I sort of alluded to it earlier, but this isn't the first time the the government has rounded up 100% of the children of a community on the basis of religious beliefs of that community....
Short Creek AZ....
The thing wound up a cluster f*ck, with the government looking like a bunch of assholes and the community continuing on....
Quote:
Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle initially called the raid "a momentous police action against insurrection" and described the Mormon fundamentalists as participating in "the foulest conspiracy you could possibly imagine" that was designed to produce "white slaves."
Over 100 reporters had been invited by Pyle to accompany the police to observe the raid. However, the raid and its tactics attracted mostly negative media reaction; one newspaper editorialized:
"By what stretch of the imagination could the actions of the Short Creek children be classified as insurrection? Were those teenagers playing volleyball in a school yard inspiring a rebellion? Insurrection? Well, if so, an insurrection with diapers and volleyballs!"
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