Bean Fast Day 6

I'm grumpy today and the video proves it. I cannot imagine this diet for another week, let alone six months like the children trapped inside the FLDS compounds across America. I'm getting frequent headaches, I'm tired and my thought processes are quite dull.


March 8, 2013
Warren Jeffs
Breakfast
Pancakes
Syrup
Oatmeal
Sliced Apples
Margarine
Coffee
Milk
Scrambled Eggs

FLDS Children
Breakfast
Beans
Water

This is a picture of the FLDS ritual rape bed found by Texas Rangers inside the "temple" on the YFZ Ranch in 2008. For more information about this rape bed, please see today's video blog.

Warren Jeffs
Lunch
Burrito Casserole
Salsa
Refried Beans
Spanish Rice
Mexican Corn
Greens
Punch


FLDS Children
Lunch
Nothing


Warren Jeffs
Dinner
Pork Fried Rice
Navy Beans
Green Beans
Sliced Bread
Tea


FLDS Children
Dinner
Beans
Water


 

Bean Fast Day 5

Thanks to the tax payers it looks like Warren is enjoying another fine breakfast this morning in the cell of the Poweledge Unit in Palestine, while the children of the FLDS have nothing again but beans and water.

By the way, did you know that most FLDS families are on the SNAP [food stamp] program? That means that even though taxpayer dollars are funding hundreds of dollars of food for these children every month, their parents, following the orders of Warren Jeffs, are feeding them just pennies worth of the assistance that's actually provided to them. The SNAP program is designed to ensure no child goes hungry or lacks proper nutrition. That's exactly what it's for! How do you feel about Americans who take such assistance and still refuse to properly feed their children with it?

March 7, 2013

Warren Jeffs
Breakfast
Pancakes
Syrup
Oatmeal
Peaches
Margarine
Coffee
Breakfast Drink
Scrambled Eggs
FLDS Children
Breakfast
Beans
Water

Warren Jeffs
Lunch
Corn Dogs [2]
Catsup
Navy Beans
Green Beans
French Fries
Tea

FLDS Children
Lunch
Nothing

Warren Jeffs
Dinner
Cold Cuts
Cheese
Pinto Beans
Carrots
Mayo
Sliced bread
Lemonade

FLDS Children
Dinner
Beans
Water

Bean Fast Day 4

 

March 6, 2013

Warren Jeffs
Breakfast
Scrambled Eggs
Oatmeal
Biscuits
Mixed Fruit
Margarine
Coffee
Breakfast Drink
Jelly

 

FLDS Children
Breakfast
Beans
Water

 

Warren Jeffs

Lunch
Baked Sausage Link
Pinto Beans
Steamed Rice
Greens
Sweet Potatoes
Cornbread
Punch
Peanut Butter Bars

FLDS Children
Lunch
Nothing

Warren Jeffs
Dinner
Meatloaf
Northern Beans
Mashed Potatoes
Cornbread
Tea

 

FLDS Children
Dinner
Beans
Water

 

"Also, it was reported that
Warren Jeffs has banned oatmeal,
corn, turnips and dairy products,
but sources are not sure why."
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=22998086

Welcome to Day 4 of the AAAP Bean Fast, which we have launched as a prayer and fasting project to stand in solidarity with the children of the FLDS. These children have been restricted to a diet consisting of beans and water for breakfast and dinner, for months now. This was done on the orders of their leader, Warren Steed Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence for the sexual assault of children here in Texas.

Please join us by watching our videos each day, participating in the bean fast, prayer and or contacting officials in the states of Utah and Arizona, asking them to please do something to protect the children.

The Utah AG's contact information here: http://www.attorneygeneraljohnswallow.us/#
The Arizona AG's email contact information here: Tom.Horne@azag.gov
Please share this information on your social networking sites.
Thank you, and G-d bless you!

