ShareThisLife hasn't been particularly kind to Dan Barlow.The soft-spoken retiree, now 76, saw three children taken during the infamous Short Creek raid of 1953. He got them back, fathered many more and rose to prominence in life becoming mayor of Colorado City, Ariz. and his involvement through the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.That changed in 2004.Sect leader Warren Jeffs excommunicated Barlow, his son and 18 others, forcing them out of their homes and away from their families. Last month, his four youngest children were taken by Texas authorities in a raid many call a modern Short Creek.In 1953, Arizona authorities took away all the sect community's women and children and kept them in custody for two years. Public outcry over the handling of the raid and its aftermath led to a hands-off approach toward the sect for half a century."I know what it feels like," said Barlow, easily the oldest father -- and perhaps the only grandfather -- involved in the landmark child-custody case, the largest in U.S. history. "I know the emotions. I know the feelings."Barlow doesn't know whether his wife, a sect member, will get her children back. If not, he said, he would gladly take them. He doesn't know whether that would be possible either.A Third Court of Appeals ruling last week brought hope to him and hundreds of other parents swept into the massive case. But the reality remains that they, their children and the thousands of attorneys, case workers and appointed guardians are unsure what -- if anything -- the ruling means.The legal arguments matter little for Barlow.He finally visited his children, who range in age from 4 to 13, last week after being unable to contact them since shortly after his excommunication -- the reasons for which he says he still doesn't know.The oldest recognized him. The younger three only knew him from pictures."They kind of grew up," he said, waiting for his attorney on a bench in the Tom Green County Courthouse, sounding neither sad nor angry despite having every right to be. "The little ones didn't even know me."When you get older, things are all supposed to smooth out," he continued, "but sometimes when you get older, your greatest tests are still ahead."(Contact Paul Anthony of the Standard Times in San Angelo, Texas, at www.texaswest.com.)
Father, 76, sees four children taken in polygamy sect case
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TEXAS CPS DEFINE [FLDS] AS A SUBVERSIVE CULTURE/LEGACY/HERITAGE
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PROVE OR DISPROVE ARGUMENT: [THINLY VEILED]
TEXAS STATE CONFERENCE: STUDIES (PREPARATION FOR RAID)
TITLE: Subversive Legacy: Learning from History/Constructing the Future. Available at:
http://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/subversive/speakers.html
TEXAS CPS CORE ARGUMENT: BUILT AN UNDERLYING CASE THAT FLDS POLYGAMISTS ARE "SUBVERSIVE TO U.S. CULTURE/HERITAGE/LEGACY")
[FLDS] POLYGAMISTS NEED TO PROVE THAT [FLDS] POLYGAMITS ARE "AN U.S. ANTI-SUBVERSIVE CULTURE/HERITAGE/LEGACY."
TEST OF FIRE: HIDDEN
TEST TO PROVE FLDS CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERITES IS TO SHOW THAT THEY ARE ANTI-SUBVERSIVE
TEXAS CPS TREATS FLDS SECT AS CRIMINAL MOTHERS
WITH A "SUBVERSIVE HERITAGE/LEGACY: SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT" AS A FALLACY
WITH A "SUBVERSIVE SLIPPERY-SLOPE CLAIMS OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES" AS A FALLACY
WITH "SUBERSIVE-SEX SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT" AS A FALLACY
WITH "SUBVERSIVE-MARRIAGE SLIPPERY-SLOPE:" ARGUMENT AS A FALLACY
WITH "SUBVERSIVE-FAMILY SLIPPERY-SLOPE:" ARGUMENT AS A FALLACY
WITH WITH "SUBVERSIVE-CHILDREN SLIPPERY-SLOPE:" ARGUMENT AS A FALLACY
WITH "SUBVERSIVE PLEDGE OF ALLIGENCE SLIPPERY-SLOPE:" ARGUMENT AS A FALLACY
WITH "SUBVERSIVE COHOUSING SLIPPERY-SLOPE:" ARGUMENT AS A FALLACY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohousing
WITH "SUBVERSIVE "INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY:" SLIPPERY-SLOPE" ARGUMENT AS A FALLACY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_community
WITH A "SUBVERSIVE FASHION TRENDS OF CLOTHING DESIGN: SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT AS A FALLACY
Is the FLDS SECT being treated as a "SUBVERSIVE SLIPPERY-SLOPE" FALLACY-Legacy?
TEXAS SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENTS (THREE DOMINO FALLACIES)
THE TEXAS-CPS COMPLAINT, AND AFFIDAVITS, AND JUDGE'S ORDER AGAINST THE FLDS CUSTODY CASE IS BASED ON:
(X) [POLYGAMY "SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT"] AS A FALLACY," AND
(X) [RELIGIOUS FREEDOM "SLIPPERY-SLOPE"] ARGUMENT AS FALLACY,
(X) [CHILD PROTECTION "SLIPPERY-SLOPE"] ARGUMENT AS FALLACY.
(X) "POLYGAMY CHILDREN: SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT IS A FALLACY."
(X) POLYGAMY PARENTS: SLIPPERY-SLOPE IS A FALLACY
THE CORE OF THIS CASE IS BASED on AT LEAST THREE (DOMINO FALLACIES) OR SLIPPERY-SLOPE FALLACIES
FIND THE DEFINITION OF (48) OR MORE TYPES OF FALLACIES. (WITH OR WITHOUT A PRIORI PROBABILITY)
Available (draft in full or in part) at: http://www.geocities.com/rre5/MOMS.html
FAIL TO PREPARE IS PREPAIR TO FAIL
CONCLUSION:
PROVE THAT THE [FLDS] POLYGAMISTS ARE "ANTI-SUBVERSIVE."
Available Draft in full or in part at:
http://www.geocities.com/rre5/CIVILLIBERTIES.html
* DISCLAIMER: Continuation of my literary work/efforts...fact/fiction...quasi-fact/quasi-fiction...draft...outline...etc.
Authorship/Moral Rights: Debater or FALLACY-HUNTER
SIGNED: RECKIPS
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CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT REASONING APPLIED TO [FLDS] CUSTODY
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TO AVOID THE SLIPPERY SLOPE ARGUMENT IS TO AVOID CIVIL LIBERTIES ARGUMENTS
QUOTE: . . . Glen Lavy says that the California Supreme Court's legal reasoning could be applied to polygamous marriages and [(FLDS) POLYGAMIST CUSTODY CASES. . .
[A week earlier, I used the same reasoning AGAINST the Texas CPS arguments: the polygamist children’s slippery slope argument.] QUOTE LOS ANGELES TIMES with my comment added.
Available at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-lavy-davidson21-2008may21,0,4548609.story
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TEXAS CASE: "CORE FALLACY FOUND"
NEW LIGHT (MATERIAL PROOF OF MY CLARITY OF MIND):
THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT DID NOT UPHELD THE TEXAS CPS RAID [cost of $ 10,000.00 ten million dollars or more], BUT
BASED ON HEARSAY EVIDENCE, THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT DID UPHELD THE LOWER COURT: "POLYGAMY SLIPPERY-SLOPE ARGUMENT AND DECISION."
* DISCLAIMER: Continuation of my literary work/efforts...fact/fiction...
quasi-fact/quasi-fiction...draft...outline...etc.
Authorship/Moral Rights: LSAT STUDENT OF FALLACIES, Debater or
FALLACY HUNTER
SIGNED: RECKIPS
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