Texas CPS, Governor, and Judges

We, the undersigned, urge Texan authorities to free the innocent women, children, and other members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church who are currently being detained. We demand that the Constitutional rights of the innocent be preserved, and that due process be served.

We, who have observed the media reports and witnessed the many ways in which the rights of these citizens have been abused, urge those in authority to use their lawful power to protect such people from broad, intrusive actions. We condemn the broad authority give to the law enforcement officers to enter into and search any building in the YFZ community. We condemn the power granted to detain and interrogate hundreds of women and children.

As individuals are innocent until proven guilty, we call upon the Texas Governor to intervene in this matter and allow the women and children to return to their homes peacefully. We also demand an apology be given to the FLDS, most especially from the Texas CPS, for the heinous acts of aggression displayed in these recent events.

Name From Comments 1. Connor Boyack Lehi, UT 2. James Cappuccio Provo, UT 3. Christopher Jones Provo, UT 4. Jay Litehiser Munich, Germany I am appalled ... I am simply appalled! What has America become? These are actions worthy of a police state not the "land of the free"! 5. David Grua Provo, UT 6. Eric Nielson Sturgis, MI I find it hard to believe this is happening in the United States. I hope that those who are ignoring the rights of these people are brought to justice. 7. Cory Pence Draper, UT It's time for you to act and stop this now. The government has no right to be taking all of these children. I find it criminal what is happening and hope that you'll do something about it! 8. Joel Nelson Kearns, UT Once we, as Americans, forcibly remove the freedoms of a few individuals to accommodate the enforcement of our laws upon other individuals, we all loose more of our freedoms. This is a path that no freedom-loving American would want to go down. The alleged acts of the alleged offenders may be heinous, but the removal of constitutionally guaranteed freedoms is equally heinous. 9. Michelle Luetge Bryan, TX This is beyond outrageous; and to think these officials acted upon the word of "an unnamed source" that they can't even find is beyond the pale! Return these poor children to their mothers and let them practice freedom of religion.

Page 1 - Signatures 1 - 9 Name From Comments 10. Nicholas Literski Seattle, WA 11. Thomas Parkin Puyallup, WA I agree completely with the petition 12. Thomas Parkin Puyallup, WA I agree completely with the petition 13. Kimberly Barlow LaSal, UT This is an outrage and a direct violation of their Constitutional rights. 14. Daniel McClellan Lehi, UT We live in a Democratic Republic, which means even small groups of people have rights, even if they happen to believe things other people find disagreeable. Let's put an end to this emotively perpetuated hatred and learn some tolerance. 15. Leander Pearson McKinnon, WY Freedom of conscience and religious liberty are constitutional rights. There is no such thing as "group guilt" in the USA. Go ahead and target substantiated and specific abuse, but don't you dare target whole communities. There is no difference between your persecution of these people and the Nazi's attitudes towards the Jews of 1930's Germany. 16. Mari-Lynn Bridgewater, MA Churchill 17. John Arbon Mapleton, UT 18. Benjamin Park Provo, UT 19. Jordan Watkins Claremont, CA 20. Bret Hansen Coalville, UT Where is the due process. Any abuse should be dealt with swiftly, but not at the expense of civil rights that were are supposed to be guaranteed by the US Constitution! 21. Cheryl L. Bruno Riyadh,, Saudi Arabia Please let the women and children return to their homes. I am aware that the men are willing to leave the ranch until this matter is completed. Each family should be taken on a case by case basis. The children have received far more abuse by what they have been forced to undergo than by living in a peaceful sect with their own standards of morality. 22. Mark West Jordan, UT How can one anonymous phone call, by a person still Ashurst-McGee unidentified, be used to justify rounding up people and moving them like Jews in NAZI Germany? It seems that only a minority viewed with such prejudice and bigotry could be subjected to this treatment without more public outcry. I am against child brides, arranged marriage, and other problems the FLDS have. I am even more against what the state has done in this case. 23. Christopher Milan, OH Reeve 24. Roger Browne Lindon, UT Please, preserve liberty. 25. Tamara Cook Mapleton, UT This whole situation has been dealt with unjustly. These children have basically been kidnapped from their families.

Page 2 - Signatures 10 - 25 Name From Comments 26. Ofa Chandler Central, UT 27. Paul Zeltner Vista, CA I don't agree with their beliefs, but what is being done is unconstitutional and action should be taken against those responsible. This was obviously a lashing out against the FLDS community for their beliefs, perpetuating bigotry and prejudice, along with the ludicrous idea that law officers and the state are above the law that they supposedly uphold and enforce. 28. Jeremy Ashton Goochland, VA The rights of all should always be protected. 29. Russell Page Draper, UT Frankly, I think it (the government's actions) are atrocious in the case of401 children being removed from their homes in Texas. If individual adults were breaking the law in a way that affected the children's safety that's another story, but the way the individual liberties are being treated is frightening. I think FLDS leader Merrill Jessop's statement is spot on. "The hauling off of women and children matches anything in Russia or Germany." Those who were removed for concern they had become victims are having their personal liberties stripped away by the state of Texas. Here's a small list of what's occurring. - Officers are taking away cell phones, so members can't communicate with each other. - Child Protective Services workers won't allow FLDS children near the fenced in areas because the media will ask them questions. - Officers are making the media move away from the area where the children are housed. - Based on an unsubstantiated tip, the judge granted law enforcement officials a warrant that authorizes them to search "all buildings, temples, temple annexes, places of worship, vaults, safes, lockboxes, locked drawers, medical facilities, structures, places and vehicles at the ranch." - Law enforcement officials were able to enter and search their temple. (Something tells me this wouldn't have happened so flippantly if it would have been the temple of a different religious group of which many have temples). - Men are being detained but not being charged with a crime. Last, and WORST OF ALL This entire investigation is based on the tip of a 16-year-old girl who called March 29 about being physically abused. She still hasn't been identified, and I'm scratching my head as to how this instance grants the state of Texas the right to make this broad of a search, especially in light of the fact that they don't know who she is. Again, if the law is being broken in a way that violates the liberties of another, there's a big problem, but I have a feeling the state of Texas is going to be in some sort of hot water over this.

Page 3 - Signatures 26 - 29 Name From Comments 30. ANNE RAINS CENTENNIAL PARK, YOU!! THE GOVERNOR,CPS, AND JUDGES, HOW IS AZ GODS NAME CAN YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING THESE PEOPLE RIGHTLY BY RIPPING THOSE INNOCENT CHILDREN FROM THEIR MOTHERS, NOT LETTING THEM EVEN SAY GOODBY. TAKING THE GIRLS AND RAPING THEM TO SEE IF THEY HAD BEEN RAPED. YOU THINK THAT THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ABUSED SEXUALLY/PHYSICALLY/ETC BY THERE FAMILYS. THIS IS IS CHILD ABUSE IF I HAVE EVER SEEN IT!!!! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE AND TOTALY AGAINST THEIR CONSTITUTIOAL RIGHTS. I ONLY HOPE SOME OF YOU OUT THERE HAVE A CONSCIOUS AND A FEAR OF GOD!!! 31. Jody S Brigham City, UT 32. M Cannon American Fork, UT How dare you separate these mothers from their children! Please, please, do the right thing and put these families back together. Stick to the individual abuse cases and reunite these frightened children with their moms! 33. Rebecca Kemp Mustang, OK I grew up around these people. While I don't agree with their lifestyle, they decent and kindhearted people. They don't deserve the treatment they are receiving, especially with so little evidence against them. These children are infinitely better off with their families rather than foster homes. 34. NayLynn Rudd Springville, UT The government has outrageously overstepped their bounds in this matter. Everything should be done to return these mothers and children to their homes and fathers without delay. IF there has been any wrong doing, then investigate individuals. Don't the kidnap the whole community. 35. B. Mecham South Jordan, UT Free the innocent. 36. Jacob Baker Claremont, CA 37. Tina Rider Martinsburg, WV CPS is an aggressive monster that destroys families. These kids need thier moms now more then ever! Give them back! 38. Nathan Melander American Falls, ID How dare you attack innocent people under the pretense of child abuse! Then again, the United States has always been known to take other people's children who they disagree with. This was done to the Native Americans after all. Shame on Texas. 39. Karim Jones Provo, UT 40. John Scherer Fremont, OH 41. James Brausch San Rafael de Texas actions are criminal and evil in this case. Return Heredia, Costa Rica those children immediately and provide an immense restitution for the damage you have caused. One FLDS women asked where are all of the Americans (continues on next page) Page 4 - Signatures 30 - 41 Name From Comments 41. James Brausch San Rafael de (continued from previous page) Heredia, Costa Rica with their support for their rights. The fact is that actions such as Waco and this have forced many of us to leave the once great country of the United States of America for fear of our own families. 42. brandi Gremler Bntfl, UT Unless Texas CPS is drastically different, usually it is much different, trying to keep children with their parents telling them things that need to change and monotoring if needed, only taking children in immediate danger. I believe they should investigate all claims of abuse, but believe they could have done it differently, respecting the faith while protecting children, the way this has gone, seems as though it will traumatize more than were being abused. Abused children would need to be protected from those abusing them and likely removed, but it seems there have been no other reasons to take all the children, since it usually takes a lot for a child to be removed. 43. Ianthius Barlow Moab, UT 44. Rosemary N Tallahassee, FL I do not object to the questioning about teens around the Palmer same age as the original caller (if you were able to pinpoint that the call was coming from the compound). And I do not object to removing teens who were pregnant or whom had babies that they couldn't have had without having broken the law. (I do find it insensitive intrusion if CPS gave all teen girls a pregnancy test.) But I absolutely object to the removal of children who were not immediately part of the original issue. (And why you would do that even if you really did have evidence of abuse without at least trying to get the men to leave voluntarily and the women to accept CPS moving onto the compound, given the huge numbers and the nature of the community, is beyond me.) But at this point, the children need to be returned to parents, absent specific physical evidence of abuse or neglect. The fact that they are members of a religion that does not do things like the rest of us, is NOT enough grounds to remove children. I do not call upon CPS to issue an apology, I don't fault the initial effort. I just think it got out of hand, and will not help these children at all. 45. Michael Schreiner Salt Lake City, UT I would hope you would appropriately deal with those indivduals who are abusing the children or having sex with under-age kids, but...it is imperative to reunite the children back with their parents in the cases of non-abuse occurring. Don't go on a polygamy witchhunt. Thank you. 46. Melora Bracken Millvile, UT Please stop this horrendous human rights violation. Let these poor mothers and children be reunited IMMEDIATELY and let the due process of law work in a fair and honest way.

Page 5 - Signatures 41 - 46 Name From Comments 47. Michael Johnson Orem, UT I see no justification for taking all these children from their mothers. They complaint that led to the intervention of the Texas CPS had nothing to do with them. Aren't people innocent until proven guilty in America? Shouldn't the investigation be limited to the people actually involved as per the original complaint? Give people their constitutional rights. 48. Micah Stubblefield Gilbert, AZ If a Catholic priest molests a child you don't kidnap all catholic children to protect them from potential catholic priest pedophiles. Followers of the FLDS religion have constitutional rights. 49. Bill Brown Sun Valley, CA You really have no interest in helping the children. You have an agenda, and that is break up the families of people that have a different religion that you do not approve of. Damn their, constitutional rights! Act like all uncivilized totalitarian regimes throughout history have acted. These people love their children. I hope they sue you for millions. 50. Rex Myer Cornelius, OR Please stop the ABUSE that is being perpetuated by the CPS not by the mothers. Where is your compassion? 51. Eddie Davis Austin, TX In domestic violence if the man is abusive he is removed by the police... if in this case some of the men may be abusing why were the women and children removed? And then further hurt by being separated from their mothers. It is the state that has become the abuser. The marriage age of 14 in this state was changed just last year I believe in preperation to do this. Restore their Constitutional rights and leave them alone. You would think Waco was enough! 52. Carol Christensen Antioch, CA Said the little boy, "I just want to go home." Please hear his voice. 53. David Doylestown, PA Dunkleberger 54. Shaun Knapp Provo, UT Government Thugs lust for the blood of the innocent, we hear the term "Compound" once again as murderers wearing badges give all law enforcement a bad name, with some criminal elements working for another Waco, the butchering of the innocent. Constitutional protections must be maintained and the due process that is beautifully inspired must be upheld. Government will not do better for these families and children by ripping them from their mothers, even now the mainstream media report that Foster Care results in vast more abuse of children than if they were left in their own homes, rare are the exceptions to this. These people should be left alone and if criminal prosecution for alleged allegations of abuse are pursued, then surely such must be (continues on next page)

Page 6 - Signatures 47 - 54 Name From Comments 54. Shaun Knapp Provo, UT (continued from previous page) proven in a court of law according to Constitutional protections and the American Tradition. 55. Jennifer Brown Bountiful, UT America is the land where one is free to pursue life, liberty and happiness. All three of these have been violated in the seizure of these children. American citizens are free to raise their children however they see fit and with whatever belief system they choose. When one group defines which beliefs are allowed and which are not, and then uses that criteria to determine the fitness of parents, that group has become tyrannical and interfered in the God-given rights of parents. These children were removed based on allegations of abuse which had not been substantiated. This is wrong. Some people believe that those who are being abused are not mentally competent to make decisions which could protect themselves and their children. This is also wrong. Some people believe that they must step in and rescue these people and force their version of help upon those who are being abused. This is wrong. Those who are being abused have a much better idea of what they personally need than those on the outside. Frequently (except in the most egregious cases), tearing the family apart will bring more trauma and abuse into the lives of the victims and make recovery more difficult. Unless a victim asks for help, the government ought to stay out. When asked for help, they ought to provide only that which is asked for. This seizure of 400 children from mostly innocent families has serious implications for all families, all of which differ from each other and few of which fit the idea of "normal" in the eyes of all people. 56. Karen Finch Kooskia, ID This is illegal to take children away from their parents until proven guilty. You cannot do this just based on some so called call from one girl which may not have even happened. This whole thing is a crime to society and preliminary trial for doing this to other groups. 57. Heather Doyle Elkton, MD Deuteronomy 4:9 We will never forget that justice was denied to these innocent people. 58. Parker Boyack Poway, CA Did you forget about the constitution? 59. Kathleen Skeers Sedro Woolley, WA Abuse needs to be stopped, its perpetrators prosecuted and its victims healed. In this came the abusers are CPS in the way they are treating these mothers and children. It must stop now. 60. Panagiotis Patras, Greece Rigopoulos 61. Benjamin Pratt Seattle, WA 62. Douglas Moller Lehi, UT

Page 7 - Signatures 54 - 62 Name From Comments 63. Travis Kelsch Riverton, UT 64. Austin Smith McLean, VA This is an outrage to the civil liberties our consitution is supposed to protect! 65. Jeff Holt Wayne, NE It is unbelievable that women and children were taken out of their homes and separated and their rights too. Simple solution if you were truly worried about abuse and not just an agenda to stop religious freedom etc why did they not just take the men? 66. Teresa Cosper Alpine, UT I am shocked that this has happened in America! I don't agree with the practices of the FLDS church but I do believe in the Constitutional rights of the individuals involved in the mass arrest. If there was a crime committed by an individual or a few people, then question them. Leave everyone else alone. Why would the whole community be arrested?! That is in essence what is happening. Those people were taken against their wills in the name of "brother love." Who do those people at the so-called "child protection services" think they are?! Why can't the FLDS women and children have their cell phones? Why can't the children be with their mothers? This is an outrage! 67. Jason Preston Salt Lake City, UT For more impact, add a personal comment here 68. priscilla kelsch riverton, UT 69. Stanley Kelsch herriman, UT An Appeal for Freedom All Americans who love freedom; Our brothers and sisters rights are being trodden under foot, and will we stand by? How long will this nation�s people be swayed by emotion (which is promulgated by the media), instead of by principles? We do not and cannot condone the wicked acts of men. But if 1, 2 or 10 people in a community are criminals, then those individuals should be handled by �Due process of law�, and they are innocent until proven guilty. It is not right or lawful in the eyes of God, or this great nation, for an entire community to be torn away from their parents and children because 1 man is a criminal. If this course is just in your eyes, then by the same principle, the government should also tear your children away from you, and blast your good name and reputation all over the news because you are a �Mormon�, or a �Baptist�, or a �Catholic�, or any other denomination, because there are criminals in every sect. It matters not what religious faith you are of; whether �Mormon�, �Baptist�, �Catholic�, or �Polygamist�, or what your ethnic background is. What matters is as American citizens, we are duty bound to sustain and uphold our constitutional rights, and the rights of others. (continues on next page)

Page 8 - Signatures 63 - 69 Name From Comments 69. Stanley Kelsch herriman, UT (continued from previous page) For it is common knowledge that if ones society�s rights are taken away, then what stops them from taking yours? The State of Texas has brought shame upon it�s head for the violation of the Constitution of this great nation. They are �Prohibiting the free exercise of religion� (1st Amendment). And they have trampled upon the fourth Amendment: �The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized�. The people of El Dorado are our fellow Americans. Should they not be entitled to the same rights as everyone else? When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. Pastor Martin Niem�ler Please contact your legislators and congressmen and let them know that we as American citizens cannot condone such acts. You can find your contact information at www.congress.org 70. Jeff Wheelwright Morgan, UT 71. Rob Draughon Spanish Fork, UT I don't agree with all of the FLDS beliefs. However, I certainly believe that everyone should be assumed innocent until proven guilty in a court. If it's men who are doing all of this horrible abuse, why are the Texas officials removing women and children from their homes? This is horrible, but an excellent example of how our country continues to go down the slippery slope towards destruction. Where is Ron Paul when we need him? Let's get back to constitutional principles and a FREE country. 72. Steven Johnson Provo, UT 73. molly williams provo, UT 74. Stephie Diamond Orangeville, Canada

Page 9 - Signatures 69 - 74 Name From Comments 75. KATRINA SANDY, UT THESE PEOPLE DESERVE DUE PROCESS OF LAW, KELSCH THEY ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY! I BELIEVE THEY ARE INNOCENT. 76. Sid Ewing Park city, UT Prosecute the guilty and leave the innocent alone until they are proven guilty. Please send those children back to their mothers where they belong. 77. Kathy Gifford Provo, UT I am appalled at the denial of due process and abuse of civil rights that the State of Texas is perpetrating on these people. I don't condone abuse of children in any way, but Texas has stepped way over the line here. Get the proof and make the charges on an individual basis. This is just wrong! You had no right to examine those children without a parent's permission. If the children hadn't been abused before, they have now - by the state of Texas! 78. Carol Wattson Beverly Hills, CA I would urge you to pay attention to what those people want. Not what you "think" is best for them. Since when has practicing religion been against the law in U.S. Can't you treat one single case as you would in any other situation, why was there a need to mass deport everyone out of there. I don't see the logic behind that. 79. Candalyn Winder Logan, UT The amount of personal freedom being suppressed is terrifying. Where do we draw the line? 80. what whatever whatever, AK PEACE! 81. Onika Nugent Mapleton, UT 82. Marleen Barlow Centennial Park, AZ I cant believe the total disreguard for constitutional rights displayed by the authorities in Texas. This is religious persecution and Texas should be ashamed to have allowed it. 83. Jimmie Duane Sevierville, TN Imprisonment and a show of armed force is not the Ross solution to very many challenges we face in life and is most often a detriment to our Liberties. People have a God given right to live their own lives without forceful government intervention as long as the rights of others are not infringed upon. As with the Waco Dividians a decade in the past, the show of power upon these people is a blatant infringement upon their God granted right of free will to participate in or leave their religious beliefs at some point in their personal lives. I have seen no evidence that anyone outside the Temple grounds has been harmed and those within their personal property can chose to stay or leave. Obviously, the religious group was practicing their Christian beliefs as should be the case with any group of like thinking individuals who are not infringing upon the rights of others. As mentioned above, this is another show of a government out of touch with real human rights as granted by Almighty God and not the government. The responsibility of government is to protect those rights as (continues on next page)

Page 10 - Signatures 75 - 83 Name From Comments 83. Jimmie Duane Sevierville, TN (continued from previous page) Ross they have not the power to grant them. This government tries to control the beliefs and activities of every country on the planet while the leadership (sic) within cannot maintain the Freedom and Liberties of it's own people as promised under the Constitution. Free these innocent people immediately as the lives of many stand in the crosshairs of the scales of justice, especially the children who are being deprived of parental love and care in lieu of the ludicrous and senseless incarceration. The only obvious harm being perpetrated at this time is being done so by out of control government intervention and force. Peace. 84. Jennifer Darger Salt Lake City, UT There seems to be a double standard here - those "upholding the law" are actually breaking it! This is the United States of America and these people are being persecuted for their religious beliefs. The single allegation of abuse should have been investigated and not the lifestyle. Shame on everybody involved! 85. Joshua Kelsch Herriman, UT 86. Kevin Cosper Alpine, UT 87. Michael Lewis Provo, UT 88. Deborah Lewis Bluffdale, UT 89. Vincent Lour Keller, TX It is barbaric to think in this age of freedom that the state Blanc has this type of tactic. Release them quickly as it is not lawful and it is against human rights. This is not a third world petty dictatorship. 90. Richard L. Jensen Provo, UT If authorities have probable cause to suspect abuse of any particular child, the initial effort should be to separate that child only from the suspected perpetrator. The mere potential for abuse does not justify the actions that have been taken. It is extremely frightening that this can be taking place in the United States of America. 91. Sarah Hammon Cane Beds, AZ I have two sisters that are suffering for their children. Both of them tell of the horrible treatment that the CPS and the Texas Officials have inflicted upon them and their innocent children. This is ABUSE!! Give the children back to their mothers and investigate the CPS. 92. Brian R. Taylor San Francisco,, CA Please look inside your hearts and know this is wrong. Thank you , Brian 93. Brent Welker Tempe, AZ Like all citizens, the FLDS deserve full due process and observance of constitutional protections. The impact on these children is heart-wrenching. 94. Isaiah Barlow Centennial Park, AZ What the officials in Texas have done to those people is a total disgrace to this country, and true Americans will not be at ease until their rights have been returned to them.

Page 11 - Signatures 83 - 94 Name From Comments 95. Luceille Kaale Westbrook, MN Mothers belong with their children.Families should not be torn apart. 96. Jared Barlow Herriman, UT 97. David Timpson Centennial Park, AZ This injustice ranks with some of the very worst in our nation's history. The longing for the CHARACTER that founded our freedoms on this soil grows stronger every day. May your sense of justice and sanity be restored poste haste! 98. Ruthann Ewing riverton, UT 99. Kathy Mead Highland, UT This is a witch hunt! The Texas authorities haven't been able to prove that the 16-year old who called asking for help even exists!!!! I think it is a setup. Although I don't agree with polygamy and believe that those who want out of that kind of community have the right to leave, I don't agree with how Texas authorities are handling this. The women and children are innocent and should remain together. If you need to take prisoners, separate the men from the women and children. Texas is doing irreparable harm to these innocent victims! 100. Helen Hammon Centennial Park, AZ I am shocked that the government cannot learn from its own mistakes and find better ways to handle issues that may arise. Many innocent women and children have been torn from any form of love that existed in their life and have been publicly and privately humiliated. No good comes from such force. Texas has only undone what Utah and Arizona have strived for for the last 4 years, which is to build bridges with the polygamist communities and strive to learn about them and take care of issues, that may exist inside of those communities. Texas has thrown those barriers back up and has eliminated any confidence they could have gained from the polygamists. What a sad thing for those who you should be able to rely on for help and assistance to do to innocent women and children. People of Texas watch out....why would they stop at the polygamists? 101. Beverly Kelsch Herriman, UT This is an outrage. No true American can stand by quietly and let this happen in the land of the free home of the brave. 102. Beverly Arbon Mapleton, UT What happened to Freedom of Religion? What were these women and children guilty of? Who gave the government the authority to tear families apart? 103. Linda and Donald Meadville, PA This is an outrage to ALL Americans and war on our Anthony freedoms! All this with an anonymous 16 year old's call for help. This just sounds like an excuse to invade their rights and privacy. Free ALL FLDS children. As long as they were taken care of it is none of our business who their father's are. I'm (continues on next page)

Page 12 - Signatures 95 - 103 Name From Comments 103. Linda and Donald Meadville, PA (continued from previous page) Anthony surprised you didn't send them to one of your FEMA Concentration Camps - or is that next? 104. Jody Boyack Lehi, UT 105. Rebekah Foster Park City, UT To those involved, I implore that you take the greatest of care not to remove kids from loving mothers. Please remove only kids where abuse can be proved. For the sake of the children, please work out an agreement with parents that will be in everyone's best interest. -A concerned mother 106. Joohwang Chun Oro Valley, AZ 107. Rebecca Hyde Cedar City, UT The incident surrounding this situation are most disconcerting. Those attempting to be protected by the State of Texas are the very ones that are being vicitmized. The children and mothers in this case need each other. 108. John Smith Ellenburg Dep, NY 109. John Walters proctor, VT When the State can confiscate children, armed only with vague and unsubstantiated claims, then all of us should be concerned. Thank God these people are nonviolent. Try to take my kids? I'll hunt you down. 110. Sharon rose Kingman, AZ Let the children go. This is not 1930's and 40's Germany. Who in this country will be next and will we all be required to wear some sort of identification so the Texas authorities can round us up and put us in camps. 111. Irene Hammon Cane Beds, AZ PEACE!!!! 112. roxcey Hammon Centanial Park, AZ Free the FLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 113. Ronald Schoedel Anchorage, AK I can hardly believe this is happening in the U.S.A. I cannot III recall a more outrageous event in my lifetime. As a parent, this is heartbreaking to watch. As a Mormon, this is infuriating. As an American citizen, it is terrificly chilling to watch lawmen--sworn to uphold the Constitution--taking children from their families with no recourse, and by deceptive means, under false pretenses! No American should tolerate this. I plead with the Governor of Texas to use his executive authority to return all children to the custody of their mothers immediately. What's next, I wonder, another Extermination Order? 114. Dawn Kelsch west jordan, UT I think that it is just sick and horrific. I think that you look at these people like they are soo strange because of there beliefs and that you are actually doing them some good. Well, taking these people away from everything that they have even known is not the answer. I believe that you are looking for any excuse to come in and take over. Why are you any different then the terrorists that we all fear. I can't begin to understand what these kids are going through, let alone the mothers. I know some of what this is like and it (continues on next page) Page 13 - Signatures 103 - 114 Name From Comments 114. Dawn Kelsch west jordan, UT (continued from previous page) seems so inhuman to take children from there parents because you THINK that you are doing some good. I think that you need so much more to go off of. I would hope that to take a child away from everything he has ever known would be the last option. It makes me sick to think that you think that you are actually doing something wonderful. I hope that God will touch your hearts enough to realize that this isn't the way. I don't agree with some of there beliefs but, then I don't agree with so much in this world. I do believe that you are in the wrong for what you have done. It is a bit ridiculous that you should take away so many and it looks like you are trying to make a statement. Well, you have a lot of attention now. 115. Suzie Gordon Claremont, NH 116. Rachelle Kelsch herriman, UT AMENDMENT 1; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." AMENDMENT 4; "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no warrants shall issue but upon proabable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and praticularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be siezed." AMENDMENT 6; "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an IMPARTIAL jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed." Whatever happened to FREEDOM OF RELIGION?! 117. Steve Dale Frankston,victoria, Australia 118. Graeme Keon Taipei, Taiwan Since when did U.S. citizens become guilty until proven innocent? I thought such an outrageous violation of human rights could only happen in Communist China. 119. Jeremy Parker Wrangell, AK This is a witch hunt. Charge the accused, release the others, or stand guilty of breaking the very laws you claim to uphold and violate those you claim to protect. You are as guilty as any. Rights are inalienable. Look that up please. Then read the Bill of Rights. 120. Dorothy Knightly Nashua, NH Your supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but now a day's, whenever Child Protective Services is involved, your guilty even when proven innocent. Why aren't they held accountable for their rogue action's toward familiy's? It's time to stop CPS abuse and take away their power.

