Were 401 children seized on a fake phone call?
15th April 2008
David Friedman asks a very obvious question.
So far, however, they seem to have been unable to identify the girl who made the phone call. They did identify the man she accused–who turned out to be in Arizona, said he hadn’t been in Texas since 1977, and has not been arrested, which I assume means that the evidence supports his claim.
Funny how that works out.
Which suggests an obvious conjecture—that the phone call was a fake, possibly by someone in law enforcement who wanted an excuse to raid the ranch, possibly by someone else in the area who disapproved of the FLDS and wanted to set off such a raid. I find it surprising that none of the news stories, at least that I have seen, have even mentioned that possibility.
Indeed.