Recent content by DavidFriedman

Whether it is bad depends on the law. But bad or not, it isn't illegal--and shouldn't be. I am arguing that the intent of the raid was to either destroy the Texas FLDS or drive them out of Texas--that's the most plausible explanation for why the CPS took such wildly excessive action. And it...

You might want to read the opinion of the Texas appeals court, affirmed by the Supreme Court--both decisions were unanimous. They make it quite clear that teaching your children that things are right which the law says are wrong is not child abuse and is not justification for taking the children...

I agree that CPS had some reason to be suspicious about documentary evidence. My point was that, having rejected such evidence, they didn't know what the ages were. So when they announced that they had 53 girls aged 14-17 of whom 31 were pregnant or mothers, they had to be deliberately lying...

I haven't seen it--where is it webbed? Note that the minimum age of marriage (with parental consent) was 14 in Texas up until about three years ago. It's 14 for girls (I think, might be 13) in NH, last time I checked. ... People in power frequently get away with things that are...

I think the objective was to either destroy the Texas FLDS as a religious community or to drive them out of Texas. That was pretty clear when the original anti-FLDS legislation was passed three years ago. It was strongly suggested when the CPS first seized all of the children, then told the...

1. You are proposing that the Texas CPS ought to find some country whose laws they are willing to follow? We have the unanimous opinion of first the appeals court panel and then the Texas Supreme Court that they were not following the laws of Texas. 2. How do you know that the FLDS does all...

I quoted the relevant federal statute. Under that, if what they were trying to do was to destroy part of a religious group by taking their children away, they were guilty of genocide. You may, of course, have a different explanation for why they seized 400+ children in response to a hoax phone...

I can't tell from this whether you realize that the CPS has demonstrably lied through the case. They announced that, out of 53 girls 14-17, 31 were pregnant or mothers--without mentioning that they were refusing to accept birth certificates as proof of age, hence had no way of knowing the...