Page 14 - Signatures 114 - 120 Name From Comments 121. J. Holderbaum Minneapolis, MN These children are at great risk of physical abuse, sexual abuse and being drugged with psychotropic medication in foster care. Reunite these children with their mothers immediately!! 122. fred black stgeorge, UT please let them go free. 123. Milton Musser South Jordan, UT If they can do it to one group, they can do it to any group! YOUR CHILDREN AND MY CHILDREN AREN"T SAFE FROM THIS OUTRAGE EITHER!!! Do parents have the God given right to raise up their children and teach them their beliefs? Or IS there in fact a state established religion?!FREE THOSE INNOCENT PEOPLE NOW!!! For the government to break up families and destroy homes IS CHILD ABUSE!! This nation can't afford to lose FREEDOM of RELIGION! The very reason our forefathers came to this blessed land. Remember? The land of the FREE? The home of the brave?!! 124. RULON PIPKIN ST GEORGE, UT 125. Hazel Zitting Centennial Park, AZ Shame on Texas. Those people went to your state for freedom from religous persecution not for it. 126. Lorin Zitting Centennial Park, AZ I think it is stupid to upset so many lives over one phone call when you don't even know if it was legitament phone call. 127. Victoria Sheetz Cedar City, UT I cannot imagine the suffering of these poor innocent children. It is even harder to imagine the heartache of the mothers whose children have been taken from them. Where is the voice of reason? Where is the outrage? We cannot sit idly by while the rights of others are being taken from them. Who will be next? 128. Shallece Kelsch Herriman, UT Whatever happened to being innocent until PROVEN guilty?! 129. Marjory Howes SLC, UT I DO NOT support polygamy, but holding/seperating these families is unconstitutional! 130. KALEB NEWEL MOUNTAIN HOME LET THEM GO!! GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY WERE!! STEED IDAHO, ID THEY ARE NOT HURTING ANYONE, OR DOIN ANYTHING WRONG.. LET THEM LIVE THEIR LIVES THE WAY THEY WANT TO, JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO FREE AGENCY S!! I HALVENT TALKED TO MY FAMILY FROM THERE IN 6 YEARS AND IM STILL SIGNIN THIS BECAUSE I LOVE THEM EVEN IF WE ARE DISTANT.. TO MY FOLKS: LOVE U GUYS AND JUST REMEMBER TO BE STRONG IN ALL TIMES AND TAKE CARE!!! 131. Samuel Duran Hurricane, UT You are all child kidnappers. You are the abusers. Every one knows a child has a 5 time higher chance of being abused under your supposed care than being in the general population. If any thing happens to these children I (continues on next page)

Page 15 - Signatures 121 - 131 Name From Comments 131. Samuel Duran Hurricane, UT (continued from previous page) will personally hold you responsible. I will be taking down names as this progresses. I know of your CIA slave connections. I know of your satanic ties. You are a bunch of self righteous crusaders. God will be the one you will eventually be answering to besides those of us here who will hold you responsible while you live out your miserable lives. 132. Vicki J Aiken Canon City, CO I watched a video online of a Mother of one of the Children being taken. Her son came up and told her to not hold his hand the mother asked why and the child said "Because that Is child Abuse" The Mother then said "no it isn't." the Child then said "I saw a shirt that had a picture of a child holding it's mothers hand with the words "Child Abuse". This child was around 7 or 9 yrs of age. Can you Imagine. Then being taken away and put in a home with somone who might drink, or teach by example with tatoos, drugs, TV, theives, murder and rape. The list goes on and on of things these children have never been exposed to. I just don't feel right about them doing this. This Situation is so sad, I too pray for the children that if they must go into a foster home that they be placed in a Loving caring family environment. My heart aches for the Mothers and the Children. They suffer for the sins of their Fathers. They have also just assumed that all were Guilty. I thought it was Innocent till proven Guilty where is the ACLU? WHERE ARE THEIR RIGHTS. HOW CAN AMERICA STAND IDOILLY BY AND ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. WHEN WILL THEY THEN START WITH TAKING YOUR CHILDEREN AWAY!!!!!!! 133. Rebecca Fassett Kemmerer, WY 134. Neeley Ussing Ontario, OR 135. Lawrence Sedalia, CO This is by far the most horrendous atrocity I've ever seen Steffens happen in this nation by it's own government, and that on it's own people. Yet this is a natural step for feminist controlled systems that are anti-family and anti-patriarchy. The Progressive family courts have been anti-family for some time, and now it appears the godless Progressive elements of government who have declared war on it's own people now openly force their religion of Progressivism on any and all they choose. Freedom of religion, the Constitution, where are those sworn to uphold it? They are undermining it and they need to be held accountable. 136. Antonio Teixeira Porto Alegre, Brazil It is a shame what the authorities are doing to those children from the FLDS community taking them from their parents without a specific situation that requires such extreme action. Using the words "polygamy" and "abuse" it (continues on next page)

Page 16 - Signatures 131 - 136 Name From Comments 136. Antonio Teixeira Porto Alegre, Brazil (continued from previous page) is easy to promote fear and picture a hole community as a bunch of abusers even without any actual evidence. Now more than 400 innocent children are paying the price of this Nazi-style operation that has taken place in Eldorado. Who can evaluate the damage this has caused to them? Watching these sad events down here in Brazil I feel shocked that such authoritarian things are happening right now in our time not in Sudan, China, Cuba, North Korea or an unknown underdeveloped country but in the United States, the land of freedom. Antonio Teixeira 137. Leo Kamensky Pearland, TX Feminista Government Gang Alliance, fuck you Nazi scum, I hope to see the day when you all hang from trees. 138. Stanley Mead Mesa, AZ 139. Catherine Park Provo, UT What has been done is wrong! We have advanced beyond this childish "I'm right and you are wrong" simply because there are two different ways of doing things. 140. Ralph Kunz riverton, UT i think it's a shame to think you so called "athorities" think that you can abuse your positions and power to manipulate the system. where is the abuse where is the neglect. i think you would be hard pressed to find anything at all. what about these peoples rights? as officers of the law you are sworn "to protect and to serve". where is the protection of these peoples rights. 141. Kacy Barlow La Sal, UT Who will be next? I hope we can all stand up for these people now before they are coming for our children. 142. Angie Bush Sandy, UT I understand that there are allegations of abuse, however, holding 416 children against their will is just plain WRONG! 143. Go Texas Justice every, UT For years I have been hearing about the abuses under the FLDS and saw nothing was being done. I am so happy that Texas has begun efforts to protect the children. And I hope that Az and Ut will follow suit. FLDS members have said there is no reason for their children being taken. But abuse of a child whether physical or sexual is a reason. Seeing abuse of others is also a good reason. Being raised to become abusers is another good reason. 144. Cari Kelsch Park City, UT I hope that all care is taken towards these children and I think its awful that they were taken from their parents like that. 145. Jake Barlow La Sal, UT It is strange that the doctors who examined these children say that they are a very healthy community. Where is the evidence of abuse, the only evidence is what we see on the news of the CPS abusing the children. And why wont (continues on next page)

Page 17 - Signatures 136 - 145 Name From Comments 145. Jake Barlow La Sal, UT (continued from previous page) they accept the petition of the men at the ranch, to return the mothers and their children home on the condition of the men leaving the community and not having contact. This is a new low for our government! 146. Jared Nebeker Syracuse, UT This is clearly a violation of Constitutional Rights. Does this not resemble in some way Hitler's gathering up of a group of "marginalized" religious individuals who were completely innocent? Regardless of Texas' intentions, there are Amendments in our Bill of Rights that must be honored here (4, 5, 6...). If we fail to begin drawing our "line in the sand", where will the government stop? 147. Greg Lesher Hinckley, UT Each and every person involved in this action should face Quo Warranto actions. In fact they may be in the works. We both know the results of those actions, Judge and elected or appointed officals it matters not. If you are found to have done anything unlawfull against proper procedure, you will pay back every penny you have made in office. May God have mercy on your souls, at least more than you have given those familys. 148. Julie Williams Humansville, MO 149. Jon Menough Anchorage, AK The kind of behavior we are witnessing from the authorities in Texas is akin to that exhibited by Kim Jong Il or other totalitarian leaders. It is simply wrong and demonstrates how far this nation has drifted from its founding principles. 150. Patricia Pierson Heyburn, ID I am a foster parent and am amazed at the stand the state of Texas CPS has taken. If a particular person is abusive to a particular child- it makes great sence to remove that child from the person. In this case, it looks to me that a neighbor MAY have done something- and the whole community has lost their children. Please be reasonable, lawful and just in your decisions regarding the mothers and their children. No doubt they are crying for one another and wondering why this is all happening. I'm afraid you all look like political bigots at this point, and must right the wrong you have done. No one agrees that a young girl must become the wife and bear children to an old man. But what of those innocent children who need their families back. There must be a better way. 151. Dillon Kelsch Saint George, UT The Constitution of the United States was founded by God, and used to be obeyed by man. What went wrong? 152. Warren Menough Elk City, ID 153. Michael J. Barlow moab, UT It looks like Texas has not learned from the past like Waco. They are still a bunch of heathens that do not respect human life. They should let the people go. How much more can we put up with? It looks as if we are all in bondage it seems our hands are tied when are we gonna rise up against this government control

Page 18 - Signatures 145 - 153 Name From Comments 154. C.W. McBride Choctaw, OK 155. Andrew Lloyd San Diego, CA I am outraged at the kidnapping of these children. 156. Connie Ewing Park City, UT I would like you all to look at it from a parents standpoint. I don't know of what religion you are, and there may be many amongst you, but does that give me a right to go in and take ALL of your children away from you just because I don't like what you believe? Can you honestly go before your God, whomever that may be, and do what you are doing with a clear conscience!?! Please re-unite these families, and if there is any single abuse going on, then only target that abuse the same as you would any other American, and NOT the whole.. 157. Kristen Kelsch Saint George, UT 158. Kelli Smart Lehi, UT 159. James Uhl American Fork, UT Texas state persecution of polygamists for practicing their religion is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. LEAVE THE INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN ALONE!!!!!!!!!!! 160. Charles Bradshaw Centennial Park, AZ 161. S Fortnebrry San Angelo, TX The main objection is the raid was lacking due process. We are punishing children and mothers I am sure are not guilty of any crime even if just one person is wrongly going through this we need to take heed ad let them go home. Maybe remove the men to eliminate the threat but this is very SAD the way it is being handled. To whom it may concern: you know they should have investigated the call to see who made it and if it was real! What if I call on you? Would it be okay for them to get your children on my word or would I and they be in the wrong. For example, I know the case workers would think it crazy if they were called to have CPS cohorts get his/her kids tomorrow for the things I think he/she might be up to. But you know how these pedophiles are they hide behind schools and badges and deflect the attention from their own acts (you see how easy accusations can be made). Think! 162. linda Hufstetler Layton, UT I am as much for helping abused children as anyone, but I feel this act of taking every child away from their family because they belong to a certain religion is against the constitution. 163. Paul Westwood Spanish Fork, UT I believe many constitutional rights have been violated. This is unacceptable. 164. Lorin Kelsch Park City Ut., UT This is just about as heart breaking as it gets mother's being seperated from there children for no good reason and it shouldn't be tolerated by the American people!!! If we don't get back to the Constitution that was set up by the founding father's it will get a whole lot worse than it is right know.

Page 19 - Signatures 154 - 164 Name From Comments 165. Graham Bruce Okotoks, Canada I cannot believe that the excuse of "protecting the rights of the children" is being used to remove the rights of all the men, women and children of that sect. Texans should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this abuse of power by its government. 166. Marylou Roundy Colorado City, AZ What they have done (the state of Texas) is completely unconstitutional! If my neighbors call the police are you going to bust in my home and take my kids? PLEASE GIVE THE INNOCENT KIDS BACK! 167. Jo Hunley Deer Trail, CO This is outrageous. Not a single man has been arrested, or seems to be facing arrest as one lone arrest warrant has been issued and that was not served when authorities had the opportunity. It leaves us no choice but to assume the state finds it far easier to maliciously punish battered women and children. Even the most heinous killer is afforded rights under the law; the FLDS women and children are being denied what we would give sadistic killers. This must be stopped. As a Baptist, Moses said it best: "Let my people go!" 168. Kathrine Stone Canon City, CO If these children have not been abused and or the ones who arn't old enough to abuse should be given back to the parents.If they were trully abused then they should be taken.even with this singniture I don't believe in ABUSE.But the little ones need there mom. 169. Mark Butler Farmington, UT Rounding up several hundred children based on a single unsubstantiated allegation is an enormous abuse of discretion that will tarnish the reputation of the great state of Texas for decades to come. 170. Bonnie Kelsch Riverton, UT The judge that warranted this outrage couldn't possibly have children of her own to allow this for innocent women and children; if so, I might wager a cold heart. The imagination of some of those who accuse these people of all kinds of weird stuff going on in a temple just speak of whats in their own hearts. Whats with all the tanks and guns against a peaceful people with NO GUNS? It's pretty obvious that this is really about MONEY and PROPERTY. You've seen what they've done with the Colorado City situation (if you've followed up) PROPERTY and MONEY where seized and guess who is benefitting by the thievery? I challenge the media to be more honest. Who is abusing who here? 171. Spring Jessop Mona, UT This is just ILLEGAL and WRONG! I'm all for fighting abuse and getting children out of abuse situations, but lying to mothers and stealing their children from them on no legal grounds whatsoever is unconstitutional. Texas has made a VERY SERIOUS mistake here that is ruining the lives of many innocent individuals. What happened to (continues on next page)

Page 20 - Signatures 165 - 171 Name From Comments 171. Spring Jessop Mona, UT (continued from previous page) America? What happened to our FREEDOM? Give the children back! 172. Mark Hansen Salt Lake City, UT Someone needs to read the United Nations Conventions on Human Rights and on Genocide. If a child has been abused, find and punish the perpetrator. But don't try to eradicate a whole culture just because you have a different belief system. We have heard great outcries in the past against discrimination against races and religions. This has become a watershed event. Will Texas be a champion of human rights, or will in live in infamy in the minds of freedom loving people? 173. Carlene Cannon SLC, UT You have taken these children on allegations of abuse, yet while under your care horrified mothers watched helplessly as their children were taken to have sexual abuse examinations. Their rights were further violated by having samples of their children's DNA taken. I fear they will be further abused by uncaring, culturaly insensitive Foster parents. 174. john moyer englewood, CO what a horrible act of aggression for the feds to take 400 children because of the complaint of one. Please show some respect for these peoples constitutional rights. 175. Joseph Cavaluzzi Port St. Lucie, FL As a Viet Nam Vet , I protest the treatment of these people. What happened to our Constitution for which I fought for? 176. Sarah Arbon Mapleton, UT 177. Charley Moore South Jordan, UT CPS is part of the executive branch, but it has vast police power. CPS has too much unfettered power, which is why some of the idiots who work for it behave like thugs and with impunity. Otherwise this would not be so equally true in all the other states. The system is inherently corrupt and unchecked. They have their own judges, and they team up with the guardians ad litem. The average parent doesn't stand a chance. All that crap about "we care most about the children" is just propaganda that translates as - "If I abuse you and your rights expressly for the benefit of your children, I automatically gain the moral high ground." Did they care most for the children during the Haun's Mill Massacre? It's all about power, and CPS/DCFS is utterly out of control. The girl who called in the phony allegations is named Joanna, and she has been hatching this scheme for a year. This crap about -"polygamy is inherently abusive" is just as stupid as saying, "Guns are inherently guilty". Polygamy is an abstract concept. Abstract concepts have never "abused" anybody". Even if the FLDS community has been accused of being a cult, it has NEVER had a pattern of sexual abuse. 178. Cassandra Fouke, AR Jackson

Page 21 - Signatures 171 - 178 Name From Comments 179. Steve Sweat kearns, UT mass arrest Solves nothing do your investigation let the mothers at least be with thier children you cannot dictate that part of the equation its torture for both children and mothers and could be deadly and a full life threat to the child in the long run 180. Jordan Provo, UT Gunderson 181. Hardy Cherry Orem, UT If the rights of the FLDS are trampled on, then our rights can be next. 182. Jeff Stowe durham, NC 183. Lynn Kos Lake Geneva, WI Based on one anonymous phone call? and yet the police Wisconsin can't do anything about a woman who reports a stalker? 184. Ashley Barlow Salt Lake City, UT 185. Peggy Steadman Avondale, AZ Kidnapping and separating those children from their parents, is child abuse at the hands of our Government. 186. Lisa Childs Marysville, CA Not in MY America! 187. dewey olsen tooele, UT you are breaking the law, by takeing 416 people away from their familiy. what a mastake, and I am hoping some one will sue the great state of tx, for oversteping its bounds, and accusing many mothers of crimes with no evidance to their personal lifes. 188. Stephen Jones Salt Lake City, UT Amazing how the rights of criminals are so carefully protected that gang members can openly roam and terrorize our streets while law-abiding people are rounded up. Child abuse is endemic in the population. By Texas logic all children in America should be removed from their homes and placed in foster care. 189. Thomas Pirovano Bern, Switzerland 190. Donnie Grimes Mount Pleasant, TN Go by the law don't make it up. 191. ray herron warsaw, MO please abide by the u.s. constitution you swore an oath to uphold , or resign your position of authority and live under the same laws you are attempting to impose. 192. Margaret Williams Centennial Park, AZ Texas looks like Nazi Germany today 193. ALPHA WI Ww, Germany 194. Gina Burnett Kingsport, TN We DO NOT steal someones children based on a more than probably fake phone call, without investigation.... 195. Jeff Lindsay Appleton, WI On the basis of an anonymous call and one informant who claims to have seen a bed, you dare to strip young children from the mothers - hundreds of children? This sounds more like Nazi Germany than America. 196. Julie Zitting Raymore, MO What have the Children done wrong... let them go, hold the men... comming from a former member.

Page 22 - Signatures 179 - 196 Name From Comments 197. Gerardo Neto macapa, Brazil Somos favoraveis a uma investiga�o s�ia,liberta�o das crina�s inocentes. 198. Joshua Williams Lehi, UT The government should not detain people, unless formal charges of lawbreaking have been filed specifically against the person in question. Reasonable bail should be set in such case, unless it can be shown that the suspect(s) is/are a danger to themselves or others. The continued detainment of these women and children without charges or trial, amounts to little more than state-sponsored religious persecution. 199. Jonah Kunz Herriman, UT Please try and use an unbiased opinion and put yourself in the shoes of the parties involved 200. Ronaldo Luis Pelotas, Brazil Please, liberate infants and innocent women in that case of polygamy. They does not have blames by the fanaticism of the system in that were born. Very it obliged by the opportunity of me listen. RL 201. Jason Kelsch Herriman, UT 202. Susan Fretwell Canon City, CO Again, the Department of Human Services comes to the rescue...NOT. These people are not criminals and should not be treated as such. We may not have to agree with their beliefs, but these women & children did NOTHING wrong. These little children need to be returned to their mothers without government interference! 203. Edgar Silva Mafra, Portugal 204. Anne Wilde Salt Lake City, UT 205. jared zitting centennial park, AZ 206. Dave Mayse Joplin, MO We DO NOT steal someones children based on a more than probably fake phone call, without investigation. Texas looks like Nazi Germany today. Please, abide by the U.S. Constitution you swore an oath to uphold , or resign your position of authority and live under the same laws you are attempting to impose. Finally, where is the PROOF of these charges? 207. Jason Welch Kyle, TX 208. Rachel Jessop Cane Beds, AZ Please set them free? They didn't do anything wrong! They deserve to be free as much as everyone else!!! 209. Brandon Craig Centennial park, AZ The state of texas should apologize for the abuse of these people, return their children, and throw the people that thought taking peoples children that were being taught differently then them was a good idea out of office. It is hard to imagine that in this late date we STILL (all through our history) have a group of people persecuting mormons (don't care the sect). 210. Kent Thompson Lehi, UT

Page 23 - Signatures 197 - 210 Name From Comments 211. Ariel Gonzales New York, NY Please stop this Orwellian action and return the children to their parents. 212. Lorin Zitting colorado city, AZ 213. Jessica Ewing Riverton, UT 214. Tress Krukiewicz Lehi, UT Where are the rights that are granted in the constitution, are we living in Germany under Hitler? I don't believe in polygamy but that does not mean these people do not have rights. The mothers deserve their children to be given back with an apology. 215. Jody Kelsch Park City, UT Breaking up Families is no moral way of taking care of a problem. Especially the entire group. We didn't take all the Catholic children when the priests had bad things going on. 216. Malissa Barlow West Jordan, UT Prosecute the devients and free the innocent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 217. Jeanna Zitting centennial park, AZ 218. Claudia Welch Kyle, TX 219. Alica Hammon Colorado City, AZ Give the children back to their parents. 220. leo chaves Porto Alegre, Brazil 221. Lillian Musser Centennial Park, AZ To move in and seize an entire community for the wrongs of some is just wrong and unjust to the innocent! 222. Kristie x Park City, UT Where is freedom of religion? There is no proof that any sexual abuse was in play. How can you go in and tear up a whole community of innocent people, all because of religion? 223. MATTHEW CENTENNIAL PARK, WOW.WOW.WOW TEXAS NEEDS TO ACCOUNT FOR MUSSER AZ THE ACTION'S TAKING CHILDERN AWAY ON A PRANK PHONE CALL. WOW. PLEASE SOME ONE HELP. I KNOW GOD WILL. 224. Rachel Morrison Park City, UT 225. Mike Bradshaw Centennial Park, AZ If we're in the mood to take children, let's take them from parents who beat, starve, and maim them...not from those parents who teach them about values, love, and respect. 226. Jenilee Nebeker Salt Lake City, UT We do not live in Nazi Germany..yet! We have a Constitution that should protect the rights of free citizens. Taking women and children from their homes, especially children from their mother is a most heinous crime indeed! 227. Jan Darger Herriman, UT The state of Texas has caused more damage to this group of people than can be imagined. Isn't it disturbing that this was based on a phone caller that hasn't been found? And even more curious, the attorney general of Utah claims that a call was received to another crisis center claiming abuse in Colorado City/Hildale at the same time? A 16 year old girl in that case also? Also never found. Hmmm? Makes one think. Someone has an agenda of their own bent on destroying this people. Texas has overstepped any (continues on next page)

