He deserves to be raped in prison.
From everything I’ve read, the judge sounds like she had wholly lost patience with him. He acted as his own attorney but mostly just rambled incoherently about the Bible and stuff.
From Cat Fight’s link:
"…Jeffs had previously requested more time to prepare his defense, but the judge denied the request, saying she warned him about the difficulties of acting as his own attorney. Jeffs has a standby attorney who is only allowed to offer help and advice if Jeffs asks for it. …
Some members of the jury were visibly irritated with Jeffs’ tactic of having his witness read from religious texts. One juror continually glanced at a clock in the courtroom, while others yawned and closed their eyes. …
Prosecutors later played another clip of a different “training session” involving 12 girls, but Jeffs stood up and loudly spoke over the tape, talking about how a holy trust was being broken. The judge and jurors were wearing headphones to listen to the tape, and ignored Jeffs’ rambling. …"
I always wonder when I get called to jury duty if it’ll be something spectacular like this. I can’t even imagine some of the things the jury had to hear and see, let alone what those girls went through. Twelve year olds? Jeebus.
I’m just baffled about the thought process of these FLDS twits.
“Ok… the authorities here in Utah are putting heat on us about pedophilia and other religious oddities. What do we do?”
“I know! Let’s move our cult to Texas! You know, where there are tons of other Mormons, and lots of toleration for stuff like pedophilia, cults, and a fairly soft justice system to boot!”
I remember wondering why in the world they’d move here- of all the places unlikely to tolerate any of those kinds of shenanigans, it would be West Texas.
God will smite you for that, you know.
And you’re just the one to do it!
So, God didn’t tell Abraham to murder his son? God didn’t tell Joshua to commit genocide? Warren Jeffs is not the first prophet to claim that God is telling him to do evil. He’s not really much different from biblical prophets and from the founders of the (F)LDS movement.
If God tells you to do something, and it involves puppies, a bucket full of jelly, and a length of hose, it’s probably God’s ‘other’ son, who isn’t quite right.
I’m imagining “God’s ‘other’ son” looking and acting like Blackadder in the medieval Blackadder series.
Allen Glade Steed
Michael Emack
Allan Keate
Raymond Jessop
Keith Dutson Jr.
Merril Jessop
Lehi Jeffs
Abram Jeffs
Huffington Post says 11 have been charged because of the raid (very last line of the article). Seven have been convicted so far.
There have been some in the past as well:
Rodney Holm
I keep confusing Rick Warren and Warren Jeffs.
It makes me go :o for a minute, that’s for sure.
Whenever you are baffled by the thought processes of FLDS, remember this: they all believe strongly in divine revelation. The prophet has spoken, so the thinking has been done. They went to Texas because god told them to. :rolleyes: God told Jeffs that he was sending younger and younger girls to him. For some reason.
Anyway, my hope is that Jeffs will finally understand what it feels like to be a plural wife. Too bad he wasn’t sentenced for “time and all eternity.”
Which brings up a point: Do you all realize that this is nothing to him nor his followers? He is sealed to all those women and girls for time and all eternity (that’s in the mormon scriptures). As far as they are concerned, this life + 20 prison sentence is just a blip on the radar because once Jeffs gets to his Celestial Kingdom, he will have all his brides back to live forever in polygamy, popping out eleventy billion spirit children so they can populate their own planets and become gods.
Don’t believe me? Read the Book of Mormon. P.S. The mainstream mormons pretty much believe in the same thing. This is why Utah turns a blind eye to polygamy.
Which underscores your point that going to Texas was the stupidest move ever, on Jeffs’ part. But if you read anything about the trial, it becomes patently clear very quickly that he is uneducated (home schooled on the compound just like everybody else there) and not exactly the brightest bulb in the cult.
This mornings paper stated that Jeffs had 24 underage wives. :eek:
His wiki page stated that he had 20 men exiled from his compund, and those wives divied up amongst some of the other remaining men.
How many wives did Jeffs claim to have?
Look at this:
http://gawker.com/warren-jeffs/
According to this report the pervert is/was masturbating 15+ times a day while in jail and not trying to hide it.
He’ll be eligible for parole when he turns 100, as if this child raping shit stain will survive a year in jail.
It’s the exiling thing that bugged (perhaps “bugs” is the more accurate term, as I haven’t heard that the exilings have been rescinded) me the most about him and his cult. Especially when they would exile teenaged boys.
Y’know, when you say “Look at this,” give me a link to gawker and tell me it’s about how much he’s masturbating, I’m not really inclined to click on it. :eek:
It’s the child rape that bugs me. 
And the baby waterboarding. (See also: Escape, by Carolyn Jessop)
From here:
Well, yeah, point taken, I suppose.
But put yourself in the position of being an adolescent kid for a moment, among a group of other adolescent kids. The man that you have been conditioned to believe is your only intermediary to the Creator and Ruler of the Universe is about to assign you to your lot in life. It will be either: this is the family you have been placed with, to be a sex partner and breeding chattel for the head of the family, or you have been deemed unfit to participate in the community that spawned you; you are to be cast out to wander the wilderness, and no we don’t intend to equip you with any tools to enable you to make your way in what passes for society out there.
Not exactly a slam dunk which kids are getting the shorter end of the stick.