They talk funny. Must be because of their seclusion from society. I feel really bad for them but the way they speak is kinda creepy.

Yeah this is creepy. I do sympathize but I'm hoping that kind of strange vacancy is not representative.

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Wow, that's a compelling and surreal clip. Good find.

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No sympathy here - yes, they are oppressed Stockholm syndrome victims themselves, but they are perpetuating a hideous abuse cycle. No, they are not law abiding, and part of their community's modus operandi is defrauding the welfare system. I can't imagine feeding a thirteen year old daughter to a fifty year old man.
Evil broodmares.

Oh Christ, the smile on the one in the middle!

Burn it, burn it with fire.

it's like an alien culture in a weird 50's sci fi movie...

they sound a little like GLaDOS.

"we...are...free"

That's a bit unfair, critttter.. monkey see, monkey do.

fair play to the news reader for being so reserved and not doing a faux style attack.

Bzzz, wrong! It's not your choice if you are abusing the children, even if you love them. A deeply religious upbringing is abuse. A whole lot of more children ought to be removed from their crazy parents, but sadly religion is not yet classified as mental abuse, which it should be.

I agree with what they were saying. But omg the creep factor is 290%.

What the hell is going on ?????????

Brainwashed. Creepy. OMG. Burn the village.

^ Unfair? For who? If you were married off at age 15, that sucks, you were abused. Ignorance doesn't give you justification to perpetuate this abuse cycle with your own children. It's unfortunate that their ignorance or religious determination brought them to this, but this is how you break the cycle. They did this to themselves.

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Won't someone pleeeeeease think of the children!!!![/simpsons mode]

I may have been a bit generalizing above, but I stand by it. In any case, this is clearly a sign of abuse and if we are compassionate people, who wish for our society to survive, it is imperative to remove the children from that abusive community.

I don't get it...what did they do?

If I had an army of robot wives..don't think I'd go with the Amish schoolteacher look. Just sayin'.

>> ^E_Nygma:
they sound a little like GLaDOS.
"we...are...free"


Sounds like SHODAN to me.

crittter, I fully understand your stand on this, and I in no way approve of cults like this, their way of speaking just demonstrates how subservient and 'quiet' they obviously have to be. HOWEVER. You have to understand that they have been subjected to this for their whole lives (I'm assuming anyway, I don't actually know the facts here). If you'd been brought up this way it would take an AWFUL lot to convince you that the way you've been brought up is in any way wrong...

It's scary as hell that people do this, but they do it because they can (the leaders), and because there are always abused and mistreated people around who will be susceptible to this kind of indoctrination.

ahh, the simple life... no choices, few worries,... no FoxNews... just the rampant incest seems like the real downside. Maybe I'll apply for adoption into the Borg... I mean, a polygamous Mormon sect.

Just when I think there's some hope for the world, some shit like this pops up and reminds me of the disgusting things people love to do to each other. Yes these women are creepy, yes this shit needs to stop, but I still feel so sad for them.

Man, It's really hard to not judge someone like this.

They've been brought up this way, they've been in this cult Religion
their entire lives, and this is truly what they've been brought up to believe,
honestly, they've never lived our life, so they don't truly know how free they
aren't.

I mean I understand the double edge sword of "freedom" is that you can live your life the way you see fit and it was an interesting point to have your kids taken away because of your parenting choice. However like others have said, giving your daughter away as a child is illegal so they shouldnt be giving us "we're Americans" bullshit because as such you have to follow the laws. Not that hard, dont fuck little kids. To many peoples freedoms hurt others, that is the paradox of what freedom. The only thing that came to mind in favor of them was that if you question their parenting styles as wrong i can point out countless other parents of all walks of life in this country that arent fit either to be parents. They to break laws and are dangerous to their children. So where do you draw the line? Unless you want to have millions more orphans running around or ready to institute a government sterilization program there isnt much we can do

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Fucking creepy.

the one on the left of the picture has by far the weirdest voice, if anyone one of those people spoke to me, I would run.

And not stop running.





Ever.

they're creepy cultists that sound like robots, yes, but polygamy has nothing to do with it.

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Re: their voices - my guess is that they speak so meekly and politely because from the time they were born, any other manner of speech by the less empowered members of their social structure was not tolerated.

>> ^rottenseed:
I don't get it...what did they do?


They clubbed the seal in your avatar pic.

One of my friends, a sifter over and visiting, asks, "why does it look like they have pitchforks under their asses. That, and the guns pointed at their heads right now."

For those wondering what's going on here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLDS#April_2008_raid

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The children should be reunited with their mothers. They should all receive counseling and be reintegrated into society together. Their moms may be creepy, but kids need their moms.

The government is doing real harm by keeping moms away from their kids.

*Utards

Another fine result of Religion.

Oh Dag..? I disagree.

