bowl telling the winners what mistakes they made.
A more relevant quote:
Daughter of Sect Leader Gets Additional Protection
Willie Jessop, a spokesman for the F.L.D.S. group, said that to his knowledge there was no credible evidence that accusations of sexual abuse relating to the child in the court order were true. He said the girl’s lawyer was pursuing “an agenda,” and that the girl’s mother had tried to find other counsel.
“What we have in this situation is a very disappointing attorney who is pushing a different agenda than what her client wants,” Mr. Jessop said. He said he did not know exactly what the relationship was between Raymond Jessop and the girl, and he said his information about the accusations had come from the girl’s mother.
And
No word when the DNA results come back, but FLDS attorney and spokesman Rod Parker told us today that he wonders how authorities can prove any crime took place in Texas. In his mind, it's a possible issue of jurisdiction.
Read Exclusive: An Interview With Natalie Malonis, Lawyer Representing FLDS Children
She is the only ad litem to give a full interview that I know of.
Good point TBM, something I had overlooked!
"...or they can go to prison too."
...a "VICTIM" of the LAWS, and those that have violated SOME, while they selectively enforce a FEW.
I see now I should feel safe assuming many already "realize" they are a "VICTIM".
Expose a pinch of malice in that mix and we'll see a finite measure of just how much of a "victim" they were!
Interesting interview with Doran in the Deseret News this morning:
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700231682,00.html?pg=1
And the confidential informant? Make that informantS:
Doran: All I can say — and you know any law enforcement officer's not going to uncover their confidential informant — confidential informant is plural. This is a person, or persons, that I have relied on the last four years to educate me on this group. A person that, if something came up, I can call this person, run it by 'em and they're going to be in the know of what this means, or who this is, or what's going on in this particular situation. This confidential informant did not lead up to this raid. This confidential informant had no part of that. During the search warrants, this person — persons, actually — was called upon to clarify some things, evidences that were uncovered and bring in some of the FLDS teachings that would match these particular evidences that were uncovered.
kbp,
How are they a 'victim' of the laws?
The FLDS can't have it both ways. Either the multiple wives were free to marry (or not marry), or they were forced into these marriages. If they were forced, then they should testify to that effect, and they will be treated like the victims that they are.
If, however, they elected, of their own free will to violate the felony laws on Bigamy in this state, then they should be held accountable.
Unless of course you believe that women, due to their gender, deserve a free pass for felonious conduct.
"...LAWS" is plural.
I would go into details, but we both know already you approve of ALL the conduct by the authorities involved, especially the FIVE DAY time span in which poor Sarah was left unattended that we are yet to hear a credible explanation for.
I do see a problem with Texas getting them to testify. They have no immunity as a wife, but retain their rights not to incriminate themselves. The next crime in line for them is then contempt of court, if they're granted immunity to all testimony.
One would hope any punishment fits the crime, but we see clearly where Texas was heading with this mess. The evidence of crimes could be lacking or suppressed in this matter. You may be stuck with only the Bishop's Records and/or the assumption that their beliefs is proof that parentage of a bastard child - a preference of the State of Texas - could not be utilized as a defense.l
Here's my take on some of this...perhaps one of you legal types....other than the bluesman....*smile*...sorry bluesman, but I already know what you think....could correct me, or weigh in with greater clarity, if I'm way off base...
Bigamy is what it is in many states...and they don't really count, here, because Texas is different in that it rewrote it's laws with the specific intent of "catching" the FLDS....
They created an expanded definition, beyond the usual 'one won't marry another while still legally married to another...yada, yada...'
So I'm thinking that this wouldn't pass muster in the courts..'cept maybe Walthers court...she doesn't seem to need the benefit of testing constitutionality against her rulings....
If Texas is going to try to prove, despite some legislator's admissions that it was crafted to address the FLDS, that it is a broad, 'serves all' law, then lots of "baby mamas" and the multitudes of "other women" ought to be seen being paraded before the courts in short order....no????
Dallas News has 1500 pages of emails between officials leading up and during and after the raid- obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. They've posted some excerpts. Initially, they planned to separate the mothers and children secretly in another location, but the judge over-ruled that: The women and children were not to be told until they were on the buses that all but nursing mothers would be separated into different living quarters from the children.
"Salvation Army indicated it would not allow the conflict associated with separation to occur in its facility, which is why the separation would occur at a secure location prior to entering the Salvation Army grounds," Ms. Jordan wrote.
The judge in charge of custody of the children eventually rejected the transfer. Instead, the separation occurred on April 14, without incident. But the e-mails show that field officers reported back to the governor's office virtually minute by minute on how it proceeded.
Texas' Bigamy Law
Legislatures, State & Federal, are empowered to pass laws as they see fit. The courts, on the other hand, have the duty to evaluate those laws under the Constitution, etc. Bad laws come, and then bad laws go.
This Bigamy law is fairly popular in some Texas circles. But it's a weak law. It is easy to find big holes in it. So-called 'bigamy' is very widespread in society, on a practical basis. Yet Texas 'threatens' to target select groups with this ol' bloody shirt.
For Texas to 'push' the Bigamy law and apply it, likely leads to Appeals Courts, and perhaps Federal Courts, and that could easily be the end of it.
I suspect a fair case can be made, that the Texas Bigamy statute is quite close to the old Jim Crow system.
So Texas has the special-tailored law, but if they use, it'll probably fold on them and leave them both without a law, and open to further court action.
Although the discussion has moved forward I didn't read these comments till now.
So I just wanted to make a quick comment voicing opposition to "advice" offered to "I Perceive" way back in the beginning of this comment section.
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Concerning:
"Besides, I Perceive uses way too much bold, RED, italic, and BOLD RED ITALIC in his writing. Whew!
Tip to my favorite new blog-meister, I Perceive: a small amount of this dramatic emphasis and sensationalistic analogy - while sometimes just the right zing - goes a long way."
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Actually the majority of the folks I know PREFER this type of online style.
It enables the reader to cover large amounts of material (as well as links etc.)quickly - while keeping various "aspects" of what is being discussed mentally "organized" - also helpful later for remembering (or finding again)important points.
The emphasis shown is both clear and warranted.
Not excessive in any way.
These issues affect all of us and passion pertaining to them - being shown - is NEEDED.
Those wishing for more "watered down" reporting can find it aplenty in the mainstream media.
Hat's off to "I Perceive" and keep up the great work!
NOTE: My "incorrect use" of quotation marks has also been "scolded" online. :D
As far as I know though some amendment or another (Perhaps it's the First) allows this sort of individual expression! :D
Gee, I better go hunt down that Bill of Rights right away . . .
Now where, oh where, did that document wander off to?
TxBluesMan wrote: "A nationally recognized expert in Constitutional Law, Marci Hamilton..."
Marci's claim to fame is proposing to 'permanently fix' child sex abuse by eliminating any statute of limitations, and says the death penalty for underage sex is "a good sign". Hamilton would electrocute half of Americas teenagers and not blink an eye: it's for the children after all.
Hamilton's article on the FLDS subtitled "Why the Arguments Claiming Due Process Violations and Religious Freedom Infringement Have No Merit" was ruthlessly gutted by both the Texas 3rd Circuit and unanimous Supreme Court. TxBluesMan's reliance on her uninterrupted string of errors is an excellent sign for his opposition.
Headmistress, Zookeeper 12:47 -
My, sounds like the Dallas News has carved themselves off a fascinating chunk of research! I'll be watching closely for their reports.
Thank you!
Rericson
I do not think the Bigamy law can be vacated because of the changes made. I see a better chance that ALL bigamy laws will be vacated.
Subpatre 01:43 -
I appreciate your insight & research on Marci Hamilton's work. I had identified that she is an isolated & insulated academic figure, without public experience, but I had not been able to pursue the question of her relevance.
I have noted that TxBluesMan is prepared to jump to extravagant conclusions from a singular, dubious datum, but at least he did publicly rescind his excess.
I like that TxBluesMan is prepared to dig for the actual details of the law, but I worry that essential principles seem at times to be secondary to his aims.
Maybe something like that happened with Marci, too.
Thanks HM!
A FIVE DAY WAIT, while Sarah had to struggle alone to protect the lifes of herself and that unborn child?
"... The governor's office was first informed there was a problem on April 1, when CPS and Texas Rangers said they were planning to raid the polygamist ranch in two days – on a Thursday. The impetus was a call from a 16-year-old pregnant girl – later determined to be a hoax – who reported PHYSICAL...ABUSE by her 49-year-old "spiritual husband."
Marci Hamilton Published Papers
The Professor Marci A. Hamilton Series is an index-page of 111 of Prof. Hamilton's papers. The papers themselves are on the FindLaw website.
This page is a fast & easy way to scan the titles that Ms. Hamilton has published.
Down on the 2nd page Google search returns for 'marci hamilton', there is a link to the index of the instances of the use of "Marci Hamilton" as a tag on the www.WordPress.com website (there are over 2 million blogs on this site).
On this tag-index, we see a couple dozen blog-entries listed, all of them from a single blog; "cupblog". This blog could be useful in providing a 'popular' view of Ms. Hamilton. A number of these entries relate to the FLDS case.
Though "cupblog" has a homey name, and is easy to read (with many threads of interest in the FLDS case), 'cup' turns out to stand for "Cambridge University Press".
IS TEXASBLUESMAN REALLY SHERIFF DORAN???????????????!!!!!!!!!!!
Excerpt from a previous post elsewhere:
I know the kind of people that FLDS are (good).
And I know the kind of people that Doran and TexasBluesMan are (bad).
In
fact, it just dawned on me, I
WONDER
if TexasBluesMan is DORAN?!
TexasBluesMan just posted on Brooke Adams blog last night on her
"Best News of the day" story that he is old, fat, balding and has kids and
grandkids.
I don't know about the kids and the grandkids, but old, fat and balding describes SHERIFF DORAN TO A TEE!
We need to trace TexasBluesman's IP address on all the boards he's been posting on...then if it's proven to be Doran, all of those posts need to be confiscated and collected into EVIDENCE!
El Dorado Courts where Walther and Doran operates out of is a CRIME SCENE!
OVERVIEW: I'm so excited, I thought that I had posted this a second time at Brooke's blog, when I'm still here at Grits. I've been figuring out all kinds of people on these boards who they really are, Philo on the Trib is Flora, Rubber Stamp on the Trib is Rick Ross, now TexasBluesMan who I've been calling a cop for two months because I can smell a cop from a mile away, he turns out to be SHERIFF DORAN! Here's the repost, and again, they DID delete my post from Brooke's blog in 5 minutes! I'm going to post it a second time here in a second...
OH MY GOD!
HE IS SHERIFF DAVID DORAN!
TEXASBLUESMAN IS SHERIFF DORAN!
I HAVE NEVER EVER HAD A POST DELETED FROM BROOKE ADAM'S BLOG AND WITHIN A FEW MINUTES OF ME POSTING THAT NOTE ABOUT TEXASBLUESMAN BEING SHERIFF DAVID DORAN THEY HAVE DELETED IT OFF THE BOARD!
I have the EMAILED COPY OF THE POST IN MY INBOX!
AND IT APPEARED ON THE BOARD FOR A FEW MINUTES!
BUT NOW IT IS NO LONGER ON THE BOARD!
DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS!
GRITS PEOPLE, THIS STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN!
WE'RE GONNA BREAK THIS THING WIDE OPEN YET!
NIFONG CITY!
I just posted it a SECOND TIME at Brooke's blog so if you see it only 1 time or 0 times (if they delete the second one too) you
KNOW IT'S HIM!
YOU ALREADY KNOW IT'S HIM BECAUSE THEY DELETED IT WITHIN 5 MINUTES OF ME POSTING IT!
Here's the link:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23675089&p
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8597101&postID=7610815419391490503&page=1
See the above. That's where they deleted the first post.
It'll be interesting to see if they leave the second one up there. As of a minute or two ago, the second one is still up there.
BOTH POSTS WERE PRETTY LONG.
The short one regarding the IP address, that ISN'T THE ONE that was deleted!
Here's the text of the one that got deleted! Compare it to my posts at the link above and you willl see IT IS NOT THERE ANY MORE! To wit:
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IS TEXASBLUEBALLS REALLY SHERIFF DORAN??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excerpt from a previous post:
MinT, from day 1 on the Trib board and from day 1 on the FACT board,
there were really only two guys (actually only 1 guy on the FACT
board, unless you include Dale, I'm not sure if I can recall how
vehment Dale was at the beginning; but you DEFINITELY can't include
this other guy I'm going to mention in a minute), it was
ONLY ME,
SKI THE ROCKIES (he was also DNAofEphraim, rebelcavmedic,
MadisonJefferson, JustSayNoToCensorship, etc)
who absolutely within HOURS OF THIS RAID
started SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER AND NON-STOP THAT THESE
BLANKERS
we're FREAKIN' LYING THRU THEIR FREAKIN' TEETH!
Skitherockies was a member of FACT for just a few days but then he
unsubscribed because while we agreed on the civil liberties thing, I
think his father being a Baptist preacher, other things I post around
here was a little tough on him.
But he and I (and maybe Dale too) WERE RIGHT FROM THE VERY BEGINNNG!
I SAID OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IF THEIR LIPS WERE MOVING THEY
WERE LYING and this was WAY BEFORE WE KNEW FOR SURE ABOUT THE
EYEBALLED AGES OF THE WOMEN, etc.
How did I know?
I just knew.
I know the kind of people that FLDS are.
And i know the kind of people that Doran and TexasBlueBalls are. In
fact, it just dawned on me, I
WONDER
if TexasBlueBalls is DORAN?!
TexasBlueBalls just posted on Brooke Adams blog last night on the
"Best News of the day" that he is old, fat, balding and his kids and
grandkids. I don't know about the kids and the grandkids, but old, fat
and balding describes DORAN TO A TEE!
I did just delete one post over at Brook's blog because I meant to only post it here. But that was just a minute or two ago.
LOOK AT THE TIME STAMPS. The post that they delete of mine was
TIME STAMPED at 3:22 pm CHICAGO TIME CST.
That's 2:22 pm MST TIME in SALT LAKE CITY WHERE THE SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE'S COMPUTERS ARE LOCATED!
Follow that short list of comments down and look at 2:22 pm. Do you see a post there from me at that time?
NO!
BUT IT WAS THERE! THEY DELETED IT!
And I've got the TIME STAMPED PROOF HERE IN MY INBOX and I just copied and pasted that TIME STAMPED PROOF from my INBOX to THIS BLOG in the previous post here on GRITS!
I have posted about 100 posts on Brooke's blog and they have NEVER DELETED A SINGLE ONE OF THEM and yet on the
SHERIFF TOPIC
on Brooke's blogs, I claim that TexasBluesMan is SHERIFF DAVID DORAN and in less than 5 minutes, POOF that post DISAPPEARS!
