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Impeach Texas District Judge Barbara Walther Over FLDS Fiasco

Submitted by M.J. Taylor on Wed, 2008-06-11 14:24.

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Texas Judge Barbara Walther authorized the removal of more than 400 children from an FLDS compound in Texas and their placement in foster care.

Both an appellate court and the Texas Supreme Court have ruled that the children and parents must be reunified. Even now Judge Walther is blocking the reunification by attempting to get parents to sign agreements with Child Protective Services before they can be reunited with their children.

Barbara Walther's actions constitute one of the greatest violation of constitutional rights in the State of Texas and she should be impeached and removed from office. This petition will be forwarded to Texas lawmakers after enough signatures are collected.

Signing this petition does not mean that you necessarily support the FLDS and their religious views.

Petition:

Whereas Texas 51st District Judge Barbara Walther has violated the constitutional rights of more than 400 children and their parents of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Church (FLDS);

and whereas Judge Barbara Walther took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Texas and has violated that oath;

and whereas both an appellate court and the Texas Supreme Court have sided with the FLDS children and their parents against Judge Barbara Walther;

and whereas the actions of Judge Barbara Walther have resulted in a great financial cost to the State of Texas and its taxpayers;

and whereas Judge Barbara Walther's actions constitute one of the greatest violations of constitutional rights in the history of the State of Texas;

and whereas Judge Barbara Walther should have known ahead of time that what she was doing was unconstitutional, since the Island Pond Raid in the State of Vermont in 1984 was almost identical, and there are other similar cases on record where judges refused to support unconstitutional raids by Child Protective Services;

and whereas Judge Barbara Walther has impeded the reunification of parents with their children, even after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that they should be reunified;

we ask that proceedings begin immediately for the impeachment of District Judge Barbara Walther of the State of Texas.

Follow this link to sign and see the entire petition to Impeach Texas District Judge Barbara Walther Over the FLDS Fiasco!

Judge Barbara Walther Impeachment petition initiated by Daniel T. Weaver on Jun 01, 2008.

[My kudos to Mr. Weaver, and a hat tip to “The Angry Dad” --MJ]

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Plus the cost to taxpayers

Submitted by Michelle L on Mon, 2008-06-16 07:44.

Aside from the statist actions of the CPS, the cost to taxpayers is unconscionable. According to an article by the Fort Worth Star Telegram :

FORT WORTH -- The cost of the April raid on a polygamist compound in West Texas is expected to top $14 million, about one-third of it in lawyers' fees, according to a published analysis of state records.

The state expects to pay nearly $4.5 million in legal fees, including paying for lawyers who represented the state and others appointed by judges to represent the children. The state also expects to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for expert witnesses, visiting judges and office supplies.

The state Attorney General's Office has been billed $110,000 for DNA testing of adults and children taken from the ranch in an effort to identify the parents of each child.

Another big chunk of spending, about $2.4 million, went to rent buses and facilities to house the children and some of the mothers after the early April raid, the newspaper reported

So, if I understand this correctly, the state is stealing money from the taxpayers to pay...the state. We, the Texas taxpayers, paid our hard-earned money to have a freakin' tank roll up to the compound (it's always a compound, but Bush's property of approximately the same size is a ranch) and scare the crap out of women and children as well as forcibly take these same children literally out of their mothers' arms. Jesus Christ on a jumped up pony, that takes some major balls.

Thank you M.J. for posting the petition, I am not only signing it but forwarding it to everyone I can possibly think of.

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Freedom of religion

Submitted by Jim Davidson on Wed, 2008-06-18 05:06.

We live in a country which is supposed to have as the supreme law of the land a constitution and bill of rights. Among other things, that bill of rights provides for the free exercise of religion.

Evidently, many of the practices of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints church members are unusual compared to how other Texans choose to live. However, their free exercise of religion should not be infringed just because some American soldiers died in 1858 fighting the "Utah War" against polygamy.

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Don't forget the Kidnapping of Adults

Submitted by M.J. Taylor on Wed, 2008-06-18 07:45.

kidnapping

noun
(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment.

Ignoring the actual children, they did imprison full legal adults, would not charge them, and would not release them.

M.J. Taylor
Publisher
from Reason to Freedom

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