Brian David Mitchel

Like most people I was pleased to see that the man who held Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months was finally going to trial. The Smart family has waited almost nine years for the man who was found with their abducted daughter on a Sandy street corner to face a jury. I and many others saw her return home as a miracle, many believed her to be dead. The elation about Smith's return faded into the nightmare of prosecuting Mitchel He has disrupted every court hearing, his lawyers say that singing is a sign of insanity, and people have listened. I find it hard to believe that this trial is halted yet again because of singing in a court room. I have a theory about why this SOB has yet to face justice.
My theory is this, the state of Utah is reluctant to admit that monsters like this come out of polygamy. Since the Mormons used to practice polygamy they somehow feel defensive of those who still practice it. Mitchel knows this and so plays off of it, he sings LDS hymns even though he is not a Mormon. The Mormon church is so afraid of being associated with polygamy that they would rather pretend it does not exist rather than deal with the very real problems it causes. If an abductor was caught red handed with his victim he would be tried the same year, but not Mitchel. He has a "religion" that tells him rape is OK, so we must protect it. I am appalled that this case is still being stalled, he was found fit for trial so get on with it. The new argument is that he cannot get a fair trial in Utah. This case was a sensation if the idea is to get away from people who have heard of the case, that isn't going to happen. Someone should tell his lawyers that we have a new invention called the Internet now. What pisses me off the most about this case is that, this adult man is given all of this consideration and people are forgetting that a 14 year old girl was raped twice a day for nine months. I think that the courts of Utah want to drag this out until people forget that this case is not about religion, it is about rape and abduction. Give the Smart family a chance at justice.

Did I miss something?

Warren Jeffs, self proclaimed prophet of God, had his conviction over turned because of a supposed technical error. I have lived in Utah for the majority of my life, so I am familiar with polygamy. What I simply do not get is how okay with this sick practice people are. I am talking of coarse of men who marry children, if an adult woman wants to share her husband that is not as bad. As long as the "sister wives" are not committing welfare fraud.
What really bothers me about this is not only will this man get away with damaging the life of a young woman. He will come out looking like the victim. Part of the problem is that the LDS church has remained silent on this subject. Sure they ended the practice, but they have yet to come out against men like Jeffs, Green, and Kingston.
I find this further troubling in light of all the work they put into ending prop 8 in California. The church claimed that grown men and women wishing to be in a relationship was bad for the family; yet they remain silent about the horrible abuse going on right here in Utah.
Texas better get it's act together or the horrors doled out by this pedophile will never be punished.