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT Flora Jessop moved to Texas to be the INFORMANT for SHERIFF DAVID DORAN!
Flora Jessop's BOYFRIEND in Texas is RANGER LONG who was the affiant in the search warrants to RAID THE YFZ RANCH!
I'm telling you that username Philo over on the Trib is FLORA JESSOP!
Flora has POLYGYNOUS FAMILY from both the FLDS AND CENTENNIAL PARK BREAKOFF POLYGYNOUS GROUP that post on the SLC Trib board!
Username Philo I'm telling ya is FLORA!
How much ya wanna bet that Philo-Flora told SHERIFF DAVID DORAN, hey, here's the link to the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE where I post with all of my FAMILY, some who I love and some who I hate, and come over here and argue the tough cop's side of this with me to help turn the tide of public opinion here in SLC and amongst the Mormons, etc.
Can I prove it? NO. But there's a STRONG, STRONG chance...
...I'm trying to figure out which one of them posting there might be TEXAS RANGER LONG! Flora's boyfriend and the guy who swore to the YFZ warrant!
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23675089&postID=6108305240231078323
Again, HERE IS THE POST THEY DELETED! It SHOULD be on that board and
stamped at 2:22 PM MST SALT LAKE CITY TIME an hour earlier than my
Chicago time of 3:22 pm CST. See, look at the TOP, it shows 3:22 pm
and that's the TIME STAMP that my Google email inbox put on it, then
look at the bottom, the bottom at 2:22 is the time stamp that the SLC
TRIB COMPUTER PUT ON IT! THEY DELETED IT! To wit:
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IS TEXASBLUEBALLS REALLY SHERIFF DORAN??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excerpt from a previous post:
MinT, from day 1 on the Trib board and from day 1 on the FACT board,
there were really only two guys (actually only 1 guy on the FACT
board, unless you include Dale, I'm not sure if I can recall how
vehment Dale was at the beginning; but you DEFINITELY can't include
this other guy I'm going to mention in a minute), it was
ONLY ME,
SKI THE ROCKIES (he was also DNAofEphraim, rebelcavmedic,
MadisonJefferson, JustSayNoToCensorship, etc)
who absolutely within HOURS OF THIS RAID
started SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER AND NON-STOP THAT THESE
BLANKERS
we're FREAKIN' LYING THRU THEIR FREAKIN' TEETH!
Skitherockies was a member of FACT for just a few days but then he
unsubscribed because while we agreed on the civil liberties thing, I
think his father being a Baptist preacher, other things I post around
here was a little tough on him.
But he and I (and maybe Dale too) WERE RIGHT FROM THE VERY BEGINNNG!
I SAID OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IF THEIR LIPS WERE MOVING THEY
WERE LYING and this was WAY BEFORE WE KNEW FOR SURE ABOUT THE
EYEBALLED AGES OF THE WOMEN, etc.
How did I know?
I just knew.
I know the kind of people that FLDS are.
And i know the kind of people that Doran and TexasBlueBalls are. In
fact, it just dawned on me, I
WONDER
if TexasBlueBalls is DORAN?!
TexasBlueBalls just posted on Brooke Adams blog last night on the
"Best News of the day" that he is old, fat, balding and his kids and
grandkids. I don't know about the kids and the grandkids, but old, fat
and balding describes DORAN TO A TEE!
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Look at this at Brooke's blog that I just linked, I didn't even KNOW about this post until JUST NOW...
...plus he's over on the Deseret News today doing damage control, there's an entire article at
http://www.deseretnews.com
But here's the post that TEXASBLUESMAN put on Brooke Adam's SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE POLYGAMY BEAT BLOG a few hours ago and I just NOTICED IT NOW, look at him GOING TO BAT for Sheriff David Doran:
At 9:40 AM, Blogger TxBluesMan said...
Regina,
Texans don't like felons.
People that commit the crime of Bigamy (Polygamy) are felons.
Even before the change in the law, Bigamy was still a crime.
If the FLDS wants to live here and obey our laws, then they are welcome. If not, they'll be prosecuted.
Sheriff Doran went further than many Texans would - he went out to visit them, he pointed out to them the law and that they were expected to abide by it, and he opened up discussions with them.
You need to remember several things.
They choose to commit felony Bigamy.
They choose to violate the laws on underage marriage.
They choose to have sex with underage girls.
I have absolutely no sympathy for them, no empathy for them, no pity.
They knew what our laws were and intentionally broke them, and they are now being held to account.
You don't like our laws. Fine, don't live here.
I don't personally believe Bluesman is Sheriff Doran, though anything's possible. His comments never struck me as made by someone with access to direct information. If true, it would be ridiculously over the top faux pas - it's really hard to imagine Doran, or anybody, could be THAT dense.
There's no way Texas Blues Man is Doran.
Have you read any of Doran's interviews? The man is really dimwitted. TBM is pigheaded, but that's not the same as dimwitted.=)
Seriously, TBM is far too articulate to be Doran, just as Philo on those message boards spells far too well to be Flora.
Search Google with 'txbluesman', and you will see that somebody using that handle has been playing the blogs & forums & boards for years.
The only suspicious aspect that I noticed about the TxBluesMan digital-trail, is that on the forums I looked into, though he had posted a large number of times, all the entries appeared to have been deleted. That's unusual. Normally, a blog or forum won't let a user delete the contributions you've made.
TxBluesMan may be an unusual character of some kind (that would apply to several of us.. ;-), and he may have used some kind of unusual pressure to get his posts deleted (he does have some legal knowledge..), but it doesn't seem likely to me that he'd be Sheriff Doran's alter ego (largely because because that would be a really serious indiscretion on Doran's part..).
Less'n we can trawl some of those old message-caches he left 'n catch him in a slip-up...
Look at TexasBluesMan make this THINKLY VEILED DEATH THREAT AGAINST ME over on the Brooke Adams SLC Tribune Polygamy blog at
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23675089&postID=6108305240231078323
Blogger TxBluesMan said...
Ah Regina, although some laws are selectively 'not' enforced, in Texas that does not include Bigamy. As I noted before, the state has continually prosecuted this crime, and fairly recently filed Bigamy charges against another polygamist sect, the House of Yahweh.
Why aren't you raising cane in support of them?
I know that you don't understand the concept of accountability, but we do in Texas. That's why we still execute people (you might look at Grits post on some people needing killing, even he can see that) and we still send people to prison for Bigamy.
I know you don't like it, but, that's life.
Doran can't remember what he said two sentences back.
He paints himself into a corner ALL THE TIME and can't see it. But never, or seldom, conclusive.
TBM is a master at sly, misleading posts, and wrong at every prediction so far.
It's hard to imagine Doran is any quicker hiding behind a keyboard.
Grits,
Blues/Sherff David Doran
IS THAT DENSE! To wit(read this article and CRY or LAUGH or BOTH):
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700231682,00.html
One of your most respected posters here, KBP, wrote this about Doran over on Brooke's blog just a few minutes ago:
Blogger kbp said...
Sheriff Forked Tongue
This idiot contradicts himself numerous times in this interview.
I've seen his remarks in 3 or 4 press reports and 2 interviews. He would be a stooge on the stand. Most any cross will paint him into a liar in any juror's mind.
I know you don't know me, Grits, but KBP knows me, and more importantly, YOU *know* KBP.
Grits, you've got the beginnings of a NIFONG STYLE BLOWUP here because look at THIS that JUST CAME OUT a few minutes ago:
http://www.deseretnews.com/home/1,5125,,00.html
Texas had secret plan to separate FLDS mothers and children, report says
Internal e-mails show that Texas officials made secret plans to haul hundreds of children and their mothers nearly 300 miles away to separate them, the Dallas Morning News reports.
This thing is going to BLOW UP IN TEXAS!
YOU CAN LEAD THE WAY GRITS! AS YOU ALWAYS DO!
This is a great blog you've got going her. I find it interesyting that so many people are trying to go after "Those damn plygs" yet nobody can make charges stick. I hope that they do file bigamy charges against the FLDS in Texas only because I know that it will be overturned and result in the legalization of polygamy.
-Dale-
Does it really matter who TxBluesMan is? He's not Doran and he's not evidence so... irrelevant.
I just read KBP's post.
So both KBP and I think that TexasBluesMan very well could be Sheriff Doran, if I'm understanding KBP correctly.
Some think that I'm the technical sleuth because I've owned software companies and been involved in internet businesses since the early 90s, but the truth is, as I've occasionally publicly posted, most of my technical expertise comes from the support personnel that I either hire or contract out.
The guy that talked about doing trawls or whatever on the Net is WAY BEYOND ME when it comes to technical stuff, most likely, and so I encourage the technical gurus here to see if they can't prove or at least provide strong evidence that TexasBluesMan isn't, in fact, Sheriff David Doran.
What I'm expert at is sensing SPIRIT.
The SPIRIT of TexasBluesMan is PRECISELY the same as Sheriff David Doran.
They're either the same person, or the reincarnation of each other, improperly lumped into the same time frame instead of different time frames, as reincarnations are supposed to work, if you believe in that doctrine.
Anonymous is probably TexasBluesMan/Sheriff David Doran himself...
John
I tell of TWO different people when I described TBM and Doran.
*****
On this or any case, exposure of violations by those holding positions of authority over the public is quick and easy, if you're talking about blogs and message boards.
The media has not pressured anyone for an explanation as to why it took five days to save Sarah, nor many other questions that should be asked..
That media tide is turning now. The Dallas News demanding emails is the start of where the media will go.
It looks like the AG's office is leaking information to Brooke in a desperate manner. And that's telling of possible convictions of a man in prison, not criminals on the loose. They are still looking a little short on WHO they saved all those children from.
The media did not turn in the Duke case for about 4-5 months, so I see better coverage in this case as early as it is. Walthers brought better attention to what all this case is about besides saving children.
Mike Nifong's first involvement in the Duke case was March 24, 2006. The bar did not file on him until after the December 15th hearing, at which the DNA data withheld was exposed. That's right at nine months later.
Two years later, not all known about the Duke case has been revealed. The civil complaints are just now in the process of hearings for summary judgment. It is not a fast process.
There are many facts known in this YFZ Ranch mess that point to a conspiracy, but many loose ends yet to be uncovered, nothing fully conclusive on it. It will not happen quickly, it never does.
It is also very difficult to get public figures that may be corrupt. They police themselves really.
It's not over yet, there is much yet to follow.
DHM, what makes you think that Sheriff David Doran is inarticulate?
He's a SHERIFF. Law enforcement personnel notoriously have lower IQs than other occupational averages, BUT, as you move UP, personnel wise, obviously, IQs *do* get higher.
I would estimate TexasBlueMan's IQ to be about 110.
That would mark him as having slightly higher than average intelligence.
Perfect to be the leader of cops who mostly have IQs between 85 and 105. Leadership studies indicate that people start to feel uncomfortable when their boss has an IQ *more* than 15 points higher than they do.
Smart enough to be able to write reasonably intelligible posts.
Dumb enough to mis-analyze the law at every turn.
Has a big enough EGO to call himself a GENIUS (with no hint of joking, DEAD SERIOUS) on Brooke Adam's SLC Tribune Polygamy beat blog just a few hours ago.
Politically savvy enough to know how to twist words just like any 'good' politician as KBP has been railing on for weeks and weeks about him publicly on boards.
Sleazy enough and evil enough to do exactly what we all know that he, Flora Jessop, Texas Ranger Long (Flora's boyfriend in Texas where Flora lives now), and people from Walther all the way to Texas Governor Perry all tried to do to these American citizens in violation of their Constitutional Rights as the ACLU SCOT brief so clearly and damnably outlined.
Oh yeah, plus he's now putting out THINLY VEILED DEATH THREATS against me...
I think they are one and the same.
Look at what the guy about 10 posts above said about him tracing TexasBlueMan's posts and finding an UNUSUALLY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF THEM DELETED (how he knows that I don't know, but as the writer of that post notes, it could be that he has the power as a law enforcement official to get things that turn out to be sensitive later deleted).
DHM, regarding Philo, everything that Philo writes about him or herself points to FLORA except the part where she claims to be a MAN (that's what she thinks is her cover). Philo even has a daughter of the exact same age as Flora.
How do I know? Philo posted it.
So what did I do? I know Flora's relatives. I called them up. I said does Flora have a daughter of that age? over my cell phone, they said she does.
What makes you think Flora can't spell well? That's a big assumption. I've seen current and ex-FLDS people with terrible grammar and spelling.
I've also seen them with excellent grammar and spelling.
Flora's been out for a long time. I believe that she probably makes personal education a tremendous priority
PHILO rants and raves about education in a way that only a person who was DEPRIVED OF IT (or felt she was deprived) would.
Philo is Flora.
Rubber Stamp is Rick Ross. Dale Kemp and I have been calling Rubber Stamp RUBBER RICK ROSS for days and he hasn't said a word of protest about it. I caught him when he said he has been doing 14 years of research on the FLDS. He posts with the kind of knowledge about polygynous groups and Warren Jeffs that only a Rick Ross would know/be concerned about to that degree.
And Texas Blues Man is Sheriff David Doran.
I believe the above very strongly.
I could be wrong.
But I believe I'm right.
And regarding TexasBluesMan, I have been calling him a COP for 2 months because I can smell a COP a mile away! I know he is a
COP
somewhere of some kind! KBP has watched me call him that for 2 months! It didn't occur to me until today that he was Sherrif David Doran. That happened when I went to the Deseret News article today and it showed a picture of his older, fat and balding himself.
And then it hit me...on last night's Brooke Adams SLC Tribune Polygamy Beat blog, TexasBluesMan described himself as older, fat and with an ever rising forehead (bald or balding).
Bingo.
And here's another strong piece of evidence. For 2 months I've been badgering him to stop 'playing attorney' and just admit that he's a cop and one of the reasons why I've claimed he's a cop is because HE DOESN'T HAVE A LICK OF HIS OWN IDENTITY POSTED AT HIS OWN BLOG! To wit:
http://coramnonjudice.blogspot.com/2008/05/judge-walther-walks-or-lawyer-tricks.html
Try to find TexasBlueMan's identity at that blog. IT CAN NOT BE FOUND BECAUSE IT DOES NOT EXIST!
Obviously, Sheriff David Doran wouldn't be able to run his own blog posting the kind of things that he's been posting and try to keep his job nor be considered an impartial law enforcement official by any stretch of the imagination. So he'd HAVE to hide his identity at any blog that he'd decide to put up.
I'm telling ya...it's one and the same guy. I'm going to go to Brooke's blog and copy and paste the post that he wrote about being old, fat and balding if he hasn't already deleted it.
