Sunday, April 06, 2008
Waco 2
From Fox News online:
Sounds like the authorities are not at all confident. The local reporters asked some tough questions in that news conference, which didn't come through in the online writeups by CNN and Fox. One asked "You say you haven't forced the adults to leave, but you also say you've made their options clear. Sounds like force to me."
Another asked "Isn't this supposed to be a country with religious freedom?"
Nurse Ratched had no answer, but the fact that reporters are willing to ask those questions is another encouraging sign. The "scientific consensus" behind the pogrom has broken down.
One question that wasn't asked but should have been: Nurse Ratched said at one point that the accuser was probably remaining anonymous and silent now because of fear. Really? Let's think about this for a minute. If you were afraid of being beaten, you'd be silent while you were in the same house with the beater, and you'd sing like a bird when you were in protective custody. This accuser sang like a bird when she was supposedly in the compound, and now she's silent or absent. This is precisely what you'd expect from a false accuser; even more simply, it's what you'd expect from an accuser who was never anywhere near the place. ¶ 8:31 PM
Officers entered the temple on the grounds late Saturday, but by Sunday they still had not located the 16-year-old whose initial report of abuse led to the raid.
Marleigh Meisner, a spokeswoman for Child Protective Services, said investigators were still trying to determine whether the girl who called authorities last week was among the people, including 159 children, removed from the compound.
Meisner said the adults were cooperating with investigators, and that she did not believe any had been forced to leave the compound.
Investigators also were looking for the man the girl allegedly married, Dale Barlow. Palmer said other law enforcement agencies "know where (Barlow) is and have talked to him, but our investigators have not."
Barlow's probation officer told The Salt Lake Tribune that he was in Arizona.
"He said the authorities had called him (in Colorado City, Arizona) and some girl had accused him of assaulting her and he didn't even know who she was," said Bill Loader, a probation officer in Arizona.
Sounds like the authorities are not at all confident. The local reporters asked some tough questions in that news conference, which didn't come through in the online writeups by CNN and Fox. One asked "You say you haven't forced the adults to leave, but you also say you've made their options clear. Sounds like force to me."
Another asked "Isn't this supposed to be a country with religious freedom?"
Nurse Ratched had no answer, but the fact that reporters are willing to ask those questions is another encouraging sign. The "scientific consensus" behind the pogrom has broken down.
One question that wasn't asked but should have been: Nurse Ratched said at one point that the accuser was probably remaining anonymous and silent now because of fear. Really? Let's think about this for a minute. If you were afraid of being beaten, you'd be silent while you were in the same house with the beater, and you'd sing like a bird when you were in protective custody. This accuser sang like a bird when she was supposedly in the compound, and now she's silent or absent. This is precisely what you'd expect from a false accuser; even more simply, it's what you'd expect from an accuser who was never anywhere near the place. ¶ 8:31 PM