Page 24 - Signatures 211 - 227 Name From Comments 227. Jan Darger Herriman, UT (continued from previous page) sense of right and now is trying to save face. Let these children go. Prosecute proven cases of abuse, not an entire group. 228. jacob hammon las vegas, NV This is an outrage! Civil rights are meaning nothing to those afflicting apon the group of polygamists. 229. H Horsley Centennial Park, AZ We live in the U.S.A. give these people their freedom back!! 230. onthestreet Moon, IA "The Constitution of the United States hangs by a thread". CalledStraight Warren Jeffs is that thread. 231. Jay McCarthy Dunstable, MA 232. Nathan Burton Elberta, UT Most people agree that exploitation of under-age women or girls is a travesty and no not condone the behavior but what happened to due-process? Has Texas officially rejected The Constitution and the Fourth Amendment? This seems to be guilt by association. Are we going to see the confiscation of all children when there are allegations of abuse in a school, church or club? PLEASE STOP WACO II !!!! 233. Sandra Ervin Jacksonville, NC Dear Honorable Men of Texas, Adams Last night I was too disturbed to sleep. Although I am not affiliated with their religion, I feel it is an abomination for the members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church to be detained. Please give them their rights in accordance with the Constitution of our country, and please hold the Texas CPS accountable for their wrongful actions against these people! 234. Susan Hammon Colorado City, AZ Mass child abuse on the part of Texas. Consider the trama the children and women are suffering getting ripped away from their home and families--all because of an unverifiable phone call. Set the women and children free! 235. Roseanna Houston, TX (www.fightcps.com) Stop Family Shredding!! Stop Tearing Gamboa Familes Apart !! My Family TOO Has Been Attacked and Persecuted by CPS. (www.fightcps.com) 236. M T Watson Lehi, UT "Don't they know or ever knew that God would judge the judges too." 237. Alexis Kunz West Valley, UT If this had been any other community would you have handled the situation the same??? Would you have taken your guns in to and LDS temple simply because a 16 year old girl claimed to have been abused by someone that believed in the LDS religion? Why wasn't every Catholic church ripped apart because priests were molesting children?? Just because these people choose to believe different then you doesn't make them child abusers!! You should be ashamed of what you've done to all these innocent people! 238. Latrica Williams Monteview, ID Page 25 - Signatures 227 - 238 Name From Comments 239. Ruth Kingston slc, UT It is not fair to detain these people with out proof. not only not fair, it seems like laws and being broken, and rights are being taken away. let them go!!! 240. Melissa SAN ANGELO, TX Richardson 241. Nate Johnson Vancouver, WA What the state of Texas has done is a crying shame!!! Who in their right mind would do this to Mothers and thier children? This is just sick and wrong. Like so many have stated before me, I do not agree with the abuse of under age girls being married off to older men, but this is not the answer to fixing this problem. Bring the men to justice without ripping the Mothers and children apart. What the **** is Texas thinking!!! (no the **** does not start with H it starts with F!!) TEXAS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? May TEXAS BURN IN HELL for this PATHETIC attempt to bring the men to justic. My heart goes out the the Mothers and children of that community. 242. Jesse Richardson San Angelo, TX This entire fiasco is unconstitutional. I'm not FLDS, and I endorse neither the FLDS nor the LDS church. I have sworn, however, to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies both foreign and domestic. This is violating constitutional rights given to all American citizens. If this were a case against their practice of polygyny and that was the reason for the detention of this number of people, then I would be 100% behind this movement. However, since that's not the case the majority of these people are being detained without even being accused of a crime. It is ludicrous. 243. R Paul Sandy, UT I dont think the forcing of young girls to have sex or wed is right. However, my understanding is that the 16 year old caller is still not even found and knowing how corrupt our govt. is probably doesn't exist. Okay, if she does you go in with specific warrants for specific people and arrest them. You dont take hundreds of people, seperate them from their husbands, children and violate their sacred buildings. This is classic Nazi Germany tactics like the one lady said. More govt. control leading directly to a police state right here in the land of the free and the brave. What a load of shit! 244. John Smith Boise, ID 245. Marian Easterday bonnieville, KY Horrible! I protest against this violation against anyone! 246. Shaleece midvale, UT What happened to FREEDOM??? This country has its Broadbent head so far up its A$$, nothing's justified. 247. Joseph Kingston Kirksville, MO The CPS should not have any authority that reaches over our constitutional rights as citizens of the United States. Complaints should be handled on a case by case basis as with any other community or religion. It is very clear that (continues on next page)

Page 26 - Signatures 239 - 247 Name From Comments 247. Joseph Kingston Kirksville, MO (continued from previous page) religion intolerance played a large role in the actions of the Texas raid. All of Texas and America should be ashamed for allowing the illegal actions of our government to take place in the land of the free. Who's rights will be taken away next? 248. v wayman boise, ID It seems that anyone with a heart or a conscience would be concerned that something like this is happening here in America. 249. John Busch Bellingham, WA 250. hateful Xcricker humansville, MO total travesty, there is not enough crime in texas that they should chase or is all of texas without sin 251. Sarah Mansfield South Salt Lake, UT If one young woman made allegations of abuse, then let that case be examined. Taking the children from everyone based on suspicion in a single case only punishes the children. This is unconstitutional and just plain wrong that hundreds of children and mothers should be punished this way because of the suspected actions of a few. 252. eric swenson springville, UT Stop WACO II Restore our Bill of RIGHTS! 253. J R Watson Draper, UT 254. Aaron Sellers American Fork, UT This is an unbelievable violation of these people's constitutional rights. We are a nation that is supposed to protect the rights of the individual, which is the smallest minority. Instead we have government entities overstepping their bounds within the law and lumping all these people together with no proof at all. Please, allow these children to return home. 255. MARIA GAMBOA HOUSTON, TX The Texas CPS is an unjust state funded organization that needs to comply with the rights of it's victims and fellow taxpayers. This is a vicous organization/program that needs to be done away with or replaced with a more suitable program that complies with US constitutional rights. 256. Jacob Kelsch salt lake, UT 257. Thomas Harris Santa Cruz, CA My only hope is that Texas CPS gets sued into bankruptcy over this. Where in the hell is the original person that started this mess??? 258. David Andersen Draper, UT 259. Rick Helms Bedford, TX Integrity must be maintained and the Constitution must be upheld. 260. Violet Barlow Centennial Park, AZ i think what they are doing to these people is wrong. they are scaring these kids half to death, and how would you feel if someone took your kids away because of your religion.

Page 27 - Signatures 247 - 260 Name From Comments 261. Franziska Eber Oldenburg, Germany 262. Rebecca Wayman C.P., AZ These people have rights!!! I can't believe that the people of Texas that are responsible for these invasive acts can feel good about calling themselves Americans. They are the terrorists! 263. Carolyn Millsap Sandy, UT 264. Aaron Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ Could there be a bigger more blatent abuse of civil rights than this! Where are all of the lovers of freedom and religious rights that this country was built upon? Come on Americans lets make a stand for what we profess to believe in and stand up to our oppresive government agencies and remind them what this country was built upon! 265. stefanie colgrove Hildale, UT Please do what is right and put the children back with their mothers. 266. Bev Doman Kearns, UT Can't we find better things to do with the resources it takes to invade a closed community?? How about raiding Americas neighborhoods that are filled with illegal aliens. Come on now this has been going on since I was born either get a plan or get out of their business. If we are going for unlawful cohabitation you will have to round up a boat load of citizens on this one. How convenient to have these people all in one place. 267. Rachel Jessop Roosevelt, UT Abuse happens by people, not communities. If there is indeed proof of abuse happening, those cases should be handled individually. This FLDS community should not have had their families torn apart anymore than an entire Amish community should have their families torn apart over one accusation of abuse. Give them back their consititutional rights. And give them back their children! 268. Brian Duffin Mesa, AZ I am appalled, shocked and horrified that one phone call, from one person, for one alleged incident of abuse, could impact over 400 children and their families! This represents an egregious error on the part of Texas officials and shows their utter disregard for Constitutional prinicples and the rule of law. Investigate the single claim of abuse and in the meantime, reunite the families you have torn apart! 269. Mary Lou Colorado City, AZ Timpson 270. Shaun Freeman west valley city, UT Looks like somebody with authority has a bias. Taking these kids without any proof of the 16 year old girls accusation, breaking rights and laws of the people they invaded and treating them like they do. Good job on making the Texas authority look bad though.

Page 28 - Signatures 261 - 270 Name From Comments 271. Tansy O'Brien Salt Lake City, UT Why is it that the media go all hay-wire when there is a report of a 15 yr old married and expecting? when any other 15 yr old in the USA is found expecting no one takes a second look, let alone have someone charged for their immaturities. Is it because it is just wrong for girls to be married at such a young age? sounds to me like they are taking resposibility for their actions. There are mature 15 yr olds out there who are willing to give up their youth and become a wife and mother..whatever happened to "in God we trust"? 272. Diana Bateman Colorado City, AZ You could have handled the issue of underage marriage and child abuse in a much less dramatic way for the poor kids who are getting tramatized by these events. 273. Maria Herpin Hurricane, UT I am not polygamous but was once married to a man who came from polygamy and know and understand what these women are going through. Set them free so they can live the life they so long and deserve!! 274. Leslie Wayman Bluffdale, UT Please reunite the FLDS children with their parents and investigate allegations of abuse on a case-by-case basis. 275. Paul Timpson Colorado City, AZ I am amazed at mankind's tendency to jump to conclusions before they have the facts. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 276. Kristen Millsap Sandy, UT 277. Aleisha Baker Salt Lake City, UT 278. Erma Timpson Colorado City, AZ I feel this raid is an outrageous violation of civil and parental rights! Where else in America can officers remove an entire population of children from a community based on an unproven allegation of abuse? What did our Founding Fathers give their lives for if it wasn't religious freedom? 279. Ann Marie Curling Cadiz, KY Stop this abuse of government power and restore the constitutional right to these people. You are absolutely WRONG on this. Stop the religious persecution and go back to protecting those that are truly abused. 280. shannon Tracy Washington, UT I agree with Rachel Jessop's statment!!! 281. Letha Naylor Saratoga Springs, UT These innocent children have been extracted from their innocent families and dumped into a failed foster care system, that only produces homelessness. It is an abomination instigated by a publicity-hound woman who just wants her mug on TV. These people are just good honest people trying to live thier religion. I personally thing that the Governor of Texas is a coward for not stopping this in it's tracks. Shame on Texas, may she forever wear this stain, until those who have been wronged are righted, the innocent are returned to their families, and American citizens are free once more. God Bless America.

Page 29 - Signatures 271 - 281 Name From Comments 282. Chase kunz riverton, UT I think that the actions taken by the CPS are worse than 9/11 . Because we have an enemy here on our soil with this much power and they have abused it in every way , I hope they are punished and put in Federal Prison for this . 283. Pam Boland Grovetown, GA 284. Otto F Roth New Bern, NC it is not right to separate the children from ther mother. they need to be with ther mothers now more than ever. 285. Gene Trosper Wildomar, CA When one's rights are violated, everyone's are. texas authorities MUST release the men, women and children from custody IMMEDIATELY. This is not just a case of religious freedom, but basic civil rights which affects all Americans. I am not LDS. heck, I am not even religious, but I can tell when rights are being violated. 286. Jeff Day Roseburg, OR Our prayers are with these innocent people. 287. Darlene Kelsch Park City, UT 288. Marleen Blair Troy, NY This country was founded upon religious freedom. Where is that today when small children are torn away from thier mothers arms in the name of justice? And where is this "Sarah"? I question her existence and believe the state of Texas has a lot of explaining to do 289. Anonymous Salt Lake City, UT Civil Rights are being violated here. As governor you Anonymous swore an oath to uphold the law, please step in and do what good ethics requires of you. 290. Amanda Wayman Magna, UT everyone is entilted to there own beliefs and religon. you can't just take one little accusation and take hundreds of women and children away from there familys,your just being harsh because there polygamists and its BULLSHI* 291. Laura Butler Cane Beds, AZ I am 100% behind the FLDS people. Neither the state nor federal government has any right to remove those children. There have been no allegations made against these people aside from one that has been found to have no foundation. WHAT HAPPENED TO DUE PROCESS!?!!? 292. Kellie Kelsch Park City, UT 293. Lanny Naylor Saratoga Springs, UT No longer do we live in "the land of the free and the home of the brave". We aren't free when the government can just come in and take you family for no probable reason, and we are not brave when American citizens won't stand up and fight against injustice and the trespassing of our religious liberties. 294. Rachelle Porter woods cross, UT It is a horrible thing that the Texas CPS are doing to those innocent children. If they can't prove any abuse they need to let the kids go back with their parents, especially their mothers.

Page 30 - Signatures 282 - 294 Name From Comments 295. Debbie Flores Bacliff, TX I hate to say it but without thousands of signatures this will go nohwere...They took my granddaughter and did the same to us... Tried to adopt her out after on a couple of weeks. She was deathly ill after being in Foster Care for only 7 weeks. CPS not only refused medical care but denied it too. I the grandmother was able to get her due to the neglect and abuse it was proven in court we took the pix's.. The judge wouldn't even look at them but my attorney shoved them in his face... He got in trouble of course but it worked... 296. Julianne Kelsch herriman, UT These people have had their constitutional rights taken from them. I agree with prosecuting and fighting abuse, but there is no proof of abuse and the government went in to their homes unconstitutionally. You have overstepped your bounds, Texas. Return these people back to their homes and give them back their rights! 297. Les Barlow Woods Cross, UT 298. Shellcode Stalker Midvale, UT I believe that they should be freed also! This is bs that they have to go through all this. It is their religon. They are hurting nobody.. spend your time looking for stalkers and pedophiles then looking for them! 299. Nephi Barlow Bluffdale, UT I think that we need to go back to the Constitution of the United States, let people worship what they want. 300. Mark Timpson Centennial Park, AZ Where is the ACLU??? Why haven't they come forward to fight this awefull religious profiling and cultural insensitivity!!!! 301. Louis Kelsch Park City, UT 302. Betsy Kelsch Park City, UT 303. Rosemary Centennial Park, AZ Proud to be an American, where at LEAST I know I'm free! Wayman Let's keep it this way. 304. Maria Jessop Bonners Ferry, ID These mothers will take better care of thier children than anyone else you could possibly find. 305. THOMAS Hildale, UT I THINK THE SYSTEM IS SCREWED UP!!!!! AND MANY JESSOP OF THE PEOPLE RUNNING IT!!!!! LITTLE CHILDREN SHOULDN'T BE TREATED THIS WAY, THE WAY THAT TEARS THEM FROM MOTHERS AND FATHERS. WHEN THEY HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING EXCEPT BE LITTLE CHILDREN. POLITICIANS, GET YOUR HEAR OUT OF YOUR DUFFELBAGS, YOUR TERRIBLE. WE DON'T LIKE YOU THIS WAY. IT'S NOT CUTE MANLY OR GRACEFUL. IF CHILDREN ARE PROVED, NOT ALLEDGED, BUT PROVED TO BE IN DANGER, THEN YES MOVE THEM IF NOT LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE!!!!!! 306. Elizabeth Boss Park City, UT

Page 31 - Signatures 295 - 306 Name From Comments 307. Israel Barlow Bluffdale, UT Last i heard we lived in the United States of America, which is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. But it seems like more and more our civil liberties are being stripped away bit by bit! I am an american! and so is every one of those mothers! Who have every right to those children! Let them go home! Thats where they belong! These poor people are no threat to society. I wonder if my children are sfe at home anymore! 308. Marie Kelsch Park City, UT Innocent until proven guilty! I think this whole thing is unconstitutional. These people should be left alone, in peace, together WITH their children! 309. Robert Timpson Centennial Park, AZ 310. laura fuller Salt Lake City, UT There as been no evidence that ALL the children have been physically or sexually abused. Is there ANY evidence that children 10 and under have been sexually abused? Is there ANY evidence that boys have been physically or sexually abuse? WHY remove ALL the children if one or some have been abused. Such acts will have lasting scars on these children and make this disfavored religious group retreat further into the shadows where abuse is more possible. 311. Matthew G. Jacksonville, NC Since when did government have the right to dictate or Adams limit religion anyway? If there are guilty to be found then find them if they have broken the laws of America. But everyone has the right to be innocent until proven guilty in this country. Surely the suffering mothers forcibly seperated from their own children is not acceptable to all free thinking people. If the religious sect violated any laws then so be it. But you have no moral authority to take children from their homes and attempt to adopt them out or detain their mothers without due cause. May I point out the anonymous phone call was made with no name or way to verify that caller's claims, and you lot have failed to locate this person. Just give the kids back to their moms. Don't play God, because you won't get away with it. 312. Anthony Timpson Colorado City, AZ 313. Kimberly Kelsch Park City, UT This is unconstitutional! These children should be returned to their parents and these families should be left alone. I agree that some action should be taken if these children are being sexually abused, but no one has any proof that they are being sexually abused. Give them back their freedom until proven guilty! 314. Victor O'Brien Salt Lake City, UT Going off of one voice is not liable proof. Your breaking the law! 315. Richard Rivera St George, UT I am absolutely in favor of freeing the innocent. All are protected by the constitution. The law must focus on the prosecution of the those that have sufficient evidence to (continues on next page)

Page 32 - Signatures 307 - 315 Name From Comments 315. Richard Rivera St George, UT (continued from previous page) prosecute. This wholesale "invasion" is a violation of civil rights, and any state acting against the constitution should have the ACLU all over it. Where the hell are they? This is discrimination of the worst kind. What next, "hall off all the Puerto Ricans in Brooklyn because we are sure they are showing their children how to use knives". Hate crime carried out by the state of Texas. 316. Vanessa Spahan Tempe, AZ This is just another way that Child Protective Services Agencies need to be regulated. There is no reason that this should have ever occured. I am not of the MORMON religion, nor do I care to be, nor do I share the belief of this religion, but this is clearly an outrage. These children need to be returned to their homes with the families that love them. Just imagine the trauma these children have already been subjected to, for the satisfication of the governments suspicions. Last time I checked, the US CONSTITUTION was still in effect. 317. Rod B Bluffdale, UT 318. Ben Naylor Riverton, UT This is unconstitional what they have done if some have broken the law deal with it on a case by case basis let the kids go we have freedom of religion! 319. Shem Barlow Bluffdale, UT 320. Dawn Kelsch Herriman, UT This is absolutely unconstitutional! Let the children go! **CALL THE TEXAS GOVERNOR at 512-463-1782 or 512-463-2000, I believe both go to the same place, and leave a petition. You don't have to talk to anybody. Just press 1 to leave the message. 321. Brenda Timpson Colorado City, AZ 322. Lori Tokarz Salt Lake City, UT So..... does this mean that the cities of New York and Chicago etc. are going to go into their slum and gang areas and gather up all the women and children who are seriously endangering their lives by simply being in there in that kind of enviroment?! Give me a break, shame on the auhtorities!!!! 323. Heather San Antonio, TX I don't know the entire story, but this needs to be a quicker Woodbury process and the mothers should be allowed to see their children. What is currently happening is a form of abuse, too. 324. R Laub humansville, MO Our freedom of religon is being taking away, and you just jumped the gun without checking for proof, and just took all of the children away from their safe haven, you sure do a good job of destorying them children and families, please return them back to their families, where they belong. if some are being abused, then i agreee to help those that (continues on next page)

Page 33 - Signatures 315 - 324 Name From Comments 324. R Laub humansville, MO (continued from previous page) need to be removed. we need our freedom back that is being taking away from us all! 325. LARS DUTSON hurricane, UT 326. Elaine Timpson Centennial Park, AZ This raid is more like a witchhunt, and in doing so Texas authorities are hurting these children more than helping. This country is here because people wanted freedom, and freedom of religion! It's all about freedom, (or was). The religious intolerance now days is absurd. This raid is not about the children at all, it's about religiouse persecution, money and Politics and these children are paying for it! 327. C W Hendricks Magna, UT There may have have been sexual abuses of children by FLDS men, but the children are not the guilty parties and should not be punished by being ripped away from their mothers. It's possible that some of the mothers may be accecories to the crimes committed, and I understand that sometimes authorities must separate potential suspects and victums of abuse to get to the truth, but I can see no logical reason why these mothers and children should be ripped apart and not be allowed even phone calls to one another. This is abuse by the authorities of those who are virtually helpless. And, yes, I agree that the courts need to assess this situation, but it has already taken too long and those babies (any child under the age of 18) need to be reunited with their mothers immediately. Foster care? P-L-E-A-S-E. Let the families and authroities try to work to keep these families together, if there is no abuse involved. Not all FLDS people practice sexual abuse of children (or even plural marriage, which is NOT the issue here). Let the innocent go. 328. L Barlow Lehi, UT Okay guys, someone did a little more homework on this, and this is what we found out. The Governor of Texas can�t do anything about it until the trial is over (I know it�s ridiculous, but that�s what they said). The guy we need to talk to is the Commissioner, he is over this whole situation. His name is Kerry Cockerell and his direct line is (512) 438-5256, his hotline is 1-800-720-7777. Also, we were told that messages on the phone aren�t as good as a letter, since every document that comes into the office must be READ and FILED, by the commissioner himself. So everyone needs to write him a letter, his address is Office of the Commissioner Attn: Kerry Cockerell P.O. Box 149030 Austin, TX 78714 Here is the address of the Governor of Texas P.O. Box 12428 Austin, TX 78711 (continues on next page)

Page 34 - Signatures 324 - 328 Name From Comments 328. L Barlow Lehi, UT (continued from previous page) Also, here are websites you can go to and leave posts. Governor of Texas � www.governor.state.tx.us DFPS � www.dfps.state.tx.us Office of Consumer Affairs � [email protected] My suggestion is, call every number and leave a message or talk to someone, write a letter to the governor and the commissioner, visit all those websites and leave a post. Just inundate them, show them that America is �governed by the people, for the people�. Let them know that America is not happy and that this incident isn�t just going to blow over and go away. We will not forget it. Also, there is a petition going around, if you haven�t signed it yet, please do. The link to it is http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/free-the-innocent-flds 329. Brenden Murgon, Australia Within the international community America has often been Humberdross viewed as a bastion of freedom and civil liberty in an increasingly anti-freedom world. The events occurring in Texas only highlight the fact that the So-called "last bastion of freedom" is slipping down the slope that leads to a total loss of freedom by the individual and a total imposition of government rights over individual liberties. 330. J Barlow west jordan, UT 331. Hiram Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ This great country we proudly call the United States of America remains a pillar of freedom to all the world. As its citizens, we Americans enjoy the many freedoms and protections that mankind rightfully possess by natural law. Our Forefathers secured these rights for themselves and for the generations to come at the price of their blood, sweat, and tears. They worked unyieldingly to draft and execute a constitution to define and protect these rights. Today it's crucial that all American Citizens remember where we came from and how and why this great nation came to be. The raid on the FLDS community in Texas is an assault not only on the immediate victims involved but furthermore on the very freedoms of every American citizen. Our government was created "by the people, for the people," and we "the people" must insist that this gross misuse of government be immediately corrected and due process served! Do we "the people" really accept that we currently live in a nation whose government has the right to or even the ability to impose on any citizen or faction of its citizens at will and ignore due process. I think not! I choose to believe that America remains "The land of the free and the home of the brave!" My fellow Americans, let's see to it that justice is swiftly served to our fellow citizens in the FLDS community in Texas, and let's justly and swiftly correct the wrongs against them! For if we do not, we will surely see further abuses against others and in time at our (continues on next page)

Page 35 - Signatures 328 - 331 Name From Comments 331. Hiram Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ (continued from previous page) own doorsteps! Our Forefathers paid the price; our soldiers have and are paying the price; and now it's our turn to stand up and defend freedom in America. Call your local and state representatives and take action, and call the Governor's office in Texas and let them know how you feel about freedom in America today! 332. Thomas Barlow Hurricane, UT This act of removing children from their parents us unconstitutional and down right Godless. I implore the State of Texas to release these children to their parents at once. 333. Guinevere Dutson Centennial Park, AZ I sign this petition as a concerned American speaking out for human rights and the freedom that Texas should stand for, being a part of this great country. Tearing these families apart is unconstitutional and will only create trauma in the lives of these fellow Americans. Power to the people in the land of the free and the home of the brave. 334. Anonymous hutto, TX Anonymous 335. Ariel Hammon Centennial Park, AZ If the rights of any American are in danger, then the rights of all Americans are in danger. Even though we don't agree with their practices, their rights must be preserved. 336. Andrew Barlow park city, UT 337. Keri Wilford Mays Landing, NJ This is an outrage and totally violates our religious rights in this country. All efforts need to be made to unify these innocent children with their familes immediately! Our government is now making decions on cultural beliefs? Is this really happening in America? 338. Donna Hanby Port Norris, NJ Let these people go free! 339. Lawrence Lebanon, OH Please remember the presumption of innocence, and the Duquesne Anglo-Ameican tradition of due process that have been dismissed in this case. 340. rachel barlow bluffdale, UT Anyone who has ever lost a child or has been away from there children for more than a few days,must feel the pain of those mother's, I don't see how people can be so heartless to take 416 children away from there family's just so they can try to find some imperfection's in a few cases, the only pain most of those children have ever been through is being away from there family's for so long. PLEASE!!FREE THE CHILDREN SO THEY CAN GO HOME TO SOMEONE THAT CARES!!!! 341. Melissa Centennial Park, AZ Dockstader 342. Margaret Musser south jordan, UT Shame on the "great state of texas" as they call themselves. If they're so great, they better let those children go back to thier familys!! Page 36 - Signatures 331 - 342 Name From Comments 343. Ianthius Barlow Bluffdale, UT We came to America in the beginning for our freedom. Freedom of religion etc. If we allow thing like this to exist in our country we may as well embrace communism and give up the freedoms we fought for in the beginning. I don't condone abuse in the least but all that is is an excuse to go in on the polygamous people and take their children away. Tyranny! 344. Douglas R. Salt Lake City, UT Honorable Governor of Texas, Holladay I am sickened at the bigotry being expressed by the good Christians of Texas. Without due process this is a fiasco and pure pursecution. Your authorities are so arrogant that they didn't even bother to contact the Attorney General of Utah who has been dealing with these matters in a measured, logical manner. I am neither a polygamist or a practicing LDS. Please free these people until you have sufficient evidence to arrest on an invividual basis. Do you now intend to arrest all Catholics in your state on the basis of allegations of child abuse. This action lives up to the reputation that Texans have of being Arrogant and Ignorant! 345. Newell Timpson Hurricane, UT What is happening in Texas is clearly discrimination and terribly WRONG!! Do the right thing and put the vast resources at work in this matter back where they belong! (Making society safer, not destroying it.) 346. Al Williams Stockton, MO Now that I've gathered enough stregnth to get back on my chair after laughing so hard at #230, I'd like to offer this quote from Joseph Smith: "Father, forgive me my trespasses as I forgive those who trespass against me, for I freely forgive all men. If we would secure and cultivate the love of others, we must love others, even our enemies as well as friends. . . . I possess the principle of love. All I can offer the world is a good heart and a good hand. The Saints can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for my brethren. If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a "Mormon", I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination. . . . It is a love of liberty which inspires my soul". It's upon these principles that so many fundamentalists have united from their various view points to this common cause. We aren't so much in support of the FLDS as we are in the support of all of our Constitutional RIGHTS! Like they say; you mess with one hillbilly, you're going to get the whole trailer park :) 347. Willard Barlow Park City, UT When the rights of the people are so abused by the very government that ought to protect them, then there is no freedom for the people. They are then in bondage.

