Submitted by HK (not verified) on Sun, 20/04/2008 - 03:31.
The consistency of the press to link the RLDS group with the LDS church is interesting and revealing. It would take less than 5 minutes of journalistic effort to arrive at the true relationship between the two; that it is nonexistent.
It takes longer than that to craft each story in such a way that the fabricated association between the two is not readily evident.
Another example of lockstep press bias, is the coverage of the 16yo girl who lodged the initial complaint. Her story of abuse at the hands of RLDS members has been repeated so often it has become rote.
She has been arrested for that crime. Has anyone here read that? Wouldn't that be at least as important as endlessly repeating the initial (and false) accusations?
Another story buried or ignored is how the oft recounted, bizarre details of RLDS life are debunked in court by John Walsh, an independent religious scholar. CNN mentions it; at the end of the article, in a tone very different than the headline. http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/18/polygamy.custody/index.html
Also, there is how the prosecution 'expert', Bruce Perry sits on the editorial board of "Cultic Studies Review". CSR is better known as the American Family Foundation, an 'anti-cult' entity; originally assembled from smaller organizations dedicated to the elimination of Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Roman Catholics and other not-Protestant Christian faiths.
CSR is now a prominent entity of secular and religious leaders, unified in the goal of deciding who are cultists and then systematically targeting them.
I only know enough about the RLDS to know that they are not Latter Day Saints by any viable definition. I have no knowledge of any other abuse claims or if they are valid. But I've acquired enough evidence to indicate that the press and the prosecution are behaving as if there is no profit in the truth of the matter.
Why the spin on this?
Submitted by HK (not verified) on Sun, 20/04/2008 - 03:31.The consistency of the press to link the RLDS group with the LDS church is interesting and revealing. It would take less than 5 minutes of journalistic effort to arrive at the true relationship between the two; that it is nonexistent.
It takes longer than that to craft each story in such a way that the fabricated association between the two is not readily evident.
Another example of lockstep press bias, is the coverage of the 16yo girl who lodged the initial complaint. Her story of abuse at the hands of RLDS members has been repeated so often it has become rote.
But who has read the story that the girl never existed? The initial accusation against the RLDS was an invention of Rozita Swinton. A 33yo black woman of Colorado Springs TX.
http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=247fdf9...
She has been arrested for that crime. Has anyone here read that? Wouldn't that be at least as important as endlessly repeating the initial (and false) accusations?
Another story buried or ignored is how the oft recounted, bizarre details of RLDS life are debunked in court by John Walsh, an independent religious scholar. CNN mentions it; at the end of the article, in a tone very different than the headline.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/18/polygamy.custody/index.html
Also, there is how the prosecution 'expert', Bruce Perry sits on the editorial board of "Cultic Studies Review". CSR is better known as the American Family Foundation, an 'anti-cult' entity; originally assembled from smaller organizations dedicated to the elimination of Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Roman Catholics and other not-Protestant Christian faiths.
CSR is now a prominent entity of secular and religious leaders, unified in the goal of deciding who are cultists and then systematically targeting them.
I only know enough about the RLDS to know that they are not Latter Day Saints by any viable definition. I have no knowledge of any other abuse claims or if they are valid. But I've acquired enough evidence to indicate that the press and the prosecution are behaving as if there is no profit in the truth of the matter.
HK
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