Bean Fast Day 3 March 5, 2013

Visit us on YouTube as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QdXNlLP3Kg

Warren Jeffs'
Breakfast today:
Pancakes
Syrup
Cereal
Raisins
Margarine
Coffee
Milk
Scrambled Eggs

The Children of the FLDS
Breakfast today:
Beans & Water

Warren Jeffs
Lunch Today:
Fish
Navy Beans
Creamed Potatoes
Green Beans

Sliced Bread
Tea

The Children of the FLDS
Lunch today:
Nothing

 
Warren Jeffs'
Dinner today:
Scrambled Eggs
Diced Potatoes
Biscuits
Apple Sauce
Oatmeal
Breakfast Drink
Margarine
Jelly

The Children of the FLDS
Dinner today:
Beans & Water

The Bean Fast Day 2

For those of you following our Bean Fast information, here is what Warren Steed Jeffs has had to eat so far today in his Texas prison cell:

March 4th, 2013

Breakfast
Scrambled Eggs
Dry Cereal
Toast
Peaches
Margarine
Coffee
Milk
Jelly

 

Lunch
Grilled Beef Roll
Country Gravy
Pinto Beans
Steamed Rice
Carrots
Greens
Cornbread
Lemonade

 

Here is what so far hundreds of children in the FLDS have had to eat today, per his orders:

Breakfast

Beans & Water

 

Lunch

Nothing

Dinner
Dinner
Beef Noodle Casserole
Navy Beans
Green Beans
Cornbread
Tea

FLDS children
Dinner
Beans & Water
 

Also, my fiend and long time AAAP supporter, Carol L. Douglas pointed out today that the only media outlet we know of that has reported on these dangerous dietary conditions inside the FLDS for children is the Daily Mail in England. You can read their coverage here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267222/Ruby-Jessop-The-incredible-story-child-bride-escaped-Warren-Jeffs-polygamous-sect.html

 

Please consider not only joining our Bean Fast as an act of solidarity with the innocent children trapped inside the FLDS polygamist cult, and praying for them but also taking action.

 

Things you can do:

• Join us in the Bean Fast, for one meal or the whole week, and let people know what you're doing and why.
• Share this blog and the information in it with your friends and family by email and social networking.
• Ask everyone you know to share it too!
• Contact the Arizona Attorney General, Tom Horne and politely ask him to DO SOMETHING to help protect these children.
• Contact the Utah Attorney General and make the same request, "Please do something to protect the children."

I'd like to thank everyone who has been sending me your precious words of encouragement so far this week. Together we can and do make a difference for the children of the FLDS.

 

 

The Bean Fast: Breakfast Day 1

I'd like to invite you to join me this week in a solidarity fast for the children of the FLDS. The FLDS is a fundamentalist Mormon group run by Warren Steed Jeffs, who was convicted here in Texas of the sexual assault of children. The FLDS practices polygamy, which is a recognized human rights abuse of women and children, worldwide.

Jeffs has ordered his estimated 10,000 followers to restrict their children to a diet of beans and water twice a day. That's it. That's what they get, beans and water, twice a day. Even the youngest toddlers are on this "diet." There is no milk, no cheese, no meat or fruit, no sugar, no vegetables, no grains-nothing but beans and water. Their parents are still allowed to eat other foods but the children get nothing but beans and water. Remember, even though many members of the FLDS are very poor thanks to the practice of polygamy, which has been proven to cause poverty, that's not why these children are eating nothing but beans and water. They are restricted to beans and water because that's what their beloved leader Warren Jeffs, who they believe is a prophet, has ordered from his prison cell here in Texas. They are following his orders.

Virtually every last family with children in the FLDS is on food stamp assistance, but the children are still being deprived of real food. Instead, all food is bought and then turned over to the community's "storehouse" and redistributed by FLDS leaders, as they see fit.

In preparation for this project I have obtained a copy of the menu served to prisoners this week in the Poweledge Unit, in Palestine, Texas where Jeffs is serving his life - 99 plus 20 year- sentence for his crimes against children. Even though he is serving life in prison, he is still controlling the members of the FLDS from behind bars, right from his cell, just like any other two bit crime boss.

Starting today I will post the meals that are being delivered to his solitary cell, three times each day, so you can see for yourself what Warren Jeffs has available to eat, compared to what the children of the FLDS in Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah are being given to eat.

My purpose here is two-fold. First, as an act of solidarity with the children I will be restricting my own diet to theirs. I will have beans and water for breakfast and dinner each day, all week. I will be using this exercise as a reminder to pray for the children of the FLDS and for the leaders in Mohave County, Arizona and Washington County, Utah. I will be praying that they will be moved to finally have mercy on these children and to do something to protect them from parents who are obviously unfit.


The second goal of this project is to ask others to join me in the Bean Fast this week, for a meal, for a day or as long as they feel personally led to participate. I hope others who are participating will drop by and leave a comment or two during the Bean Fast this week. But most of all I hope they will share this post with their friends and family by email or on their social networking sites, so that more people will become aware of exactly what is happening to the children of the FLDS polygamist community. I hope it will lead them to contact officials in Arizona and Utah to ask them to follow up on this abuse.

