ShareThisSAN ANGELO, Texas -- Hearing her three children cry out for her is the sweetest sound in the world to Lori Jessop.Seven weeks after being forced apart, Jessop has her family together again -- husband, Joseph S. Jessop Sr., and children Ziana, 4, Joeson, 2, and J.R., 1.But will it last?Lori Jessop and the three children were taken from the Yearning For Zion ranch on April 5 by Texas officials investigating the polygamist sect that lived there. Eventually, they ended up at the San Angelo Coliseum. Somewhere along the way, her children contracted several illnesses -- including chicken pox and giardia, a water-borne parasite. All three spent nine days in the hospital, where Lori, who was still nursing J.R., was allowed to join them.Once released, the two youngest were sent to a shelter in Gonzales while Lori and J.R. remained in San Antonio. Caseworkers had to pry the other two children from her, she said.Lori Jessop said caseworkers suggested she let J.R. go, too, because he would soon be taken away based on a judge's order that cut off nursing mothers once their children reached 12 months.The "threat" was "so devastating I couldn't even speak," Lori Jessop said.Instead, their attorney, Rene Haas of Corpus Christi, went to court. On May 14, two days before J.R.'s first birthday, a judge barred the state from removing him from his mother and ordered the state Child Protective Services to let the couple visit their other children daily.They returned to court last Friday on a petition to have their children returned. Instead of holding the hearing, the judge told Haas, CPS and the state to work out a resolution.The negotiations went on for more than five hours, Haas said, and involved representatives of the Texas Attorney General's office. In the end, a written agreement was hammered out and approved by the judge -- but a caseworker still refused to turn the couple's children over to them. The reasons shifted: a media gag order was needed; the temporary home had to pass inspection first; confusion over who agreed to the deal.It took almost an hour and three trips back to see the judge before CPS released the children, Haas said, and the parents took them in their arms. "It was awfully nice," she said.Having his family back is "so wonderful," Joseph Jessop said. "It lifts the burden off your mind and heart to know where they are, what they are doing and know they're being cared for."The Jessops, who are staying in an undisclosed location in the San Antonio area, said the experience has marked their children. Ziana calls everyone she sees a police officer; Joeson has gone back to sucking a "plug" and needing a diaper. They are clingy, emotional and wake up throughout the night. "I think that we are healing and overcoming the trauma it's caused," Lori Jessop said. "I'm hoping the children are on the mend." They know, Joseph Jessop said, to "patiently bring them through it" but "I don't know if we can heal the wounds." To other FLDS parents, they hold themselves out as a beginning. "We keep our prayers going for each other," he said. (E-mail Brooke Adams at brooke(at)sltrib.com)(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
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TEXAS-CPS CORE ARGUMENT
TEXAS-CPS CORE ARGUMENT
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.
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
SIGNED: RECKIPS
BIGAMY: SECULAR SOLUTION
BIGAMY: SECULAR SOLUTION
(WITH OR WITHOUT LEGISLATION)
REDEFINE/RECAST: "SPIRITUAL MARRIAGES" AS
"PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS"
WITH ALL INCIDENTS OF MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN;
YET, THE PARTIES ARE NOT BEING
OFFICIALLY MARRIED IN THE EYES OF THE COURT OR
IN THE EYES OF THE LAW."
LEGAL PRENUPTIAL CONTRACTS THAT PRECLUDE (A) PRESUMPTION OF MARRIAGES OR (B) AUTOMATIC MARRIAGES BY DEFAULT
PROBABLE SOLUTION FOR POLYGAMISTS TO WIN IN TEXAS (IN FULL OR IN PART)
Available (draft in full or in part) at: http://www.geocities.com/rre5/MOMS.html
SIGNED: RECKIPS
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COHOUSING OR INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES DEFINE POLYGAMY
"COHOUSING" (SECULAR LEGAL TERM)
FITS POLYGAMISTS
REDEFINE OR RECAST "POLYGAMIST COMMUNAL HOUSING PROBLEM" AS COHOUSING.
REDEFINE OR RECAST "POLYGAMIST LIVING ARRANGMENT PROBLEM" IN RANCH-COMPOUNDS OR MULTI-UNITS
AS
COHOUSING WITH COMMON FACILITIES
shared common facilities and ongoing connections with neighbors
Available at:
http://www.cohousing.org/
Intentional Communities
Available at:
http://www.ic.org/
COHOUSING IS LEGAL.
SIGNED: RECKIPS
CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT REASONING APPLIED TO [FLDS] CUSTODY
QUOTE:
...Glen Lavy says that the California Supreme Court?s legal reasoning could be applied to polygamous marriages and [(FLDS) CUSTODY]. [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
SIGNED: RECKIPS
FLDS CUSTODY CASE
CNN guest compares gay marriage to FLDS sect polygamy. [CUSTODY CASE: SLIPPERY-SLOPE: ARGUMENTS AS FALLACIES]
Availabe Archives at:
http://www.topix.com/news/gay/2008/05/cnn-guest-compares-gay-marriage-to-flds-sect-polygamy
My other compilations and derivative work:
Available at:
http://www.geocities.com/rre5/CIVILLIBERTIES.html
SIGNED: RECKIPS
THINLY VEILED TEXAS CPS CORE FALLACY (SYNTHESI)
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."
MAKE COUNTER-ARGUEMENT POINT-BY-POINT
http://www.geocities.com/rre5/INTITATIONTOCOUNTERARGUMENTS.html
My other compilations and derivative work:
SIGNED: RECKIPS.COM
WHY SHOULD THE FLDS CHILDREN SHOULD BE SENT BACK HOME?
QUESTION
WHY SHOULD THE FLDS CHILDREN SHOULD BE SENT BACK HOME?
(X) Because, TEXAS CPS PROBABLE CAUSE IS A SLIPPERY-SLOPE CAUSE, A FALLACY.
(X) Because TEXAS CPS belief is a slippery-slope argument, a fallacy.
(X) Because Texas CPS "a priory probability is zero," or a fallacy; This case is both: (a) not about polygamy slippery slope and (b) about polygamy slippery slope argument, a fallacy.
For More
http://www.geocities.com/rre5/TFORIMMEDIATERELEASE.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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THE TEXAS COURT CUSTODY: "CORE FALLACY FOUND"
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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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