OH WAIT! It doesn't MATTER if he deleted it because I'll have a time stamped copy of it in my email box because I'm pretty sure I participated in that thread!
I'll look for it right now while I'm still posting this note on Grits. Tick tock....
BINGO! Here it is, STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH:
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LOL @ Jack...
Smart and good looking was about Marci, not me...
I'm old, fat, with a higher and higher forehead every day...
Of course, I am a genius, so I shouldn't complain.... :o LOL
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Posted by TxBluesMan to The Plural Life (Brooke Adams) at 9:33 PM
John,
Find out what Sheriff Doran's birthday is, and I can tell you if it's a match for TxBluesMan.
By the way, since he's made thinly veiled DEATH THREATS against me which I've publicly posted for you here and which are in my inbox and which are also, unless he's deleted them, still on Brooke Adam's SLC Tribune Polygamy Beat blog, if I turn up
DEAD
any time soon, if my BLOG just stops cranking out the 80 posts a day that it averages, then
PLEASE INVESTIGATE THAT BASTARD
and prove him
GUILTY OF MY MURDER! :-(
Also, there is one other thing that I just remembered that also almost roves that he's Sheriff David Doran.
When I realized early on he was a COP BEFORE I ever went to his blog (and AFTER I went to his blog I discovered he's even got a link to a cartoon/funny drawing site that focuses on police-oriented cartoons/funny drawings), as I relentlessly called him a cop, he broke down and claimed he was NOT a cop, but that he was involved in labor law for cops.
BS.
That's Doran-ese (remember KBP's assertion that he is a master at twisting words like a politician)/TexasBluesman-ese for I'm a LABOR LEADER over cops.
That's what a Sheriff IS, he is a LABOR LEADER over underling cops.
I'm going to search my Google inbox to see if I can find where a post that is in my inbox from Brooke's blogs where he's admitted that...I've seen him admit that on the SLC Trib comments section and I'm almost certain that he's done it on Brooke's blog as well. Tick tock...searching now...
BINGO! THANK YOU SEARCHABLE GOOGLE GMAIL! To wit:
TxBluesMan to me
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TxBluesMan has left a new comment on the post "Stout gets tough":
JohnLester, as I have stated before, I am not a cop, but my clients are usually cops - or have you never heard of police labor law?
kbp,
See the article in the Deseret News, 2nd page. It was also originally in the SLC Trib article, but it was 'updated' to remove who requested that the record be sealed. It was the GAL for the minor girl in the photograph who requested that the record be sealed, not the State.
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Posted by TxBluesMan to The Plural Life (Brooke Adams) at 8:36 PM
And here's the link. The post is there now I believe. Wonder if he deletes it? To wit:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23675089&postID=8655819116554549492
Ted Clayton, search
TEXASBLUESMAN
as well because on some boards, like the Salt Lake City Tribune main articles/comments section he uses Texas fully spelled out instead of just
TX
like he does here on blogger.com
Ted, how do I know that you're not TexasBluesMan or a friend of his trying to throw us off the scent?
I don't trust anybody in an online environment like this unless I know them personally.
Post us a link here that shows TexasBluesMan's birthday.
For me, it'd need to be an OLD link where he couldn't go back and EDIT IT today now that he knows people are hot on his trail.
As far as getting Doran's birthday, I'll try. And others please try with me. But Ted Clayton, post us to the birthday information that you claim to have on TexasBluesMan. There's no reason why you would withhold that information. Even if you were Doran or a friend of his trying to protect him.
If you're not, please don't be offended.
I just don't know...
By the way, here's the link to Brooke's Blog where he wrote about himself being older, fat and balding:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23675089&postID=2279299462369162132
I think that it's way down near the bottom if he hasn't already deleted it.
THE TRUTH FINALLY EMERGES
Geat Scott - and we call this the land of the free and the home of
the brave? On my blog, I was about to write a post implying that that whole FLDS raid was a conspiracy ...mainly involving one state legislator (Harvey Hildebran),local officials (Sheriff David Doran)and a judge(Walther) - in whose court they had their assurance would set aside her integrity and simply make
rulings from the bench consistent with the goals of that conspitacy ...to run FLDS out of the state of Texas (and egreiously violating the civil rights of that religious group in the process)
But, thanks to the fine investigative reporting efforts of the Dallas Morning News we now have hard evidence that it was indeed a conspiracy, but on a massive state wide scale...going all the way up to the governor's office (and showing his complicity in that conspiracy). It has been reported that these same players are now trying to contrive criminal charges
against some of the members of FLDS.
Well, lets put the shoe on the other foot. My advice to FLDS
is not to lay back again and simply be grateful for getting the
children back.If you truly want to be left alone you must stand up for your rights by going on the offense. Get a recognized civil rights attorney and file a civil rights suit in the federal court for actual and punitive damages (including injunctive relief against state and local officials from further interference in
your religious freedoms), I think you can win a large monetary award against those weasels for their conpiracy to violate your civil rights.
But even more important, file a civil rights complaint with the US Justice department against all those conspirators that knowingly,
wilfullly and intentionally set out to violate your civil rights. Its time to start putting these weasels in jail...and to deter others who,
in the future, would attempt to use their official capacities to
violate the constitutional rights of individuals or groups. Lets
hope the national media will finally start reporting this outrage.
UP THE CONSTITUION, DOWN THE BRIGANDS
www.truetells.blogspot.com
Please excuse my post from above. I'm not an idiot, Just a sloppy typer. ;)
The other day rubber boots aka Rick Ros did try to play dumb with me saying "who is this Rick you keep referring to?" Yet he kept answering each and every post directed towards Rick. He is Rick Ross in my book. I haven't had much to do with philo but I have read his/her posts. I don't doubt that this is Flora in disguise. As for Texas Blues Man...I'm not sure but it is possible...
Here's more correspondence between myself and Bluesy. I still say it was a THINLY VEILED DEATH THREAT because even though BELOW you'll see him try to explain away the death threat AT THE TIME that I posted the FIRST ACCUSATION of him being Doran over on Brooke's blog he
KNEW
about my FIRST POST ACCUSING HIM of being DORAN because it was DELETED IN A FRICKIN' 5 MINUTES as I've already proven above! That post that was deleted was posted by me at 2:22 pm MST (3:22 pm CST my tme in Chicago) the same time that woman kine posted her 2:22 pm MST post and within 5 minutes that post was GONE! I saw it on the board, I have a copy in my inbox, and now it is GONE! I believe he immediately alerted Brooke or someone at the Trib that knows WHO HE IS and they deleted it! Then they didn't delete any more because they know how determined I am, they knew it would be use and Bluesy anyways knew that he wouldn't be able to get GRITS to delete it. More below on what I've been talking about above:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=23675089&postID=6108305240231078323
TxBluesMan said...
JohnLester,
I normally don't respond to your comments because you are obviously in need of serious help. Normally I don't even read them, but since the last post stays open when you collapse the comments, I didn't have a choice this time.
I am responding this time because of the slanderous statement that you just made. The post of mine that you are apparently referring to referenced an article posted by Grits titled "Privatize the death penalty? Victims who 'need killin', or why probation for murder may not always be such a bad idea". Grits commented on this post yesterday at 4:57 PM, stating: "I've never disputed the premise that there are people in the world who need killin'" with a link to the post in question.
My post was an attempt to explain to Regina why we do thing the way in a certain way in Texas, and that is clear if you look at the context of both the message and the entire thread. (Regina, sorry to drag you into this, I know you and I disagree, but at least you're still sane)
How you get to "a thinly veiled death threat" from that is beyond me, but you clearly need some help for your paranoia. I could care less about you, and although annoying, you and your posts don't bring anything to the discussion, so you really don't matter. As we say in Texas, you wouldn't be worth the cost of a bullet (which means that you're not worth the effort, not another 'threat.'
I have explained before that I don't post under my name for personal reasons. You can read anything into it that you like, but that's not going to change.
6:13 PM
Blogger JohnLester said...
Blues, it's not SLANDEROUS because you have
NO ONLINE IDENTITY ANYWHERE in
YEARS OF PUBLIC POSTING.
You can't slander ANONYMOUS ELECTRONS.
And that's what you are blues...ANONYMOUS ELECTRONS...just the same way that a WEST TEXAS SHERRIFF would need to be if he wanted to post OPINIONATED STUFF ONLINE about Texas law and Texas politics.
Guess what dude? We've got your BIRTHDAY already.
TexasBluesMan's birthday. If it matches the birthday of Sheriff David Doran, you're in deep doo doo says 364/365 odds.
6:21 PM
Wouldn't it be libel rather than slander anyway?
http://www.google.com/search?q=txbluesman&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNFA,RNFA:1970--2,RNFA:en
Ted Clayton, is THAT the link above where you get, near the top, the birthday of
January 1st, 1965?
Ya know, I don't always put my correct birthday in to sites. I don't like places having my correct info for identity theft fears.
January 1st seems like a possibly contrived date.
I was born in July, and sometimes *I* use January 1st when I choose my birthday.
Nevertheless, let's try to find Doran's birthday, but let's try to work with more than just his birthday, UNLESS Doran's just happens to come back as January 1st, 1965.
Wouldn't that be sweet? ;)
Good article covering a few topics.
CPS open's it's mouth!
"While the Texas Rangers and state attorney general's office pursue possible criminal charges against certain men in the sect, CPS says it needs the test results to establish family relationships.
"That's a piece of the puzzle we don't have, to figure out who we're going to be working with," Ms. Pulliam said. "
Tell us again WHY you needed DNA testing: "forged records!" ;)>
Media CYA
""The governor is concerned that the legal process by which the children were removed from their home is overshadowing the sexual abuse allegations at hand," said Perry's deputy press secretary, Allison Castle.
"He is very troubled that the children, especially those most at risk for abuse in this case – young girls – are being sent back to the very compound that is riddled with uncertainty, potential for harm and remains at the center of a very serious criminal investigation," Ms. Castle said. "
It sounds to me like they're absent evidence needed to prove those problems unless they send a couple young girls to live with a specific prisoner. At least not unless they find the one they claim is suspected of something illegal with Warren Jeff's 16 YO daughter is living there in hiding.
Of course, if the GUV throws it out there, it's an important message (or diversion)
The Mystery
" Ms. Malonis [Attorney for Warrne's daughter] said CPS and law enforcement had evidence that the girl was sexually abused, though they don't believe she's ever been pregnant."
What can that "evidence" be other than testimony from that girl?
OH MY! He's even got posters at his site with the FIRST NAME of DORAN!
Doran is an almost NON-existent first name of a male so what are the ODDS of THAT HAPPENING! I say that it's Blues/Sheriff David Doran getting so LITTLE TRAFFIC/INTEREST at his cheesy, legally inaccurate blog that he MADE UP Doran Williams and used his own FREAKIN' LAST NAME to boot as this guy's FIRST NAME! Here's the link to Doran Williams, wonder if he deletes THAT one too, and, OH BY THE WAY, even if it's not him posting to himself with a made up name, it could be someone like Sheriff David Doran's sister's kid that decided to put her MAIDEN NAME of Doran in place of her boy's FIRST NAME:
http://coramnonjudice.blogspot.com/2008/05/utaz-attorney-generals-gives-felons.html
Just in case he does delete it, I'm going to copy and paste it. I've already saved the entire web page to my hard drive:
5 comments:
doran williams said...
Tx, over at Grits for Breakfast, you extended the following invite:
"I'll even invite you and Fred to visit my blog, Carom Non Judice to see what the 'right' side of the issues are."
I take it you used the word 'right' rather than correct, to indicate a politically right, as in right of center, view of things. Tell us, what makes your opinions a 'right' view on legal issues as compared with those of someone like Paul Craig Roberts, or Ron Paul, or Eugene Volokh? Have you any underlying, comprehensive philosophy to guide you?
May 10, 2008 9:06 AM
TxBluesMan said...
Doran,
I used 'right' as marked intentionally, for the reasons you noted.
There is room for all types of opinions, 'right,' 'left,' 'center,' or however one wants to describe it.
My political philosophy is not easy to pigeonhole, although I tend to come down on the conservative side of the fence more often than not.
I tend to vote Republican, but voted for Ron Kirk for Senate and currently support Rick Noriega. I disagree with a number of their positions, but I know both of them and they are both honorable men with good character. I support them due to that reason rather than their political positions in some areas.
I believe that the best government is a limited government. I tend to support a law and order approach, believing that a vast majority of officers and prosecutors are honorable people. I think that officers get the short end of the stick, with media and special interest groups taking more and more shots at them, without them having adequate protection.
I don't care what someone believes, but what they do, their actions, and if those actions are criminal violations, they should be held accountable for those violations.
I tend to be a strict constructionist. I believe that the 9th Circuit, had Newdow had standing, ruled correctly on the pledge case.
I believe that if you allow opening pray for government meetings and there is not an appointed chaplain but a rotational list, then you have to allow ALL faiths to participate, including Hindu, Jews, pagans, etc. I don't believe that free exercise means the ability to perform acts that are forbidden to the general public.
I believe that the Second Amendment is an individual right and any limitations must survive strict scrutiny.
I believe that eminent domain to benefit private parties is wrong.
I don't believe that the death penalty is constitutionally prohibited, and it takes too long to carry out the sentence.
I don't believe in abortion, but I don't think that it is the governments place to regulate it.
I believe in a strong national defense, but the militia is the backbone of that system. I think that the Air Force and Marines do a much better job of integrating the Guard and Reserves than the Army, which has a long and undistinguished history of mishandling/mistreatment of these citizen-soldiers.
I believe that the tax system is messed up, and that giving away benefits is counter-productive to getting people out of poverty.
I believe in unions, and feel that the best way to secure worker rights is to require employers, including government, to fairly negotiate contracts, whether it be binding collective bargaining or meet and confer.
Each of the individuals you mentioned have both good points and points I disagree with.
I guess that is a start - let me know what other positions interest you and I'll opine on them.
Oh, I believe that I am extremely good looking and a genius - you should just agree with everything I say and it'll be fine....LOL
May 10, 2008 10:38 AM
doran williams said...
Damn! Except for the final paragraph, which is clearly a blatant, self-serving falsehood, I can find little to disagree with you about. The only inconsistency I find in your explanation is that between being in favor of both limited government and a law and order approach.
Thanks for the response.
May 10, 2008 11:35 AM
TxBluesMan said...
I also think that we have too many laws, and that some need to go away. I wouldn't even have a problem with polygamy being legalized.
Until a law is repealed, we need to enforce it. I see it like training my dog. If I tell her to do something, and she doesn't do it, I need to make her do it or have some form of consequence. If I'm too lazy to do so, then it is my fault that she became useless for hunting, or retrieving, or whatever.
