I dont think there is anyone at all who feels that Flora has an ounce of credibility anymore - judging by all the silence when her name comes up.
Even the Senate hearings preferred the more sane sounding Carolyn Jessop over Flora.
For any who havent heard the truth about Flora, here is the rest of her story...
Quotes from folks OUTSIDE the FLDS-
"The information Flora's putting out that there's a mass exodus, it just isn't happening," said Bob Curran, director of Help the Child Brides, a St. George-based anti-polygamy group. "We're trying to lower the rhetoric and the temperature. We know of no more runaways. This is just hurting us."
Tapestry Against Polygamy leaders said they also are concerned that the story is nothing but a rumor."
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590037547,00.html
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"One reason I have doubts about Flora Jessop's reliability as a witness against FLDS is that she was so much younger than many others when she left- a 16 year old would just not have been privy to all the 'inside' information nor would she have been particularly good at assessing it. She also left a very long time ago- the inner culture changes. And she tells stories that aren't supported by any evidence. She has been one who has spoken of stockpiles of weapons and guns and armed body guards, but the entire history of this group has been non-violent."
http://heartkeepercommonroom.blogspot.com/search?q=flora
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"It's obvious that Flora's credibility is questionable at this point. But that hasn't dampened the mainstream media's willingness to continue facilitating her propaganda campaign against the FLDS." Flora is a publicity-hungry "fanatic" whose "demands to have control over someone else's children are becoming eerily similar to the dictatorial attitude of her sworn nemesis, Warren Jeffs." She is "misguided and devious."
-The Phoenix New Times
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"She said the compounds aren't like homes in that they are fortified, built with thick walls. They are very much armed. They have many, many weapons," she warned, and even went so far as to say that Warren Jeffs is David Koresh, Jim Jones, and 9-11 all wrapped up in one nice little package. These guys are very dangerous."
It is now evident who is the more dangerousFlora. These views of Dorans trusted informant explain why he called in such a dramatic show of law enforcement with extensive firepower and militant might. With SWAT-team methods they crashed through doors and entered into homes with machine guns raised in an invasion so large and with so much might that it cost Texas $5.3 million to carry out. But what kind of resistance did they encounter? Was it Floras forewarned apocalyptic bloodbath? No, they encountered nothing more than shocked adults and scared crying children. Where were all of Floras promised weapons? Once again we see why Flora Jessop cannot be believed. Truth is as elusive in her life as were the purported weaponsthey did not exist whatsoever."
http://fldsview.blogspot.com/search?q=flora
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Flora does more harm than good, is an unpredictable bad source, and not credit worthy.
She talks a good ball game, but when you look at her
. She rules over anybody who gets in her way, including me.
-Bob Curran, founder of the anti-polygamist organization, Help the Child Brides, (personally worked with Flora)
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"Flora has been swept up in the TV interviews, the fame, and the glory.
She loves the attention. She's craved it her whole life.
Nobody wants anything to do with Flora. Flora's been getting away with these [false] stories for a long time now, and its time to shut her down.
-Pennie Petersen, anti-polygamy activist who grew up with Flora in FLDS
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"My sister Fawn's story is similar most people still believe she fled a "forced marriage" My father treated her the same way as Uncle Fred did Flora. Yet when she took her to Phoenix, Flora had Fawn give an affidavit saying she was "abused, faced a forced marriage and feared for blood atonement", despite the fact that Fawn has over ten older sisters and not one was married under eighteen or ever felt that they were forced. The
CPS and authorities in Arizona investigated, the charges were dropped, and Flora was ordered to stay away from Fawn. That part of the story never made the paper.
http://fldsview.blogspot.com/search?q=flora
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Quotes From Insiders
"Flora ran away with her cousin Phillip Jessop. He was not much older than she. I know I lived there.
Flora was never in a plural marriage relationship except her father had more than one wife."
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5458658945502484148&postID=2934930550860397775&isPopup=true
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The FLDS website has an interesting story up. It's purportedly by the woman who raised Flora Jessop, and she wants to set the record straight. I think it's only fair to read it, since Flora has been telling her side of the story to the media and anybody who will listen for years now. Unlike Flora's version, this woman's tale has a couple details that ought to be able to be verified, or not, by a good reporter checking a few court records.
To whom it may concern:
"My name is Martha Barlow Jessop, wife of the late Fred M. Jessop, whom Flora referred to as Grandpa. I am an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and a Certified Nurse Midwife. I was very closely associated with Flora from her birth until she was 16 years old. I was appointed her guardian by the State of Utah when she was 14. She was under my direct care and supervision, living in my home, until she left at age 16 years.
After listening to and hearing of the stories and lies that Flora has been telling and putting out to the world through the medialies about how she was abused and escaped from her childhood home and religion, I feel compelled to tell the true story of Flora......
http://www.truthwillprevail.org/index.php?parentid=1&index=45
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