When I contacted a nutritionist this week to ask their opinion of such a diet for children, this was their professional opinion:
"This would be very concerning. Such an extreme restricted diet would lead... to serious nutritional deficiencies in an adult let alone a child. Eating a single food item is never going to meet the nutritional needs of a growing child. Deficiencies over time can lead to a variety of medical conditions and seriously compromise the health of the child. With the exception of people living in a 3rd world country and experiencing a famine, there is no reason why anyone should raise their child on such a diet."

Sunday March 3, 2013
Warren Jeffs                                  FLDS Children
Breakfast                                          Breakfast
Pancakes                                              Beans
Syrup                                                    Water
Oatmeal
Applesauce
Margarine
Coffee
Milk
Scrambled Eggs

Warren Jeffs                                  FLDS Children
Lunch                                              Lunch
Grilled Ham Steak                             Nothing
Navy Beans
Sweet potatoes
Mixed vegetables
Corn Bread
Tea

Dinner                                                          Dinner
Barbeque Chopped Beef                            Beans & Water
Dill Pickles
Pinto beans
Peas & Carrots
Cream potatoes
Sliced Bread
Punch

Ruby Jessop Is Free

Ruby's story: http://helpthechildbrides.com/stories/rubyjess.htm

This is Ruby Jessop and 5 of her 6 children, along with her big sister Flora. This is what freedom in America looks like. Ernie, third from the right, was celebrating his sixth birthday the night this was taken. We had a special spaghetti dinner to mark the occasion.

Most of that day was spent unloading and sorting a lot of toys and clothes, which were delivered by trailer by a Girl Scout Troop and a women's bible study group.

Ruby is starting out with nothing but her children, a van, which is registered to her husband and he has handed the title over to the FLDS Church, and the clothes on their backs.

It's hard for me, on a personal level, to describe what this moment means for me. I know not everyone knows Flora and Ruby's story, so maybe I should recap a few details.

My friend Flora escaped the polygamist town of Colorado City, Arizona in Mohave County, when she was 16 years old. On the day she left, her baby sister Ruby was born. Flora managed for years to stay in some sort of contact with her family, even though things were very tense between them all. Until Warren Steed Jeffs took control of the FLDS, Flora managed to keep that contact, tenuous as it was at times. As Ruby grew up, she looked up to her big sister Flora who had broken all the rules and run away.

When the day came when Ruby was "placed" into a marriage with her second cousin by Warren Jeffs, she was only 14-years-old. Ruby didn't like her cousin and didn't want to be married. She dreamed of getting an education and someday becoming a nurse. That's, at 14, what Ruby wanted for herself.

Instead, she was forced to marry her cousin, and Warren Jeffs himself performed the ceremony. Ruby was brutally accosted on her wedding night. She bled for days afterward. She wanted out. Ruby managed to get out of Colorado City and to contact Flora to tell her what was happening to her. She told her she didn't want to be married and didn't want to go back. Flora was hours away from Ruby and told her she would get to her as fast as she could. But she was too late.

Ruby, unfortunately, was taken into custody by Utah CPS. The case workers immediately contacted Ruby's parents in Colorado City, who arrived with back up. Instead of interviewing Ruby separately from her captors, she was interviewed in their presence, where she agreed with them that there was 'nothing wrong at home' and agreed to go back with them.

By the time Flora got down there, Ruby was gone. When she demanded that authorities get Ruby back for a proper interview, the Town Marshal's Office told Mohave County officials that Ruby was "on a vacation with her family," and that is why she could not be found. They did though assure those Mohave County officials that Ruby had been accounted for, was perfectly safe, and nothing at all was wrong. Flora instead of being rightfully portrayed as a concerned family member who was attempting to keep a promise to her baby sister that she would do everything in her power to save her from the FLDS and keep her safe, was according to the authorities in Colorado City, just a crazy bitter woman with an axe to grind, nothing more. The whole community screamed that Flora's inquiries were nothing but , "religious persecution," because they were a polygamous community.