Page 37 - Signatures 343 - 347 Name From Comments 348. Cathy Stubbs St. George, UT 349. sterling kelsch Park City, UT I dont think it is right for the people to take all the kids. and not let the family see them. they are just kids. shame on the people that did that. and over some call. its rong. if they can do that to there familys. what do you think they can do to all the familys of the world. do we not have any rights. where will it stop. 350. Linda Kelsch Park City, UT Tearing families apart under these circumstances is unthinkable in America. Why are American soldiers not defending the rights of the citizens of America? Why is the Texas government allowed to disregard their oaths to uphold the constitution? The people responsible for this heinous act are the ones that should be on trial. As a child of the 1953 raids on Arizona families, I can tell you this kind of action against these families undermines the very core of these children's concept of themselves, and their safety outside of their homes and their communities. Texas authorities have succeeded in confirming the FLDS people's belief that the outside world is the enemy, and the only safe place is in their own homes and in their own communities. They have succeeded in creating more isolation and an enviroment for abuse. I feel sad for the children and what they have been forced to endure by people who are ignorant of the collateral damage they have incured. There is no justification for what has been done to these children. 351. anonomous Taylorsville, UT You don't care about the children, all you care about is Kennedy power and control. It is an outrage to think that you can remove these children from their loving families based on an allegation. All of these children have had physicals while in your care and there hasn't been one reported case of abuse. If these children have been abused, it was when you removed them from the loving arms of their mothers and hauled them away. Remember the golden rule, do unto others as you want them to do to you. Heavenly Father is watching you!!! 352. Lori Estadt Forked River, NJ 353. Jamie Kelsch Salt Lake City, UT The extremely broad search warrant and disturbing disregard for the civil and constitutional rights of these people have put a stain on Texas that is unbecoming of the United States of America. 354. Deborah McLean Clifton Park, NY These CPS Agencies are nothing more than Child Kidnapping agencies for Profit. No human being should be bought and sold as slaves and this is simply the modern day "Orhpan Trains" which began about 100 years ago where children were snatched out of their yards and sold to (continues on next page)

Page 38 - Signatures 348 - 354 Name From Comments 354. Deborah McLean Clifton Park, NY (continued from previous page) the highest bidders. There's absolutely no difference. Slavery should have been abolished. 355. Alma Cawley Centennial Park, AZ The fact that the Texas authorities have done this and that they and so many others feel like they are upholding the law in doing so is a true tragedy. If a judge finds that they have upheld the law in these activities I am sorry for America. May we weep the decline of American Freedom that has been fought so hard for. The same freedom that so much blood has been spilt to preserve. We given these freedoms away, and for what? For a security promised by our government that they cannot provide. I believe that it is time for Americans to step back, look at the laws that we have in place, see what damage they have and will cause to our free state, civil liberties, rights to conscience,freedom of religion, civil disobedience and so on. Lets go back and find a way to change or repeal these laws. Let us as a free people take back our liberties and stop this selling out to the govermnet for portection that the government cannot provide. 356. Maraiya Gentili Cottage Grove, OR 357. EC T Centennial Park, AZ This action by the state of Texas has violated the civil rights protected by our constitution and is a horrendous insult to the heritage of our country. 358. Geri R SLC, UT I Do Not Belong to any Organized Religion. My Opinion is: If A Person Holding a Position of Stature Were to Have Their Home Broken Into and Their Children Taken Away Against Their Will, They Would Call That KIDNAPPING, and Charges Would Be Filed to the Fullest Extent That the Law Will Allow. I Find it to be Reprehensible. What are We The People Allowed to do to Keep Our Rights, and Our Freedoms? I Think That Officials Acted Erratically. 359. Lori B Chatwin Colorado City, AZ What does America stand for? Do not blindly condem a whole community for the aleged crimes of a few. Decriminalize their way of life so that such abuses are free to be reproted and not driven into hiding because of this very thing... all have been asumed guilty. 360. ROBIN NAYLOR salt lake city, UT Let the INNOCENT ones FREE!!! 361. jared zitting hurricane, UT remember the mayflower? remember the constitution? where is this country going? 362. Leslie K Riverton, UT the Government has way to much Power and it needs to be taken from them. they have done nothing more then kiddnap all those poor children and they should be punished for thier crimes, Please let these kids return to thier families the kids have done nothing wrong that they should be treated like this 363. paul wayman riverton, UT

Page 39 - Signatures 354 - 363 Name From Comments 364. Jessica Black Wildomar, CA People should be free to practice their religion as long as it does not physically hurt others. Read the constitution. 365. Angela Harker Beryl, UT If people are innocent...by all means let them go and live their lives!!!! I don't see L.A. and New York being raided because someone called in and said they were abused! In all reality those children are living a far better life being loved by their parents and being taught at least some morals. Deal with the individual case/cases of abuse. 366. Abel Barlow Cenntenial Park, AZ 367. malcolm Brammer clearwater, FL 368. Darlene Jensen Taylorsville, UT I usually don't get involved in things but this is ridiculous. 369. jeff jones hurricane, UT let the innocent kids go now! 370. Cindy Kelsch Park city, UT It is sad to think that the people that are doing this think they are doing the right thing, Put yourself in there shoes, do you people not have kids and not know how it would feel to have your own kids taken away, For something they didn't do? The kids did nothing wrong. Give them back and go after the people that are actually doing something wrong. 371. Alice Wayman Salt Lake City, UT 372. Daniel Coy Riverton, UT This is total abuse of their constitutional rights. 373. Judith Millsap Bluffdale, UT I feel strongly that, FOR ANYONE, you are innocent until proven guilty. You are supposedly taking the children out of a hell, but you are giving them another one. 374. Valora Barlow Colorado City, AZ LET THEM GO! Abuse cases are individual, not collective. These children have not been abused by their parents. 375. Jeremy Kelsch Park city, UT 376. J. D Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ Freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!! 377. Jacob Hammon Centennial Park, AZ Broken homes from separation...don't you know it's violation! 378. T Johnson Vancouver, WA SHAME ON YOU TEXAS!! Where are the citizens of Texas? You should all be outraged by what your state has done to these people. How can you accept this crap from your state goverment? Is this America? Or is this Texas thinking they are above the Constitution. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON YOU TEXAS 379. Fred Allred Havelock, NC 380. Paula Bennett Sandy, UT We need to have the same due process for children that we have for adults. There has not been enough evidence of abuse to throw any of these adults in jail, so why detain the children? Also, taking away a mother's children is often a worse punishment to her than putting her in jail, so why punish these mothers on such flimsy evidence? 381. Caleb Cawley Murray, UT FREE THOSE CHILDREN NOW!!!!!!!

Page 40 - Signatures 364 - 381 Name From Comments 382. Cheryl McQuarrie Litchfield Park, AZ What were you thinking? One complaintant does not warrant the removal of innocent children on a collective basis. These are innocent people put in CPS harms way for nothing. If you can't find your 1 16 yr old, tough. This was NOT the way to handle it! You have destroyed innocent familes by breeching their constitutional rights; of which these people have little idea about. With Gods speed, they will know about thier rights soon. 383. frank ostrowski santaquin, UT 384. Deborah Cawley South Jordan, UT These peoples rights have been trampled on. Is this the land of the free or not? 385. Truman Johnson Portland, OR 386. FRANKLIN SANANTONIO, TX CPS LIED---THERE WAS NO SO CALLED PHONE CALL SULLIVAN FROM A GIRL---TEXAS CPS GESTAPO GOONS ARE KNOWN TO DESTROY FAMILIES EVERY DAY---THESE KIDS WILL BE DRUGGED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS,PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED BY CPS, GROUP HOMES, AND FOSTER CARE PEOPLE AND BE MADE AFRAID TO GO BACK HOME WHERE THEY WERE SAFE AND SECURE---GOD NEEDS TO DESTROY THE LIVES OF ANY INVOLVED IN THIS MISCARRIAGE OF SO CALLED JUSTICE--GOD DAMN THE CPS GESTAPO GOONS AND ALL AGENCIES INVOLVED IN THIS ASTROCITY+++++++++++++++++++++++ 387. jennifer forked river, NJ I hope the government gets a clue and allows these komosinski women their american right to a fair trial. 388. Natalie Darger kearns, UT The actions of a few should never require a whole community to be detained. I would be FURIOUS if this happened to me and my children because of the actions of some people in my church or community. True abuse is not to be tolerated, but I have never heard of it being dealt with in mass "guilty until innocent" detention in all the history I have studied. 389. bill zitting hurricane, UT 390. Samuel Zitting Hurricane, UT I had to think for a moment when filling out this petition to make sure that the contry should realy be filled out as the "United States". you know the home of the free!!!! this action is exactly what those people that came over on the Mayflower where trying to ecape from. 391. boaz kunz west jordan, UT one comment and they arrest everybody in sight what happened to inocent till proven gilty, what happened to freedom of religion, what happened to human rights. there was only one complaint why so many in jail , and what did those cildren do to loose their mothers . set them free till proven guilyb or prosicute your self for inhumain treatment to children!

Page 41 - Signatures 382 - 391 Name From Comments 392. Amie Kelsch Herriman, UT Let the government remember that noone took the young boys from the Catholic church where a priest was proved to be a pedifile and yet there is no real proof of any harm in the FLDS but you rush in to SAVE all of these children...How shameful! 393. Bret Downing Heath, TX Liberty in the United States is a delusion. 394. Sam N Riverton, UT I think it is wrong to take these children away! Punish the guilty but don't punish the children and their mothers! 395. Terry Wayman Riverton, UT What ever happened to being your brothers keeper? 396. Savanna West Valley, UT Everyone, wheather invovled in the raid or not knows that Covington once this gets to court it will all fall apart. That's why they are prolonging it as long as possible. The poor families have been ripped apart. Nothing the cps is doing is legal. May GOD have mercy on your souls. 397. James Kelsch Holladay, UT 398. Stephanie salt lake city, UT Coleman 399. Hat BAILEY Alpine, TX Human children do not belong to the state. There better be pretty substantial probable cause before agents of the state can be allowed to intervene between a child and it's mother. Misconduct under color of law is particularly heinous to most Texans and offending persons should be held accountable 400. Daryl Laub Humansville, MO hmm..really is discusting dontchu think? 401. Lisa Downing Heath, TX 402. C Benson Salt Lake City, UT It's time for Texas to come out of Wild West and join the rest of nation in the 21st century where the constitution and due process are upheld. How can governor Perry commute Kenneth Eugene Foster's death sentence in August 2007 because he is "concerned about Texas law that allows capital murder defendants to be tried simultaneously" but then allow 400 child custody cases to be tried simultaneously? Come on Governor Perry and the state of Texas what happened to equal justice for all and innocent until proven guilty? End it now and return those children to their families. 403. Steven .w Lewis st. george, UT this treatment of mother's and children is absurd and against any laws that should be securing our freedoms. 404. Fred Zitting Humansville, MO This kind of action that is being taken without prior investigation is unconstitutional and is its own act of "abuse". Send the innocent home. 405. Randall Sharpe Canyon lake, TX I am a member of the United States Military. I am sworn by oath to defend the people and this nation against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. I fight for the constitution and our freedoms granted by it. Religion is one (continues on next page)

Page 42 - Signatures 392 - 405 Name From Comments 405. Randall Sharpe Canyon lake, TX (continued from previous page) of them. I am not Mormon but I am Christian and these people have a right to practice their religion peacefully. I also am offended that our Texas police decided to use armored M113 vehicles, purchased from the military, to raid a Temple and peaceful church group. I am extremely upset. Let the people go home. They did nothing wrong. Arrest and charge all Texas law enforcement engaged in this illegal activity. Waco #2. Whos next? 406. Natalie Kelsch Park City, UT 407. Carling Barlow Washington, UT This is a prime example of abuse...... by the government. This country is supposed to be governed by the people, for the people. Government has no right to barge in someone's house and take their children away for no apparent reason. If there is a problem of child abuse, find out who and where the problem is, and address it. Don't just go all Nazi and pull out the tanks and military sharp shooters for a bunch of women and children and rip them away from their homes. 408. Mary Kohles Kearns, UT I am outraged at what has happened in Texas. I can't believe this action was condoned by Texas officials. This is the United States of America...or at least it was the last time I checked. I know Texas takes pride in their "Don't mess with Texas" attitude. But if I'm not mistaken, they have the most people on death row that are now being cleared because of DNA evidence. We can only imagine how many innocent people died a horrible death before this type of evidence was made available. You were making a mistake then and you're making a mistake now. Even if there was some abuse happening on the FLDS ranch, that is no reason to take every single one of those kids. Also, the rate of children who are abused in foster care is higher than the alleged rate of abuse in polygamy. Leave these poor people alone and go bust some gang bangers, murderers, alcoholics, drug dealers...people who are really doing damage to this country. You're wasting time, effort, money, and resources on this RAID. Now, how are you going to pay to keep drugs and violence off the streets since you've wasted so much time abusing innocent people's rights? Get those kids out of those concentration camps and let them go home to their parents. And one more thing...to say that polygamy is not a true religious belief is blasphemy. Polygamy has been lived in the name of religion throughout all of our world's history. So tell me, what day was it that it was no longer okay to live polygamy in the name of religion? And who made this decision?

Page 43 - Signatures 405 - 408 Name From Comments 409. Amber Anderson Castle Dale, UT I don't think how these people are being treated is fair. Let those children go back to their mothers and their families!!! 410. Daniel Kelsch Park City, UT 411. Shana Eborn Murray, UT The actions of the state of Texas are a travesty. The parents of these children are entitled to due process. After so many days, not one shred of actual evidence of any abuse whatsoever has been produced. Meanwhile, over 400 children are in the "care" of the state based on a phone call that now appears to have been a hoax. I hope the abusive officials involved in this are eventually served justice themselves for this crime. 412. Candy Barlow Woods Cross, UT 413. Ben Grow clinton, UT taking 416 children away from their parents on the basis of what one person allegedly did is against the constitution as well as morally wrong. 414. cortney barlow Washington, UT 415. J Gus Salt Lake City, UT Violent crimes, i.e. Homicides, aggravated assaults, gang killings, Random Shootings, suicides, Drug Horror, All up 8 to 14% Nationwide but surprisingly none of this is happening on the FLDS ranch. Every day nationwide, children and babies admitted into hospitals with broken bones, cigarette burns, hot water scalds, head and internal wounds signs of vicious beatings, starving, deprived of food. Some survive with life long physical and emotional scars, desperately in need of love. None of this goes on in the FLDS church's compound. None! Lets go into the compound with tanks and guns, grab those kids, bring them out to our 'normal' families and give them a taste of the real world. They should be forced to be just like the rest of us. Isn't that what FREEDOM is all about? 416. Anna riverton, UT This was a preconceived prejudice act on the part of Musser/Wayman Texas. They cannot even produce the girl that made the call. What an embarrassment! 417. z blackmore centennial park, AZ I believe this is just a trial to see what "we, the people" will tolerate from these bureaucrats that want to tell us what is best for us. They are starting with (what they believe are) the freakier groups, then who's next? Michael Savage suggested they have a problem with women wanting to have children and teaching them Christian values. "Imagine no religion . . " 418. Chris Hasson Petaluma, CA Give the children back their has to be a better way to handle this.

Page 44 - Signatures 409 - 418 Name From Comments 419. randall sharpe canyon lake, TX For Christ sake this is America!! This kind of policing of the people of this once great nation has got to stop! Return those children to their parents, for what has been done by the Texas state and cps is far worse than anything that has obviously happened at the ranch. 420. E Finley Price, UT I thought that witch hunts were a relic of history. I was obviously wrong. One thing I DO know is that karma doesn't spare anyone. 421. Ruth Williams Cent Park, AZ Stop what is happening to these children. Texas does not have there best interest at heart. Return the children to mothers and deal with abuse as needed. Investigate case by case, and use this oportunity to educate not condemn. 422. Parker Kelsch Park City, UT If they will do it to them, then they will do it to everyone. 423. joyce steed Centennial Park, AZ 424. L Finley slc, UT Let those families be families. Stop traumatizing innocent children. Just because they are different does not mean they are abusers. Read the constitution FREEDOM OF RELIGION. 425. Rod Jacobs McCammon, ID You have violated these American's Fourth and Fifth amendment rights! Shame on you all for kidnapping these children because you don't like their religion!!! Rod Jacobs! 426. Matt Gustafson Plymouth, UT SHAME ON YOU TEXAS! Taking those kids just because they have different values than you do. If there is abuse, then find the abuser. But not like this. I�m sure there is a special place in Hell just for you. 427. M. Finley Hiawatha, UT I pray for the souls of the Texas CPS. This won't go unnoticed by Heavenly Father. 428. Aaron Wayman Riverton, UT Our patriot forefathers are no doubt turning over in their grave! How can such a travesty exist in the land of the free and the home of the brave?! Texas is playing the part of the modern day Inquisitor. How long must history repeat itself before we learn it's costly lessons? Free the captive FLDS children now before the name of the great state of Texas is indelibly etched in the annals of history being found a despot on the wrong side of such an important issue of our time! 429. Suzanne Hansen Salt Lake City, UT You claim that you are protecting the children from they're families. Yet who is protecting the children from you!! I have seen babies who have been tramatized by Foster mothers. I have seen children that have been beaten up by other children in the Foster Homes. There have been girls raped in Foster homes. If you really want to help these children. Let them go back to their mothers. You cannot hang on to these children till you finally get something that you might can lie about and get it to stick. If you hurt the families you hurt the child. If you help the families you help (continues on next page)

Page 45 - Signatures 419 - 429 Name From Comments 429. Suzanne Hansen Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) the child. Do not take these children from their mothers. You will only hurt the child and society. 430. Vincent Bradshaw Centennial Park, AZ The action being put forth is unconstitutional and imoral there is not even substantial evidence to the claims being made, for example the "caller" from whom this all originated has not even been identified. Were not asking please, we are demanding that the Texas ass holes pull their head out and think about your own lifes and your wives and your children. THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 431. Kassandra Kelsch Herriman, UT Why do we have men and women overseas fighting if not for the rights and freedoms of the American people? These FLDS haven't even done anything wrong. The children all want to return to their families. If they really were being abused don't you think they wouldn't want to go home? The rights of these people have been violated in many ways! These chlren need to be given back to their mothers, they need their mothers! They are scared and alone. This isn,t healthy for so many young kids, some as young as six months! Who can take better care of a six month old infant then his or her mother? Put yourself in thier mothers shoes for a moment and ask yourself what you would do if someone barged into your house demanding your very flesh and blood? Your children?! It is an outrage! Shame on Texas! You call yourselvea part of the great nation of America? Then show your people the same rights you yourselves have! 432. Kathy Ewing Park City, UT 433. Jacob Kelsch Park City, UT 434. Carol Ratterman Livingston, TX 435. tyler kelsch midvale, UT What is happening to America!? We let the government get away with anything. They blast the constitution to pieces and the media makes things sound like they're doing the right thing. what ever happened to the 4th and 5th ammendments, which in short say, "innocent until PROVEN guilty". 436. Helen Gustafson plymouth, UT If there truly is abuse going on in the FLDS, do a case by case evaluation. Severing children from there mothers is cruel and should be avoided if at all possible. Clearly Texas has allowed there prejudice to take them beyond the boundaries of the law and they need to be stopped before they get out of hand. 437. JoAnne Hammon Colorado City, AZ 438. bryan campbell Port Lavaca, TX 439. Solomon Hayward, CA Maybe we should move the Mexican border up so that it Gustafson includes Texas because Texas isn't part of free America anymore.

Page 46 - Signatures 429 - 439 Name From Comments 440. Victoria Stephens slc, UT Why do you, the government, think that these children are really safer in your custody and not in the custody of their parents. You say you are taking these kids out so they are not hurt. news flash, you are causing emotional abuse to all those children and the women. Please allow them to get on with their lives. 441. Rosemarie south jordan, UT Many men haved lived and died fighting to have the rights bradshaw that all americans are supose to have. These people are entitled to those rights, and how they are being stripped away is unconstitutional and wrong! they say they are working in the best interests of those children, if so they would not have taken them! Let them go and send them home! 442. Claudelle Kanab, UT We need to support our U.S. constitution and respect Hammon others rights to live the way they want. If proven abuse is taking place then target only the abusers. Put them on trial if proven guilty punish accordingly. LEAVE ALL INNOCENT PEOPLE ALONE. 443. Harvey Centennial Park, AZ I've been following this outrage on the news for that last Dockstader Jr. week wondering when Americans are going to see this fiasco for what it is. SHAME ON TEXAS! I lived in Texas for two years and loved the state and the people. My memories of Texans were freedom loving people! People who today have chills moving through their bodies when they hear the battle cry, "Remember the Alamo!" We can no longer bury our heads in the sand and pretend that anything Warren Jeffs may have done justifies ANY state or government to move in with complete disregard for due process, personal and civil rights, and protections guaranteed by the constitution. I do not condone abuse in any form. If there is abuse, find it and deal with it justly. But DO NOT punish hundreds of innocent women and children simply because someone allegedly called in and claimed to be a victim. We live in a day of GPS, caller ID, revere call trace, and satellite technology that can pin point a quarter from space! Please don't insult the public anymore by expecting us to believe that this raid is about protecting innocent children. I don't remember catholic parishes being raided when the cardinal or bishop molested children. I've never seen a report of African-American neighborhoods being raided when children were victimized. If this were a black group, a main stream Christian group, a Jewish group, or even a Muslim group, the ACLU, Rainbow Coalition, Joel Osteen, T.D.Jakes, the Mormon church, and a host of Americans would be headed to San Angelo demanding an accounting. It's time to clean up this mess before it gets any worse! Let the children return to their parents and finish your investigation with integrity and honor! If you do find a REAL (continues on next page)

Page 47 - Signatures 440 - 443 Name From Comments 443. Harvey Centennial Park, AZ (continued from previous page) Dockstader Jr. case of abuse there is plenty of room to deal with it inside the law, without violating ANY constitutionally protected rights. GOD help us all if this is any indication of what government has evolved into. Our founding fathers intended our republic to be a government, "Of the People. By the People, and For the People." NOT a radical police state dictatorship that can usurp power and decimate families on the testimony of an alleged caller along with a small handful of embittered women who love to have their face in the news. 444. Heather Wiseman Antioch, TN 445. Joseph Petersen Colorado, AZ Texas and CPS needs to repent of this great atrocity, this Nazi Gestapo style violation of human rights. Return the children immediately!! Apologize just as fast before more damage is done. !!!!!!!!!WHERE ARE OUR CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS!!!!!!! 446. Thomas P. bolivar, MO Williams 447. A. J. Gustafson North Salt Lake, UT What a woman does with her own life is rightfully her own decision. What a minor woman chooses to do with her own life is rightfully her and her parents' own decision. One case of abuse should be prosecuted after due process. No one else should be touched. Even the one person accused is innocent until proven guilty. The rest of them are just plain innocent. I am outraged beyond words that Texas is separating all those parents from their own children. There is no possible justification for this act. It's unbelievable that law enforcement will spend time and expense destroying so many innocent, peaceful families while violent crime, drug abuse, burglary, theft, and other crimes that DO impose on others go on constantly all around them. Texas is making itself a complete disgrace to the principles our country was founded on, and a complete disgrace with regard to the use of tax money to destroy the innocent. 448. loretta wayman salt lake city, UT this is just plain and simply wrong what they are doing to these people, they have rights juts like everyone else and they should not be getting treated like this... Its uncalled for!! 449. Barbara Steed Apple Valley, UT Restore constitutional rights 450. Raiphe Kelsch South Jordan, UT There was not sufficient evidence to raid the organization.� You had the name of the professed predator (who had a concrete alibi) so the authorities should have went after that INDIVIDUAL not the Organization.� Why did the authorities wait so long to raid the facility when they claimed "Sufficient evidence" to do (continues on next page)

