Bean Fast Day 3 March 5, 2013

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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?

URGENT ACTION NEEDED

Dear friends and supporters of the AAAP's efforts to shine the light on the abuses inherent in the practice of polygamy, both here and around the globe, we need your help!

Late last week, Mohave County Supervisor Buster Johnson released a press release with Flora Jessop, American Polygamy Survivor and founder and executive director of the Child Protection Project. This press release revealed that a Mohave County judge, in tandem with Arizona CPS has sent a boy from Lake Havasu City, Arizona to be fostered, and possibly adopted by a single man, formerly a member of the FLDS, in Colorado City, AZ.

For this judge or CPS to send a child into such a community, one under investigation and indictment of the U.S. Department of Justice, and with a long history of abuse and neglect of children is, we believe, unconscionable. If after reading the letter below, you agree that Colorado City is not a place the government should be sending any child, please ACT!

Please consider adding your endorsement to a letter we are sending to this judge. Please share this appeal with your friends by email or on your social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, My Space, Tumbler, whatever you use.

This is urgent and we do not have much time to help prevent this boy and others from being sent to Colorado City.

Dear Presiding Judge Charles Gurtler,

It has come to the attention of Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy (AAAP) and other organizations and individuals involved in the long battle against the worldwide human rights abuse of polygamy, that you have recently approved the transfer of at least one male child, and possibly more, into the care of an individual by the name of Dan Wayman in Colorado City, for the purposes of foster care and possibly permanent adoption.

Members of the AAAP wish to express our objection to sending any child to the community of Colorado City, Arizona, infamous for flaunting the felony crime and human rights abuse of polygamy. Colorado City is comprised of a population virtually 100% loyal to the cult leader and convicted child predator, Warren Steed Jeffs.

The AAAP and other concerned individuals and organizations, both domestic and international, would like to know to what extent your Honor is aware of the following situations:

1. Colorado City law enforcement is currently the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for blatant civil rights violations of its citizens. The complaint alleges discrimination based on religion in violation of the Fair Housing Act, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

2. In the last 15 year period, even though the population of Colorado City is well over 5,000 people, Mohave County prosecutors have failed to prosecute a single solitary case of domestic violence in the city. This means, your Honor, either domestic violence is literally nonexistent in Colorado City or community members leaders, including elected officials and law enforcement, have successfully conspired to conceal all incidences of domestic violence in Colorado City for almost two decades.

3. There are documented, multiple, unmarked children's graves in the Short Creek polygamous community, and the Mohave County Medical Examiner has never conducted an autopsy on any child's body, even when unusual circumstances, such as poisoning, were present or when presented the highly irregular accident statistics for children in the community. For instance, in a community of less than 6,000 people, the same number of toddlers who died in "back over" car accidents in the state of Connecticut with a population of more than 3 million people, was achieved by the Short Creek community in the same time period. However, in Short Creek, local law enforcement "signed off" on the accidental deaths, and no further investigation was ever performed. For many years in Colorado City, town leaders were provided stacks of pre-signed death certificates, which were never independently investigated by the county, the state or anyone else. The community's cemetery, as it turns out, is comprised of 50% children's bodies. In over seven years of research, activists have never been able to document the same phenomenon in any other cemetery in America.
 

4. The law enforcement of the community regularly enforces, not the law of the land, but the dictates of Warren Jeffs, who is currently serving a life sentence for the sexual assault of female children in Texas.
 
5. The entire community of Colorado City is comprised of adults openly practicing a felony crime, and raising children to believe they will suffer Hell for eternity unless they also grow up to commit the felony crime.

6. The community is notorious for the exploitation of child labor and child abandonment, especially of male children.

7. Current evidence in the hands of the Canadian authorities including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as well as the Texas Rangers and the Texas Attorney General, indicates the Colorado City community has been repeatedly utilized as a hub for the international human trafficking of children for the purpose of their sexual exploitation.
 
8. Dan Wayman, to whom you are sending children in Colorado City, has been the subject of more than one court order of protection involving his own children in the past.

9. Boys who have been sent by Arizona CPS to Mr. Wayman's custody for foster care say they were locked, by outside key, into their room. Children sent to Mr. Wayman have described him as "creepy."

10. Court Appointed Special Advocates for these boys have recommended that their best interests would not be served by warehousing them inside such a dysfunctional and remote community as Colorado City.
Members of Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy, as well as numerous other human rights organizations, ministries, survivors of polygamy and concerned individuals, respectfully ask you to revisit and reverse your decision to send already at-risk children into another potentially dangerous situation of neglect and abuse. Those children are effectively being banished to a community infamous for unchecked and egregious crimes against children.

Sincerely,
K. Dee Ignatin
Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
Executive Director

Please add your voice today, to let this judge know that the world is watching what he does with vulnerable children. To lend your endorsement to this letter, and stand with the AAAP, please send an email to polygamyisacrime@aol.com with your e-endorsement. An example follows:

Jane K. Doe
American Polygamy Survivor [Any title or credential you want to include]
2933 W. Lydius St.
 New York, NY 12345-6789
(555) 512-0000
janedoe@me.com
A brief statement can be included below such as
“I wholeheartedly endorse the opposing stance of the group Americans Against the Abuses of Polygamy regarding sending foster children to this enclave of polygamy, child sexual and physical abuse, and forced labor of minors.”

