Truth Will Prevail

Every time I think that I can’t be shocked any further by the high-handed disregard for justice displayed by Judge Barbara Walther, I find another example of her appalling behavior.

The UEP was never intended as a business venture or merely as a means of holding and managing the property in the Short Creek valley and elsewhere. It was established to enable the people who gathered around the leadership of the FLDS Church to live a sacred gospel principle, essential to our progress in this life and to our exaltation in the life to come—the United Order.

As the trials continue, the FLDS men indicted in Texas may be branded with any number of unsavory epithets that in no way describe their actual characters, but this does not change the reality that they have not abused either their wives or their children but have raised beautiful and honorable families and have trained them through kindness and love.

Statement of Randy Wilson, Attorney for Michael Emack after Mike's hearing in San Angelo, Texas January 22, 2010.

Prior to the hoax phone calls that triggered the 2008 raid on the YFZ Ranch, Texas law enforcement and CPS were poised and ready to conduct an invasion. All they needed was a plausible excuse to obtain a search warrant.

An article in the San Angelo Standard Times of January 13, 2010, emphasizes again the inequity inherent in the sentencing of the FLDS men, convicted under statutes specially crafted to target members of a religious minority

The government takeover of the United Effort Plan Trust and the self-serving management of the court-appointed Special Fiduciary Bruce R. Wisan are shockingly reminiscent of the federal escheatment of LDS Church property in the late 1880s and the scandalous administration of the court-appointed receiver Frank H Dyer.

It is a well-known fact by this time that the hoax calls that triggered the Texas raid on the YFZ Ranch were placed by Rozita Swinton, a thirty-three-year-old African American woman in Colorado Springs with a history of making false reports of sexual abuse. For almost two years Texas authorities have attempted to maintain the fiction that they acted in good faith in responding to these calls

In spite of a petition signed by more than 4,000 Trust beneficiaries who pled to the Court for relief from this self-serving Fiduciary, Bruce Wisan continues, with the support of the Arizona and Utah Attorneys General, to suppress and violate the freedoms of a devoutly religious group who desire to satisfy their just wants and needs by holding their property in common with their Church.

The prosecution of Raymond Jessop, Allan Keate, and the other FLDS men indicted in Texas hinges on the evidence seized during the raid on the YFZ Ranch in April of 2008. The very warrants under which this evidence was obtained, however, were hopelessly flawed so that any convictions based on such evidence should be reversed when the case is reviewed in a neutral court.

The recent sentence of thirty-three years imprisonment for Allan Keate is one of the most glaring injustices perpetrated in our country in modern times.

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