I'd like now to draw attention to two similar cases to Ruby's, the most striking of which is the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. Elizabeth came from a normal middle class Mormon home, where a sociopathic polygamist named Brian David Mitchell kidnapped her in 2002 one night from her bedroom. In testimony later given to the court, a police officer who confronted Mitchell, his wife and Smart in a public library in Salt Lake City [after a tip that someone recognized the girl as Smart], testified that he did not have the right to demand Elizabeth Smart remove the veil covering her face, because it would have been a violation of her Civil Rights, since her captor, Mitchell said she and his wife were wearing the garb for "religious reasons." Again, so that a predator could rape a child, civil and religious rights were demanded. Thanks to the authorities blind subservience to the idea that polygamy and the subjugation of women is somehow a "religious right," a child was left in the clutches of a rapist. Such is the idea of liberty in Utah and parts of Arizona where Mormonism is the norm. "Richey said Mitchell also told him their religion, which he didn’t specify, didn’t allow the women to speak in public." http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/11/cop-missed-opportunity-save-elizabeth-smart-left-me-traumatized/

The other pertinent case is that of Jaycee Dugard. Kidnapped at the age of 11 by a man who already had a wife, he and his accomplice managed to manipulate and control Jaycee for 18 years. In an interview after her rescue, Jaycee described what she did in order to survive the ordeal: "Jaycee describes in great detail what she did in order to survive. She adapted. She learned not to talk back to her kidnapper, not to suggest anything or ask for anything. She learned to be extremely compliant.  Her ability to be compliant for 18 years was the key to her survival. And yet she now understands that her compliance may not have always been the best approach to all situations." http://www.pollyklaas.org/enews-archive/2011-enews/jaycee-dugard-no-more.html?gclid=CPmFuI67nbUCFUiRPAodTHgAMg

In both of these other cases there was one, count them, exactly one accomplice to the imprisonment of these children for the purposes of sex with older men, the men's wives.

STOP! Now, imagine a child born into a sex cult that owns an entire town, and the hundreds or thousands of willing accomplices to keeping that child, even if she wanted to run away, inside the imprisonment and sex enslavement to "a religion."

The difference in these girl's situations was aptly pointed out by Jon Krakauer in his book published in 2004, "Under the Banner of Heaven." Excerpt from "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer    Flora Jessop is extremely relieved that Elizabeth Smart was discovered alive and thinks the outpouring of support Elizabeth has received is wonderful. But in Jessop’s view it underscores the disturbing absence of support for another young victim of polygamy—her sister, Ruby Jessop--whose

Ruby Jessop

predicament she first brought to the attention of government officials more than a year before Elizabeth was abducted

Ruby was fourteen years old when she was observed innocently kissing a boy she fancied in Colorado City. For this unforgivable sin she was immediately forced to marry an older member of her extended family, whom she despised, in a fundamentalist ceremony presided over by Warren Jeffs. Like Elizabeth, Ruby was raped immediately after the wedding ceremony---so brutally that she spent her “wedding night” hemorrhaging copious amounts of blood. Unlike Elizabeth, however, Ruby attempted to flee her coerced marriage, running to the home of a sympathetic brother where she thought she would find refuge. Lured away from her brother’s house by false promises, in May 2001 Ruby was allegedly abducted by members of the FLDS Church and brought to the home of her stepfather, Fred Jessop, second councilor to the prophet—the same house where Flora Jessop had been confined seventeen years earlier.

Antipolygamy activist Lorna Craig, a colleague of Flora Jessop’s, is baffled and outraged by Utah’s indifferent treatment of Ruby—especially when compared to the colossal effort the state mustered to rescue Elizabeth Smart and prosecute her abductors. Craig notes that both Elizabeth and Ruby were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped, and “kept captive by polygamous fanatics.” The main difference in the girls’ respective ordeals, she says, is that “Elizabeth was brainwashed for nine months,” while Ruby had been brainwashed by polygamous fanatics “since birth.” Despite the similarity of their plights, Elizabeth’s abusers were jailed and charged with sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and aggravated kidnapping, while Ruby, says Craig, “Was returned to her abusers, no real investigation was done, no charges were brought against anyone involved.”

The dissimilar outcomes are attributable, in Craig’s view, to the fact that Ruby Jessop was born into a polygamous community that has been allowed to break state and federal laws with impunity for many decades. Craig points out that because the mayor, the police, and the judge in Colorado City—Hildale are themselves polygamists who are absolutely obedient to the prophet, there is “nowhere for victims of abuse to turn. . . . I would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man is inherently destructive.” Such relationships, Craig argues bitterly, should be considered “a crime, not a religion.”

So, here is my question. Ruby is finally FREE! She says she wanted out, ALWAYS wanted out! If Jaycee Dugard was entitled to a $20 million settlement from the state of California for its inept handling of the case of her sexual predator/captor, exactly how much do you think the state of Utah owes to Ruby Jessop and her children?