Friday, February 06, 2009

TAL - The New Boss

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This American Life episode 373 is titled, The New Boss.  Act One is called A Trust Without Trust. It is about problems with the community trust built around Warren Jeff’s Mormon cult in Short Creek Utah. FLDS members are fighting a long battle with accountant Bruce Wisan over the management of the FLDS Trust. The story manages to capture many of the things I loath about religion.

Jeffs kept 100 wives in his compound at Short Creek. He married children off to his cronies, while banishing man who had something he desired. He treated women and children as if they were his property. He did all this in America, right under our noses. It is so hard to believe.

He’s just a man, a child molesting, manipulative despot who exploited his status to build a personal harem, but still just a man. I hope he rots in prison.

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