Page 48 - Signatures 443 - 450 Name From Comments 450. Raiphe Kelsch South Jordan, UT (continued from previous page) so?� Where is the tape recording of the young girl that called the local authorities?� Are these things not recorded?� Where is the girl, or is she a fictional character to fuel the media to anger against the FLDS people?� The State of Texas needs to admit their wrong and make it right.� Give the children back to the mothers and from this time forth raid, arrest and contain only those who you have REAL evidence to do so.� God bless you! 451. Margaret Garner Woods Cross, UT Shame on Texas! 452. paul kelsch riverton, UT The unconstitutional hardships that have been irresponsibly placed on the innocent by an oppresive government action is a slap in the face to the fathers of our great nation and its people. 453. Martha Harker Colorado, AZ Let these innocent people go home!! Admit you've made a BIG MISTAKE and make it right! Send these children home!!!! 454. deanna petersen colorado city, AZ How would you like your childern taken from you on a false call. 455. Becca Keddington salt lake city, UT When i saw this happening, It made me wonder if we were in Russia! Is this not America? What are you doing TEXAS? Give those innocent children back to their families. The man in charge of doing this probly never had children of his own, or he could not go through with this horrible act of kidnapping these children and calling it the law. Texas had better apoligize for this wrong doing before its to late. 456. Rebecca Eileen Centennial Park, AZ This Is CRAP! and Is In TOTAL VIOLATION of peoples Dockstader rights!!! LET THOSE POOR TERRIFIED CHILDREN AND INNOCIENT PEOPLE GO! 457. Suzanne Morrison Salt Lake City, UT The FLDS church is not all guilty by association with other members who may be abusing their children. The entire community is not guilty of child abuse and polyganmy it's self (when lived by consenting adults) is not a crime, it's a lifestyle and a culture. 458. Anna Kelsch Bluffdale, UT If there is abuse single out the one family, not the group as a whole. 459. Paul Gooch St George, UT Come on Texas. Your inner cities are hotbeds of teenage pregnancy and sexual abuse by drug and gang culture. Your hospitals are full of 12-13 year olds having babies. Are you going to round up these entire communities? Your actions toward the FLDS are an enormous civil rights and constitutional rights violation. 460. Alina Darger Salt Lake City, UT There has to be a better way to handle a "claim" of abuse than to disenfranchise and entire community. All this while tearing innocent children from their mothers arms and (continues on next page)

Page 49 - Signatures 450 - 460 Name From Comments 460. Alina Darger Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) trampling the United States constitution under your feet. Please if your truly have the childrens best interest at heart, put aside any prejudice and bigotry to look at the truth. Thank you, 461. ashley erickson Boca Raton, FL How Often Does a Teenager in Texas Get Pregnant? * Every 10 minutes, a teen in Texas gets pregnant. * Every 10 hours, a 14-year-old teen gets pregnant. * Every 3 hours, a 15-year-old teen gets pregnant. * Every 1.5 hours, a 16-year-old teen gets pregnant. * Every 52 minutes, a 17-year-old-teen gets pregnant. * Every 35 minutes, an 18-year-old teen gets pregnant. * Every 28 minutes, a 19-year-old teen gets pregnant. What are the Outcomes? * Every 10 minutes a teen gives birth. * Every 48 minutes a teen has an abortion. TEXAS Thats stats off of your own website http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/famplan/tpp.shtm yet their younger brothers and sisters don't get takin away from their parents. 462. Louis N. Kelsch Herriman, UT You have no right to trample on the rights of these citizens, you are in direct violation of the laws of this united states! Freedom of religion, innocent entill proven guilty! You should all be rounded up and inprisoned yourselves for this act! If there are wrongs amongst those people then you should investigate and take care of the ones who are breaking the laws, not round up and destroy the entire community! 463. Mike S WJ, UT So long Constitution...... hello totalitarian police state. 464. Shaella Washington, UT Thomas Jefferson said "We Hold these truths to be self Broadbent evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by there creater with certain inalienable rights,that amoung these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Aberham Lincon and Martin Luther King echo these rights of equality. 465. Sonny Holm woods cross, UT It's wrong and they know it!!! 466. Jerry Holm Washington, UT 467. Dahlen Downing American Fork, UT 468. Layne Barlow orem, UT 469. J Zitting Sandy, UT Those children will suffer this trauma the rest of their lives and for 3 generations to come. When they become parents, they will live in fear that their children can be taken away....for whatever reason. Even if there WAS a girl who called for help, she will never come forward now. Look what has happened. No child or young woman would ever risk asking for help now. Way to go Texas. And now the (continues on next page)

Page 50 - Signatures 460 - 469 Name From Comments 469. J Zitting Sandy, UT (continued from previous page) judge who is responsible for this "due process" is the same judge who will preside over the hearings. Where are their civil rights? This is totally unacceptable! Get those children back to their homes and their mothers. To put them in foster care is unbelievably cruel. 470. Dawn Cooke Mountain Home, ID I would like to have the CPS officials and state and county judges be put into their office by a vote of the people. Just as our Governors, Senators, and our own President are put into leadership by vote. They are employed by the people of the United States. I do not believe the CPS or the Judge have the best interest of these children in mind. BUT HEY....the San Angelo economy is probaly really good now huh!!!?? " 471. sharon pledger colorado city, AZ 472. Hyrum Broadbent Washington, UT 473. D Jameson Wellington, UT The first line of the first ammendment grants citizens of the US religous freedom. If our founding fathers placed it first on the list, you'de assume it was the most important. Seems to me like there's a lot of money to be made by disturbing a society with apocryphal charges merely because you don't understand their culture; what a shame. 474. Wilford Williams Hildale, UT Innocent til "PROVEN" guilty 475. ROSE STRAKA Yuba City, CA It is my belief that what Texas is doing is abusing these folks, and abusing their children. Texas' heart may be in the right mode, but what they are doing is not helping these innocent people at all. ROSE M STRAKA 476. William Grow West Valley, UT 477. Mariah Barlow Hurricane, UT This is an unprecedented outrage upon society! DAMN THE TEXANS! They profess to be Constitution-loving American's and will inflict this tyranny on innocent citizens and children no less. Kidnapping is illegal, unless its done by the Government. If God in Heaven would have wanted States to have children He would have endowed them with bodies...Send the children home!! 478. rachel young Salt Lake City, UT Let the children go home. Polygamy is not abusive. 479. Nephi Boss Murray, UT Is not the responsibility of OUR Government to preserve personal liberty rather than destroy it? 480. Katrina Tucker huntington, UT We cannot allow the rihgts of an American people to be trampled upon this way in spite of our differences. 481. Barbara Boss Herriman, UT 482. Arnold Boss Herriman, UT 483. Aubrey Boss Herriaman, UT 484. Britany Boss Herriman, UT

Page 51 - Signatures 469 - 484 Name From Comments 485. Olivia Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ These people need help! Help them! If it was you in need you would want someone to help you! It will help you also in a way! PLEASE! 486. Helen Kelly Vale, OR Where are the patriots to hold up the constitution of the United States of America? Release the people you have wrongfully detained. Note to detainees...DO NOT GO TO THE SHOWERS! 487. Nephi Wayman SLC, UT Hello Texas, If a fly lands on your coffee table,do you swat it with a 20# sledgehammer? Did you learn nothing from Waco? BTW, the fly got away, & now look at your table! What will your mother say? 488. Kimberly Hatch, UT Please end this FLDS fiasco now and reunite the innocent Simmerman families. I am outraged. These familes rights as citizens of the United States of America have been violated on the unsubstianted case of one person. Where is the due process of law? Abuse of one person has led to a horrifying string of events. No question that the young women's claims should be seriously investigated and the perpetrator brought to justice, however the hundreds of children and their mothers should not be the ones punished. They should be supported and helped and above all, allowed to be together through this crisis. Worst case scenario, the husbands could be removed from the scene to prevent further abuse. More horrifying than this raid is the precedent that is set for future infringements on our rights as citizens. What next will follow? I am a firm believer in the sanctity of the family and of the mother/child bond. These families deserved the Due Process of Law. These mothers deserve to have their children back now. Sincerely, Kimberly Simmerman 489. Levi Darger Salt Lake City, UT I find it appalling that bias by the majority against a particular group or belief can hold greater sway than the rights of Americans as outlined by our founding fathers. 490. James Steed Apple Valley, UT 491. Charlotte Houston, TX Leave children with their parents until it is proven they are Thompson in danger. 492. ROY ZITTING herrican, UT 493. Elizabeth Kelsch Herriman, UT Please RETURN the children back to their Mothers!

Page 52 - Signatures 485 - 493 Name From Comments 494. Dawn Boss Salt Lake City, UT Marleigh Meisner and the State of Texas should be ashamed. Removing these children from their homes is one of the worst forms of child abuse. LET THE CHILDREN GO!! 495. Guy Hoffecker Kennett Square, PA Ask the children now if they want to return to their families and honor their choice. Beware of over-stepping your constitutional authority. 496. John Warner Eagle Mountain, UT How do you expect these kids and their community to trust you when you trample their rights in the name of doing it for their own good? Return ALL of the children and apologize for your mistake. 497. Claudia Beatty Queen Creek, AZ This is a horrible national disgrace. Whatever gives you the right to destroy families like this! I am neither Mormon or FLDS but even if their religious beliefs differ from mine these children belong to their parents, not the state! I am outraged. Obviously Marleigh Meisner hasn't changed and doesn't intend too. 498. Jayd McFerson Cedar Park, TX Why is it necessary to separate children from their mothers? Have the mothers been accused of anything in particular that I am not aware of? This is not right. Religion and Polygamy aside, where is the due process? 499. Joline Hubbard Phoenix, AZ Since when is it abuse to raise your children with your values. Deal with the underage marriage, but leave the rest alone. 500. Garth Hope McKinney, TX I cannot speak for or agree with the FLDS. But I can speak to the government and the officials that supposedly represent me and enforce the laws of this state and country. CPS has become the problem not the solution. This was a heavy handed and non-prudent investigation by CPS and law enforcement. The public trust was breached by poorly trained agents that circumvent the law of the land with impunity because they operate with a cloak of immunity. These agents abuse the good faith protection of immunity by using it to trample the laws they are supposed to enforce. An accusation of abuse met by law enforcement abuse is not the will of the people that employ you. Represent us and enforce the law in good faith with proper investigation, procedures and hard work. Stop abusing the immunity that is given to protect you. 501. Daniel Baker Maysville, WV I am a Texan who always hoped he was simply "temporarily in exile" in WV. I have always been proud of my background now I am terribly embarrassed! This heavy handed, horrible action, and miscarriage of justice has me wondering if I even want to move back and should I remove the Texas flag plate form my truck. (continues on next page)

Page 53 - Signatures 494 - 501 Name From Comments 501. Daniel Baker Maysville, WV (continued from previous page) The least you can do is stop parroting some of the nonsense coming out of CPS about how wonderfully happy the children are. Those kind of comments are simply stupid! The complaint was about one 16 year old girl, not 416 children. The accused was not even in the state! Please release the children, apologize, and do the right thing. Please, stop the shame! 502. Wendy Miller Chandler, AZ Taking the children using swat teams based on one unsubstaintiated phone call from not only one family but an entire community is an agregious abuse of power. Return the these women and children to their homes and then deal with any cases of abuse on a case by case basis, rather than attacking a whole community in what seems to be an attempt to shame an entire religion whose beliefs diverge wildly from the rest of ours. 503. Tauni McFerson Cedar Park, TX I have been so affected by this situation and my heart breaks for the children who have been literally ripped from the arms of their mothers without the proper proof to do so. Who do you think you are scarring and damaging these children like this? This is America - how can this possible be happening? 504. Calvin O'Neil Winchester, VA Separating children from their mother and even father regardless of the number children per father is absolutely "insensitive". The children range in age from babies to teenagers and various types of health and mental issues. The Moslem faith practices polygamy in Dearborn Michigan. We need to raid some of those homes. 505. Elizabeth hurricane, UT RETURN THE CHILDREN TO THEIR MOTHERS!!! Kapcsos 506. Stella Rollins enoch, UT I am outraged. The rights of hundreds as citizens of the United States of America have been violated on the case of one person. Where is the due process of law? 507. David O'Neil Winchester, VA I am not a Mormon, nor do I agree with their system of beliefs. However, it seems to me that another Waco-like incident is occuring, and the basic constitutional rights of these people are being violated. Furthermore, I believe that you Child-Protection services organization down there in Texas rots with stench of corruption, and while they may occasionally do a good deed here or there, for the most part however, seek to merely destroy families for no good reason. That is, it is an organization that it completely out of control. If some violation of the law has occurred, and you have evidence, then prosecute those violations on a case by case basis. But the main violator of the law, in the opinion and observation of this private citizen, is the state of Texas themselves, my home state.

Page 54 - Signatures 501 - 507 Name From Comments 508. Elaine Moosman West Jordan, UT Get a grip Texas.A child needs their mother, and these mothers are not bad. 509. Joy Gibson Enoch, UT This event has put every family in the US of A under jeopardy of abuse from the government. I agree with the petition. You have done wrong to these families. 510. Wendy Leatham Fillmore, UT Texas authorities disregard for the United States Constitution is appalling! Please return these children to their mothers and make the proper apologies! 511. Lisa Brower Huntington, UT While I don't condone the marriage of young brides. I also don't condone this raid and it's separation of mothers and children. The state of Texas should not be doing this. 512. Angela Staheli New Boston, NH The recent events in Texas with the FLDS church remind us that when people are different from us, our first reaction is to belittle them, punish them, exercise dominion over them or destroy them. It happened in America during the Salem Witch Trials, it occured with the enslavement of African Americans, it happened with women's rights, it happened with the early Mormons and continues to happen. No one will stand up for these people because they don't agree with their lifestyles and its time we stood up for what was right. I do not share the same beliefs as the FLDS faith, but I know discrimination when I see it and I'm not going to sit by and watch. 513. Susan Aldridge Aiken, SC What happened to Habeas corpus? Texas foster care is some of the worst in the country. Talk about going from the pan into the fire ! The poor children. 514. Josh Thompson Stevensville, MT 515. charles Barlow Hurricane, UT 516. Ezra Draper Hildale, UT FREE THE INNOCENT FLDS CHILDREN FROM THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE AND RETURN THEM TO THIER LOVING PARENTS! 517. Christine Bountiful, UT Care more, govern less. This is wrong and will have years Woolston of negative impact and emotional trama on these children and their Mothers. They are being unlawfully treated and there is no cause to have them removed from their Mothers. 518. Carolyn Hansen Salt Lake City, UT You are taking away Freedom of Religion Just like Hitler did, you are prosecuting these people just like the mormons were prosecuted, for what, for the way they choose to live. LET THEM BE! 519. Silky Wyld Chippewa Falls, WI 520. Laura Zitting Sandy, United States Minor Outlying Islands 521. leslie doughty wrentham, MA

Page 55 - Signatures 508 - 521 Name From Comments 522. Bobby Meadows Opelika, AL Free all the people. Return the children to thier mothers and fathers. 523. Myra Tolman Bonners Ferry, ID This brings back memories more haunting than ever of 1953 when the state of Utah threatened to take my own little daughters from me. Luckily the Vera Black case protected my own children...at the expense of her precious children. No matter how kindly or gently the state of Texas claims it is being done it is more traumatising than the alledged abuse. Where is the evidence? Why could they not have begun with the teenage girls that they claim are abused? Is this America? 524. Rosalie Timpson Centennial Park, AZ Free the innocent FLDS, if there is abuse, deal with it case by case. 525. Corey Grua Grantsville, UT Watching for teenagers who may have been abused is one thing. Putting little children into custodial foster homes is quite another. May compassion rule your actions please. 526. Irma Woolston Kaysville, UT This is a flagrant abuse of power by CPS, a show of "muscle", and an outrageous demonstraion of unlawful dominion over an unpopular and little understood minority group, but has little to do with the actual allegation of abuse. It is just another example of how our "land of the free" is becoming more and more subject to governmental controls and we, the people, are being denied the basic freedoms guaranteed us by the Constitution and our founding fathers. On another note, how fortunate we would be if our local authorities would pay as much attention to the outcries for help of battered and abused women in our own neighborhoods as they did to the allegation of one young FLDS woman. 527. Monte Benson Hiawatha, UT Polygamy is not abuse. This action is persecution and not prosecution and is against all that America stands for. Polygamy is a lifestyle choice... not a crime. 528. Eliza Kelsch Park City, UT 529. Mitchel Kelsch riverton, UT So does this mean it would be ok to take every single child out of every single catholic church where there were any children sexually abused? Or if some of your neighbors children were abused does that mean that they should take away your children as well as thiers? Ask your self these qeustions and realize that this is not just about the abuse of children for we all know very well that so many people in this country are guilty of this. This is about the authorities and general public do not understand the FLDS way of life, which niether do I understand many of the things that (according to the media) go on there. But I also dont understand many of the Ahmish ways, or the muslim ways, etc. But that certainly does not give anyone the right to take thier children away, unless by do proccess of the law (continues on next page)

Page 56 - Signatures 522 - 529 Name From Comments 529. Mitchel Kelsch riverton, UT (continued from previous page) they are proven guilty, then and not until then should we look at taking any child from thier mother. WHAT THE TEXAS AUTHORITIES HAVE DONE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED NOTHING LESS THAN KIDNAPPING! 530. Lynn Kelsch park city, UT Child abuse should be taked handled and stoped when ever and where ever it is found. But should be done WHERE and WHEN it is found. The wholsale removal of 416 children violated the laws and the oaths that every law inforcer in every level of the government takes when the join on. The "law" enforcment of Texas has violated there oaths and in doing so not only violated the rights of those in the YFZ Ranch, but of every free blooded American who calls themselves and American. We as a people must not let this happen. 531. Christine Bluffdale, UT I have to ask myself: �Were they all guilty until proven Goeckeritz innocent? Has the constitutional rights of Americans become only a guideline that can be broken when seen fit?� How far we have fallen when the homes of innocent citizens are raided and their children kidnaped by armed �enforcers of the law.� You based your actions on the voice of someone who�s story had holes so wide even you should have seen the flaws. Shame upon you all for your disgusting violation of the rights of the women and children of Texas. Return them and set things right before their cries of anguish become yet another stain on our country. 532. C Owen newdale, ID Just because somebody cried wolf then innocent people have to suffer. what are we a communist country? 533. Heber Barlow Bluffdale, UT What has happened to the families and especially women and children in Elderado is an absolute outrage, unconstitutional and Hilter like. Shame on Texas and shame on the people of this nation if they will sit by and allow the rights of parents to be stripped from them. The mass invasion was unjust and the reason for it fabricated. 534. Joseph Hammon centennial park, AZ I wonder if Texas CPS took a page from Hitlers Nazi Gestapo play book? If someone is different from me they must be evil, right? ... or wrong? I used to think America was different, that we believed the individuals civil rights were to be protected from the government especially. We should remember what we have our children recite in school every day: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." It looks like Texas CPS believes in "justice for some" and "liberty for some", whomever looks and believes like them. If there is an allegation of abuse, first (continues on next page)

Page 57 - Signatures 529 - 534 Name From Comments 534. Joseph Hammon centennial park, AZ (continued from previous page) investagate and then prosecute that case. Don't allow your predjudice to controll your version of "justice" and "liberty". The Nazis believed they were being just when they murdered 2,000,000 Jews and imprisoned countless other people who didn't believe like them. Are we as a country more sympathetic to the Nazi form of social controll or do we believe in "liberty and justice for ALL" ????? 535. Edelweiss Neola, UT I believe that the government has no right to abuse citizens Oberhansley for no reason. 536. Marlyne Hammon Centennial Park, AZ America, wake up! May the ghosts of those who bled and died for our freedoms come en mass and haunt the highhanded bigots in power who have trampled upon the constitution and committed this atrocity against our own citizens. Let the families be reunited! 537. Darlene B K Park City, UT What you have done to these families is very wrong. They are American citizens and you have no right to take away the constitutional rights given to them by OUR forefathers! 538. Andrea B Lehi, UT 539. Sarah Hammon Centennial Park, AZ The prejudice and bigotry involved in this matter is disgusting and AGAINST THE LAW! Just because you're the state of Texas doesn't give you the right to go in rip away a person's inalienable rights as a U.S. citizen. Also, the sick media frenzy the CPS is feeding is atrocious and I am absolutely humiliated to call myself an American. I hope every woman and every child there in Eldorado employs the use of a state lawyer to cost Texas hundreds of millions of dollars. That would teach them never to do this again! 540. Ruth Musser Hildale, UT The state of Texas has RAPED these children of there innocence and security. Give GODS children back to theirs mothers, they are accountable for their up bringing. 541. Freedom Friday Harbor, WA HOW FUNNY!!!!!! 90% OF THE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED Freedom THIS DUMB THING ARE FROM ARIZONA AND UTAH!!!! PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ABUSED UNDER THE GUISE OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION!!!!! 542. sharon zitting centennial park, AZ 543. Herbert Timpson Colorado City, AZ 544. Ryan Hammon Centennial Park, AZ Where do we begin to ouitline and delineate the egregious law-breaking that has been perpetuated by the State of Texas. They have chosen to ignore the due process of law, a staple of the American justice system. Had the FLDS people been Muslim or Ahmish the state of Texas would have allowed them to "celebrate" their cultural diverstiy. This is an unfair attack on a unique religion. This is a mere infraction on a larger scale of a corrupt (continues on next page)

Page 58 - Signatures 534 - 544 Name From Comments 544. Ryan Hammon Centennial Park, AZ (continued from previous page) goverment that no longer serves the interest of the people. CPS won't stop until they have regulated every facet and affair your family life. Free these children, reunite them with their mothers. Correct the massive mistake that you have made. 545. Donna Timpson Colorado City, AZ Return the children to their parents who love them and care for them!!!! 546. Heber Williams Stockton, MO 547. Jennifer Llewellyn Logan, UT My good friend had her children taken from her for a year due to an overeager police force and CPS in Texas also. This has caused an amazing amount of stress and financial hardship, not to mention the fact that this will be on record for her and her husband for the rest of their lives. I know that she and her husband were innocent of any wrongdoing, but their lives will never be the same because of this! Is this what a free society that believes in "innocent until proven guilty" does? Government is supposed to protect us, not terrorize us. Ezra Taft Benson said in his book, The Proper Role of Government, "I hold that the Constitution denies government the power to take from the individual either his life, liberty, or property except in accordance with moral law; that the same moral law which governs the actions of men when acting alone is also applicaple when they act in concert with others; that no citizen or group of citizens has any right to direct their agent, the government to perform any act which would be evil or offensive to the conscience if that citizen were performing the act himself outside the framework of government." 548. Carol Kunz Riverton, UT 549. Carolee Johnson Ibapah, UT 550. Samantha Lister, B. C., Canada To the Government Officals: You say your job is to Quinton "Rescue and Protect the children" I say "Your Raid" will emotionally and mentally scar these dear children for LIFE!! WAKE UP! 551. Heather Roberts Reading, PA Please return these children to their mother's. I myself am a mother and my heart just breaks for all the mother's and children ripped apart. If anything round up all the alleged Father's and punish them. Don't let innocent children be hurt. 552. H Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ Return these children immediately. Prosecute abuse on a case by case basis. This would not have happened anywhere else to any other cultural or religious group. Perhaps the state of Texas should round up all the children in the whole state, as I'm sure if they looked hard enough they could find a threat of abuse in every community in their state.

Page 59 - Signatures 544 - 552 Name From Comments 553. Christopher Ibapah, UT Johnson 554. Michael Sheets Bondurant, IA I can't really say much about this. Such an infringement of these American's right is blasphemy. What's this country coming to? The Constitution is becoming just a piece of paper with no meaning, more and more every day. Let's hope the Governor of Texas gets off of his throne and does something about this. 555. Krystal Whitmore Franklin, MA 556. Robin Smith West Jordan, UT I find myself wondering what would have happened if Texan authorities had raided a mosque and taken every Moslem child in a town away from its parents because one anonymous caller (who, let's remember, cannot be found to even exist) complained. The outrage and fear of retaliation would be immense. These women and children have no political clout, so no one worries about due process for them. I IN NO WAY condone abuse in any form, not sexual abuse, not forced marriages (monogamous or polygamous), nor abuse by the government through lack of due process. 557. Jerry Johnson SR Ibapah, UT 558. Victoria Williams Stockton, MO 559. Lonny Stewart Colorado City Shame on Texas !!! The only real evidence is that these Arizona, AZ people practice what they preach & mind their own business & work together & love God & thieir children enough to teach them real moral values & how to make the world where they live a better place . Shouldn't their govenment be proud of them . Instead of oppressing them . RETURN THE CHILDREN & MOTHERS TO THEIR BEAUTIFULL HOMES & SPEND SOME OF YOUR TAX MONEY ON CLEANING UP THE REAL ISSUES OF CORRUPTION THAT YOU HAVE PLENTY OF REAL EVIDENCE ON LIKE THE CPS ETC !!!!!! 560. Cherylin Johnson Ibapah, UT 561. Jeremiah Johnson Ibapah, UT 562. Samantha Ibapah, UT Johnson 563. Jerry Johnson JR Ibapah, UT 564. Brittney Johnson Huntington, UT 565. John Johnson Huntington, UT 566. JOYCE LAS VEGAS, NV Should my ex-husband be packing his bags for his stay in BUTTERFIELD the pen? We married when I was fifteen and he was twenty. It would only be natural to think this unless you are discriminating against these people because of their religous beliefs.

Page 60 - Signatures 553 - 566 Name From Comments 567. Adam Kelsch riverton, UT The acts of texas on the FLDS is unconstitutional and unacceptable in the united states. breaking up falimilies, over stepping those americans rights of worship, and invading thier privacy on some "alleged" crime, has brought everlasting shame upon texas! 568. Susan Johnson Ibapah, UT 569. C Johnson Ibapah, UT 570. SMITH TIMPSON Hildale, UT 571. Leon cox centennial park, AZ 572. Susanne Centennial Park, AZ In all reality, what does CPS think they are doing with the Hammon children if they think they are protecting them from child abuse? Let us reflect once again the types of abuses that are not permissible; sexual, physical, molesting, and let's not forget "mental abuse"!!! Is this or is this not a type of abuse???? Talk about ABUSE, this one, too me is just as bad as all the others. Give the children back for heaven sakes. Let's focus on the issue at hand, a teenage girl who has been abused, and which seems quite odd, they have not found yet. . . . . Get a clue CPS! 573. MICHELLE HENDERSON, NV Do you think anyone in the state of Texas is familar with PANARO the term "Civil Rights"? If not I am sure they will be after all of the leagal fees and compensation they have to pay out. 574. Jeffrey McFerson Garden Grove, CA 575. Virginia Colorado City, AZ Dockstader 576. Elizabeth Ewing Riverton, UT I am very concerned about the situation in Texas with the FLDS people, they are citizens of the U.S. regardless of beleifs. I feel that the measures that have been taken are extreme and that the perpetrator should be persecutated by the full extent of the law, not the entire congregation. Please let these families each have a fair trial that is thier constitutional right. Polygamy does not equal abuse! Thank you and God bless all those little children involved, comfort their mothers aching hearts. 577. John Stewart Sandy, UT 578. Janette Smith Fullerton, CA Whatever happened to justice.... why persecute the innocent...innocent till proven guilty. 579. Jeanne Wilford Millville, NJ It's always amazing to me that some agencies are so diligent in one case where evidently all the children are very healthy looking. Yet they can completely ignore a child which is in imminent danger from beatings, starvation, neglect, etc. If a parent is sexually abusing a child, certainly that child should be taken from danger. Is there any proof? Shouldn't due process be exercised in these cases? 580. Alan L. Morrell Bountiful, UT Please sustain the Constitution of the United States.

