Corruption? No, officer. No corruption in this here town...

Attorney's for Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, this afternoon said they welcomed the recent lawsuit brought by the Justice Dept. The Justice Dept says the two towns have denied equal rights to non-members of the Fundamental Church of Latter Day Saints (aka Fundamentalist Mormons). The allegation also says the FDLS allowed members to trespass and vandalized the property and crops of non-members and that the local townships didn't provide basic services to non-members and also that the local cops basically helped in the whole thing. The Justice Dept alleges the cops held onto runaway child brides and did arbitrary things like round up all the pet dogs and slaughter them because Warren Jeffs, their now jailed leader, told them to. Or provide things like water or electricity. (You might remember Mr Jeffs as the man who basically made every pretty 12 or 13 year old girl in the county his wife... He's now serving a well-deserved long sentence in prison. Where his latest wife husband is probably called Bubba and is a six foot four gorilla in real life.)

I'm quite sure the attorney's aren't worried about the lawsuit. I wouldn't be at all surprised to discover that the judge who hears the case has already been told how to decide it. By one of Mr Jeffs followers.

Carolyn Ann