With the four leading candidates in this year’s presidential contest having been an African-American, a female, a Mormon, and a 72 year-old, the diversity envelope was certainly stretched this year. A USA Today/Gallup poll reported last year on the willingness of present-day Americans to select a non-traditional candidate for the presidency compared to responses to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘History’
June 18, 2008
“We’re Not Going to Violate Their Civil Rights until We Get an Outcry”
State of Texas 45, King George 28
45. In what has to be one of the most notable quotes of the Eldorado fiasco, the Schleicher County Sheriff said, “This is the United States…. We’re not going to violate their civil rights until we get an outcry.”
Here’s a little more context for the quote, as reported by [...]
June 12, 2008
Top Ten List of How CPS Could Try the Shoe on Their Own Foot
Here’s what it would look like if CPS wore their own shoe. CPS workers would:
10. Be required to take parenting classes.
9. Be required to obtain job training so they could become gainfully employed.
8. Move to a historic fort with no air conditioning and inadequate restroom facilities.
7. Allow the FLDS to visit their homes at any [...]
May 31, 2008
Issues Raised in Texas Supreme Court Decisions
State of Texas 35, King George 28
34. The Texas Supreme Court minority opinion appears to complain about use of the Fifth Amendment.
When the Department arrived at the YFZ Ranch, it was treated cordially and allowed access to children, but those children repeatedly pled “the Fifth” in response to questions about their identity, would not identify [...]
May 21, 2008
Digest of Abuses
State of Texas v. King George III
In which the contest begins…
King George 28, State of Texas 3
1. Legal action should be directed at individuals, based on evidence of specific actions committed by those individuals, rather than being directed against a community.
2. The government actions against the FLDS appear to violate the first amendment guarantee [...]
May 10, 2008
King George 28, State of Texas 10
7. We can only hope that the government actions against the FLDS violate the fourteenth amendment guarantee of “equal protection.” I believe the only way the State of Texas can dodge the charge that the fourteenth amendment has been violated is to start treating all its citizens the same way as the FLDS have been [...]