FLDS Child Labor Revelations

Dear Attorney General Shurtleff,

 

 

According to a recent report by CNN's Gary Tuchman, the FLDS is removing minor children from school to, in many cases, travel across state lines, for the purpose of laboring long hours on a pecan farm, harvesting nuts. Also according to this report, the children are performing these agricultural job functions for no pay. While federal child labor laws do allow minor children to perform this type of work during non school hours on family owned farms, they specifically prohibit children under 14 from such activities during school hours on non family owned farms.

 

It appears from information brought to light in this report that the owner of this farm has been buying this child labor from the FLDS for years. It also appears that the owner of the farm is fully aware that children as young as 4-5 years old are being used for this labor, while unpaid. It was also obvious during the report that many of these minor children were being transported unsecured en masse in the backs of pick up trucks, with very little adult supervision or regard for their safety. Witnesses on the surrounding properties also said the children were frequently seen toiling at this labor in frigid conditions, close to nightfall.

 

I respectfully request that your office respond to these developments and take steps to stop this illegal use of child labor and possibly dangerous human trafficking of children across state lines in unsafe conditions.

 

If Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence for the sexual assault of children here in Texas, has been giving orders to use this exploitive child labor for his personal financial benefit from his prison cell, it may be time to ask Texas authorities to review whether he is in violation of  his communication privileges, again.

 

We respectfully ask for a written response, detailing what actions your office intends to pursue, now that these child labor violations have been brought to light.

 

Sincerely,

 

k. Dee Ignatin
Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
polygamyisacrime@aol.com

 

cc: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

Hardcore Texan

Polygamy, like all social topics should be open to discussion of the facts, not just the feelings. The constitution does not claim to defend any ones feelings. It defends and enshrines specific rights for all our Citizens, because we are a nation of laws.

The day I left Nevada, after being fired from a job for the first time in my life [I was fired for publicly speaking out about all the dead children of polygamists in Mohave County], I slapped a bumper sticker on the back of my truck, since I was going to have to travel all the way across the state of Arizona on my way back home to Texas. You know what it said? It didn't say "Hardcore anti-polygamy activist."

I'm hardcore freedom, and that's all. Unlike folks who want activist judges to create new laws, which cannot be justified under any plain understanding of the Constitution's meaning or purpose, I'm just looking to explain the facts of polygamy, which include serious crimes, like the international sex trafficking of girl children in the FLDS from Canada to Arizona, to Texas and to Utah, for the purpose of rape.

Two of the Canadian girls trafficked by their parents across international boundaries were raped by Warren Steed Jeffs were 12 and 13 years old. Texas authorities have proof of that.

The only law enforcement organizations in America which have bravely faced down this child rapists sex ring, using religious polygamy as their excuse to traffick girl children for sexual purposes, would have to be the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Special Prosecutors Eric Nichols and Angela Goodwin, the Texas Rangers and Texas DPS as well as the Schleicher County Sheriff's Office.

No ma'am, my bumper sticker didn't say "hardcore anti polygamy"

My bumper sticker read: HARDCORE TEXAN

You come to Texas to run an organization which leads to the abuse and neglect of children by breaking our laws, yeah, we're going to stop you.

Our state has a message for Utah. You cannot come to Texas and rape and abuse our state's children. We will prosecute you for it here, even if they're only little girls.

I mean Penn State and their coaching staff and Jerry Sandusky....look at those boys who were raped. Look at the outrage that ensued when it became known those boys, and the boys of the Catholic Church were not protected inside an institution.

Funny how we're just not supposed to get quite as excited when it happens to little girls. It's as if that's what they are for after all, so what is the big deal?

Not in Texas. Everyone else can do what they want and you'll get exactly what you deserve for it, too. When honor killings are common in your neighborhood, because by decriminalizing polygamy Muslim men have become free to keep their American daughters in concubinage too, let me know how you think it's all working out for women's rights in America.

We lost a women's rights activist in Houston. She was assassinated. Do you think anyone in this country really cared about a girl who emigrated here from France after her family left Iran? Do you think the media cared she had just almost finished her residency at a prestigious hospital, demonstrated publicly in favor of women's rights in Iran and condemned the treatment of women there, and had just broken up with her boyfriend and recently become a Christian?

She was shot in head in her car, while on the phone with her ex boyfriend. It was early in the morning on her way home from the hospital, almost back to her parents home, in a very nice area of Houston.

There are no suspects.

No one saw anything.

Facts are funny things.

Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.

The women of Texas will not be handing over their current absolutely legal right to be their husband's only living equal, to a bunch of Jihads and fundamentalist Mormons. And you cannot rape our girls and call it marriage either.

I like the laws just how they are, thanks. I'd simply like to see some more vigorous prosecution of these known child rapists in Canada and America. We have DNA evidence, lots of it.