FLDS: The other polygamous religion of peace: “The home of the San Angelo judge who ordered the removal of 440 children from a polygamist ranch is under guard after Utah and Arizona authorities warned of ‘enforcers’ from the sect, a newspaper reported Wednesday.” Of course, it does appear that the authorities are far more solicitous of religous freedom on the part of people they’re afraid of, so this might be a rational response.

UPDATE: Reader Chuck Herrick emails:

Please note that this may very well be entirely histrionics on the part of the judge and the law enforcement agencies in San Angelo in an attempt to deflect attention from the grotesque abuse of justice perpetrated by these authorities in Texas.

I know you’ve been following this incident somewhat so I won’t belabor the obvious, but Texas CPS (Child Protective Services), the state and regional law enforcement agencies and the judge have behaved incredibly poorly. This has done much to further damage the reputation of an already desperate CPS. In short, the raid was an outrage and the Texas appeal courts, including the Texas Supreme Court have been having none of it.

These people are scoundrels. I don’t put it past them to self-generate these kind of scare publicity. Anything to distract, as it were.

Sad to think that this might be the case.