Page 61 - Signatures 567 - 580 Name From Comments 581. Jennifer O Idaho Falls, ID i dont care wut u guys think but this is wrong! i would die if anybody took my kids! and i bet thats just a lie that the sixteen year old called they prolly just wanted to investigate! slowly this country is turning toward parlimentary sorry peoples but its true 582. Gladys borja Santa Clarita, CA Stop the abuse od the minors. Let them be with the parents. They are a lot better with theirs parents that under the goverment. stop the abuse 583. Carolee Kelsch South Jordan, UT 584. Kaylene Cawley las vegas, NV I can't imagine how painful it would be for me to have some strangers come in and take my child out of my arms. Let alone without any explanation as to why. They had no right to go and remove all of those children from thier parents because of one phone call that may or may not be a hoax. I do not agree with alot of the things these people do, but I can gaurantee that not all of those children were abused. You can't rip a child from a loving Mother's hands, you just can't do that. It makes me sick to my stomach to imagine my child in that situation, taken away by all those strangers, put in a strange place. It bothers me how quick they were to respond to that call, and immediatly start taking children away, without no obvious sign of abuse. It's just wrong, you don't do that to families. 585. Terry Gustafson woods cross, UT 586. Ryan Kingston Salt Lake City, UT It's amazing how much power a judge has these days. It is a scary thought to think that innocent people can have their lives torn apart for no other reason other than a judge doesn't agree with the way they live. There is no way that any sane person could agree that this was an unbiased legal action. It is completely unprecedented. 587. Marie Steed Washington, UT I am an ex member of the FLDS church. The way I grew up was perfect, there was never any abuse and I had a perfect childhood. My father loved me and so did my mothers. Those children are more safe at the YFZ Ranch than any where else in the whole world. They need to be home with their families and I hope that there is enough sence in the heads of those making that decision that they can return to their wonderful life at the ranch. May God bless those children and mothers with his perfect love and comfort. 588. Jacob Lines Tucson, AZ How can 400 children be separated from their mothers based on the allegations of an anonymous person against a man? This action has taken place without any accusations of abuse against the mothers. I am horrified that this action has taken place in the United States. 589. kim cooke colorado city, AZ

Page 62 - Signatures 581 - 589 Name From Comments 590. Judy Benson Egg Harbor City, NJ "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Constitution of United States, Amendment XIV 591. Laura Wyman Spencer, WV 592. Ashley Carter Bountiful, UT This is horrifying that mothers would be treated in such a manner. We give serial rapists and pedophiles better treatment than this. Just because you don't understand these people's way of life or agree with it DOES NOT MEAN that you get to treat them like this. These are ALLEGED allegations.. not fact. Not that they shouldn't be investigated, because they should, but don't stomp all over people's rights while in the process. 593. Rachel Leavitt Cedar Park, TX 594. Alina Timpson Colorado City, AZ Cops just have to get that one girl who call for help not the others. But too bad they still cant find the girl who called for help. Texas are making mistakes. 595. Nancy Bishop Salt Lake, UT The Constitution was set up as a protection for WE the people and IT has been trampled upon. Those who are behind this act of agression must beheld accountable. Preying on the innocent is barbaric! I pray that the noble men and women of this great country STAND UP and SPEAK OUT! What we allow to happen here, will directly effect the future of OUR freedom. 596. Marilynn Heuser RIverton, UT If government can do this in Texas what makes any of us think it couldn't happen to any home in America and do the same thing!! We as American Citizens should be outraged and very concerned. 597. B Whitmill Salt Lake City, UT Remember before the onset of WW2 the Germans did similar things to the Jewish population and those who they thought did not beleive the same way as they did. They were crushed by the Axis Powers. Now we have this Texas Nazi party doing the same type of thing to a people who they don't agree with their beliefs. Is this what the U.S. Government is coming to, Allowing persecutions of people? Isn't that why the Mormons abondon their practice of Polygamy? WE WON'T GIVE IN like the Mormons did. 598. George Michaud Victor, ID The law is acting like a bunch of "Jack Booted Thugs" and losing all the respect of the citizens who see them more as an enemy than a friend and protector. 599. Merlin Laub stockton, MO the is not any reason to punish the innocent, you will cause them to not say any thing, the guilty should be not the innocent.

Page 63 - Signatures 590 - 599 Name From Comments 600. Arthur Scott Mona, UT Mangels 601. RANDLE L. WEST JORDAN, UT WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE HAS A VERY STRANGE THOMPSON SR. RESEMBLANCE TO THE ADOLF HITLER ERA. PLEASE RECTIFY THIS AND MAKE ME PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN AGAIN!! 602. Stephanie Cooke Colorado City, AZ You shouldn't punish those who have no control over what has happened to them. There's a lot of innocent people in this community! And a lot of decent people too. There just scared. And who wouldn't be? I mean after 1953 raid and now what the state is doing to them now. 603. Erhard Bernstadt, Germany For me the United States were a symbol for freedom and Schellmann justice. In the last years there are more and more examples which violate in my opinion these principles. In Germany we had times when poeple got arrested based on anonymous calls. Taking away children from their mothers is such a deep cut into the basic human rights that it should be possible only when child abuse is evident. 604. Wolfe Rose Walworth, NY I am *NOT* FLDS myself, but I find it absolutely reprehensible to prosecute and divide families BEFORE getting any proof that ANY crime was committed. This is NOT due process or even remotely ethical conduct. It is also dispicable to CONTINUE to harass and separate families after having made this mistake. IF there is proof of underage coercion, prosecute THOSE people, but quit harassing citizens of your own country. 605. Rachel Bradley Cedar Park, TX I am scared to death by the extreme action taken by our Texas CPS and authorities. It appears like frightening Nazi behavior to me. And stupid! Why not leave the children in their safe, clean homes where they can play and remove the suspected abusers instead? Texas really botched this one. Please get the mothers back with their kids. What happened to the rights of US citizens? 606. Kelton Baker Salt Lake City, UT What was done is truly disgusting and motivated by religious sentiment by zealous anti-Mormons, not concern for children or law. 607. Chrinn Kelsch bluffdale, UT Unless there is true hard evidance that there is really abuse going on then no one should be prosecuted until that is presented. But to punish the innocent women and children for something that may not have even happen is unconstitutional and moraly wrong. 608. Mark Perez Victoria, TX 609. Jennifer Barlow Colorado City, AZ I don't think that it is any of the laws business. I think the law should put their time to better use. 610. Mary Ann West Jordan, UT Excuse me! But isn't the state of Texas doing exactly what Wayman Warren Jeffs is accused of doing--tearing families apart for absurd reasons?

Page 64 - Signatures 600 - 610 Name From Comments 611. galen young argyle, ME 612. Christopher Austin, TX One anonymous phone call from a girl that you can not Nystrom produce is not probable cause to arrest an entire community. 613. al delacruz elizabeth, NJ it's a shame. 614. Stephen Fleming Goleta, CA 615. EMILEE CENTENNIAL PARK, HAMMON AZ 616. Aubrey Jessop Logan, UT 617. William Harris Salt Lake City, UT Texas needs to make sure that all children interviewed are recorded by video cameras. If you take 100 children from the average home in the US and interrogate them the interviewer can get many of them to say something that could be used to indite their parents. 618. David Bistline Colorado City, AZ Texas has violated the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Expos Facto Laws, and Class Laws to the Constitution of the United States. Does this document still hold power in this nation? If it does not then no law holds this nation together. I hope texas will see their mistake and leave these people alone. There is no abuse amoung this people and marriage was a Religious Covenant last I checked, as long as you are at an age of consent determined by the state you are married in. Most states still have the age of consent at 14. Can a marriage in one state be condemned by another state? Can a law go after a person for performing a marriage in another state, and having the marriage performed before the law was passed? If texas was smart they would go after those informants who lied to investigators. 619. Bonnie Kingston Salt Lake City, UT 620. carol barlow Eagle Mountain, UT For more impact, add a personal comment here 621. Sarah Hammon Private, CA The fact that they took 400+ children based on a phone call from some mysterious 16 year old girl who has yet to show up is representation of the Godless power one person has in the judicial system. The judicial system was set up in a way where power would be distributed so that no one group, person, or establishment could create a bias political monopoly. Yet here we are in the 21st century watching the private lives of a people being plastered all over the media because ONE judge deemed it necessary to remove 400+ children on the basis of an anonymous phone call. Not only that, the men are being detained and are not allowed to leave the grounds in YFZ. Families are ripped apart because ONE judge is on some ego trip, much like they are accusing Warren Jeffs of doing. People thousands of miles away are swelling with hatred over the (continues on next page)

Page 65 - Signatures 611 - 621 Name From Comments 621. Sarah Hammon Private, CA (continued from previous page) construed information the media has dictated it will release. Now we have the state of Texas and all the rest of America practically BULLYING Utah and Arizona into performing a similar raid. I'm sorry but the only standard Texas is setting is the amount of beligerence, ignorance and prejudice they can muster when flexing their monstrous egomaniacal muscles! As a young woman maybe I should just call in anonymously and claim that Texas officials are forcing me to wait till I'm a 35 year old used body to get married, instead of a respectable young woman who chooses to wait till marriage to have sex. Let's see how many judges and state officials jump on that one! C'mon CPS...you have an allegation here! Get on it! 622. Shirley Zitting Centennial Park, AZ I can not beleive that the state of Texes is waisting a LOT of tax payers money without one bit of evidents!! Way to go Texes!! I didn't know anyone could stomp on the American flag the way you just did....and they ask us to pick up the tab. Maybe you should have taken some time before hand to find out what you were doing before you did it. If someone down the street was abused and someone tried to come take my children because of it. I would meet you with a gun. You would have to kill me first!! 623. Hillary Moore Gosport, IN 624. Julie Nielsen Hildale, UT I used to respect Texas and their attitude about messing with americans. Are women and children in texas not viewed as americans because they dress different and have views that differ from yours, or have you decided it's only ok if YOU TEXAS do the messing? I understand that it is politically correct to discriminate against polygamists now. A few short years ago it was blacks. When will so called americans stop repeating their mistakes? 625. Douglas Hammon Colorado City, AZ What the state of Texas is doing is unconstitutional. Each those children and women have a right to be heard and their cases individually reviewed. Texas has handled this very poorly. 626. Elaine Roundy Hildale, UT 627. Mikel Blake Irving, TX 628. Melissa Williams St. George, UT 629. Jaime Conder Caledonia, IL What they did by pulling those children away from there families is wrong. They need to let them all go home. Who are we to say they are guilty. We don't live there. You can go to any high school in America and find a teenage girl pregnant, her boyfriend may be eighteen, nineteen or even older. Those people are not punished. That is considered just another teenage pregnancy and is socially acceptable. (continues on next page)

Page 66 - Signatures 621 - 629 Name From Comments 629. Jaime Conder Caledonia, IL (continued from previous page) There are men that have children with five, six or even seven different women or women who have children with many men. Some of which are under age, most living on welfare. Yet this is considered socially acceptable. This is America, you have the right to choose your religion and not the Government or CPS can choose that for you. If they send those kids to a foster homes they will be doing more damage to those children than good. The state of Texas, CPS and the Government has had their fifteen minutes of fame, now admit they jumped the gun and let those families go home. This is America, Land of the Free, Innocent until proven guilty or is that different in Texas too 630. Kristy Cook Austin, TX 631. Stephanie Vancouver, WA It's really a sad, sad, day for TEXAS. Alexander 632. SALLY PUEBLO, CO This should be a HUGE warning to the citizens of the REYNOLDS United States, when an entire community can be gatthered up against their will, and corhearsed into leaving their children with child protective services, again against their will, with NO proof of any crime being committed and nothing to go on except here-say from some phone call, WE THE CITIZENS OF THE US BETTER BELIEVE IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY OF US...AND FURTHER MORE WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT AND HIS INVOLOVEMENT HERE!! ALL OF THESE PEOPLE'S CIVIL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED. THESE CHILDREN MUST BE TERRIFIED! WHERE IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM?? 633. LAURI COATES MASCOUTAH, IL These families have not been found guilty of anything, yet all are being punished based on the POSSIBLE actions of one man. Assuming, of course, that the call made reporting him as actually legit. 634. Beth McCarthy SLC, UT State of Texas: These children do NOT belong to you! Return them to their parents before your State is charged with Mass Kidnapping. 635. David Miller Lehi, UT As another signer suggested, why have these children been torn from their homes and families when their lives are much safer than other children living in other places like certain areas in and around Dallas, Houston, or any other large metro area. Feel free to prosecute cases of abuse, but let's deal with real abuse cases before inventing new cases of abuse among an unpopular religious group. 636. Erica Mackert South Jordan, UT This is an important cause. If we stand by quietly while the government infringes on our constitutional and God-given rights, soon we will have no rights left to fight for. Please support this cause.

Page 67 - Signatures 629 - 636 Name From Comments 637. Davis Hammon Saint George, UT I certainly am adamant against under age marriages and condone reasonable action in stopping it. This is not reasonable action for at least two reasons: 1. One call from one girl is a specific case and should be treated as such 2. The importance in building trust with the FLDS people is paramount. In the long term and in the ultimate goal of ending underage marriage and sexual abuse actions taken need to encourage more communications. By establishing more communications and trust more girls will be willing to talk when abuse does happen. 638. Joshua Barlow Las Vegas, NV What gives Texas the right to infringe upon our constitutional rights? How about due process? CPS is completely ignorant to the law. How dare you state that you're going to put these children in foster homes. How dare you say that the kids are safer with you than their own parents. All this based upon a supposed phone call incriminating a man that isn't even in Texas. How do you honestly justify in your minds anything that you, the state of Texas, have done to these people? 639. Theral Timpson Centennial Park, AZ 640. Jimmy Cox Tyler, TX Let them go now! Sorry folks this petition will have no impact at all the State of Texas or Rick Perry could care less what you think. 641. M. Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ Dear Governor of Texas, I am personally appauled at the actions of Texas concerning the actions taken regarding the FLDS raid. Of all the states I thought Texas would be the most careful and respectful(THE FREEDOMS GAINED BECAUSE OF THE ALAMO). Instead I've felt that Texas has been breaking the laws themselves. I don't see the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS BEING PROTECTED AT ALL. Any state making laws that take away a persons rights---protection given in the CONSTITUTION OF THE GREAT COUNTRY---BY THE BLOOD OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS---is breaking the laws by righting new ones that eliminate our inalliable rights. These rights aren't given by men, nor can they be taken away by men. There given by God!!!!!!!! Not by presidents, governors, or senators etc....Christ says "Treat your neighbor as yourself", I guess this is how you, and the state of Texas wants to be treated. If you have protected rights that mean nothing to you and Texas --so be it. But there is plenty of other people that live in this great country that DEMAND OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS! TEXAS seems a bit cocky with their approach in dealing with this "accusation of some(who)16 year old girl who called for help. It appears (continues on next page)

Page 68 - Signatures 637 - 641 Name From Comments 641. M. Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ (continued from previous page) that there's a pretty good chance that that phone called never happened. Where's the proof? What does the CPS agents do to prove it is lugidimate, and not just some girl from somewhere in the United States calling just trying to stir up trouble(which could be devastating to children and families)---like Flora Jessop or Penny Stubbs Peterson(Who the media look at as experts on the fundalmentalists belief. These "ladies" were engaging in sex favors in exchange for money in the community of Colorado City when they were underage). Does the other side of the story get told? Do people care?) was the one who supposedly called----it sounds like something they would do. I knew of these so called "ladies" when they were younger--their close to my age. They were engaging in mischief and underage sex. Does the media and government take what Flora and Penny say and actually investigate to see what they say is true? Most of what these ladies say through the media is flat out lies. I, Mr. Governor, invite you to investigate the characters of these two "expert ladies". They have been out of the culture longer than they were in. Thought provoking isn't it? By the way, I am not part of the FLDS. I have never been a part of Warren's group of followers, BUT I WILL STAND UP FOR THIER GOD GIVEN RIGHTS-----THE SAME RIGHTS I CLAIM FOR MYSELF!!! I GRANT ALL MANKIND THE GOD GIVEN PREVAILEGE TO WORSHIP ALMIGHTY GOD ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE. THIS LAND BELONGS TO GOD---not the govenment. We are all children of God, you included Mr. Governor. If there's really abuse--deal with the abuse. Not the community. I ask you Mr. Governor, "When a person commits a "crime" in any other city (say San Antonio) or community(say in Hunt) in Texas does CPS come in a confiscate all the children in the city or community? This approach is NUTS and totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!! It is very apparent that the government officials through out the nation doesn't want to hear(the government has it own agenda that goes in direct opposition to the foundation set up by our FOUNDING FATHERS) about the FOUNDING FATHERS, BUT NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE---WE AS A COUNTRY NEEDS THOSE INSPIRED, PROTECTING DOCUMENTS--WE NEED A MODERN DAY GEORGE WASHINGTON!!!!! The government officials don't care two cents for protecting the "rights" of individuals---it's more like they care about their power, money and agenda's. Mr. Governor, I invite you to research the REALITIES of children in foster care(that so called safe, loving environment for kids) it's atrocious and (continues on next page)

Page 69 - Signature 641 Name From Comments 641. M. Dockstader Centennial Park, AZ (continued from previous page) criminal---all done in the name of the "law". I thought I'd send you some links to make it easier for you----Here they are: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ISFPJL66p4c http://youtube.com/watch?v=7kaVjBi8tcw&feature=related http://youtube.com/watch?v=81ORelECvz4&feature=related In many cases it's "LEGAL ACTS OF MURDER TOWARD CHILDREN", it is and far worse abuse than the children came from---and the government says "THEY CARE"! It's a total contradiciton. I know the chances of you actually caring enough to education yourself about the truth is pretty low on your priority list----just don't pretend to sincerely care if you don't. Hopefully, you don't just care about your power, money, and agenda. Texas should be held accountable for their Violation in the lives of these FLDS families!!!!! I AM REQUESTING YOU TO INTERVENE IN BEHALF OF THESE CHILDREN AND MOTHERS ---AND THE TAX DOLLARS AMD THE WELFARE SYSTEM. Mr. Governor, I invite you to remember the price that's been given for FREEDOM--FREEDOM FOR AMERICA AND TEXAS---THE MANY LIVES OF FATHERS, MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS, SONS, BOYS, GIRLS, AND CHILDREN THAT SACRIFIED BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION!!!! THE STARVATION, EXHAUSTION, SACRIFICE, FEAR, DETERMENATION, SEVERE COLD, SICKNESS, TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT WOUNDS RECEIVED,CONVICTION,AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST--THE BLOOD THAT THEY SHED SHOULD NEVER, NEVER, NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!!!!!!!! OH, THATs RIGHT IT WAS THEIR BLOOD NOT ""OURS, SO WHY SHOULD WE CARE? THE CONSTITUTUION CAME AT A GREAT AND TREMENDOUS PRICE!!! If you don't defend these FLDS people and see they get their rights---in my opinion you shouldn't live on this sacred land. So, Mr. Governor is the lives that have been given for our FREEDOM in vein? What you do will answer this question!! 642. Lee Ann Beard Bountiful, UT 643. DAWN CONDER HENDERSON, NV Does Totalitarianism or Nationalsocialistische Deuthche Arbeiterpartei aka Nazi Party ring a bell? Every time I see what is happing to these people I reflect back on history. This situation makes me think the only thing we a missing here is concentration camps and a gas chamber. State and Federal agencies need to respect or rights as Americans. 644. Betty Kehrle Chandler, AZ The best way to resolve this situation is to return the children to their mother's. There is nothing to be gained from this course of action other than more harm. Please return the children to their mother's and handle the situation the correct way. Page 70 - Signatures 641 - 644 Name From Comments 645. Marion Timpson Salt Lake City, UT 646. Rachel Whipple Huntington, NY I am outraged at Texas' actions against the FLDS group. Texas has only reinforced the FLDS idea that the outside world is against them and eager to persecute them. 647. Marla Zitting colorado city, AZ 648. Brian Salt Lake City, UT Do not allow bureaucrats and judges to have this kind of Eenigenburg power. "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton If there is proven abuse, go after the abusers. Otherwise leave people free to live their lives. Do not allow innocents to have their lives turned upside down by state "do-gooders" because somebody imagines the POSSIBILITY of future abuse. Otherwise you are a police state and deserve to be overthrown. 649. Leah Hammon Centennial Park, AZ "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..." ---The Declaration of Independence - The Want, Will, and Hopes of the People!!!!! 650. Elisha Jones Enoch, UT It is amazing to see this happening in America. 651. Reverend Helaina Benson, NC The state of Texas "rescued" me 44 years ago. I ended up Hinson in an adoptive home where I really WAS abused. What about these teen moms? Will they be separated in foster care from their children? Will pregnant teens be pressured or forced to put their babies up for adoption? Here's what foster care is like. You get no answers; you are a THING. "Your parents can't care for your right now" is the stock answer, and finally you're told to stop asking. They give you new parents, and tell you to forget your old ones. You're a new happy family. The state expects this to happen because it says so. Texas seals adoption records, and court orders are necessary for release. You can only petition the county court that finalized your adoption, and it's up to the judge. Dallas judge Gaither does it on request. Others, like mine, won't grant releases for any reason, including medical emergencies. Siblings don't have to be adopted together, and you may never see yours again. Most people know an adoptee who (continues on next page)

Page 71 - Signatures 645 - 651 Name From Comments 651. Reverend Helaina Benson, NC (continued from previous page) Hinson successfully searched, so they assume it's that easy and anyone who wants to can do it. Utterly false. I know. 652. Allan Kelsch Herriman, UT I think it is a farce what is happening down there that is very shameful. Every lover of liberty and the constitution ought to be enraged by it. 653. David Golding Murrieta, CA First of all, the warrant that was issued was based on a tip from a 16-year-old who wouldn't identify herself and whispered over the phone. The man ended up not even being in the state of Texas at all. Yet, with warrant in hand, Texas authorities detained hundreds of children. Where is the constitutionality in this? I'm forced to believe that this has nothing to do with justice or the course of law but of speculation and pressupposition. If you want to perform an investigation, fine by me. But you cannot subvert the law nor the constitution. These people must be treated as innocent until proven guilty. If there is abuse in these homes, an investigation will reveal this, not placing children under protective services based on one teen's tip and a whole lot of assumed practices that may or may not be going on inside the compound and in these people's homes. One thing I know now-- I'll never be moving to Texas. 654. B Jones slc, UT Kidnapping is a crime, it's only ok if you have a title? I have never been to Texas but the image I had was of good upstanding citizens with a bigger than life sense of justice(with cowboys hats). Now I am ashamed to call Texas a part of the United States. This is opposite from what we are supposed to stand for. Way to go comment #461 from Florida for researching your facts. And to you Texans who are trying to help these people. Thankyou. 655. Richard Darger Herriman, UT 656. Hawk midvale, UT I think the way you have handled this whole thing is wrong Gudmundson and ileagal not to mention imoral 657. Connie May broaddus, TX 658. Reese Janca Denver, CO Sworn to uphold the Constitution, uphold the freedom of religion. If Gays and Lesbians can march downtown promoting their way of life and we can approve of children living in gay households than we can afford to let these people pursue their religious practice what ever that may entail sexually but clearly entails long standing devoted relationships and strong families that have been so cruelly attack by the majority. 659. chery barlow St.eorge, UT

Page 72 - Signatures 651 - 659 Name From Comments 660. Mz Rutledge DUNCANVILLE, TX This is OUTRAGOUS! I myself would not be caught dead in a church but I am horrified when I see families being ripped apart because of their beliefs. Who is next? Pagans, Atheists, Muslims, it does not matter. All parents should take a close look at this. Are the key players involved wanting to pad their resumes? This case is a precedent setting case and it is about Human rights! In 1953 in Arizona over 250 children were removed screaming from their mothers arms. It backfired, the images were hard to erase. The Governor lost his position. Remember that Texans because Rick Perry would love to be re-elected. This reminded me of the images from Nazi Germany where mothers were separated from their children on the platforms...they had been deceived. How arrogant is CPS! To want to terminate all parental rights without any hard evidence and a phantom 16 yr old named Sarah, whom I doubt even exists. How arrogant to assume that they are better off in our world, a world of gang violence, drugs, shootings, etc...... They want to move them far away from that area, probably many would be sent to Dallas and Houston. A heavy crime area, may God have mercy on those kids! 661. Isaac Barlow Colorado City, AZ 662. james hudgens carmel, CA 663. Molly Shadrin Molalla, OR 664. JennaVee Sandy, UT When I make a phone call claiming there is abuse in my Banford home they don't raid my neighborhood, street, not even my next door neighbor!! I'm all about abuse being handled and not allowed; however this is not about abuse any more this is about religon. We as a nation look back on slavery, women not having rights, gays/lesbians and we cry at our ignorance! When will we actually live our pledge and our constitutional rights of freedom of religon, innocent untill proven gulity, all man is equal? How many more lives and generations are we going to scare and destroy before we learn? Texas yes your a big state, but your not bigger then peoples rights or lives! 665. linda cox centennial park, AZ 666. Margaret Peters West Valley City, UT Americans, let our voices be heard. Parents, speak out. We say to the authorities of the state of Texas: You have the FLDS people in your custody. The nation--and all the world--is watching you. You have applied the muscle of force to a case where the power of wisdom is required. Now that harm has already been inflicted upon these people by government action, we implore you to reconsider at once. By continuing to hold these unconvicted people, (continues on next page)

