Collapsing Empire's Journal: Polygamist Ranch Raid

I have been reading about this for the past week. I am generally anti-Christian in my philosophy, however, I feel compelled to comment on the total farce our collective morality has become in light of the response to the polygamists.

It is very likely at this point that the telephone call about the alleged abuse going on there was a total fake. This essentially renders the pretext for the raid and detention of all the minors to be moot (though not legally, apparently, as a judge has ruled).

What this is all about is the state's idea of "abuse". The idea is that, if you're a grown man and you engage in marital affairs with a post-pubescent teenager (which is a key distinction here - the young women are old enough to be sexually active - just not old enough to leagally engage in it), you're somehow "abusing" the young women.

There might be some arguable situations in which statuatory rape laws are legitimate - if you can argue that a young woman is not mature enough to really fend for herself and make her own decisions regarding mates, then perhaps there is an argument here to protect her from becoming pregnant at such an early age before she is able to adequately able to handle the consquences of childbirth while still trying to make it out of school.

However, the context here is much different. The young women are, at least from initial appearances, taken care of well and their needs handled. So where is the abuse exactly? I'm not seeing it. In ancient European culture, teenagers being taken up as brides or merely as sexual partners was common. Was that abuse too?

Law enforcement, courts, and your average American, would have you believe that there is some universal moral law that makes it a crime, in the most absolute sense, to have sex with a teenager (of course, the age puberty happens is never really explained away by the moralists).

Recent history tells me that the government looks down with disdain at any group of people who create quasi-self-sufficent communities that manage to culturally isolate themselves from the rest of society (Waco and Ruby Ridge come to mind here).

Purely speculation on my part, but I believe that the government genuinely sees the formation of distinct and self-sufficent communities as a threat to its power. If enough people started creating these communities in a region of the country, they might become large and powerful enough to pose a threat (such as secession). Gotta nip them in the bud before people realize that local communities offer them much more than consumer-culture globalism and junk entertainment.

I don't really know whats going on with these children, but nobody has presented any evidence that anything truly harmful was going on and thus the position I take is that there was never any evidence to begin with to justify the harm that has been caused.