Texas was the "Fruit of the Crime", it existed because Warren was fleeing prosecution in both Utah and Arizona. Having filed complaints against the Hildale & Colorado City Police Dept. with p.O.S.T. in October and November of 2000, there was several reasons that Warren needed compounds outside the 2 states he was leaving behind.
In March of 2001 Rodney Parker the FLDS attorney threatened me on letterhead of "Snow Cristensen & Martineau" his firm for reporting abuses. These reports had gone to the Attorney General and were mandated from my role as Tri-State rep. for "For Kids Sake". An interesting tactic to silence a child abuse prevention agency that specialized in training county prosecutors. FKS was the certified P.O.S.T. Instructor in California at sever police academies.
Additional issues of weapons violations and drugs surfaced connected to peticular FLDS members, one a UEP trustee at that time.
In 2000 Utah Senator Ron Allen had proposed the "Child Bigamy Bill" in SB 146, which passed and was signed into law my former Utah Governor Leavitt on April 30th of 2001. Approaching this passage, Mayor Dan Barlow was interviewed by Associated Press, where the only FLDS spokesman at that time stated no underage unions were occuring, thus the new law would not effect them. Larry Warren a SLC News Anchor interviewed FLDS attorney Rodney Parker and Parker stated, the practise of marrying underage brides was an exageration of apostates who had left. In escense the FLDS lied to protect the practise.
The marriages continued at Merrill Jessops Caliente Hot springs resort through out 2001 & 2002, using the place of intercourse as a defense, as noted in the St. George, Utah trial of Warren Jeffs in September of 2007. Using Nevada state laws to say intercourse with a juvenile was legal conflicted with the Mann-Act of transporting minors across statelines for classified lude acts. The defense that a minor could be married at age 15, required that she go before a judge, which was not occuring. They couldn't because it required admitting they were practising polygamy or violating the Child Bigamy legislation. While exemption of age applied to legal marriages, they did not apply to 2nd, 3rd or 15th wives, because only the first was a legal union. Also those who officiated the ceremony were not certified, nor could be, since the girls were below the age of consent.
In 2003 to avoid prosecution and pending court cases, David Allred was sent out on buying trips and secured property in more areas than just West Texas. The intent appeared to be to seek rural counties and states that had lose age of consent laws, which includes a compound in Mexico. The Press Conference in Texas exposing the ranch and its purpose beyond a hunting ranch as stated, had Mohave County Supervisor Buster Johnson, Flora Jessop, Dave Doran and Jon Krakauer speaking out publicly. The Press releases were sent out by Linda Walker of Child Protection Project and ME!What was occuring in Texas was an extension of crimes already reported in 2000 3& 1/2 years ealier.
Warren was also accused of sodomy with his nephew Brent Jeffs and his brother from his time as teacher and principal at the "Alta Academy" in Cottonwood Canyon UT. To save the UEP trust valued at 110 million dollars, Warren and his brother Leroy needed to defend the trust, but fearing his own arrest Warren Jeffs hit the road and lost control of the trust by default.
Per the monies used in part to build YFZ ranch, Rulon had 8 homes that warren diverted the assets from, circumventing any inheretance to his siblings in his fathers death. Ward, Hyrum, Seth, Elaine and other children of Rulon received nothing because of changed Warren had made to his fathers assets.
Even to the date of Warren's arrest, he was performing illegal and underage unions, the week before!
The question of Texas and the raid, comes down to "good faith" and whether the state of Texas considered any children in peril, based on an anonymous tip! If you have ever worked with "We Tip" a national hotline, callers report a variety of crimes and based on information a report is made or an investigation started. If Texas DPS considered a victim at risk, their mandate was to investigate. Based on a lack of coperation or a fear of being damned, my guess is, Texas might of agonized over how to rescue or seperate one needle in a large haystack! When asked about a Sarah, the FLDS claimed there were none? In truth there were several!