It is the same thing with society. If there is not a consequence, some people will become useless.
May 10, 2008 1:51 PM
kbp said...
"I wouldn't even have a problem with polygamy being legalized."
I've sensed that Utah wants that, just do not want to lead the way there for obvious reasons. Just IMO of course!
Numerous times I've read both AG's, especially Shurtleff, question the strength of the law.
It mught be a good move to not waste their state's money finding out.
Let Texas do it!!
;)
May 12, 2008 12:04 AM
JohnLester,
TxBluesMan birthday. See lower-left corner.
Aren't they using photographs for evidence? Maybe that's all they've got. A picture of her with someone.
Truetells
Just awhile back i was searching for connections that might tie McCown or others to any of the Justices on the SCOT. After finding all the Committees, Commissions and other groups many of the same people are on, and suckin' the guv's tit there, I actually said to myself:
DAMN, is everybody crooked in Texas?
I do not think there was a big master plan for a conspiracy that involved everybody, but it's looking like those that were not involved in stretching all the laws, to get where they are in this mess, have certainly been enablers for those that are.
Thanks Grits.
Thanks Headmistress, I think. LOL (pigheaded is one of the more complimentary terms that have been used...) ;)
Ted, you may want to be careful on your Google Search, as was noted on one of the other boards, there are several of us with the handle TxBluesman - all but one of them isn't me... Plus, the birthdates that are listed on those other persons are all different, and not mine.
Kathy
I doubt they have any pictures that would be needed to prove sexual abuse!
Right now what we need to know is:
was Sheriff David Doran born on January 1, 1965. If he wasn't that still doesn't clear Blues because Blues/Doran might have just picked that date out of the blue and it's not his real birthdate.
The other question is, does he have a relative with the last name of WILLIAMS or a relative with the first name of DORAN.
TxBluesMan 08:02 -
You see my real name on every post I make. You want to defuse curiosity about yourself, it would be easy enough to do.
The "Texas BluesMan" moniker has overwhelmingly been associated with African-American Texas musicians. Throughout 'modern times'.
Like I said at the top, I would be very surprised if Sheriff Doran was using an on-line alter-ego (or several), but it's of course not impossible, and there is no harm in investigating.
Bluesman,
I'm sorry to join this 'off-topic' stuff...but I just can't leave this one alone.....
I have no doubt that your dog is a crappy hunter/retriever/whateverer...
Any good trainer/handler KNOWS you reward a dog for doing what is expected....you NEVER have negative consequences in good training.....
And, by the way, my last foxhound was number 1 hound in the country for a while back in 2005-6.....
Your dog trainig skills are about as good as your skills as a prognosticator.......
Sheriff David DORAN.
DORAN Williams posting at TexasBluesman blog as I just linked and proved.
You think that's a coincidence?
Not.
I've got this sucker nailed. I'm 99.99% sure of it.
If I'm wrong, it will be the FIRST THING (and/or substantive thing) I've been wrong about having anything to do with this FLDS RAID.
And that's a matter of public record as Dale Kemp and KBP will likely attest.
I'll explain later why I'm posting this...
http://blogs.sltrib.com/plurallife/2008/04/cps-rejected-experts-help.htm
Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran said he relied heavily on an unnamed confidential informant who is an ex-member of the sect, but has refused to divulge that person's name. It could be Carolyn. It could be Flora Jessop, who first came to Texas in 2004 to educate Doran and others about his county's new residents. Flora also took calls -- and brought them to Texas Rangers' attention -- from a mentally unstable woman in Colorado Springs who has been tied to the calls that appear to have triggered the Texas raid.
John
Doran Williams never agreed w/TBM that I know of. IIRC, quite the opposite.
I should add. Doran Williams posted quite a few comments here, before TBM started the blog.
I'm not coming to any conclusions, but I lean heavily to towards TBM and the sheriff being different people.
LOL, sorry Ted - that's not me...
In addition to that one (43, unknown city), there is one in Royce City (44, with a pic), one in Dallas (unknown age), one on xanga (no info), one in Amarillo (no info), a musician (with videos), one in Kyle (50, white, with photos), and one in Douglasville (31, white, pic).
Sorry, but I can't be all of them...
kbp,
I think you have Doran Williams, an Austin area lawyer, and Sheriff Doran confused. Gems thinks I am the later, not the former.
And I think Doran W. and agreed once, but we realized what we were doing and quickly got back on opposite sides....
Look here on a post that was done on April 24th on Grits where TexasBluesMan uses the phrase "out business" and then uses the word "outsiders" implying that he is an INSIDER. Taken alone, this wouldn't be enough, but added to ALL THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED ABOVE, it adds EVEN MORE WEIGHT. To wit:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8597101&postID=2135308377116348916&page=1
Blogger TxBluesMan said...
Grits, the site you mention has the 1st affidavit posted - it is not sealed (but you may have already realized that by now). It is the one labeled as No. M-08-001-S.
As regards to your other statement - I don't believe that my earlier post said anything about you, or anyone else, being an idiot. I normally don't pay much attention to reporters - as I tell my brother, an asst editor in the newspaper business, they rarely get things right.
I stated that you did not understand the case law involved, nor the legal principles.
As to corroboration?
The anonymous caller said she was 'married' at age 15 to a man named Dale Barlow and that she had a baby with him. Ranger Long confirmed that Dale Barlow had previously been convicted for a sexual conduct with a minor.
The anonymous caller had said that Dale Barlow was 49. Ranger Long confirmed that Dale Barlow's birthdate was 11/05/1957 and that he was 49.
The anonymous caller said that she had been medically treated at the ranch. Ranger Long confirmed that a Lloyd Barlow, MD, provided a clinic at the ranch.
The anonymous caller stated that she could not get out, that the ranch was guarded. Ranger Long observed two sets of fences and a guard house.
The anonymous caller stated that her maiden name was Jessop. Ranger Long confirmed that the man in charge of the ranch was Frederick Jessop.
As a legal standard, it is what is known at the time the warrant was issued that matters. Whether Sarah existed or not is irrelevant and immaterial so long as the information was corroborated and provided probable cause.
I have called some people idiots, well because they are. The ones that have argued on other boards that God wants us all to marry 13 year olds and that this supersedes state law (along with his posts on how the U.S. was founded by pedophiles).
I have not called you an idiot, nor have I implied that you were.
I do not expect everyone to agree with me, and I have little patience for outsiders telling us how to conduct our business, but I am, despite your assertion to the contrary, capable of civil discourse.
Good day, sir.
4/24/2008 12:43:00 PM
kpb
I thought they were claiming that the picture of Jeffs kissing a young girl was evidence of sexual abuse.
KBP, there's two VERY easy explanations for that...
...first off, if I was going to create a fake persona at my online blog, to create the appearance of interest in it, I'd be
MORE LIKELY TO CREATE A PERSONA
that
DISAGREES WITH ME THAN AGREES WITH
me because it is healthy debate that drives TRAFFIC to blogs!
If we all agreed here on Grits, if we all sang from the same sheet of music, how interesting would that be and how FAST would the traffic and posters here at Grits dry up?
Secondly, have you not EVER heard of a nephew disagreeing with his Uncle?
Then compare the ABOVE with the ODDS of the EXTREMELY RARE first name of DORAN just
HAPPENING
to be the first name of a poster at TexasBluesman's/Sheriff David Doran's blog?
The ODDS are ASTRONOMICAL.
When you add that in to ALL OF THE OTHER STUFF THAT I HAVE LISTED ABOVE...
...I think it's virtually a SLAM DUNK!
And I'm still SEARCHING for MORE!
But REPORTERS should JUMP ALL OVER THIS because it has GOT TO BE AGANST THE LAW for a
PUBLICLY ELECTED SHERIFF THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PRESUME INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
to be over every board in creation practically calling the FLDS felons and every other name running them down in the book!
NIFONG DIDN'T EVEN DO THAT! online, as far as I know...
...maybe we'll eventually find Judge Judy's handle as well? One guy on the Trib thinks she's SophLady but I'm not convinced of that...he doesn't have a WAD of EVIDENCE (at least far as I know of) like I have produced in all of these posts above.
In fact, later, I'm going to take just the pertinent part of the posts above and then in bullet points line then up one one by one When you see them in a small post, just bullet pointed and summarized, mostly using his own words even, it's devastating.
Blues, if you manage to knock down just 1 part of the evidence there's too many other parts that still point to you...all listed above.
People can post here under Anonymous, different handles, all kinds of stuff using blogger, we all know that by simply looking at the different ways we can choose to post before we post.
I have no doubt that you're here right now doing everything you possibly can to turn people off your scent...
...and how do we know that Doran Williams, even if he is an attorney in Austin, isn't the hypothetical nephew of Sheriff David Doran as I've recently speculated?
Even if you provided an identity FINALLY at your blog, it wouldn't be good enough.
You might fake the identity. We're gonna keep digging...and I'm sure that there are bloggers and reporters galore that read Grits and this thread and my blog as well and this is going to SPREAD and if you ARE Doran you
WILL
be found out now. You can't put the genie back into the bottle once it hits the
POWERFUL BLOGOSPHERE! ;)
ChooseLaw listing for Doran Williams, Texas attorney.
TxBluesman, it was a compliment- backhanded, I admit, but I'm pigheaded, too.
There's just no way I can believe the two are the same. TBM writes well. He uses proper grammar and syntax. He's often stunningly wrong, but he doesn't contradict himself in the same paragraph. He is not stupid. Sheriff D. comes across as several french fries short of a Happy Meal, and slightly underdone at that.
Here's some excerpts from Sheriff D's interview at the Deseret News that illustrate what I'm talking about [My snark in brackets. I restrained myself]:
"Where there is crimes that are being committed, and outcries being made
The ones that are being returned, that was Child Protective Services' goal from the get-go is to find out who were the victims
not all of the children that were requested to be brought forward was brought forward to Child Protective Services.
I didn't cultivate this relationship over four years for this plan to unfold the way I did. I'm not the mastermind behind it, we were simply cooperating with Child Protective Services. It's in our lap. [frankly, I think if TBM was the mastermind, he'd have no trouble admitting it]
The second search warrant was by the Texas Rangers based on evidence that was located on the property during the initial assistance with Child Protective Services. That's when further evidence of crimes were seen in plain sight by law enforcement.[the man sounds like a caricature of Barney Fife]
That is very incorrect information. That is information that's being put out there that is not accurate.
Upon initially approaching the gate with the Rangers, a phone call was made by the FLDS at the gate and they produced their phone to me
[this next one is my favorite, and I think it clinches the argument that TBM and this idgit are not the same person. TBM just couldn't talk like this]:
A dialogue was made between myself and this gentleman that proclaimed to be Dale Evans Barlow. That still left in question, the victim Sarah.
"A dialogue was made?" Shudder.
even for the fact that we were on the property and still looking for the victim
confidential informant is plural. This is a person, or persons, that I have relied on the last four years to educate me on this group. A person that, if something came up, I can call this person, run it by 'em and they're going to be in the know of what this means
This confidential informant did not lead up to this raid. This confidential informant had no part of that. During the search warrants, this person — persons, actually — was called upon to clarify some things, evidences that were uncovered and bring in some of the FLDS teachings that would match these particular evidences that were uncovered.
[This is my second favorite]:
If there was no problem, there wouldn't be a lot of victims coming away from that culture doing outcries.
[Doing outcries? It sounds like some kind of freaky ritual]
The second search warrant was produced because there was obvious evidence in plain sight of crimes, that's acting on the second scope of the search."
---------------------------------
TBM just doesn't communicate that poorly.
IF that's the same Doran Williams posting at Blues blog, he could very easily be the nephew of which I hypothetically spoke about, disagreeing with his Sheriff Uncle.
Or he could be another family relation of Sheriff David DORAN.
And even if none of my speculaton about DORAN Williams is correct and doesn't tie into TexasBluesMan, I thought that Blues was Doran earlier today LONG before I googled Doran Williams as being on Blue's blog about an hour ago.
Everything above I've posted powerfully points to Blues being Doran even without Doran Williams.
And I'm still digging...others no doubt are too...
One last point. When TBM refers to himself as not an outsider, he's not talking about being on the inside of the investigation- he's talking about being a proud Texan who hates non-Texans telling Texas what to do.
That is a typically Texan attitude.
DHM,
that was *very* unpersuasive on its own face, but even moreso when you include all that I've already provided.
TBM is reasonably articulate but oftentimes paints himself in a corner and/or contradicts himself later with things that he said earlier.
Doran is reasonably articulate but oftentimes paints himself in a corner and/or contradicts himself later with things that he said earlier.
I really see little difference in the writing quality/style between Doran and TBM.
And remember, in that interview, Doran was probably
TALKING OFF THE CUFF
and the reporter was probably tape recording him.
Whereas here in the online environment, a guy like Doran can work really hard on his posts and sound about 10 extra IQ points than what he actually is.
So if Doran comes off on TV or in a taped interview as having an IQ of about 95, don't be surprised when, here on a blog, when he has plenty of time to look at what he writes, put it in a spell checker, etc. that he comes off sounding like he has an IQ of about 110, which is where I'd personally peg TBM based on the quality of his postings (slightly above average, even after all that spell checking, etc)/
What really reveals that it's Doran actually posting, is that what he posts on a sentence by sentence basis sounds good sometimes when he's citing law cases, but the whole taken together most of the time is ludicrous.
Which is why he's been wrong time and time again which is why he's NOT an attorney specializing in labor law for cops as I proved above with a link where he claims to be such a cop law labor attorney
Police law labor attorney is online-I-got-to-protect-my-Sheriff-identity
DORAN-speak
for I'm the head of a police labor force aka as a Sheriff and my hobby on the side like a lot of Sheriffs is to pretend I'm a big shot attorney.
After all, I quote him above and link himself calling himself a genius.
You think he's a genius? I am a card carry member of MENSA, got a perfect 800 on the quant portion of my GRE, and qualify for at least two high IQ societies above MENSA, and let me tell ya, Blues is no genius. Not even close.
I think he's ten to fifteen IQ points above Doran and I guy like Doran, if he's careful and he uses a spell checker, could stretch himself up to the still fairly low level of TexasBluesMan.
TBM
I did not get confused. John brought Doran Williams up. Read back up in the comments here if needed.
OFCOL, how juvenile can a grown man get?! (And I'm assuming a lot, here, I know...)
I really think that the real Sheriff Doran has been just a WEE BIT BUSY the last two months, don't you? He wouldn't have time to flit around the blogosphere being a TxCPS apologist.
Good grief!
DHM, you're pointing out the obvious. That was so obvious, I didn't even bother to mention it.
OF COURSE, that's a possible explanation.
By itself.
