Jul
29
Escape From Flora Jessop: The Story of Val and Laurene Jessop, part 2
Filed Under Yearning For Zion Ranch, FLDS
Photo: Val and Laurene Jessop
The Escape
By October, 2005, Laurene had taken all she could of Flora. “Flora lied to me too many times during the custody battle,†stated Laurene. “I knew by then what kind of person she was, but I had to hold on until the custody hearings were over. After that, I wanted to distance myself from her; however, she had control of every aspect of our lives.â€
Laurene continued, “I was ashamed of the things the media repeated from my interviews. They twisted my words and left out the positive things I said. I even admitted to them that I still secretly loved Val. One show that came out after one of my interviews, when I watched it I cried. It was so totally incorrect!†Read more
Jul
28
Escape From Flora Jessop: The Story of Val and Laurene Jessop, part 1
Filed Under Yearning For Zion Ranch, FLDS
Photo: Val and Laurene Jessop
On July 26, 1953, soon-three-year-old Val Jessop lay asleep in his bed in the family’s cozy two-room shack in Short Creek, Arizona, on the Utah border. This sparse home was shared by his mother, older brother, and three sisters. But for the adults in this little fundamentalist Mormon community, sleeping was the last thing on their minds—they had received word that the Arizona State Police and soldiers from the National Guard were about to conduct a raid.
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Photo: Flora Jessop
Following are some of the replies I received from the article, “Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million, and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety.†Each of these echo the very things this report reveals—a people whom, for numerous reasons, I have been privileged to communicate with.
Gary Naler
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Jul
3
Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million,
and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety, Part 3
Filed Under Yearning For Zion Ranch, FLDS
Photo: Flora Jessop
The Yearning For Zion Raid
It’s one thing to stand under a high-wire and try to catch those who might fall, and quite another to climb the pole and cut the wire.
If Flora’s purpose is to help those who want to leave the FLDS, and some indeed leave and have the freedom to do so at their own will, then why is it that she seeks to enforce a destructive control for which she herself accuses them? But if her purpose is to grandstand, to lead the uninformed into deception, and to foment unjust actions so as to destroy peaceful innocent lives, then it is she who needs to be called into question and disregarded. Read more
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Jul
2
Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million,
and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety, Part 2
Filed Under Yearning For Zion Ranch, FLDS
Photo: Flora Jessop
“Ruby is a Hostageâ€
Let’s now move forward to 2001 when Flora began to dramatically enhance her public slander of the FLDS, becoming its chief persecutor. Like the written account from Martha and the interview with Phil, what you are about to read is the first ever account of actual events that unfolded regarding Flora’s oft-touted sister, Ruby, whom she alleged was brutally raped at the age of fourteen. This first-hand information comes from my personal phone conversations with Ruby and her husband, Haven; with Martha; with former FLDS member, Allen Holm, the older brother of Fawn Holm; and email correspondence with Ruby’s mother, Pat. For the first time, the veil of silence, misunderstanding, and false information will be lifted. Read more
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Jul
1
Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million,
and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety, Part 1
Filed Under Yearning For Zion Ranch, FLDS
Photo: Flora Jessop
Flora Jessop, the outspoken media favorite and determined critic of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), has had the advantage and luxury of accruing audiences who want to believe her or are understandably uninformed about Flora’s real life and the FLDS church itself. Therefore, she has been able to say what she wants; and since people are often hearing what they want to hear, she has gotten off scot-free without any accountability or recourse whatsoever for what we now know are an endless string of vicious lies.
But Flora’s days of unaccountability have come to an end. She has now been instrumental in causing the state of Texas to carry out an illegal invasion on an entire community at a cost to the state that carries a running tally of $14 million, and has hurt so many innocent people that these silent ones who know her well, have loved and cared for her, and endured her continual destructive behavior, are finally speaking out. Read more
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Jun
12
A Report Card on the Women’s Rights Movement
Filed Under The Curse of 1920, Women's rights movement
The women’s rights movement has now proven to be the most destructive force on the face of the earth. Before 1920, feminists made promises and based their arguments on things for which they have never been held accountable, nor produced. To the contrary, their actions have brought the opposite results. Let us therefore grade feminism and see how it has fared. We will break down their claims into six areas:
• Prohibition
• Government
• Society
• Abortion
• War
• Home
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Jun
2
Why Can’t Rush Limbaugh and John R. Lott Put Two and Two Together?
Filed Under The Curse of 1920, Women's rights movement
Cartoon: The Temptation, Life Magazine, 1911
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Recently, Rush Limbaugh read on his radio program much of John R. Lott’s article titled, “Is There Really a Bias Against Women in Politics? History Suggests Otherwise.†Before he did so, I called in to his program to express my comments about this, as Rush had announced the day before that he would address it. On two occasions, I have sent Rush copies of my book, The Curse of 1920: The Degradation of Our Nation in the Last 100 Years, along with personal letters, with no response. The response from Snerdley, the call screener, was similar. “I think I will pass on this one,†was his reply when I told him what I wanted to talk about. Read more
As a Texas-born, Texas-reared, Texas-graduate man who saw his five children born in Texas as well, I have an affinity for the lone-star state. But I must say, while the assassination of JFK was an embarrassment, and the tragic handling of the Waco Branch Davidian standoff was both sad and shameful, what Texas and Child Protective Services (CPS) did at Yearning For Zion Ranch (YFZ) makes me glad I’m not in Texas anymore. The only redeeming value of this unjust invasive attack against 465 children and their families, is that the state’s appellate court and supreme court will give CPS, and Texas, a much needed black eye.
Texans have a saying that is undoubtedly not unique to this wild-west state with its bold, in-your-face litter motto—“Don’t mess with Texas.†That saying is this: Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself. Read more
May
22
Heal Your Own House, America: First Remove The Log
Filed Under Saudi Arabia, The Curse of 1920, Women's rights movement
America, before you go to remove the speck from the eye of other peoples and nations, first remove the log from your own eye that is blinding you to your own deplorable moral, social, and civil state.
You have no right to point to the Taliban with their extreme practice of women wearing burqas, when you evidence an even more destructive and deplorable extreme practice at the other end of the spectrum in nudity and immodest sensual dress and behavior among women. You are hypocritical! You condemn one extreme, and practice the far worse opposite extreme. You condemn excessive erroneous modesty, and practice excessive erroneous immodesty, which is far worse! Read more