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This is a project that I have been personally involved with and, if you value your rights, I am hoping that you will feel to check it out and speak out. You can do so at Voices for the Children.

The Senate Judiciary Committee, at the request of Senator Harry Reid, is going to convene this week for a hearing entitled “Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response”, coming up July 24, 2008. This is an entirely speculative hearing, and the only people called to testify are outspoken critics of the FLDS people. It does not matter how you feel about polygamy or the FLDS; what matters is that you oppose government targeting like this.

Just because they are a little different from mainstream culture doesn’t mean that they are not protected by the Constitution.

Aren’t we all a little different in our own ways?

If we allow this for some of us; it’s only a matter of time before it’s any of us.

The roster of people called to testify before the committee is made up entirely of people with a vested interest in the vilification of the FLDS poeple because of their books to sell and foundations to fund, and contains absolutely no members of the actual community being targeted or anyone friendly to them.

Realize that all the accusations and allegations made against them in terms of their religion being a danger to society were more than disproven in the April raid on the YFZ Ranch. Even the supposed ‘evidence’ of a ‘pervasive pattern of abuse’ was never produced (and thus the seized children were returned on order of the Appeals Court and the TX State Supreme Court).

If you wish to know a little more about the FLDS that’s not from the unfortunately tainted bias inherent in almost all media representations, please see Truth Will Prevail. Just about anything morally appalling that you may have heard about these people is addressed in an article on that site.

Here’s the information on the petition (my response is below):

www.voicesforthechildren.org

The above link will take you to the website for the Letter to Congress.

If you have a site, please link to it.

If not, we ask our friends here, to send the link to all the people in their address book.

We need this Letter distributed throughout the Country today (July 20, 2008), please do what you can to give the children a voice in their future and some security in practicing their religion.

Write me if you have any questions, and if you have a listing of people you want to receive this letter, either in the government or in the media, please let me know and I will see that it is added to the list.

Many thanks,

Bill Medvecky wjm2644 (at) aol (dot) com

www.voicesforthechildren.org

Here’s what I had to say when I signed it:

“Naiah”
Such an inquiry as is planned is utterly unnecessary at best and utterly un-American or even anti-American at worst.

So much wrong has already been perpetrated on this score, to the tune of over M$20 of taxpayer money and untold damage to hundreds of children. This type of targeting of a religious group is absolutely unacceptable by traditional American values.

There is no danger in the Constitutionally-granted free exercise of this faith or in its culture.

The one shred of good to come from the raid in Texas is that the outlandish claims and allegations made against these people, in terms of stockpiles of weapons, mass graves, threat of insurrection or mass suicide, and the like, have all been revealed for the baseless fabrications that they are.

We need not sink anymore resources into a tedious, invasive, scrutiny of the FLDS people.

Even if such scrutiny is deemed necessary, it simply cannot be achieved by hearing the testimonies of nothing but their most vocal detractors. A true study of the FLDS people absolutely MUST include testimony from some of the FLDS people, as well as their allies and those who deal with them regularly and can speak to their character.

Please make your voice heard for the children, too.

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