Page 73 - Signatures 660 - 666 Name From Comments 666. Margaret Peters West Valley City, UT (continued from previous page) you will draw a mounting outcry from concerned citizens everywhere. Restore these people to their homes and families, we implore you. Your gracious withdrawal will be applauded. If abuse exists among the FLDS community, let the guilty individuals be held accountable. Do not prolong this wide-scale government abuse upon the entire community. It will not work. I pray for wisdom, compassion, courage, and comfort to fill every Texan's heart during this dreadful crisis . . . whether that Texan belongs to a fundamentalist religion or a government agency. 667. JAIME BUCKLEY West Jordan, UT Texas has shown they are no longer the heart and soul of this great country of America. You bring shame by acting and conducting affair as Natzi Germany, and have set the foundation to openly discriminate and prosecute by religious category. "We heard a Catholic abused a child in your neighborhood---so we're here to round up all the Catholics." I pray God have mercy upon your souls for this abomination and blatant disregard for the constitutional rights of the FLDS and due process of law. However, I also pray the good hearted people of this nation will learn from your first great evil in Waco, and have no mercy whatsoever...unless you right these wrongs immediately and make these families whole once more. 668. richard brewer dayton, OH 669. Reed Barlow Bluffdale, UT �I am from the Government, and I am here to help� This statement should send shivers up your spine. The government that was founded by god-fearing men, to protect the people from this type of thing, has become a vehicle to persecute people for any variety of actions, including practicing a religion that is outside the mainstream. You can see the evidence of persecution in many recent events, one of which made the state of Texas famous, the Waco incident. The FLDS church is a small example of many such organizations in this country. Most do not hold the same beliefs as the FLDS, but are similar in that they believe in the same principles that our Founding Fathers believed in, that is, to pursue life, liberty and happiness, without the interference of an unjust government. Most of these types of people do not respect the government, the police, or other law-enforcement agencies. Why is this? I can speak about the LDS church and its history; They began in the early 19th century and immediately began to be persecuted. They eventually migrated to Missouri and were persecuted by their government and told to get out of the state, or �any means possible� would be used to get them out. They (continues on next page)

Page 74 - Signatures 666 - 669 Name From Comments 669. Reed Barlow Bluffdale, UT (continued from previous page) were welcomed into Illinois for a few years, then began again the persecutions and two beloved prophets were murdered. This forced the Mormon people to abandon the country they loved and respected and they migrated again, to what is now Utah. It was only a short time and again, they were persecuted by their government in 1857. There was a short reprieve while the Civil War was fought, and again, the LDS people began to be persecuted by their government, which came to Utah and seized the Church�s property, stormed the temple, and broke up families. Do you see a pattern? The similarities can be argued about between the FLDS and the LDS church; it is not pertinent to this issue. What is pertinent is the fact that our State and Federal governments have exercised un-righteous dominion over these people, just as has been done to countless other groups in the history of this great nation. This same government asks these people to send their sons and daughters into the line of fire in defense of our ideals and the people go, willingly, to defend America�s liberty, sometimes to their death. They are repaid with persecution! When will we, as Americans who love liberty and freedom, stand up for our fellow countrymen? When will we say ENOUGH!!!? I demand, as a citizen of the United States, that the FLDS people be left to practice their religion as they choose. I demand that the actions of the CPS agency in Texas be investigated and the responsible persons reprimanded and/or removed from positions of authority. SHAME ON TEXAS!! 670. Sarilee Fraser Enoch, UT Please allow these mothers the right to their children. To go about this the way it happened should be illegal. We as a people might not understand their religion, but that does not mean that they are not good parents. These children, especially the young, I'm sure, are terrified. All they want is to be with their mother. Isn't that who you wanted when you got scared? 671. Michael Hadley Riverton, UT 672. Eric Freeman West Valley City, UT These people are US citizens! How can the government of Texas deny people their basic constitutional rights? Illegal search and seizure, due process, freedom of speech.... the list of rights that Texas has violated here goes on and on. Who's next? 673. Guy Murray Nipomo, CA Please stop the constitutional abuses. 674. Russ Barlow Las vegas, NV We talk of boycotting the Beijing Olympics because of human rights violations. Perhaps we should be boycotting Texas. Texas claims to have the interests of the kids at (continues on next page)

Page 75 - Signatures 669 - 674 Name From Comments 674. Russ Barlow Las vegas, NV (continued from previous page) heart but it is those very children whose rights they have abrogated. If every child in this nation who has been deprived of the damning influence of television, protected from the lies propagated by the media, or taught to believe other than a popular religion is considered deprived and therefore subject to removal from their family by the government, we should all fear greatly for tomorrow it will be your own children. 675. Lynn Kingston Salt Lake City, UT I always thought in our free country it was supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. 676. Steve Han Minneapolis, MN The state of Texas should end its persecution of the FLDS. Its abundantly clear that a majority of the evidence has been trumped up by an out of control CPS. Each FLDS family deserves to be treated fairly, assumed innocent until proven guilty, hace their cases heard quicly and to be treated as individual cases. The children should be returned to their families if their families have done nothing wrong. Texas should end its abuse of the innocent. 677. J. Aguirre woodlands, TX The state of texas is exercising rights that is just does not have. First the governor tries to MANDATE all girls get vaccinated under the age of 12 and now they are removing children from THEIR mothers!! It's something we should all be very concerned and outraged over. They are probably testing us to see how we respond to such an outrage. If it was easy, then the next step is to seize property and who knows what else. Scary stuff. 678. ruth hammon centennial park, AZ 679. I. Barlow Hometown, UT Where is the ACLU during all of this? Is that not what the "American" Civil Liberties Union is for? If these children were black, public figures like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would be throwing a tirade right now. If this is not a worthy cause to defend, then the principles of these men are bias at best. 680. Denice Brown Springville, UT Regardless of religion, every single citizen of this country, every supporter of the constitution, every friend of freedom should be outraged by the events in Texas. This is NOT about keeping children safe. In a country whose laws are based on precedence, no child is safe when a state is allowed to remove children from their home to keep them "safe" from unpopular "indoctrination." 681. Sarah Nebeker Syracuse, UT 682. paul williams stockton, MO 683. Angelica Mings Cedar Park, TX It seems like the victims are being victimized again. These poor woman were married off at 14 (which is the marrying age according to this group)and had children. Now now (continues on next page)

Page 76 - Signatures 674 - 683 Name From Comments 683. Angelica Mings Cedar Park, TX (continued from previous page) they are being victimized again by having the one sweet thing in their lives taken from them...their children. If CPS really wants to help, give the children back to their mothers and punish the creeps that would marry a 14 year old girl in the first place. 684. Marilyn Grua Grantsville, UT This process of separating families, arresting women and children, and looking for evidence without real proof should be frightening for every citizen in the United States of America. Everyone who lives under the US Constitution should have the right to freedom of religion, or all of us will be in danger of this kind of borderline legal action. 685. John Timpson Centennial Park, AZ What was done to this group of people was unconstitutional and should not be allowed in any way. If this is allowed to go on than it is evident that there is no assurance that this country will stay the same free-country that it was once happily and peacefully thought to be. 686. Ken Gerber Boise, ID 687. Ishmael Smith West Jordan, UT Dunno how much I actually SUPPORT what was going on, but imo, it's against constitutional rights-- though those won't be lasting too much longer, it seems ^.~ 688. James McFerson Placentia, CA We don't need another Waco fiasco where the government murdered many innocent men, women and children. 689. Ron Heil Las Vegas, NV 690. Leslie Bistline Mountain Home, ID texas... Give The Children Back. I had the privilege to know this people and live in the same community as this people lived in for many years. They are without question some of the finest people I have ever known.. 691. Hannah Barlow bluffdale, UT 692. Prima Baily Canandaigua, NY 693. Denelle Kaim Marion, IA Texas CPS should have investigated first, found out which specific children were being abused and which individual adults were being abusive. Then they should have arrested the abusers, and left the abused children in the comfort of their own homes, with their mothers. Instead, they charge in with very little information, traumatize the children and the mothers, and turn their lives upside down. Meanwhile, if there are men who raped young girls, they are still living in their own homes, and their everyday lives are unchanged. How is this justice? 694. Matthew Peterson Woods Cross, UT There are people in the Bible who are married to more than one wife, such as Abraham, Jacob, and others. When did this become so wrong? America was founded primarily on Christian principles. Who decided the things lived by the greatest men in the Bible are now so wrong that we have to shatter the worlds of innocent people who were not hurting anyone? Page 77 - Signatures 683 - 694 Name From Comments 695. Manuel J. Provo, UT This is plain religious persecution. The removal of all of the Villalobos children from the FLDS community with no real evidence; the violent disruption of their daily lives; the fact they don�t let the children have contact with their mothers; the way officials lied to the mothers of these children to separate them; and the way officials have tried to ridicule and make a �spectacle� of these people�s culture and beliefs with their tone during press conferences is outrageous. There is a need for watchdogs too, because these FLDS people are being subjected to members of the sometimes viciously aggressive Southern First Baptist Church, which is known to have shown animosity against any branch of the Latter Day-saints religious movement. There is a strong religious conflict of interest and all �officials,� human rights people, the judge and organizations providing �protection� to these children have to be monitored if they have any connections to known anti-Mormon organizations such as the First Baptist Church. These "officials" may have another agenda going on besides �the protection of the children.� Please do something about this unconstitutional injustice! 696. Levi Peterson Huntington, UT Separating kids from their mothers is the worst kind of child abuse. Worse than anything that could have been going on, which they don't even know for sure was happening. If anyone was abused before, they had no idea what abuse really was until now. This is the worst, unexcusable act of government I have ever seen. 697. Jaimie Mulheron Boulder City, NV Our Great American liberty is being violated in this case. To tear children from the only life they know and families that love them is not only going against every part of our constitution, it is morally offensive. Release your prisoners and follow the guidelines of the law, prosecute as you see fit the suspects in this case. But you are bound by all that is good and just to return the innocent children to their families. 698. Elden Hull Tetonia, ID Nazi Germany has come to Texas. 699. connie collins salt lake city, UT i think that they should give the children back to their loving parents and especially the children that need special help {down syndrome} 700. Hoss Kelsch Riverton, UT 701. Garrett Jenkins West Jordan, UT 702. Alyne Dockstader Colorado City, AZ SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND! Context is important! While I do not agree with many of the things that this group apparently does, they are certainly not the wholesale abusers that they are painted as being. 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Page 78 - Signatures 695 - 702 Name From Comments 702. Alyne Dockstader Colorado City, AZ (continued from previous page) while the abuse allegations are being addressed. According to this context none but teenage girls should have been taken at all. No one has alledged that young children are being married or otherwise abused other than to claim that the religious convictions of this group are unacceptible to the larger society. It is appalling that this would happen in our Free nation. This kidnapping of an entire community's children is obviously aimed at wiping out an unpopular cultural group by the state of Texas. If this is allowed to happen in this great nation which claims to be the protector of the minority and those without a voice, where will it stop? It is claimed that there is not precedent for how to deal with a situation of this kind, but we have more than enough precedents to know what happens when governments turn on their own people and attempt to silence or destroy those they don't like. How many are still living to tell the stories of such precedents? If you allow this obvious breach of civil right and constitutional law you will find that one day you and yours will be the targeted ones. I will not stand by silent and watch such injustice. History shows far to vividly what happens to those who do. Do not be guilty of destroying the children to punish parents for believing differently than the rest of us. 703. thomas Curry north reading, MA 704. Christie Peterson Kearns, UT 705. Rochanne salt lake city, UT Thornton 706. Mariette Wayman Salt Lake City, UT This is America, land of the free. Our forefathers fought and died for these same rights and privileges which have now been trampled upon. Those valiant men would be appalled by the disgraceful acts of the nation they willingly gave their lives for. God have mercy on us if we don't stand up and fight for the right thing to be done in regard to these innocent women and children. 707. Cynthia Frear Antioch, TN How is this any different than inner-city guys who have a bunch of 'baby-mamas'; remember how the government said there was child abuse at Waco? It was just an excuse . . . 708. Priscilla Anderson Salt Lake City, UT If there are specific cases of abuse, those should be dealt with. But, all of them should not be treated badly for the few that have been. The children should be returned, and if the state insists, then counseling and treatment should be required for the mothers, children and fathers.

Page 79 - Signatures 702 - 708 Name From Comments 709. Kimly C Mangum Salt Lake City, UT There is not another new country in the world like the United States was when the pilgrims left England and other Countries so they could live their religion in freedom. Our constitution was constructed to allow the freedoms of expression and religion. Let these innocent children free. It is genocide to remove children like this from their mothers and community. 710. Rebecca Hope McKinney, TX I know that the Texas CPS is an organization that has spun totally out of control. Abuse runs amuck in the Texas CPS. A single unverified phone call and more than 400 children are stripped from their homes...I'm wondering when the tanks & armed police will show up at my home and strip my children away based on an unverified phone call. 711. cathie ewing park city, UT The State of Texas should be embarassed about what has gone on there and the injustice to the families. Like everyone if there are children being abused then someone needs to beheld accountable but the mothers and children should not be lied to and treated like they are all criminals. 712. Seth Morrison Sandy, UT The Fathers of this great country would hide their faces in shame to witness such tyranny. They framed the Constitution to safeguard truths they held to be self-evident: that mankind has unalienable rights which cannot be taken from them; that government does not GRANT rights, but is simply created by the people to PROTECT those rights. Texas authorities should not only read the Constitution but should try to understand the basic principles of Freedom. Freedom is not a privilege. If this isn't anti-freedom, anti-Constitution, and anti-American, I don't know what is. 713. Kathleen Latshaw Smithville, OH This is an outrage and severely unconstitutional! If TX permitted to get away with this NONE of us are safe! 714. Gail Smith Stephenville, TX Apparently no investigation took place; just an allegation, and only one. However, an allegation of a Bastrop teacher and a resignation will not result in charges. There is clearly a contradiction here. This will be the subject of literature in the future. Who will write this story now that Arthur Miller is gone? The next step should be to remove all children from Catholic schools, everywhere, because of the potential for sexual abuse. 715. leroy hoback Betnonville, AR WHAT IS GOING ON? WHY IS THE SO CALLED DHS PERSECUTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN. I DONT THINK THIS WHOLE THING IS RIGHT. THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE UNDER MORE SCRUTINY BY WE THE PEOPLE. REMEMBER THERE ARE ELECTIONG COMING UP AND I KNOW THERE SHOULD BE NEW BLOOD. THINK PEOPLE.

Page 80 - Signatures 709 - 715 Name From Comments 716. Gordon Tree Hurricane, UT Zitting 717. Kallee Morrison Sandy, UT 718. Katherine Salt Lake City, UT Individuals commit crimes...groups do not, if something is Anderson wrong it should be handled on an individual basis...going in there and taking everyone away without probable cause is stepping on their Constitutional rights as a FREE AMERICAN. 719. Peter Morrison Salt Lake City, UT 720. Samuel Morrison Park City, UT 721. michelle timpson St. George, AZ I cant not belive what is going on in this so called FREE country!!! 722. Edith Huffman Driggs, ID The state is abusing these children Give them back to their mothers 723. Lydia Bradshaw Centennial Park, AZ 724. Andrea Hunt, TX LAST TIME I CHECKED AMERICA WAS A FREE Dockstader COUNTRY AND PEOPLE HAD THE RIGHT TO BELIEVE THE WAY THEY WANT, AND WHO GAVE THE GOVERMENT RIGHT TO BARG IN AND SPLIT UP HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES WITHOUT EVEN HAVING ANY PROOF? LET THE CHILDREN GO! THE STATE OF TEXAS HAS NO RIGHT WITH WHAT THEY DID! 725. Steve & Kara Phoenix, AZ Strutz 726. Tia Fawson Cedar City, UT The FAMILY is the God-ordained central unit of society, and government is only there to protect it. What you are doing is not protecting the families, as you claim, but destroying them!! Taking those children from their mothers is a horrible, sickening crime that should be reversed immediately. Government claims to fight crime and yet, you are currently in the process of creating seedbeds of crime in those terrified, government-abused children. The only way that the government can improve society and fight crime is to uphold the family. You destroy families and you will be held accountable for that by God himself. Remedy the situation immediately and publicly admit your wrong lest a precedent be created of this monstrosity. Give those children back to their mothers. 727. Calvin Wayman Riverton, UT The main thing I sense the officials have in this case is not the concern and well being of these children (for one, can you really believe that what they are doing is not in-and-of-itself abbusive to the children?). What I sense over-all sadly, is something that America was already to have overcome--that is prejudice. Prejedice to a culture that the rest of us are NOT accustom to, so therefore we either fear it and try to put a stop to it, or just plainly have a (continues on next page) Page 81 - Signatures 716 - 727 Name From Comments 727. Calvin Wayman Riverton, UT (continued from previous page) closed-mind about it. This is something that, in America, the era of Dr. Martin Luther King was to have obliterated. From that era, we WERE able to get rid of some prejudice, but it's apparent though, that some prejudice still exist--possibly just in a different form. And so, I ask this question for everyone in a America to put their own answer to (and keep in mind, I am by no means rascist--I believe ALL men are created equal). This is just to put things into perspective, to see if these people in Texas TRULY are being treated fairly, and without prejudice. "If every polygamist on this ranch in Texas were African American polygamists, would the officials have acted in the same way in which they are?" 728. Rachel Kelsch Riverton, UT 729. Esther Wayman Salt Lake City, UT 730. Carl H St Catharines, Canada 731. Kerry J. Union, MO What separates a civilization from barbarism? laws. What Kleinschmidt separates a free people from totalitarianism? due process. When the authorities of a free nation do not abide by its laws there is jeopardy for all its citizens. 732. Dan Heaton livingston, TX As I have already emailed my rep and senators I again say, as I said to them, this is nothing more than jack booted thuggery the state government acting like Nazi brownshirts under the direction of the "sicky"ologists at CPS. You do Hitler proud! 733. Cathy Robertson Kenner, LA Release these children back to their mothers, unless you have solid, legal proof by Due Process of the Laws according to the Constitution of the United States that they are indeed abused. I have yet to see any men arrested in this raid. Can this one day happen to any one of us? I am so glad my son is almost grown. I am not a Mormon or FLDS member, nor a part of any radical religious group. 734. Charles Hagen Watertown, WI TX has taken the Constitutional rights of the families and children and trod on them. SHAME, TEXAS! SHAME!!! 735. Melissa Kelsch Park City, UT Please...if you have any kind of compassion at all, let theses families alone and return the children back to their families, and let them live in peace and in happiness. After all...Isn't that what we ALL seek for in life...peace and happiness? 736. Kimberly Brown Springville, UT Taking hundreds of well-cared for children from their mothers is wrong. These kids need to be returned to their mommies. First they came for the polygamists, (continues on next page)

Page 82 - Signatures 727 - 736 Name From Comments 736. Kimberly Brown Springville, UT (continued from previous page) And I did not speak up, because I was not a polygamist. They came for the home-schoolers, And I did not speak up, because I was not a home-schooler. They came for the non-immunizers, And I did not speak up, because I was not a non-immunizer. Then they came for me and my kids, And there was no one left to speak for me. 737. Lynn Mortimer Stites, ID This an outrage and unconstitutional act, People are innocent until proven guilty. Everyone that can't or isn't arrested for a crime, should be restore in full and with an apology. Lynn 738. Carin Reddig Tehachapi, CA What is happening in Texas looks at it's worst like fascism and at it's best like religious persecution. 739. Timothy C O Salt Lake City, UT Abuse happens EVERYWHERE. In EVERY religion, Wayman nation, culture and ethnic group. To say that it is more prevalent in the FLDS culture is BIAS of the worst kind. Just because a group of people believe different than you do, dress differently than you do, or live differently than you do does NOT make them any less eligible for the basic human rights of Americans. Let these children go home and THEN find out who is abusing who, root it out, and leave these people alone. Just because ONE person does something stupid doesn't mean the whole community should suffer so. Texas has crossed constitutional boundaries, and needs to be reprimanded. 740. Joe Silva Lindsay, CA We are innocent until proven guilty in this country. I'm not a Mormon, nor am I FLDS, but I must stand up for this group which is clearly being singled out for persecution. It will be us and our children next, if this precedent stands. Arresting all the kids based on a demonstrably false accusation is an outrage! Gather evidence first and then prosecute only those who are implicated by it, don't just arrest everyone and conduct fishing expeditions to look for crimes. Honor the 4th amendment to the constitution -- do not turn America into a nation run by goon squads persecuting those who are different! 741. Robert Berchtold Shelley, ID Thank you Texas.(sarcasm intended) Hopefully this one won't end like Waco where you also protected the children. 742. Chris Brown Tetonia, ID 743. Michelle Alvarez Harlingen, TX As a mother of three, I am appalled at the Blatant disregard of the constitutional rights of these families! How dare the State take these children on the basis of allegations and no real proof of any crime! These poor (continues on next page)

Page 83 - Signatures 736 - 743 Name From Comments 743. Michelle Alvarez Harlingen, TX (continued from previous page) children are sure to be suffering great psychological trauma at the expense of CPS and the State of Texas! Give these children back to their parents where they belong!!!!! 744. Alysia Humphries Enoch, UT 745. Allison Williams virgin, UT The people in texas have as much a right as anyone for the way they live, just because you got a phone call that some girl was being sexually abused you automatically assumed the flds, you have no right to go and take all the children with no reason or evidence and you just brush it off as you suspect there might be something going on so you search the whole place for evidence of some crime that may or may not have been commited just to save your sorry butts from being ridiculed, you disgust me how you treat people just because they are different. 746. Asher Johnson Vancouver, WA SHAME ON YOU TEXAS! give the kids back what ever happened to human rights? innocent until proven guilty. you could find five pregnant teens in any random neighborhood in the U.S. where are you going to hit next? 747. Jared Peterson woods cross, UT there were three pregnant girls found among 416 kids (under 18) this equals 5% teen pregnancy rate. If you google Texas pregnancy rate 75% of all the counties, have a higher rate and the worst was at 39%. If the government was being just they would have raided 3/4 of Texas before they raided the flds group. This proves Texas goal is not to stop immorality, but an attack on religion. If all religions don't stand together and fight for religious rights after polygamy is gone who is next? Catholics, jews, Muslims, or Christians. 748. Mark Safe Currie, MN My belief�s are more important than yours, Tyranny has prevailed. 749. M R Gus North Salt Lake, UT When was it that the constitution stopped including the government officials? Why do they think that it is okay for them to ruin hundreds of peoples lives because the government's belief system is different than these people's. God will rightfully judge and prosecute each person for their rights and wrongs and sadly the people who are suposed to be standing up for our nation and protecting Americans are going to be the vast majority in the deepest pits of hell for all of the wrongs that they have done to the children whom they are supposedly "protecting." There have been way more cases of child abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and every other horror that you can think of in foster homes than in their regular homes. You should procecute ACTUAL child abusers and leave people to their beliefs. Just because it isn't your belief does not mean that (continues on next page)

Page 84 - Signatures 743 - 749 Name From Comments 749. M R Gus North Salt Lake, UT (continued from previous page) it is wrong. Give us as a country back our freedom of religion. Let those children go home where they really are safe and where they belong and concern yourself with the actual problems in our country. Polygamy is a religion and they, like everyone else, are just trying to live the way that they believe is right. They are not trying to change your beliefs, so why are you so set on changing theirs? Let people be free to live in peace when they aren't hurting anybody. They were trying to keep to themselves and just live a good life and now you have probably caused all of those children to have a serious fear and have nightmares about government officials for the rest of their lives. I can only hope that you fully get what is comming to you for harming and demoralizing hundreds of children just because you are afraid of them. I hope that someone surounds each one of you and scares the crap out of you and strips and fondles you to see if you have been sexually abused and then locks you up away from your family and all of your protection and totally ruins your life like you have done to all of those families so that each one of you can know first hand what you have done to hundreds of innocent children. 750. Robert Grow West Valley, UT 751. Shirley Sumrall Austin, TX Govenor, We all need to follow the rule of law. This idealized rescue is fictitous and damages our reputation as a law abiding state. If you can't "rescue" honorably, you don't really care about children and the example they are witnessing. This is effecting a whole generation of children who watch this unfold in the media. 752. Randy Dixon La Feria, TX While it is understandable that the state would act to protect children, especially under a direct complaint, (from an alleged 16-year old girl who remains "unfound") the overly broad actions of the government which treated the whole group as guilty of crimes simply for being different and having different beliefs than those doing the investigating is a gross infringement on parental rights, individual rights and legal restraint. The only satsifactory response is to rectify the errors made as soon as possible, not to attempt to justify the actions by further infringements. Randy Dixon 753. Jon O. Vitch Vitchville, MN 1st, 4th, 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Family Law Statutes. Read 'em and weep. Or just hang your head in shame. Jon 754. Anson B Edgerton, MN I just pray that the judge in this case will have the guts to realize she has made a mistake and correct. Time will tell if she is worthy to be called a judge.

