A Comment About

Child Welfare Issues at Polygamy Compound

April 26, 2008 - 1:07 am - by Dawn Friedman
Jeff Medcalf
2008-04-26 12:22:06

There is an awful lot of “well, they had it coming to them” feeling here, absent any evidence that they did in fact do anything wrong. If they did break the law, then fine, but that’s what due process is for: determining if they broke the law before punishing them. Now, rest assured that if you guys who think that this is all just fine, and trust the state entirely on this (somehow, despite all the evidence of history), are some day in the position of having the state take your children and presume you guilty without any due process, I will still speak up for your rights. However, you have lost any moral right to complain on your own behalf at that point. The protections and freedoms we enjoy cover us all, or they cover none of us. First they came for the Jews, and all that.