But when you add in all of this EXTRA context that I'm supplying, the above interpretation, while possible, dimishes in probability.
Why don't you JUST FOR A MOMENT
do a 180 like a
GOOD SCIENTIST
and accept my hypothesis for a moment and do ONLINE RESEARCH WITH ME searching for evidence to support the hypothesis.
You could start by googling things like
TxBluesMan David Doran
etc.
JohnLester 09:16 -
And I'm still digging...others no doubt are too...
Actually, I would not be surprised if you do find gold in them-thar hills ... but it may not be exactly where or in the form first expected.
Whatever we do & practice with intent & concentration - we become better at.
I think the FLDS raid is one of the rankest, most suspicious operations I've seen in a good while (and I've been observing for a good while..). Please, do keep digging!
Wrong! He's a SHERIFF! He's in management! He has plenty of spots in time here and there to post online.
He can even do it right from his office.
His door is probably shut most of the time.
And TexasBluesMan is NOT online all the time by any stretch of the imagination.
I've seen him NOT BE on the Trib boards for days and days and days at a time.
I'm sure that he's not on Grits all of the time.
I post all of the time everywhere.
But TBM doesn't.
Not at all.
And you're possibly Blues too, anyways. It's easy to post on blogger.com using multiple accounts.
All you have to do is just click on Name/URL.
See, this is John Lester actually posting.
All I did was click Name/URL instead and now I'm SuzieQ
Now this is John Lester posting under
IAMGOINGTOEXPOSEYOUDORAN.
that was *very* unpersuasive on its own face, but even moreso when you include all that I've already provided.
Um, I hate to tell you, but all you've already provided was pretty much wild surmises and disconnected speculations hardly worth my time. I mainly engaged because I was already planning a post of Sheriff Doranisms. If you really can't see the differences in the way the two express themselves, then you really aren't a very credible judge. It's glaringly obvious that TBM has pretty good communication skills and the Sheriff has some pretty smooth, teflon like areas of his brain where grammar never stuck.
Because Doran's first name is the same as the Sheriff's last name they must be related? There's a kid in my town that spends a lot of time at our house named Doran, maybe he's related, too.
And that spirit you're sensing? Are you sure it didn't come out of a bottle?
I just don't see any evidence that they're the same, and I see plenty of indications they are not, and I see every indication that you're making bricks with no straw and precious little water.
This is a very silly discussion, and I've said all I have to say on it.
Blogger kbp said...
I should add. Doran Williams posted quite a few comments here, before TBM started the blog.
I'm not coming to any conclusions, but I lean heavily to towards TBM and the sheriff being different people.
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KBP, Doran Williams could be anoher one of TBM's chosen online personas. And he may have posted under this persona before using TBM here.
OR...it could be the nephew theory, and his NEPHEW was posting here first
Maybe the nephew eventually told his Uncle about Grits.
Or it could be another explanaton that hasn't been thought of...
...or I could be wrong about this ONE SMALL PART OF THE CASE that still leaves the rest of it, most coming from Blue's own mouth, as I've linked, making it extremely likely that he's Sheriff Doran.
Basically outsiders means all non-Texans.
It's fairly clear from other posts, where I've quoted Kinky Friedman...
Since Sheriff Doran has, as noted, been pretty busy & tied up & in unusual contact with lots of other officials much of the time for the last couple months, it does follow that crediting him with additional instances of cloaked online personas, only makes the difficulty all the greater.
For Doran to be sustaining ... this exchange right now ... in the guise of TxBluesMan ... obviously raises the question ... where is the real Sheriff Doran, right now, and what is he doing?
Has he in a position to participate in the blog-thread for the last few hours? How about other occasions when TxBluesMan has been active online? What was Doran doing during those times?
If we assume that several online figures are all Doran, we can obviously check to see if they were at times simultaneously active. For Doran to pull off simultaneous alter-egos on multiple blogs, he too would have to be a red-hot MENSA, and a 150 WPM typist with extremely exceptional computer-skills.
I might be getting closer with this nephew theory.
http://www.google.com/search?q=doran+williams+sheriff+david+doran&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNFA,RNFA:1970--2,RNFA:en
As you can see above, there is a Schleicher County District Clerk Peggy Williams
and
Steve Williams an Eldorado cotton farmer.
I wonder if any of these two are related to Sheriff Doran or Doran Williams?
This may be a dry hole or it may be a gusher.
clayton, I do believe that you are possibly bluesy.
How else would you know about my typing skills. Bluesy has seen me post about that but I've never seen you around when I have ever posted that on the only two or three occasions that I have.
The fact that you're staying up late trying to refute this tells me a lot, blues.
Hell, if it were me, and I wasn't Doran, I'd laugh and just go to bed.
You've been here for about 3 or 4 hours now and have posted about 10 posts UNDER YOUR NAME (how many more under pseudonyms only you and God know).
That's exactly what a worried Sheriff Doran would do.
A non-worried TexasBluesman who knew he wasn't Doran, would have laughed and left 3 or 4 hours ago after maybe 1 or 2 posts.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/041308dntexcps.40a235d.html
Stretched thin
The Schleicher County Courthouse, centered in the two-stoplight town of Eldorado, has three employees. Last week, they worked with giant stacks of records – and two typewriters – to file the child custody cases into their system, before getting help from neighboring Tom Green County.
"You see my staff," said Peggy Williams, the county clerk. "We've had more cases filed here in a week than we've seen in a whole year."
>>>Doran Williams is posting on TexasBlueMans site. They disagree. Maybe they're relatives. Relatives fight and disagree with one another all the time. Maybe Doran Williams KNOWS TexasBluesMan is his Uncle, but, even though he disagrees with him on a lot of things, still doesn't go so far as outing his Uncle the Sheriff.
In such a small place, that County, with only 2800 people in it, and El Dorado, just one small city in that entire county, what are the odds that maybe the County's District Clerk Peggy Williams and the County's Sheriff David Doran are related?
This much we know for sure. County District Clerk Peggy Williams and County Sheriff David Doran
WORK IN THE EXACT SAME BUILDING.
It's probably an extremely small building.
I bet their offices are between 100 to 300 feet of each other, tops.
Sheriff Doran's tell all session!
THE SHERIFF'S VICTIM
"I did not have the power to step in and stop this," Doran said. "The state of Texas had an investigation. They had a call, an outcry of a child they had to investigate and we are there to support that type of investigation. Where there is crimes that are being committed, and outcries being made, we're going to go in and investigate it...
We were searching for a victim on the property. She has not been located yet...
So we still had to go forward like there was a victim..."
And from the reporter: "Even today, Doran remains unsure if Sarah really exists or is a hoax... "
"Even today..." We can expect him to TRY for excuses why they went in, but they've carried that BS 'she might be...' too far! Somebody from the underwriter must have given that directive: "KEEP SARAH ALIVE UNTIL AFTER THE CIVIL COMPLAINT IS SETTLED". We may hear about the Sarah search continuing for a few years!
"[asked] Do you believe the call was a hoax?
Doran: Hard to say. We uncovered a Sarah Barlow that matched that description, and based on their fear of talking to law enforcement, who's to say? "
Was that Sarah Barlow Johnson, 83 YO, or another Sarah that had forged identification papers showing another name, which could not be trusted?
What did they know when?
Deseret News: ...sheriffs from numerous counties, an armored personnel carrier, snipers.... You can't just call all those resources in overnight.
Doran: Yeah, you can. When the call came in, the plan was formulated immediately how to logistically go in there and do it...
"When the call came in..." So we know the plan was being put together FIVE DAYS before the actual raid to save Sarah started. We know Long did not talk to the shelter worker to get the details (physical abuse) needed for the affidavit until FOUR DAYS LATER. We know news reporters will not seek a credible explanation for that delay, YET.
PERMITTED RE-CLASSIFICATION NOW?
"So it was requested to do a residential to residential search."
At the "single household"?
'I DIDN'T DO IT!!'
"I'm not the mastermind behind it, we were simply cooperating with Child Protective Services... I did not bring this on them. The call came in to assist Child Protective Services."
Shift the blame! Wait, what about the arrest warrant? Oh yeah, that's the the Rangers. Wasn't Sheriff Doran's fault, he just carried out the Judge's warrant and maybe the water bucket.
CAUGHT 'EM RED HANDED
"That's when further evidence of crimes were seen in plain sight by law enforcement... We're talking about teenage girls, underage girls that were pregnant or had children. That's when that whole thing started surfacing...
Basically, they were avoiding Child Protective Services and a lot of those were underage pregnant girls."
What crime? Eliminate the "looksy test" and they have ONE MAYBE, subject to DNA test results! He's been practicing those lines!
A SEARCH FOR DALE
"[Told when handed phone;] 'This gentleman is Dale Evans Barlow.' We never could get a full confirmation if indeed it was Dale Evans Barlow, we could not get full confirmation of his location.
You've got to understand we're acting under a search warrant and time is essential and we're acting upon a call. None of those things could be verified at that particular moment in time."
Now, as we review how essential time was, to better understand why they couldn't spare any time for a call to the probation officer then, lets go back to; "...We were held up at the gate for about two to three hours", ALL 700+ were too busy!
"What people need to understand is, even though we were out there, even for the fact that we were on the property and still looking for the victim — the victim was still calling in on crisis hotlines not only in Texas but other locations."
AND I am certain they called to have this cell phone location triangulated to determine where it was, because that IS a service the cell phone companies are REQUIRED to provide and can be handled within minutes.
John Lester 10:17 -
"clayton, I do believe that you are possibly bluesy."
Honestly, I was wondering how long it would take you to notice! ;-)
In fact, I, TxBluesMan, and Doran Williams (and some others) all have similar writing-styles and share some analytic approaches.
But we can probably be differentiated.
TxBluesMan, can you calculate the nuclear reactor criticality formula? Do you know what type of nuclear technology the Chernobyl reactor used? And what happened when it failed?
I can offer similar tests for any other person you might think is a shadow of me ... and stump statistically 100% of them, cold.
I'm on the West Coast. Just sundown (pretty far north). Ate dinner, did the dishes, watered my houseplants, and ran 4 online personas all the while (not ;-).
The gold may indeed be somewhere in them-thar hills John, but it may not be in the first or easiest spot you scratch at. ;-)
More Sheriff
"Saying he wants to counteract a "propaganda campaign" by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran this afternoon said he expects indictments in the case...
Doran, who said he is talking to only a limited number of media
outlets, told the Standard-Times that controversial photos released of sect leader Warren Jeffs deeply kissing the 12-year-old daughter of ranch leader Merrill Jessop are "just the beginning" of evidence
likely to be released in the case."
Judging by what he's said here, I feel it's a second clue that he's getting directions from above to talk to the press. I doubt those instructions included any directive for him to reveal WHY he's talking to the press!
"to counteract"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuXr9ReoCxY
This is a video of Sheriff Doran.
This is a very reasonably articulate man.
This man could post a post just as good as TexasBluesMan.
In fact, I'm not so sure that David Doran isn't MORE intelligent than TexasBluesMan ir there is a difference in intelligence between the two of them.
Doran speaks well off the top of his head in extremely long winded, complex but still well connected thoughts
Doran is not a dunce. Not by a long shot...
...but he's also not so brilliant that he couldn't be caught in a conspiracy to deprive Amercan citizens of their civil rights...
Thanks for the fun all - G'night!
Another small piece of evidence.
When did TexasBluesMan get on blogger?
Answer: April 2008, the same month as the FLDS Raid. To wit:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/15008395777633969757
Amazing the stuff you can find out about people online. To wit:
Steve Williams
FARMER
SELF-EMPLOYED
Updated
Q4/2007
Bill Richardson
$250
RR 1 BOX
Eldorado TX
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Williams&fname=Steve
"And you're possibly Blues too, anyways. It's easy to post on blogger.com using multiple accounts."
I *think* this was pointed to me, since this post starts off talking about the Sheriff having lots of time because he's management, etc.
Yes, it's easy to post on Blogger using multiple accounts, but TBM could NOT post under my account when my name is highlighted/linked to my profile. Now, if it was an unlinked name, sure, one can make up whatever name they want. But I *always* post under my own profile wherever I go, and I've been on Blogger 2003.
And for cryin' out loud, I don't even agree with TBM on most of these issues!
And as DHM says, this is a really silly argument, and this is the last time I'll engage in it.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter if someone close to the raid and investigation were posting on the blogs and comments, would it? Nobody else would really change their mind, whether for or against. So I don't really care.
(On a side note, is anyone else having trouble staying logged in to Google apps? I can't stayed logged in to Blogger to save my life, and several other things as well.)
Hell yes it would matter if TexasBluesMan were Sheriff David Doran.
Publicly elected counted officials are not allowed to go on TV and declare people to be felons that haven't even been CHARGED, much less convicted, of crimes.
Likewise, publicly elected officials are not allowed to get on the Internet even ANONYMOUSLY and declare people to be felons that haven't even been CHARGED, much less convicted, of crimes.
Why? at least one reason is because people that a Sheriff knows are under investigation, and thus possibly the target of charges, are going to eventually have a JURY.
And Sheriffs aren't allowed to PISS in and TAINT the jury pool.
Which is EXACTLY what Sheriff David Doran has been doing if he is, as I strongly believe based on all of the above, TexasBluesMan.
Grits, KBP and others might be aware of OTHER PROBLEMS that a publicly elected county Sheriff posting the things that TexasBluesMan have been posting would get himself into for doing so.
Things like creating enormous actionable civil liberty claims against your county and state government, etc.
Ted Clayton,
Just an FYI....I clicked on your profile, went to your link for "pics", and immediately got two viruses....fortunately my anti-virus program picked them up and cleaned my computer...
But unless you want them there for some reason, you might want to clean up that link....
Speaking of most investigations, the sheriff, or one in his position, do not have the right to free speech limited any.
If the prosecuting attorney is involved in an investigation, which Allison Palmer is, and there are known suspects that may face charges for alleged crimes, which they have been telling of from the start, then the prosecutor could face sanctions from the court and/or ethics violations of the state bar's rules. The prosecutor is held responsible for all parties on her side, more less.
The only thing I know of a sheriff, officer, or possibly the prosecutor could face might be civil charges for slander or libel or a complaint under a 1983 in federal court.
I'm open to correction here by any more familiar with the judicial system.
All are tough complaints to make, because, if Texas is like most other states, the officers have a qualified immunity and the prosecutor an absolute immunity, which a plaintiff has to first get past in the process.
The most likely problem for any of them would be a violation of the policies of their employment. That could be a reason also for the civil complaint, or only a reason for them to police themselves!
What is right or wrong does not always determine if it is legal or illegal.
Preliminary DNA info is starting to trickle in: our of the 599 samples taken, any guesses on how many were adult men?
36.
Something to hide, much?
