From your link:

BEWARE of racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen who claim to be despots

Will do!

[1] http://www.halfsigma.com/2008/04/texas-protects.html
[2] http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/economics-of-eldorado.html

We have as another data point the fact that the Texas CPS investigated the Branch Davidians for allegations of child abuse without the widespread loss of life that happened when the Feds got involved a few months later.

I am not sure why you describe the Branch Davidian’s building as “bunker like”. It looked a lot like the La Quinta Hotel I stayed at on my last business trip. The construction seemed to be standard 2X4 or 2X6 and fiber board or vinyl siding. Usually bunkers are built of stronger stuff.

I don’t think that the fruit of the poisoned tree works in this case because law officers who were acting in good faith, even if on the basis of what may turn out to be a prank call, observed evidence of criminal activity when they entered the ranch. IANAL so I don’t know if that is how it works outside the 9th Circuit, but I think that it has a pretty good chance of standing up to the initial appeals.

What is the process that exists for dealing with a geographically wide spread group of legally savvy bigamists and child molesters who routinely hide or falsify legal documents and suborn perjury in addition to their other unsavory habits?

It’s a freakin’ nightmare. Sure, I don’t like what they(the FLDS)do, but the means by which the gov’t is going about this is just wrong on so many levels. THere’s a reason there are limits placed on how the gov’t can and will go about these things. There exists already a process for doing this, and by not following it, well, we’ll see what comes out of that Pandora’s box.

Mark in Texas, that seems a rather odd observation. I mean, couldn’ there be a massive difference between the BD and FLDS in how they react to intrusions? Cou;dn’t there be a difference in how the FLDS has, oh, I dunno, armed or not armed themselves? Isn’t a rather diffuse looking set of ranch homes a lot different than a single bunker like building that the BD had? I just don’t get how you get to where you got.

>> Of course, Seerov might well be correct and it is just a matter of Texans being less inclined to White Supremacism than Canadians.

There’s someone more inclined to white supremacism than Texans? That’s just crazy talk.

This is sure to be just a mess. The state government might have had good intentions going in, they had a plan to take the place over and get rid of the bad guys, but now they don’t have a plan. Some sort of “exit strategy”

In any event, the multiculti defense for statutory rape doesn’t work all that well in Texas. The news regularly carries stories of some man in his twenties or thirties being convicted for having sex with a girl in her early teens. The plea that “It’s common where I come from in Mexico” is usually met with the answer that you are not in Mexico and when you get out of prison and are deported back there, you can indulge yourself with all the thirteen year olds you want.

Of course, Seerov might well be correct and it is just a matter of Texans being less inclined to White Supremacism than Canadians.

Someone class to me (referring to an Islamic charter school in Minneapolis) made a similar point: the governmental support of a Muslim counterculture is distasteful partially because of the callousness the government has shown to the passing of traditional rural culture.