Once on site, in Law Enforcement terms, "the eyes can not trespass" which means visual evidence of a crime, becomes a stair step to further investigate. If you had followed Harvey H. legislation, the indictments and trials in Arizona of other FLDS men accused and convicted of unlawful sex with a minor, once on compound any one from DPS could of known what to consider as a risk to a child, justifying a 2nd and 3rd search warrant. If Texas was a clean slate, any reader could assume the FLDS were being blind sighted, but in truth Texas was about fleeing prosecution of active and pending cases, both criminal and civil.
Warrens unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, once on the FBI's 10 MOST WANTED list, made each of Warren's trips to the ranch a circumstance of "conspiracy", "obstruction of justice" and harbouring a fugative, by those men and women who assisted him or failed to report his where abouts. The documents confiscated at his arrest near Mesquite Nevada, detailed many members, including police officers, who offered money, written support of his unlawful flight, a place to hide him and blind loyalty!
The circumstances that led to an evaluation of risk and potential, included dialog state to state that occured in the Harvey H. hearings on the proposed legislation. Dialog between sheriff's in counties in Texas, Utah & Arizona. Complaints similiar to those I filed 42 months earlier, numerous trials where convictions were already behind these actions. Given a history that included court cases, depositions and affidavits, Texas DPS had to weigh potential with the caller, who wasn't being completely anonymous in saying her name was Sarah.
Now you can pretend that Arizona and Utah never occured or that people like me never filed reports, were threatened or had clients, but we do exist and see a side Johnny come lately's dont. Like the web site says "The Truth Will Prevail" and I know what that truth is. On my side I have 550 audio cassettes by Warren Jeffs this revered leader. He says in his own voice that he is breaking the law, but is protected by God! He is also in prison, 10 years after these audio's were made. Like my user name "In Light and Truth" is a 890 page FLDS theology book, I loaned to Texas through a 3rd party, you like to trash here. The book authored by Rulon T. Jeffs in 1994 details every aspect of the FLDS belief. Its is the undeniable truth of any faithful member and you should respect it! I have Rulon Jeffs sermons volumes 1-8 all hard back books, by Fred Jessops old print company "Twin City Publishing" out of Hildale UT. I have "Priesthood Articles", "Priesthoom Succession", the oversize Allta Academy books "The Student Star" volumes 14, 15 & 16! My personal favorite is a smaller soft back titled "Purity in the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage", it reveals the Jeffs teaching on the reassignment of wives and "blood atonement".
Its like Warren's confession in the Purgatory Utah jail, the FLDS books and audios condem Warren and the true intent of this CULT, but far to many base their opinions on what newspapers right! You should ask yourself where Brooke Adams at the SLC Tribune gets her leads from?
The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the FLDS a hate group by desination. This occured from Warrens own teachings of the Negro race. When you deny the prophets spoken words, it becomes a curious thing! He confessed, but his defenders like to ignore the recorded tapes. He actually produced alot more than just 550 audios, but without listing to them, the defenders ignore these as well. 10,000 pages of FLDS theology, that too gets ignored! It kind of lays out an agenda that makes both the FLDS and exploited children pons in a battle between the letter of the law and constitutionalist like McVeigh & Nichols who justified attacking the government, by murdering government employees. Its a question of localism and survivalism of smaller cohesive units that believe they have a sovergn right to self govern their actions. The FLDS is merely their call to arms. If you ignore 2 decades of court records, writing your own conclusions, then being pro FLDS makes lots of sense.
I can post Warren Jeffs transcribed text on the Negro race or offer the audio's of Warren explaining his edicts to the faithful. As long as he remains the revered leader, his spoken word will be law and ignoring his audios might work here, but won't in court. In Warrens trial 3 of his audios to the Home Economics classes were entered as evidence and in his own words, he damned himself. If you want to listen to these one at a time and then discuss them, that is logical and fair, but if you think that you can ignore these as facts, they will be played in court in Arizona & Texas. They are simply facts generated by the revered jailed leader and can not be ignored, just like Warrens confession.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbudqrmFSDs
Listen to this and then we can discuss it! Since only warren had the keys to marry the faithful, he then admits that he officiated all these unions, thats pretty tough to deny in court later.