CNN video here:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/06/05/roesgen.flds.cnn
WTF?!?!?!?!?
The Dallas Morning News has possibly busted this case wide open and all y'all do for 9 hours last night is debate who TBM really is?
The real identity of whoever is lurking behind the TBM alias is pretty much irrelevant. The question is the substance of his posts. I think that the case law citations, plus the succinct definition he gave me of mental competence in the legal setting proves his being a lawyer, probably one who's been practicing for some time.
Y'all might want to reflect on how much of Scott's bandwidth and how much personal energy this foodfight has taken when it could have been spent on more constructive discussion. Misdirection is very much a part of warfare.
Rericson
It's the "FramerZ" I've encountered before. Never had a problem from it and never could find anything that defined what it was very well.
Google on it, but there is not much on it and Microsoft or Symantec (Norton) had zero on it when I searched a couple weeks ago.
Still a mystery??
Warren's 16 YO daughter:
" "This child is an identified victim of sexual abuse," Natalie Malonis [her attorney] wrote in court papers....
A man named Raymond Jessop is also prohibited from having any contact with her. The order does not say what the relationship is between him and the girl."
None of the articles have mentioned "sexual assault..." (statutory rape), only "abuse", so I am having trouble figuring out what it might be.
It is also ordered she can't contact her father, so I wonder if she was "assigned" to marry this Raymond Jessop by her father, but just had not gone through with the ceremony yet.
The way they convicted as being a party involved in a rape has to open one's mind up and lower the barrier on what could be classified as "sexual abuse".
KBP, you might be right about this only being enough to a) get him fired; and b) get the county/state sued for additional civil rights damages.
That would be sufficient for me. :)
As far as Dallas Morning News breaking this wide open, if TexasBluesMan is Sheriff David Doran,
then what he's posted here on these boards is PART of that scandal/conspiracy
How any of you can think that this legal looneytunes is a bar admitted attorney is simply beyond me.
He's as intelligent as the Doran that you seem on the video I supplied last night.
Doran can speak off the cuff in long winded, complex and pretty darn intelligent terms. That video proves that...the Doran on that video can OBVIOUSLY make the same quality posts that TBM makes.
However, that Doran is also the same kind of guy that would come here on these boards and play ARMCHAIR QUARTERBACK since he is involved in LEO on a professional basis.
You'll notice that TBM gets particularly excited and animated when discussing search and seizure issues, warrants, affidavits that support warrants, and the like.
That's to be expected. As County Sheriff, that's what he's professional involved in, both he and his underlings.
Later today I'll go back thru all of my posts above and put all the points gathered so far into one concise asterisked bullet point form. When you are hit with what I know in short form in short form in YOUR mind, if you're intelligent, well...
TexasBluesMan IS Sheriff David Doran.
Of that there is no doubt.
Rericson 09:49 -
Thanks! I left a msg on your profile e-mail addy...
A tribute to Brooke Adams:
How One Reporter Challenged the Official Story on Texas Polygamy
With the Texas Supreme Court's recent order to return all of the children of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to their families, it's worth noting that at least one reporter was questioning the raid's legality from day one.
Has anyone seen TexasBluesMan posting anyplace today lately?
It will be interesting to see if
a) he continues to post at all under that username; and/or
b) if he does, whether he continues to do his fire-breathing of 'FLDS who haven't even been charged with a crime are all felons and all pedophiles and should all be locked up for life or better yet get the death penalty."
I was on the phone several times today with a FLDSer whose last name starts with a J (not Warren) and I'm filling them in on everything I know about you, TBM, and encouraging them to bring suit against some of these media agencies where you've been posting the past 2 months to under subpoena have your IP address traced.
If it traces to a computer in the home or the offices of Sheriff David Doran, you're fired, dude. :)
JohnLester,
What are you going to do if that happens and it doesn't (which it won't) come back to a West Texas IP?
Wouldn't that give him (and me) the same grounds to go after you for libel? Or for that matter, Doran Williams, who most assuredly is neither David Doran or myself. If you had done your research properly, you would have found numerous references to Doran Williams being involved with the ACLU in Texas, going back years and years. Grits probably knows him from his own work with the ACLU.
You've already proved malice (wanting him fired, subject to an 1983 suit, etc). You have no evidence, source, or other means of tying us together. Basically you are just attacking due to your hatred and biases, and in the process involving the SLC Trib and Grits, on whose sites you are publishing your attacks. This is after you accused me of making a 'thinly veiled death threat' against you for quoting Grits on Brookes blog.
It was immediately after I pointed out that Grits had made a comments on executions (the some people need killin, or probation for murder link), and that a quote of his comment was not a threat towards you, that you began this crusade with no basis in fact.
I don't particularly mind - I'm anonymous, using a nom de plume, and have no real concern. In the cloaked manner of the internet blogsphere, I could be anyone - the old, fat, and balding guy, or a 14 year old kid - you have no way of knowing, and anything I say should therefore be weighed on that basis. On the other hand, the other people you are linking to my online nickname and persona are clearly identified real people who can be harmed by your unsupportable allegations.
But please, keep on posting...
The states CYA media moves are not helping them much! ;)>
Trauma of family separations may linger for FLDS children
"Those kids will never be the same from when they left - never," said Bonnie Peters, executive director of the Family Support Center...
"Those kids will never be the same from when they left - never," said Bonnie Peters, executive director of the Family Support Center...
"Arizona authorities intent on wiping out polygamy descended on Short Creek... A crucial difference is that mothers and siblings remained together in 1953...
"My little 4-year-old granddaughter there [in Texas] said, 'Mama, they put me in jail...
TEXAS HAS A SOLUTION!!!
"CPS official said the state will examine what services may be offered to reunited FLDS families. Counseling is sometimes provided for families when a child returns home after foster care, said Marleigh Meisner..."
Pulling apart families only creates harm
Even FLDS opponets are condemning Texas.
All FLDS children returned to parents
CPS lies 2 thru 26!!!
(Lie 1 = "save Sarah")
" Texas child welfare authorities also officially declared 26 young women — whom they believed to be minors — as legal adults."
CPS lies 27 and 28!
"That leaves five underage girls the state claims are pregnant or who have had children. But attorney Andrea Sloan said the number is actually four. She represents a 14-year-old girl on the list whom she insists is neither pregnant nor married.
"They are finally admitting what we all have known," said Laura Shockley, a Dallas attorney who represented several of the so-called disputed minors. "I think they've made a huge mistake. I think they violated those young women's constitutional rights, and they should prepare themselves for the possibility of attorneys addressing that."
More evidence of lie ONE!
"[Willie] Jessop said Utah and Arizona deputies spoke to Doran the day of the raid about the purported calls. Doran knew those calls were investigated by the deputies and found to be a hoax, Jessop claims.
"The record shows that calls from deputies were made to Sheriff Doran before the raid began," he said. "He's lost a lot of credibility with us, the public and outside agencies. He knows that raid wasn't made in good faith."
Doran, you continue to display your ignorance.
Doran is now a NATIONAL FIGURE ON THE PUBLIC STAGE.
Whether you like it or not, you've become a CELEBRITY of sorts.
I'm sure that strokes your ego right now just wonderfully...
...BUT...
...you're not going to like the end result of your place in 'history.'
That being said, if you had a legal of actual legal and case law sense in you, and actually WAS a real attorney instead of a lazy fat assed West Texas sheriff overseeing a bunch of door kicker inner underlings, you'd also know that public figures like
Doran
Nifong
Madonna
Bush
Rush Limbaught
Pat Robertson
etc. that I can pretty much say whatever the hell I want to say about them in a
POLITICAL CONTEXT
and while you can sue for slander and/or libel, you won't get very far.
Especially when I'm saying a mass of anonymous electrons called TexasBluesMan is Sheriff David Doran.
Your biggest problem, Doran, is that you falsely think your IQ is about forty to fifty points higher than it actually is.
You're not stupid.
But you're not entirely smart either...
...and you have to be the biggest idiot I've ever seen when it comes to citing case law and getting things wrong literally every single time.
Just because you're in court regularly to testify about how one of your boys legally kicked in a door and you hear a few legal arguments here and there and you've got access there in the County Court house law books and statute books and the like, etc. does not make you an attorney any more than being a 12-year old ball retrieval girl at the ball park makes you Hank Aaron.
And besides, taken as a contextual whole, I've used the word speculate, apparently, etc and all of the CYA language legally necessary.
Unlike YOU Doran, I actually know how to cover MY ass.
Your Doran Williams argument is irrelevent as I've pointed out above at great length.
I did not just start this "agenda" as you call it against you yesterday. KBP and many other posters here and around the Internet know that I have been calling you a
COP
for about six weeks now. It was only yesterday that I realized
WHICH COP
you are! As far as your death threat thing goes, you know too that that also is a lie.
I had started my OUTING OF YOU as Doran about a half an hour before you posted that thinly veiled death threat.
You intended that with a DOUBLE meaning...
...like EVERYTHING that you do, you two-faced hypocrite.
One meaning was the meaning that you've claimed.
The other meaning is the meaning that I've claimed.
I've also proven above that within 5 minutes of me posting it,
SOMEBODY
deleted my first post where I outed you for the first time on the Brooke Adams SLC Tribune Polygamy Beat blog.
I've never had a single post that I'm aware of removed by anyone thru blogger.
I believe that stopped removing the posts when they saw that it wouldn't do any good. That whether it was on Brooke's blog or on Grits or my own or elsewhere or some combination of the above, I would continue to maintain this theory until proven wrong.
I'd like to point something out in my last comment:
CPS lies 27 and 28!
"That leaves five underage girls the state claims are pregnant or who have had children. But attorney Andrea Sloan said the number is actually four. She represents a 14-year-old girl on the list whom she insists is neither pregnant nor married.
"They are finally admitting what we all have known," said Laura Shockley, a Dallas attorney who represented several of the so-called disputed minors. "I think they've made a huge mistake. I think they violated those young women's constitutional rights, and they should prepare themselves for the possibility of attorneys addressing that."
We have FOUR left that MAY produce charges. I believe one of them would be charges against Warren, if such happens.
That means, by my count, there are only THREE possible cases that will involve SEX and CHILD with any of the residents of YFZ Ranch.
The state needs a whole lot more media CYA than they're ever going to get using Sheriff 'village idiot' Doran.
Grits, I'd encourage you to consider subpoenaing blogger to trace TBM's IP address.
It's either going to be one of two things.
A dry hole.
Or a gusher.
If it's a gusher, whoever hits it first is going to be very happy they did.
To the reporters out there, google:
TxBluesman
TexasBluesMan
He's not all the people that use that handle but where you see that handle bashing the FLDS over the past 2 months, that's definitely the same TBM here.
He joined blogger April 2008, same month of the FLDS raid, as you can see by clicking on his TxBluesMan username right here.
Here's another good PARTIAL listing of lies:
SMALL PARTIAL LIST OF CPS LIES
nerfff: 5/24/2008 2:52:00 AM
+4
rain-mom: 5/23/2008 10:52:00 PM -4
"CPS can't return all of the young children because many of those
young children have not been claimed by their parents."
Another CPS lie.
Just like the lie that CPS didn't know "Sarah" was a fraud before
the raid.
Just like the lie that CPS only wanted access to YFZ to look for
the abused pregnant 16 year old.
Just like the lie about having a valid search warrant for every
home at YFZ.
Just like the lie about CPS entering homes only to "comfort" the
children during the searches.
Just like the lie that it had nothing to do with religion even
though Baptist busses carted the kids away.
Just like the lie that conditions at "the fort" where the kids were
warehoused were "comfortable".
Just like the lie that the mothers had no right to speak to
lawyers.
Just like the lie that the mothers would be allowed to stay with
their children.
Just like the lie that the mothers would be allowed to return to
their children at the coliseum just before being forced out by police.
Just like the lie that if the mothers returned to YFZ they would
not see their children again.
Just like the lie about not splitting up siblings.
Just like the lie that 27 adults were minors.
Just like the lie that a 27 YEAR OLD was 17.
Just like the lie that a 14 year old was pregnant.
Just like the lie that 14 year olds were forced to marry 50 year
olds.
Just like the lie about substandard education at the ranch.
Just like the lie about welfare abuse.
Just like the lie about FLDS kids hating blacks.
Just like the lie about FLDS women being held captive at YFZ.
Just like the lie about the "sex initiation" bed at the temple.
Just like the lie that parents were deliberately breaking their
children's bones.
Just like the lie about gay child sex abuse.
Just like the lie about FLDS kids being "happy" at the Baptist
foster care center.
Just like the lies the CPS tell every day to cover up this ever-
growing mountain of lies.
Jumping to Conclusions: FLDS & TBM
People in Texas, in the CPS, in the Legislature, in Eldorado County, jumped to conclusions. They could sense, they could tell, they were sure ... that the FLDS was a malfunction they had to do something about, even if the facts weren't exactly cooperative.
Problem is, they didn't have sufficient evidence, and their actions took place outside the provisions of law. Not opinion; High Court determination.
Now Texas is wearing the consequences of their rash, skirt-the-law approach. The media is turning on them. They look foolish, and they have a open-ended series of potential legal problems ahead.
John Lester has brought forward a proposition, a conclusion, an accusation, concerning TxBluesMan. But like Texas' action against the FLDS, he does not have either the evidence or the legal standing to justify his continuing campaign.
John Lester is repeating in miniature, the mistakes that led the State of Texas to an historic social & legal blunder.
Nice response, TxBluesMan 09:20.
John Lester has brought forward a proposition, a conclusion, an accusation, concerning TxBluesMan. But like Texas' action against the FLDS, he does not have either the evidence or the legal standing to justify his continuing campaign.
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Oh really? I don't see any solid attempts, much less successful ones, to refute the reams of evidence that I've produced in my posts sprinkled over the past 100 posts or so.
As far as the legal standing argument, quote your statutes or your case law to support your point.
But apart from that, you're welcome to your mere opinions.
As indicated earlier, as soon as I knock off other projects I'm working on, I'll do the SUMMARY post that wraps up the investigation that I'm willing to publicly share at this stage.
If I'm wrong in my theories and m speculation, that's fine (however, I will point out that, given my perfect 800 on the quant portion of the GRE, you are statistically putting yourself at great risk to join the other side of an analytical argument against me, as I am not always right, only ALMOST ALWAYS right).
As always, I'm only seeking the truth. And justice.
By the way, above we showed that TBM about two years ago posted his birthday as January 1, 1965.
Now, if Doran is like me, I seldom post my actual correct birth month and day for fear of identity theft in online environments where I have no idea how unsecure data will be accessed and by whom.
But it's probably a reasonably good bet than TBM was at least born in the YEAR of 1965.
That would make him about 43 now. TexasBluesMan.
