what's wrong with posting on Lost Boys?

[medeak]

wanted to respond to post and it was locked...can't find anything wrong with it. Oprah reported story for gosh sakes.. we all know how out there she is! It's an important story. The Utah attorney general has made the lost boys his personal mission.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1505997,00....

"Up to 1,000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to make more young women available for older men, Utah officials claim.

Many of these "Lost Boys", some as young as 13, have simply been dumped on the side of the road in Arizona and Utah, by the leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), and told they will never see their families again or go to heaven.

Some have voiced concern that an attempt to corner the sect leader could provoke a tragedy like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas.

One of the boys, Gideon Barlow, said he was expelled from a FLDS community in Colorado City, Arizona, for wearing short-sleeved shirts, listening to CDs and having a girlfriend. He said his mother rejected him on orders from the sect's leaders.

"I couldn't see how my mum would let them do what they did to me," he told the Los Angeles Times. After his expulsion, he attempted to give her a Mother's Day present but she told him to stay away. "I am dead to her now," he said.

I don't have words to describe how angry I am at this piece of shit cult.

[medeak]

1. the sect leader is hiding out on ranch in Texas

wish I had link.. but arrest warrant went out yesterday and they are fearing another another Waco.

[slay]

2. I'd never heard of such a thing

Wow. People who join cults man.. I just don't know what to think about them. But for the kids, that's just inexcusable. It's not the kids fault their parents are nut-jobs. I would hope these people would be investigated and shut down. Yet another case of the religiously insane running amuk in America. :(

Oh, the link didn't work either. Try this one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1505995,00.html

[medeak]

4. another Waco

here's Texas link.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=03E06B61-05A8-4968-9473-C19BFF90D27C

saw video on Utah channel and enormous temple is being built on Texas ranch. They say sect leader has acess to 100's of millions of dollars.

[slay]

8. And people wonder why I'm not very religious

Yikes. Lets hope it's not another Waco situation. But just tossing out 1000 boys so the dirty old men can have more young girls is pretty damn sick. Weird how lots of religious wackos end up in Texas huh?.

[applegrove]

3. What is Bush's comment? n/t

[BuelahWitch]

14. He'd probably send them to Iraq

:(

[applegrove]

5. Now - there are a bunch of American girls who should have access

to condoms and the HPV inoculation. You've slept with everyone who your partner has slept with.

[Kraklen]

6. Blessing in disguise.

Sure, they're abandoned, homeless, and hungry.

But it could be worse. They could be the girls.

[Ariana Celeste]

9. You have a point.

But it is still very, very sad. For all of the boys and all of the girls. How this has been able to go on so long, I'd sure like to know.

[medeak]

7. Lost boys living on the streets

It's the saddest thing. They were raised to fear police and the government.

the Utah attorney general has been trying to connect with them and find them homes.. St. George Utah is filled with them I hear.

[medeak]

10. heartbreaking link... boys giving interview

recall seeing this last summer:

http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special45/articles/0801polygamy-lostboys01.html

[doodadem]

11. Link is broken

[mcscajun]

12. The original posts aren't locked...but a duplicate is.

These are still open, AFAIK...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1546773

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3852552#3855011

[medeak]

13. thanks

It was in LBN..perhaps that's why.