But seriously, you have to see what hurts the child less. Of course a child is hurt by being removed from its parents, but that hurt can be a lot less that keeping them there. Remember these women have the right to choose to do what they do, but they do not have the right choose for their child if it is dangerous. So removing the children is the lesser of two evils.

You have to remove the kids or they will end up just like their moms. You must break the cycle.

I saw save the ones you can.

>> ^dag:
The children should be reunited with their mothers. They should all receive counseling and be reintegrated into society together. Their moms may be creepy, but kids need their moms.
The government is doing real harm by keeping moms away from their kids.

The solution is simple. I've seen this before. Remove the microchips from the back of their heads and they'll snap out of it and Christoper Walken will blow up.

Case closed.

Durrr- So you're all saying our society and societal values are the TRUE and correct ones?
You sure wouldn't be first in thinking so.

Rehabilitation for anyone who disagrees with our values! Slippery slope?

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^ Abducted, you hit the nail on the head. Yes, these people are creepy weirdos to us. But snatching their kids away and putting them in foster care because we find their culture not in step with today's mores is not a good answer.


I give you the stolen generation as an example of what happens when modern, moral, society breaks apart families.

>> ^dag:
^ Abducted, you hit the nail on the head. Yes, these people are creepy weirdos to us. But snatching their kids away and putting them in foster care because we find their culture not in step with today's mores is not a good answer.



This may be the most controversial position I've ever taken, but it's worth it...

Let's take a somewhat unrealistic hypothetical scenario, and tell me how you would avoid it:


Scenario
1. There's a stupid cult called the froods that supports censorship.
2. Frood dogma commands that they indoctrinate their children so thoroughly that a child of a frood has a 75% chance of remaining a frood for the rest of his life.
3. Frood dogma commands froods to have at least 10 children.
4. Frood population grows until they take over the "democratic" government with sheer numbers of their brainwashed offspring, and then they repeal freedom of speech.

Possible Solutions:
1. universal 2-child policy prevents any one small cohort from taking over via multiplication, and helps apostasy overcome the rate of indoctrinating new children.
2. Try to deprogram their children to increase the apostacy rate beyond 80% so that the Froods stop growing in number and population growth slows before we all starve to death.


What is so deeply troubling about this scenario is that democracy is fundamentally meaningless if people are so closed-minded that they merely inherit the ideas of their parents or social cohort, and thus reproduction rates determine votes. Many people are too smart for that, as most ideologies have decent apostasy rates in the teens of percentage, but it is not enough apostasy to compensate for extremely high fertility rates.

I think it is time to recognize that having children is one of the deepest effects one can have on a society, and therefore reproduction should be somewhat regulated by law with the common good in mind. Human civilization and environment may be very adversely affected by a trillion unilateral decisions to have excessive numbers of children.
Of course it is troubling to restrict any freedom, but benefits far outweigh the costs. Having excessive numbers of children would not be a victimless crime; the victims would be the children themselves and the whole of society that has to deal with the environmental degradation and infrastructure burden of an unsustainably high world population.

It is vital that those children are kept from their mothers until they can all get some serious counseling.

Take a step back for a moment. We are NOT free. We have some freedoms with qualified guarantees. The primary limitation of our freedoms is the restriction on harming other people, including your own children. If society deems your lifestyle is harmful to your children, they can and should be taken from you to break the lifestyle cycle. Society codifies what is harmful in laws and courts. As a group, we have determined that polygamy is questionable, but underage marriage and forced marriage are strictly forbidden, synonymous with rape.

These women, crying, smiling, and begging to be reunited with their children, support a lifestyle that includes child rape. IT ENDS. That's it. Period.

If those women ever realize that forced/underage marriage is terribly wrong, then and only then should they be allowed to be brought back together.

I'm familiar with the stolen children, (loved Rabbit Proof Fence.) We did the same in the US with Native Americans. (Put them in boarding schools away from their parents and forbade them to speak their native language. And taught them the bible.)
This isn't about culture. This is psychological. This relates much more to the movie 'Born Into Brothels'.
Their mothers speak like zombies because their souls have basically been murdered. They have learned that rape is a way of life, a means to an end. They have overridden the little voices in their consciousness that were telling them that was was happening to them was wrong. That's when they died.
If the children stay in this situation, they will perpetuate this. And the sons are just as much victims as the daughters.
A spattering of women have escaped this situation. Hopefully these women (hey, and why leave the men out?) get intense psychological help to see if they can be re-awakened, in which case they have a chance of being suitable parents.

But this doesn't compare with cultural assimilation any more than leaving the family of a wife-beater together for family's sake does.

Get the kids out before they die inside.

If the mothers want their children to return to a "life style" that includes statutory rape (it now appears that more than half of the teen girls in state custody have children or are pregnant) I seriously do no think it would be safe to reunite them with their children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/31-of-53-teen-girls-at-fl_1_n_99097.html