In my conversations with FLDS people who know Doran, they all say Doran is about 45.
The video that I posted of Doran shows Doran to be a guy who looks like he's in his early to mid 40s.
Draw your own conclusions
In the meantime, we're working on it.
John Lester 10:21 -
As always, I'm only seeking the truth. And justice.
No, you have gone beyond "only seeking".
You have jumped to conclusions, and are repeatedly stating your unsubstantiated ideas as facts.
That's a different thing from "seeking".
You have crossed over the line - the same line exceeded by CPS and other parties of Texas, and you are treating TxBluesMan the same way that FLDS was treated.
TxBluesMan could be the incarnation of Satan, but you don't have evidence of it, and trying to tar him with something there is no real support for, is just as wrong as it was for Texas to do it to the FLDS.
You saying it so doesn't make it so, Clayton.
Your responsibility now is to go back and dig into the specifics of the dozens of posts I've made in this thread and refute them one by one.
Every single one.
And also supply the case/statutory law requested.
As I said before, you are entitled to your own mere opinion, however.
John Lester 10:21 -
"... we showed that TBM about two years ago posted his birthday as January 1, 1965."
No, we showed that someone who used the username TxBluesMan registered that birthday. Our TBM has no lock on that moniker, and we have no way to know if it was him or not.
Earlier, you yourself showed that anyone can use whatever handle they choose. You provided a couple examples, recorded in this thread.
TBM, TxBluesMan, could be a gumshoe, he could be anything. But without evidence, you have no grounds to make statements of fact about what he is or isn't.
It is possible, that just as the State of Texas could be found responsible for unwarranted damages to the FLDS, you could be placing yourself in legal jeopardy, stating as facts your ideas about TxBluesMan that have no evidentiary support.
One can say "I think he is" or "I believe he is" all he wants, but when we state "He is", we are at potential legal liability.
So sue me.
In the meantime, I fully intend to continue.
Any resistance I encounter, I'll further escalate the efforts.
G'night all!
And you still haven't even attempted to meet your burden.
I've provided numerous specifics over the past 100 posts or so and am diligently working towards meeting mine.
Until you go back and find every single argument I've made about TBM, and refute every single argument, you've not even attempted to meet your burden.
Until you provide case/statutory law that I've done anything actionable on a civil basis, you've not even attempted to meet your burden.
You're just spouting opinion.
As far as TexasBluesMan is concerned, a USERNAME has no standing in a court of law and cannot be slander/libeled legally.
As far as Doran is concerned, c'mon 'big boy.'
Come get me.
I'm not hard to find.
John, I've been reading your posts and the more you go on and on, the more you sound like my mentally ill brother. Whenever he forgets to take his medicine, or just quits taking it, he starts going on these rants and he can go on for hours, just like you've been doing, and there's no talking to him until he gets back on his meds. And he suffers from delusions of granduer where he thinks he has incredible powers of intellect and he's much smarter than I am or anyone else, and he just isn't.
John, you're obsessed with this Bluesman/Doran thing, and if you go back over your posts you'll see what others can see.
If you're supposed to be taking medicine, you need to get back on it right away. If you've been taking it like you should be, you need to get hold of your doctor right away and have him/her adjust the dosage, because you're out of whack.
John, you're obsessive, you're manic, you're delusional, you're paranoid and schitzophrenic. Please, get professional help.
Fallacy: Ad Hominem
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Description of Ad Hominem
Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of "argument" has the following form:
Person A makes claim X.
Person B makes an attack on person A.
Therefore A's claim is false.
The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).
Example of Ad Hominem
Bill: "I believe that abortion is morally wrong."
Dave: "Of course you would say that, you're a priest."
Bill: "What about the arguments I gave to support my position?"
Dave: "Those don't count. Like I said, you're a priest, so you have to say that abortion is wrong. Further, you are just a lackey to the Pope, so I can't believe what you say."
AD hominem arguments reveal the weakness (or lack thereof) of the attacker's arguments and only serve to strengthen and enhance the strength of the arguments of the attackee.
Hey, I was wondering.
Awhile back someone commented on Grit's coverage of the Texas Youth Commission scandal . . .
Did this take place while Gov. Perry was in office?
Cause, I was thinking about that while reading these two articles:
June 5th - 3 hours ago
"Texas governor suggests sect may want to move on"
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIdMpRHjN4hpNKBhfYyAsR4DDo4QD91497TG0
and
"Texas Gov. Rick Perry defends state's seizure of polygamist sect's kids"
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/060608dntexpolygamistsperry.2911ea7.html
Blog648,
Not bad.
I would have added histrionic personality disorder to the mix though.
WorthNoting 01:08 -
I read these 2 articles about Gov. Perry's attempt to smear the FLDS with accusations the Courts found lacking in evidence - and legal standing.
(However, both your links are truncated/broken by the blog, and I found them only by searching with the title.)
Perry might be at risk of copyright infringement here. I think Bill Clinton used a too-similar logical sleight-of-hand when he said, "I did not have sex with that woman!".
President Bill may have grounds for action against the Governor. ;-)
Suspected 'Sarah' will be in court today
"Rosemary's book publisher declined to make her available for interviews without approval from Swinton's criminal defense attorney. Attempts to reach Swinton herself for comment have been unsuccessful."
Does that suggest Rosemary is Swinton and Swinton/Rosemary might exercise her right to remain silent on advise of her criminal defense attorney?
Ted
The links are not broken, you just need to downsize the text in your screen to see all of them.
To the extent that I am able, I really do try to stay away from personal attacks, and other personalizations of the issues. Howere', as each of us stays a part of this dialogue with one another for such a protracted period of time, it gets ever more difficult.....
At this point, I feel I almost "know" the bluesman...he is a recognizable character....I sit across from him in meeting after meeting, all of the time....
And I have come to like him, at times...because he is bright, often darkly witty, and he challenges me to think more clearly and abstactly....to remove myself from my reactive, emotionalism, and be clear and rational in my thinking....and he affords each of us, by playing 'devil's advocate' the opportunity to develop our messages and commit them to an open blog, where they may inspire, or provide ideas for those on the ground, doing the nitty-gritty work of representing the FLDS community, the parents, and the children....
And...it is because of this 'personalization' I have engaged in, that I feel compelled to be very personal, and very public in my reaction to the bluesman's most recent post on his blog......
It is hateful and repugnant....it encapsulates, in a few short words, the ugliness and bigoted behaviors and thinking that have so enraged so many of us from such divergent perspectives....
It is nothing short of what one would expect of klansmen and other hate-mongers. It is not what I expect from the bluesman. From him, to date, we have gotten a fairly impersonal "law and order" stance, but not ugly, personal bigotry....
As much as I am disgusted by folks like Sheriff Doran, et al...I expect exactly what I get from them because they are fairly average products of differential association. I expect more and better from the bluesman and I feel persoanlly disappointed and repelled by this ugly attack of his....
I sincerely hope that he posted what he posted merely for the purpose of generating discussion and that he realizes he crossed that invisible, yet very real line......and that he openly pulls his foot back.....
Hugh McBryde (I think that's how you spell his name) has a blog called Modern Pharisee.
He's a person with a Christian background who believes in Scriptural Polygyny.
He called me out of the blue about a month ago and we had a nice long conversation about the FLDS RAID and Scripture in general.
Anyways, on Brooke Adams SLC Tribune Polygyny Beat Blog in one of the articles on that blog that Brooke posted about a week ago, in the comments section, Hugh, who is extremely intelligent, details his detailed and diligent efforts to establish his theory that this Rosemary (Swinton's purported foster mother) is actually Swinton HERSELF (just playing her multiple personalities game again).
Hugh would be a great person to contact online or over the phone to follow up this line of reasoning because he's dug deep into it and has a lot of evidence for his theory.
I can't keep up with all of Hugh's investigation of Swinton and those associated with her, not and keep track of the other issues this Texas mess has produced.
Whatever he finds, I doubt there is any conspiracy involving Rozita that is tied directly into the raid masters, such as Long, Doran, CPS...
Something that grabbed my eye when reading parts of Hugh's work was the mention of ties to Vanderbilt University, Nurses and Psychologists, all in the same post!
That university is famous for what many classify as the "hate studies" groups that are the "diversity" in which liberals have planted throughout most universities today. They're famous for teaching all their students that they are "VICTIMS" of one thing or another and society owes them.
Their are so many self-interest agendas that develop out of that crowd it is impossible to tell what all Hugh may run across in his search! I can't wait to see the number of one-person societies, commissions, committees... he'll run into. All claiming to save the world from something!
Doran, we've got your birthday.
We're still working on the possible Peggy-Doran Williams (Steve too?) connection.
Now working on getting all of this information to Parker and the other attorneys and trying to persuade Parker to do the IP address subpoena.
If you are Doran, you're going down.
You could hire somebody to kill me today and it wouldn't do you a lick of good because most of everything I know is now in the proper hands.
Plus all over this board, searchable via Google for the entire investigative world.
And when I say we've got your birthday, I'm talking about Sheriff David Doran's *real* birthday.
Isn't it fascinating that the TxBluesMan that posted his online birthday of January 1, 1965 as proven above at a particular forum, in that
SAME FORUM
he is absolutely fascinated
with weapons used by Hitler's Nazi Germany? I kid you not and God as my witness, this is NO JOKE. Truth seems to almost always be stranger than fiction in your typical attempted bigoted genocides. To wit:
http://www.omsa.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3811#post3811
You REALLY should go to the site above for the full impact of this startling revelation especially since it includes pics and stuff, but here's the text of the posts from that thread started by TxBluesMan:
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Can anyone help me identify this badge? My dad gave it to me and said that he had it since he was a kid.
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I attached your images here.
I edited your post so it would format the screen better, as the images you posted were very large.
next time use the "manage attachments" function to post images.
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In case you haven't found what your Meisterschütze 1944 badge is, I found out is a sharp shooting award probably from the Hitler Youth. I hope it helps a little.
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This is an achievement badge awarded at the the national shooting event held in Innsbruck Austria during July 1944 (Landesschießen des Standschützenverbandes Tirol-Vorarlberg) .
They were awarded for attaining a particular level or grade in a combination of events for the Pistole, KK-Gewehr & Wehrmann shooting competitions. Badges for the single events can also be found in bronze, silver, gold & gold with oakleaves with the particular catagory (pistole, KK-Gewehr etc) & year designation on them (1941 through 1944).
If anyone wishes to know more about these badges please feel free to contact me.
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>>>Now add that to the NEXT post I am going to post about WALTHER.
Walther, by the way, is a Methodist.
I don't know what Doran is, if anything, but I'll try to shortly find out
Watch your jaw drop when you learn a little bit about the Methodists that settled in Central Texas.
Next post...
Repost of a post I put up on my own blog. To wit:
I mean, I'm FREAKIN' SERIOUS when I use the words NAZI!
Walther is a GERMAN name and there is a famous NAZI pistol called the
WALTHER pistol.
This INSANE BITCH is DIRECTLY DESCENDED FROM HIGH RANKING MEMBERS OF THE NAZI PARTY IN GERMANY! To wit:
If you think I am kidding about Germans settling Central Texas and
going to SMU. Just take a typical name and start doing your research.
Just take the name Walther for example.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/walther/
Look I love German products including the Walther pistol. It is a great fire arm and the company made many of them for the Nazi party.
Here is a picture of one:
http://flickr.com/search/?q=walther%20pistol&w=all
http://flickr.com/search/?q=walther%20nazi&w=all
http://flickr.com/photos/73569030@N00/22288758
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2005-17,RNWE:en&q=walther+nazi+
The Walther family connection to the Nazi party was (and apparently
still is) very strong. As in Texas "Judge" Walther overseeing this
Genocide Texas style
"Eva Braun" Meisner, head of Texas CPS, is another great German last
name.
Seeing that I'm at least a quarter German, I'm awfully ashamed again right now of some of my "cousins"
By the way to read about the role of women like Walther and Meisner in Nazi Germany see
http://www.casahistoria.com/totalitarianwomen.htm#Nazi_Germany:_
John Lester 10:09 -
Hugh McBryde posted extensively in the comments of Grit's post, Rozita!, a couple posts following this one.
I agree with Rericson that attacking you on the basis of possible 'mental health' issues is a mistake.
Besides, it has been recognized for millennia that certain kinds of 'crazy' folks are more creative, smarter, and tougher to conquer!
Indeed, about the time that political correctness first reared its dubious head (quashing the notion), many psychologists, neurologists, etc, were gathering around the premise that schizophrenia is too prevalent in the population to be an inherited "disease", that instead it should be viewed as an "adaptation" which confers advantages on those who have the trait (along with, 'natch, some costs..).
Rozita Swinton & 'Rosemary', etc, do 'complicate' the investigation of what happened at YFZ, and why, and by/for whom, etc, but I for one view this aspect of the overall drama as by no means necessarily peripheral! Potentially quite the opposite...
And take note of who he says gave him this badge.
His Dad.
As outlined previously, this admiration of Hitler runs in the family down there in central/west Texas amongst some of these Methodists.
I guess Hitler was a "real law and order" type too. Hitler would have felt real comfortable down there...
Okay, I just found this last night.
I'm assuming everyone BUT me has already seen this as it explains where a LOT of the negative comments I've read in various places "got" their "inside info".
Or, maybe it's those books (written by ex-FLDS) being "promoted" (what are the odds for this "coincidental timing")along with the careers of various "talk show hosts" (those founts of dubious sound-bite wisdom - who're more than happy to deep-six ALL our Constitutional Rights - if it'll keep their sensationalist ratings high just a bit longer).
Also, many people talk about how "isolated" and "unequipped" to "handle" outside society that being raised in an FLDS community renders those wishing to "escape" (one "escaped" by merely calling a taxi - which didn't sound like being "held captive" in a "compound" to me).
However, watching these "ex-FLDS" making successful book deals and doing the talk show circuits provides evidence - to me, that - they're not too disadvantaged - as they're actually doing QUITE WELL in "outside society" - if they can pull all this off.
Anyway,just in case someone besides me DIDN'T see this:
The Primer
Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and
Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities
http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/cmsdocuments/The_Primer.pdf
(Sorry about not knowing how to post these links some other way. "HOW" are all you folks doing that anyway?)
Here's the link that demonstrates that Walther is a Methodist
http://iperceive.net/first-united-methodist-of-san-angelo-burns-cross-prays-for-judge-walther/
Still searching to see what Sheriff Doran is, if anything...
In the meantime, "a speedy trial" for Rozita Swinton just got pushed back another 5 weeks:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9501926
What are they trying to hide?
Look at what Clayton posted earlier about ALL of TBM's messages being deleted at other boards. Clayton, can you post links to some of these boards. That is highly unusual and what suggest someone involved in law enforcement to have that kind of power. As far as Doran not being dub enough to commit an indiscretion, ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME? His IQ is above 100, but he's, in my opinion, the sorriest and stupidest SOB I've ever seen in my life in other ways. To wit, Clayton's earlier post in full:
Search Google with 'txbluesman', and you will see that somebody using that handle has been playing the blogs & forums & boards for years.
The only suspicious aspect that I noticed about the TxBluesMan digital-trail, is that on the forums I looked into, though he had posted a large number of times, all the entries appeared to have been deleted. That's unusual. Normally, a blog or forum won't let a user delete the contributions you've made.
TxBluesMan may be an unusual character of some kind (that would apply to several of us.. ;-), and he may have used some kind of unusual pressure to get his posts deleted (he does have some legal knowledge..), but it doesn't seem likely to me that he'd be Sheriff Doran's alter ego (largely because because that would be a really serious indiscretion on Doran's part..).
Less'n we can trawl some of those old message-caches he left 'n catch him in a slip-up...
John Lester 11:37 -
You said, "Isn't it fascinating ... he is absolutely fascinated with weapons used by Hitler's Nazi Germany?"
No, the questions & answers provide in the forum post you quote show no "fascination" with weapons whatsoever.
The question in the forum pertained to a "medal", and a minor, low-level medal at that, similar to a Boy Scout merit-badge (for "markesmanship", meaning one can shoot a weapon 'nominally satisfactorily'). There is no indication of interest in the weapons that were used, whatsoever.
Honestly, John, your last two posts about the medal, and about Walther's connection to Nazis, are rants, pure 'n simple. You are raving, out of control. There is no substance or value in the posts you are writing. This is an abuse of Grit's forum, a waste of all our time, and pure nonsense.
Get a grip, John, and knock it off. Please.
WorthNoting 12:08 -
To post clickable links, I use a little 'hand-HTML'.
Type : [left angle-bracket]a href="http://example.com"[right angle-bracket]Hot Example![left angle-bracket]/a[right angle-bracket]
We can't type 'loose' angle-brackets, 'cause they're 'live' code and will cause errors if not done right (and if correct, they do not appear in the msg).
The "a" means "anchor" (link). Must be a space between "a" and "href".
The URL - http://example.com - must be in quotes.
"Hot Example!" is the text that will show in the msg.
The "/a" within left-right angle-brackets ends/closes the link-code.
... So, copy the link you want use onto your clipboard, type in your [left angle-bracket]a href=", then immediately hit Insert, filling in the URL, the second quote, the [right angle-bracket], the text you want to appear, the [left angle-bracket], the /a, and the last [right angle-bracket].
Blogger may also have a built-in way to do links, but I don't see it, don't know it, and my hand-way works! ;-)
You're right, the weapons tie is to Walther, and given how fast I type, and think, I was already thinking ahead to the Walther Nazi pistol post.
I knew that TxBlueMan's fascination was with a Nazi BADGE and not a pistol, and I'm glad you corrected that before I could get around it.
I'm multitasking like mad over here, even by my standards, receiving calls, taking calls, posting online, etc. both for this matter and my personal and business matters.
I appreciate the fan support. ;)
I found this post last night that Doran Williams made the other day at our TexasBluesMan's blog. To wit:
Doran williams said...
Tx, just in case you don't know it, or have forgotten, it is a criminal offense in the State of Texas to impersonate an attorney.
Word to the wise, heads up, kind of thing.....
May 31, 2008 8:03 AM
http://coramnonjudice.blogspot.com/2008/05/judge-walther-walks-or-lawyer-tricks.html
Remember my theory from above?
It is a FACT that the county clerk who works in the SAME building as Sheriff David Doran, her name is Peggy WILLIAMS. I prove that by a link above and is easily googled.
There is a cotton farmer that lives in El Dorado by the name of Steve Williams. I prove that by a link above. Steve Williams is quoted in the article linked above along with Sheriff David Doran in that article.
I'm speculating that possibly Peggy Williams the County Clerk is County Sheriff David Doran's sister. Remember, this is a small town, probably everybody is related to everybody just about in that place.
I'm speculating that possibly Peggy Williams is married to cotton farmer Steve Williams.
I'm speculating that possibly Peggy and Steve had a son.
I'm speculating that possibly they named their son after Peggy's maiden name of Doran.
Thus, Doran Williams.
Possibly the Doran Williams in Elgin, Texas that Clayton linked above.
Or some other Doran Williams elsewhere in Texas or some other part of the country or world who is posting online at TexasBluesMan's blog and Grits and elsewhere.
I'm speculating that Doran Williams likes to argue with his Uncle. And occasionally does so with his Uncle online as demonstrated above in Doran's Post at TexasBluesMan's blog.
Why does Doran, as I have from the very beginning, suspect that TexasBluesMan is NOT an attorney (I've been calling TBM a COP from the very beginning after reading just a VERY few of his posts).
Perhaps Doran, as his nephew, I speculate, KNOWS that TexasBluesMan is not an attorney, because he KNOWS that TexasBluesMan is Sheriff David Doran!!!!!
I sense a tone of familiarity and a little half mocking/half general concern from Doran, the kind of concern that an educated attorney would have for one's crazy Sheriff Uncle if Doran knew that he was breaking the law and committing every ethical violation known to man including violating his oath to uphold the Constitutions of the State of Texas and I would imagine the United States as well.
John Lester 01:08 -
"I appreciate the fan support. ;)"
I am a fan of freedom of speech, the Bill of Rights.
But I think you, John Lester, have gone to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
I think you are trying to damage people who are innocent (at least, until proven guilty - which you aren't doing).
Do you imagine that we are here to serve as your fan-base? If so, that is baseless imagining. Indeed, it sounds narcissistic.
Your behavior has become a problem, John. The effort to speak up on behalf of the FLDS, and hold the excesses of Texas to account, is being impaired by your activity ... by your ranting & raving & blustering & seeking after attention for yourself.
Your activties have degenerated into a patent abuse of the public forum.
Need to clarify the Dorans here fro the last post:
I sense a tone of familiarity and a little half mocking/half general concern from Doran (Williams; the hypothetical newphew), the kind of concern that an educated attorney nephew would have for one's crazy Sheriff Uncle David Doran if Doran (Williams; the nephew) knew that he (David Doran the Sheriff) was breaking the law and committing every ethical violation known to man including violating his oath to uphold the Constitutions of the State of Texas and I would imagine the United States as well.
>>>Even if Doran Williams NOW were to say that this is not true, he might just be trying to save his Uncle's hide.
Just because you argue with your Uncle online, doesn't mean you hate him.
And even if the Doran Williams speculation as outlined above fell thru completely, the rest of the above I've posted independently provides evidence that TexasBluesMan might possibly be Sheriff David Doran.
(Sidenote:Thank you Ted for the directions which were great!)
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I've included the link below and some excerpts from the article there.
Has this ever been discussed in regards to the FLDS Raid?
http://www.myeldorado.net/YFZ%20Pages/YFZ063005a.html
The article referred to - is beneath the oil rig graphic (scroll down towards bottom of page) - titled:
Meanwhile Back At The Ranch.
excerpt from article:
Heartland Drilling Company Rig #2 prepared to run production casing last week after reaching total depth at 7,104 ft. on the Lonestar Schleicher #1, located 4 miles north of Eldorado on the Ronnie Kerr place.
Excerpt:
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
Now, as word comes that an oil well has been completed on the Ronnie Kerr place, bordering the western edge of the YFZ, it is learned that YFZ officials who purchased the Schleicher County property, failed to buy up the mineral rights to the ranch. With oil topping $60 per barrel and natural gas prices approaching an all-time high, it appears very likely that a drilling rig will soon be sinking a well bore on the YFZ Ranch.
Texas law provides the owners of mineral rights to have access to their property, including the right to drill for oil & gas, even if surface owners don’t agree.
Another excerpt:
It is unknown exactly how soon exploration might begin on the YFZ Ranch, but one thing is for sure, the men and women who live in seclusion on the property aren’t likely to welcome the intrusion of man and machine on land they deem to be holy.
I couldn't find a date for this article though . . .or other info.
It does inspire thought.
Has anyone heard any mention of this?
Worth Noting, I don't know what oil you're talking about at $60 a barrel, but the oil with which I'm familiar with closed today at over $138 a barrel, up ten dollars on the day, causing the Dow to drop 394 points...
...could you please sell me some $60 a barrel oil? I'd like to arbitrage that all day long all over the planet...
;)
The article describes Jeffs as a fugitive, so I suppose the article is old, perhaps that explains the $60 per barrel of oil you cited.
But in the upper left hand corner of the article, it does have today's date...
Worthnoting
Some had tossed in a speculation that the plan could be to run the FLDS to get the black gold!
Looks like there is nothing to get from them.
Yes, I HAD noticed the "low" price listed for the oil (and today's date in corner.
However, the YFZ Ranch has only been there 4 years (at least that's what I remember being stated in articles)so, it can't be too old.
I was hoping someone had either read more about this somewhere (and could share the links) or . . .
Knew how to "research" this online to validate the info . . .
(the wells on the property next door could have turned out "dry" or whatever . . . I know "zip" about oil - other than oil's a "biggie" - what with the whole "foreign" oil problems.)
Property records are a matter of public record so does anyone know if there would be "public records" concerning this???????????
I'm just "plain old curious" about who DOES own the mineral rights for the YFZ Ranch . . .I've always hated mental "loose-ends".
Figured I'd toss it out there as it's been bothering me for quite a while - one of those buzzing mental questions that keeps popping up - and maybe someone out there would know an easy "here's how you find out" solution or something.
Anyhow, if anyone CAN offer more info on this I'd appreciate it! THANKS!
(and thanks for the response to my post johnlester!)
(and you too kbp - saw your response when I previewed this!)
The link below is a listing of all the district and county government officials:
http://www.co.schleicher.tx.us/ips/cms/index.html
If you ever wondered exactly what a Sheriff does in a huge county that has less than 3,000 people in it (like probably 1 person per square mile it's so sparsely populated, scary, even the cows must get lonely) when they're not posting on message boards, see:
Description of Office:
Sheriff
http://www.county.org/counties/desc_office/sheriff.asp
Sheriff
Long respected as the county's top lawman, the sheriff has a range of duties that include criminal investigations, traffic enforcement, operation of the jail and other responsibilities.
Duties of the sheriff include:
* Providing security for the operation of county and district courts;
* Enforcing traffic laws, other county ordinances and other state laws;
* Service of process;
* Accepting bail for prisoners in his custody;
* Conducting sales of seized and unclaimed properties; and
* Taking charge of and responsibility for the county jail and prisoners.
My, how close I was. Barely over 2 people per square mile.
Population 2,935 people spread out over a whopping 1,311 square miles. That's about 2.2 people per square mile.
Like I said, even the cows must get lonely.
Who said this guy wouldn't have time enough on his hands to post on message boards?
Think again.
We have churches and high schools in America 3 or 4 times this size.
And this is an entire county.
He's posting here cuz he's lonely.
The whole damn county is lonely.
Nobody can find anybody.
Too few people in too big of a space.
No wonder they're such busy bodies.
Worth Noting 04:03 -
As a broad, general rule, subsurface mineral rights are typically 'unbundled' from property titles, all over North American & elsewhere.
In many districts, titles hardly ever transfer with mineral rights. In part this reflects historic, now-archaic social & business hopes & fears & fantasies ... now entirely outmoded.
But in places like Texas, the old legal partition reflects important realities, at least, back when the State was still a major oil producer.
However, Texas has been drilled & seisomgraphed and geo-mapped every way there is - decades ago. There is very little about Texas' oil-prospects left to uncover. This was all done back when they were swimming in oil, the stampede was on, and thousands of wildcatters were everywhere 'n anywhere there was a hope or a prayer ... or someone to connive into thinking there might be, with a well-padded bank account.
By far & away the most obvious explanation for the drilling rig that showed up on property next to YFZ a few years ago, is that the neighbor-owner was horrified & disgusted by the FLDS showing up next door, they ruined whatever plans he had for his own property, or he became uninterested in his own by the presence of the "pligs" ... and being a coy ol' Texan (or having access to such) he put up some equipment to make it look like someone was onto to something valuable under the ground ... so that it would be easier to drum up interest in (or at least publicity for) his land.
Oldest trick in the book - "classic Texas".
Population (2006)
- City 2,833,321 (US: 3rd)
- Density 12,470/sq mi (4,816/km²)
- Urban 8,711,000
- Metro 9,785,747
- Demonym Chicagoan
>>>Compare their population density to Chicago if you can't imagine already how sparsely populated this county is.
I wonder how many places in America, or the WORLD, for that matter, are more sparsely populated than this hell hole?
Here's the Wikapedia link where you can get the Schleicher county data I just supplied:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleicher_County,_Texas
Handbook of Texas Online - Scheicher County
Oil has a much more important history in Schleicher Co than I expected. It could be still important, and if it is now inactive, gestures in the direction of reviving production would stir (warranted) interest.
"One economic plus for Schleicher County proved to be the oil and gas industry.qv Although the first oil and gas leases were probably made in 1918, no significant discovery was made until the late 1920s, and no commercial production took place until 1934. Oilfield discoveries on school lands in the 1950s enabled Schleicher County to build new library and gymnasium facilities for its students. Most of the gas wells discovered in the 1950s and early 1960s were plugged until the gas market improved in the late 1960s. In the 1970s the ad valorem tax collected on oil and gas production paid 60 to 70 percent of the county's public school costs, as well as contributing to road maintenance. Schleicher County oil fields produced approximately one million barrels annually in the 1980s."
So, the oil-angle could be a much bigger consideration than I gave it in my 'classic Texas' comment.
WOW! Thanks so much Ted Clayton for both posts - finally something besides that one teasing article!
and johnlester for the statistics websites.
I'm one of those folks who - upon moving into a new area - do a faithful and ongoing study of it's history. It's fascinating to know the past of a place, as well as the social dynamics that have played out over the years. Living stories of real folks.
Often much can be learned this way!
Plus, there's some folksy quote concerning "the details" which has proven useful over the years.
Thanks again!
Oil drilling has always existed in Los Angeles, however, because the 'per barrel' cost of drilling there was so high, it reached a certain threshold of developement and stayed fairly consistent at that level for many years...now, with foreign oil skyrocketing in cost, it has made the Los Angeles drilling far more lucrative....many, many new drill sites today, that were considered cost prohibitive even a few months ago....
And here, in Northeast Pa., there is a scramble going to tap natural gas that was 'cost prohibitive' previously.....
So the Schleicher County drilling may very well be increasing.....
Interesting angle.....
Straight out of a John Grisham novel, 'cept it's real....scary stuff......
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