Page 85 - Signatures 749 - 754 Name From Comments 755. Nicki Cone Port Isabel, TX The people will prevail. We will remain free despite the efforts of our state and federal officials to take our liberties away. Release these women and return the children to their homes! 756. James H. Catano Salt Lake City, UT I don't have much personal "doctrinal sympathy" for the FLDS (nor for mainstream Mormonism, for that matter), but the actions of the Texas authorities went well beyond the scope of their warrant and any reasonable degree of probable cause. The video news clips showed that buses from Evangelical Christian churches like the Baptists were employed to haul away women and children which was accurately metaphorical in communicating the intentions of the surrounding community. Texas doesn't simply want to stop any cases of illegal abuse and coercion which is within its legal and moral responsibility to do. It also wants to "haul people away" from the Constitutionally-protected practice of their own religion and convert them to one of the narrow forms of Christianity it deems acceptable. 757. Tom Leser Melbourne, FL I oppose the beliefs of mormonism but this is about liberty here. The government has absolutely no business interfering with due process. However this doesn't surprise me coming from a state led by Rick Perry. His predecessor did not care about basic freedoms protected way back from the Magna Carta nor does this guy. 758. Anna Jenkins West Jordan, UT It's wrong to take a group children from their mothers based on religion. 759. Doris Kunz West Jordan, UT The FLDS people deserve due process just like any other religious group. I can't believe they were raided on one phone call that was probably bogus to begin with. 760. Leslie Williams Humansville, MO 761. Kathleen Walker Brownsville, TX 762. Warren Pratt Woods Cross, UT What Texas did was unconstitutional and wrong. If we don't speak up it will open the doors to more unconstitutional acts which will result in a complete breakdown of the constitution of the United States. We must protect the rights our founding fathers gave us in the constitution. 763. Brandon Wheeler Harlingen, TX We need to seriously treat others how we would like to be treated. This is America is it not??? 764. Venice Peterson Woods Cross, UT Let's put an end to Nazism 765. Naomi Mackert South Jordan, UT Wouldn't you want your rights to be protected. We owe the same to these people. 766. Nathan Bender Winter Garden, FL I do not respect the controlling aspect of this cult-like group in any form - and wish to see those who have forced children into marriages brought to justice. But I see (continues on next page) Page 86 - Signatures 755 - 766 Name From Comments 766. Nathan Bender Winter Garden, FL (continued from previous page) removing all the children as extreme overreaching, and am very concerned about the precedent it sets, and the slow but steady denial of our rights and freedoms. 767. Laura Barlow Centennial Park, AZ Please return the children to their mothers before any more damage can be done. The children are experiencing more abuse now than they ever have before, and the longer it takes to "decide" their fate, the more abuse they will receive. Stop the nonsense, there is a better way to investigate a "possible abuse". This is nothing more than religious persecution. 768. David Broadbent washington, UT 769. Warren Broadbent washington, UT 770. Lydia Hepworth Cedar City, UT No one has a right to separate those children from their mothers. Please send them back to their homes and use the due process of law to decide what to do about any abuse that can be proven in court. 771. Jean Kelsch Herriman, UT 772. Kristin Wayman Salt Lake City, UT This is just a reoccurance of Nazi Germany; ripping families apart, putting them in concentration camps, & picking their brains for something they believe in 773. Maija-Liisa Provo, UT Downing 774. Ty springer salem, OR A forest fire is started with just a spark. You started one with a blow torch! Your state had Waco and now this? Do you understand that we are a country with individual rights? Yes, that includeds Texas! There are many more polygamist around the country then you think. You are attacking the ones that mind their own business. Polygamist are every where. They are in every state. Now you are attacking children? You should be ashamed, you Texas Bullies!! 775. S Bishop Magna, UT We already had a thirty year war between Catholics and Protestants 'to free the children' from the abuse of religion different from their own. We don't need to repeat the mistakes of the past here. Because some 'former members' of that group claim abuse does not justify denying the innocent due process. Where is the "warrant" "supported by oath or affirmation particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized" (4th Bill of Rights) for any specific person at all??? How can an unverified phone call about one person justify a warrant against hundreds of others. This appears to be a star-chamber hearing if there ever was one. Disgruntled polygamists' complaints can no more indict the content among those people any more than the much greater (continues on next page)

Page 87 - Signatures 766 - 775 Name From Comments 775. S Bishop Magna, UT (continued from previous page) proportion of monogamists divorcee malcontents can indict us who are content in our marriages. The use of local religious group buses, etc., seems to coincide with what appears to be heavily tainted religioius influence instead of due process of law free of contrary religious views. 776. Janet Grow West Valley City, UT The raid in El Dorado Texas has been on my mind from day one. I feel for the parents and families of those children and women taken into custody. Violent crimes are up in the United States. There has been an 8% increase nationwide and in small to mid sized cities, that increase is 14% to 16%. Homicides are up over 10%. Aggravated assaults over 3% and aggravated assaults with a firearm up nearly 10%. None of this happened in the FLDS Compound. The gang problem is so rampant in the US right now that President Bush has pledged $50 million to combat gangs and guns yet there is hardly a dent in the problem. Gangs are still on the warpath engaging in random shootings, drugs and other such acts. None of this kind of activity goes on in the FLDS Compound. Every day there are children and babies admitted into hospitals with broken bones and unexplained bruises. They come in with cigarette burns and hot water scalds. They have head and internal wounds and other signs of vicious beatings and physical abuse. They come in starving, deprived of the food, love and affection so disparately needed to grow up into well adjusted human beings. Some do not survive and the ones that do, suffer life long physical and emotional scars. None of these children are from the FLDS Compound. If the government really intends on allocating their time and money to alleviate the problems in the US they would spend it on these kinds of crimes. But no, they feel they have to go in and rip innocent children from the arms of their parents and the homes they know and feel safe in. Raiding the FLDS Compound in El Dorado Texas and taking those children into custody just because they "might" be in danger was a big mistake. If that is a valid excuse, then by the statistics above, every child in the United States are at risk and should be removed from their homes because they "might" be in danger as well. If there there really was a 16 year old girl that was beaten in the compound, as the general consensus is circulating, you would think they would have spotted her in the first sweep. Aren't they trained to recognize broken ribs and bruises? The FLDS children will be in more danger and at risk of abuse if they are out into the mainstream world than they ever were at home with their families. The State of Texas (continues on next page)

Page 88 - Signatures 775 - 776 Name From Comments 776. Janet Grow West Valley City, UT (continued from previous page) should send them home where they belong. They have a loving, caring family waiting for them. 777. callie knudson CENTENNIAL PARK, AZ 778. Ruth Naylor Bluffdale, UT 779. Jarom Shaffer Murray, UT Meth addicts and crack addicts get their kids back. Muslims can have more than one wife. Double standards of the USA. Release those children to their parents now. 780. Melba Lay St. Bernard, LA This is terrifying! I cannot imagine how it must feel to have my children taken away from me based upon allegations and not evidence. I'm also amazed and appalled by the individuals who believe everything and anything the media presents. I do not believe in polygamist marriages, but I also do not see any difference between polgamy and men who have several children from several relationships (this is a common occurrence in America-many children have half brothers and sisters, step brothers and step sisters, etc.). Go after the criminals. Pinpoint the perpentrators with REAL evidence and let the children go back to their mothers. Just because their lifestyle is different than ours (no television, dresses, no makeup, no cutting of hair, etc.) who is to say it's better or worse? Is it more harmful to allow your children to watch television or not watch television? Which is weirder painting your face or not? Dressing modestly or dressing indecently? Who determines this? The media? The popular opinion? I think the country needs to focus on the actual abuse with actual evidence and arrest the perpentrators which will immediately take the children out of danger! 781. Kristine Fawson Cedar City, UT This situation is an outrage. Mothers who have done nothing wrong should not have their children taken from them. Have you any idea what this must be doing to the poor children to be taken from their home and family? The government is abusing these children more by doing this. I may not agree with their way of life, but until someone has been convicted of a crime taking children from innocent people is wrong. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? 782. Virginia Steed Colorado City, AZ 783. Heidi Barlow Las Vegas, NV Children belong with their parents. Prove they are abused and remove the abused ones only. Americans have a right to raise their children how they best see fit. Otherwise we need to remove the Omish children from their protective environment as well. 784. Matt Evans Salt Lake City, UT 785. Mindy Taylor Omaha, NE

Page 89 - Signatures 776 - 785 Name From Comments 786. Ryan R Sandy, UT WHAT HAPPENED TO INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY??? RELEASE THESE WOMEN AND CHILDREN. YOU ARE CAUSING MORE HARM THAN GOOD WHEN WE FIND OUT THAT THERE ISN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE HERE-SAY THAT IS GOING ON! 787. Micah Salt Lake City, UT Confidential 788. Colette Child Brigham City, UT Go after the men. Leave the abused women and children together at home. 789. Tim Stimpskey Dover, DE 790. sharon zitting centennial park, AZ I thought this is a free america. This goes to show my children are not safe if someone down the road calls about being abused. (so.... why are our troups fighting in iraq?) 791. Vanessa Kelsch Herriman, UT They say that they are looking out for the children, but I would bet that the children don't feel very happy about this at all. They have never taken away all the children in any other neighborhood or church when there is one report of abuse there. 792. Nicky Elizabeth Mattawamkeag, ME 793. shirley stubbs murray, UT 794. Kathleen Kingston West Valley, UT This whole thing is an outrage! I agree that abuse is wrong, but this is not about abuse. If it were than when the Catholic priests were facing their abuse charges, all Catholic childern would have been removed the way these children were. Doing that to ALL of the Catholic children would have been absolutely impractical and unnecessary. I'm sure it was never even considered. Yet they have done just this to the FLDS children. The children should be returned, an apology issued, and all rights granted as they would be to any other group. Are people SO narrow minded that they cannot see this for what it is? Again, I say this is an outrage and should be rememdied immediately! 795. Shem Bishop Salt Lake City, UT It is altogether unconstitutional to remove all the children of this, or any community from their families based solely on an unconfirmed (likely prank) phone call. Why this is being tolerated is beyond me. Someone needs to be disciplined for this obvious breech of these people’s Constitutional rights. 796. Stephanie Salt Lake City, UT This is ourtrageous! I thought this was America! Isn't that Coleman why our ancestors came to this country? This is supposed to the land of the free and here we have the state of Texas herding these innocent children into concecration camps. A catholic priest molested little boys. Did they take away every catholic? No! They slapped him on the wrist and sent him on his way. But when someone makes up a fake (continues on next page)

Page 90 - Signatures 786 - 796 Name From Comments 796. Stephanie Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) Coleman accusation toward ONE PERSON you take away the whole community. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? What next people? Don't let the Texas Gestapo get away with this slanderous crime just because they are prejudice. Let's all stand by the same flag! 797. Alejandra Harlingen, TX Where there are allegations these need to be investigated Courtney with due process of law respecting constitutional rights. We will not put up with the mishandeling of rights like in the WACO case. 798. Tuesday Allred Salt Lake City, UT I have not seen where due process has been followed. Abuse had been known to happen in the FLDS community, and should be punished. However, all criminals deserve due process, whether we like it or not. The children are innocent in this, and do not deserve the treatment they are getting. Why are we punishing the children? 799. Leonda Aubrey Eldon, IA I believe this a direct attack on constitutional rights of these people. I can not understand why you would choose one group of people to do a WITCH HUNT on. We have gay couples legally raising children, Drug addicts, alcoholics, work alcoholics etc raising neglected and abused children. When does it end. Who decides? 800. Jason Micheals west valley, UT Texas is the New Germany and Hitler's new Name is Rick Perry, who will stop this outragious behavior? will our government do nothing to stop thie direct violation of our constitution? 801. Jeremy Wolfe West Valley, UT It's a sad day in this country when the government can take such aggressive actions towards it's own citizens. Justice must be served but in a way that conforms to our constitution and the rights afforded therein. 802. William Rice trenton, FL I belive the state of Texas is wrong. No where are they legally married. They say they are married by spiritual. As far as i know, being married spirtial isint reconized by any state or goverment. So to accuse them of bigamy is wrong. As to taking the children, it was wrong. they should have gone in and questioned the girls until they found the 16 year old which now looks like it was some girl in Colorado who was posing as Sara and causing the uproar. To lump every home as one giant house is wrong, they are indvidual homes. So what if they all reside on the same property. They should have had search warrents for each home not all of them. This is the State of Texas saying WE KNOW WHATS BEST for your kids and thats doing drugs, playing vidio games, staying out late and getting drunk. These kids have been terrified and abused by the state. I remember the case in California, where the state came in took 4 kids, arrested the parents and questen the kids for (continues on next page)

Page 91 - Signatures 796 - 802 Name From Comments 802. William Rice trenton, FL (continued from previous page) thirty hours until they said what they wanted. The parrents were tried and convicted, sent to prison until the two boys recanted the story and explained what happened to them. I see this happing with these kids, them being questioned without a parent there. The min age is 16 for the state of Texas and they are trying to say look they are abusing these kids they are pregnant, they were 17 and 18 legal age by texas law. Texas needs to apolizie and let the families go home. Its all a crock. William 803. Steven Wright Fort Worth, TX I will certainly not be voting for Rick Perry's re-election unless this outrage is rectified. We cannot allow an out-of-control state agency to persecute an entire religious community because it disagrees with its beliefs. Return the children to their mothers immediately. 804. Travis McMillan Troy, MO CPS walks all over the Constitution in every state. They operate above the law in the name of saving the babies. When there is real abuse, the victim should be protected and the perpetrator brought to jusice. That does not authorize the wholesale roundup of hundreds of children from parents when no abuse or neglect is observed. 805. Harley Crawford Hutto, TX This is a horrible travesty and a naked abuse of government power. 806. Matthew Franz pipestone, MN 807. Kathleen Tucker Salt Lake City, UT It is my hope that the State of Texas bares the burden of the expense of this outrage and that the DCF is severely reprimanded for the heartache and sorrow thay have caused these people. This is America, after all where we are supposedly innocent until proven guilty. 808. James Green Bay, WI I'm not Mormon. I'm not even a practicing Christian. But it TSCHANTZ doesn't matter. These people have the RIGHT to their religion just as I have my right not to have one! FREE THEM. This is the ULTIMATE in religious persecution and must NOT BE TOLERATED! 809. Susanne Price Sandy, UT I believe everyone in this nation should be outraged by what is happening with the FLDS children in Texas. Based on a phone call by a 16 year old girl, who hasn�t yet been located, and who now appears to perhaps be an older woman pulling a hoax, over 400 children were taken from their parents! This appears to be unlawful search and seizure! The constitutional standard for a search is �probable cause� and the standard for removal of children from parents is �imminent danger�. It appears that neither of these conditions has been met. These children should not only be returned to their parents, they should be returned NOW. The fact that a judge has (continues on next page)

Page 92 - Signatures 802 - 809 Name From Comments 809. Susanne Price Sandy, UT (continued from previous page) allowed these children to be taken under false pretenses is an affront to all citizens of the United States. We, as a nation, should be outraged and should be speaking up for the rights of this group. If it can happen to them, it can happen to all of us. If there is proven statutory rape, then the perpetrator should be prosecuted, but this is a �fishing trip� prohibited by law. No people can be prosecuted based on their beliefs. I hope that we, as a nation, stand up for the constitutional principles that have made us free. 810. Angela Baker Eagle Mountain, UT To whom it may concern: If there are any there who are really concerned for these children, how can foster care or anything else be better than the care of their mothers? You have taken these children from their families, making them the victims for life, rather than protecting them from any perpetrators. How dare you presume to know what is best for 400 + children when you have proof of nothing. This has been done before and you will fail, and only succeed in bringing an outcry that you cannot handle, and traumatizing these children their whole lives far more than you know. I also would like to know why in the world this prejudiced Judge Walther is presiding. She signed the warrants against these people, and now she sits as judge? Take care of them as ordinary citizens, that is their right. Cutting corners only makes your whole state look like fools. Deeply concerned, Angela Baker 811. wendy millsap bluffdale, UT The first two cammandments from God are to love the lord thy God with all thy heart might mind and strength and to love thy neighbor as thyself. If the people in Texas loved their neighbor as theirselves they wouldn't take innocent children away from their families. They wouldn't do anything to them that they wouldn't want done to themselves. If this deplorable crime is allowed to go uncentured what will happen next. We lose our freedoms that we fought so hard to win when we came to this continent, when we allow this communist type action to go on in our country. What a terrible stain on Texas, and anywhere else that takes such measures as these. I hope it backfires right in their faces for they are not without sin themselves. 812. Matthew Leigh Tucson, AZ Texas cannot be permitted to violate the law. These people deserve a fair trial. They should not be presumed guilty due to membership in a religious community. 813. Jacob Jeffs Salt Lake City, UT

Page 93 - Signatures 809 - 813 Name From Comments 814. Benny Kingston West Jordan, UT I do NOT agree AT ALL with what has been done to this group of people. What has happened to the Constitution of the United States???? I'm begining to wonder if America is really the land of opportunity and FREEDOM!!!!! It makes me sick to think the government can do what ever they want when it includes taking peoples children away. How would they like it if someone took THEIR kids away? (I'm sure if we tried, we could find a valid reason to) does that make it right? Of course not. Leave these people alone, at least they have morals and are trying to live the way they think Heavenly Father wants them to. 815. Rose Hammon Dunnegan, MO I believe there are more effective ways of dealing with the situation and making sure that children are safe in their parents care. 816. M. Deese Lula, GA M Deese 817. james grow west valley, UT there is this thing called freedom of religon, what ever happened to that??? 818. Elayne Wayman SLC, UT WAKE UP AMERICA!!! Last I knew this was a 'free' country, not some place where you can take away peoples' rights. Those are innocent people you're dealing with and until you have cold hard proof of abuse you shouldn't be able to do what you're doing, (whoever you people are). So I suggest you give those kids back to their parents who love them and need them, and if you call this keeping them safe, taking them away from their mothers, it's not...and if you're not careful, you'll have death on your hands, because there's some kids there that can't live without their mothers, and then you'll have gotten into somethin'. And also, you government people are so damn prejudice it's sick, you wouldn't do this if it was anybody else, why don't you go raid the murderers and rapists, and one man, instead of a whole group of people who're innocent. It looks to me like it's not babies who need pacifiers. 819. Dave Goree Asheville, NC I am an agnostic engineer...(I have no dog in the religious fight) I think these people are religious nuts...but! Our Constitution guarantees them the Right to be religious nuts... Either follow the Constitution or have the fortitude to Amend it! 820. Megan Lewis Pleasant Grove, UT 821. c. mcmullen montgomery, AL 822. Shirley Snow Woods Cross, UT The worst thing for the small children is to be taken from their mothers, please reunite the families. If there is a concern the state could request follow up visits on the ranch, which would allow them first hand oppertunity to view the lifestyle without threat.

Page 94 - Signatures 814 - 822 Name From Comments 823. J Halsey Water Mill, NY This is a sad day in our country when our government takes over 400 children away from their mothers. I am sure the government could have come up with a better plan if indeed this 16 year old girl exists...... 824. Jonathan Brown Springville, UT This act of tyranny by citizens, and against citizens of our Republic is not the first, and unfortunately will not be the last. Though the actions of its perpetrators may be sincere in their desire to help defenseless individuals (a desire most rational people would support), the root is corrupt. Its evil intent is to remove the rights and liberty of all free people. Wake up, America to the systematic erosion of your God-given liberties! �Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematical plan of reducing us to slavery.� (The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1, p. 130.) 825. Phillip White Hurricane, UT I know Texas steels water, I did not know until this incident that the State of Texas steels children. 826. Chris Knudsen Heber, UT 827. Isaac Barlow Centennial Park, AZ This is an incredible blemish on the face of what we have considered the greatest nation on the earth. This great nation was founded on the principles of freedom. This taking away of children in mass is the greatest abuse of power we have seen in decades. If the United States of America allows Texas to get away with this, what message are we sending to the rest of the world? This is supposed to be the land of the free! 828. Ryan Kleps Des Moines, WA I'm not a Mormon, but I support their rights as American citizens and fellow human beings. 829. Wendi Capehart Remington, IN It is my belief, upon watching this case unfold, that CPS had and has an agenda, as do local law enforcement officials, and it has nothing to do with protecting children from abuse, and everything to do with punishing people for what they believe. Texas has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, so its the height of hypocrisy to kidnap 416 children from their homes and incarcerate them in unsuitable and over-crowded facilities, feeding their poor stressed little bodies foods they are not accustomed to (white bread, starches, soda, and junk) because CPS thinks there *might* be under-aged girls getting pregnant. Check your local junior high school. I am sure you will find more pregnant girls there. So far all Voss has presented are five (continues on next page)

Page 95 - Signatures 823 - 829 Name From Comments 829. Wendi Capehart Remington, IN (continued from previous page) pregnant girls between the ages of 16 and 19, all of them of an age to be legally married. This abuse of power is a disgusting violation of the family, of freedom of religion, and (given the theft of the mother's cell phones when they used them to speak to reporters about the over-crowding at Ft. Concho) freedom of speech. 830. Jeremy Brooklyn, NY Svinkelstin 831. Lillian Swapp MOAB, UT What is happening? This is completely agianst the constitutional rights this country was founded upon. It is child abuse in and of its self to tear a child away from it's family, send them home. 832. Anna Pectol Cedar City, UT This whole thing is a mess. After reading everythign I coudl get my hands on it seems to me that the state has not had any real evidence of abuse. Creepy feelings do not count constitutionally. It is impossible for one judge to give each child and mother their own verdict in a timely manner. This situation must be resolve as soon as possible. Give the children back to their mothers! 833. Anthony Grow West Valley, UT They made laws during the first century against the early christians, they were put into prisons and even sentanced to death, hung on crosses, stoned to death, beheaded, and put in lions dens tortured as well. Early mormons were persecuted for their religion now the mormons look down on those who live the right of religous freedoms when it comes to plural marriage. Texas had no laws against polygamy until about 3 months ago so you guys have an excuse to invade their homes and church I thought the united states government fought against nazism in the 1940's. I Guess I was Wrong. 834. Andrea Clark Gwinn, MI 835. jay zitting las vegas, NV 836. Marie Grow West Valley, UT 837. Steve Maxfield Kanosh, UT For more impact, add a personal comment here 838. Vanessa Mueller Ottawa, KS 839. Margrethe Midvale, UT Dear Sirs: I have been watching the news about what is Peterson going on in your State concerning the women and children that you have separated, and I feel that is an outrage towards these American Citizens, and their right to believe the way they want to. As anyone can see, these women are quiet and soft spoken, and seem to have a gentle nature that would not in the least allow them to do anything to harm their children. I think that (continues on next page)

Page 96 - Signatures 829 - 839 Name From Comments 839. Margrethe Midvale, UT (continued from previous page) Peterson the way this has been treated is nothing short of terrorism against little children and innocent women. Please reconsider your actions in this matter, and bring the mothers together again with their children, who are most frightened by this experience. How can we as adults, do something so incredibly cruel to a child? Who are we trying to please here? This is nothing short of incredible, that something could happen here in the United States of America. The law enforcement agencies of Texas should spend their time tracking down "real criminals" like drug dealers and gang members. In this day and age, wrong has become right, and right has become wrong. When is it a crime to live your beliefs in a quiet society where there is no crime or other activity allowed. I really think that this whole thing is a hoax that someone made up, and that there is no real evidence in this case. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, reconsider the actions taken, and bring these families back together again!!!! 840. Catrina Foster MOAB, UT STAND UP AMERICA! Our great country, founded on conviction, built on the sweat of those willing to stand up, even give their own lives to free themselves from tyranny, injustice, and Religious persecution. How can we as American people stand by and watch as the God given rights of our own citizens are being Shamelessly ignored. If there is any REAL abuse, it should be investigated, and the Guilty should be prosecuted. However, I fear The real injustice that is taking place is in the Families being torn apart by force, in a raid so completly devoid of the constitutional rights of those involved. 841. John Stewart Colorado City, AZ The only abuse these children have ever been exposed to is what they are receiving now at the hands of those who think they are rescuing them. These are innocent children, if some one has broken the law (in Texas that by the way was passed targeting these people) let them be prosecuted. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Remember Hitler and what he did to the Jews, they were unpopular also. 842. Marjorie Conder Midvale, UT This raid violates everything I ever learned even in a Jr. High Civics Class. Has anyone involved actually READ the Consitution? I am also pretty sure that at least a few of these kids will be abused one way or another if they are moved to foster homes. Send them HOME! Page 97 - Signatures 839 - 842 Name From Comments 843. LEROY Zitting herriman, UT 844. Sandy Salas Twin Falls, ID 845. Caleb Millsap Sandy, UT What the government is doing in Texas right now is blatantly unconstitutional. They don't even have any real evidence of abuse. they can't even track the phone call that started it all. They need to send all the children back to their homes where they belong! 846. JOSHUA B herriman, UT I think it is BULSHIT that they can just come in and take all KELSCH FOR HUNDERED SIXTEEN children from theyr homes!!! The state of Texus should be ashaimed of itself! 847. Darla Baker Eagle Mountain, UT 848. Andy Cook Salt Lake City, UT What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Texas has prematurely punished these people by taking their kids away BEFORE their trial! Its absolute tyranny! I guess everything,s bigger in Texas, especially the government! 849. Jeannene Jeffs cottonwood heights, It is so sad, Texas Authorities just barging in, no real UT evidence of abuse, and just striping all those children from thier parents and thier home, these people have the right to live how they choose, they are peaceful and polite and try to raise thier childern right. give the children, back let them live thier lives in peace. 850. Ann H. Beardsley CENTRAL, UT This seems like an illegal search and seizure to me. I have worked all my life to protect the underdog and assist the unfortunate. Have some experience in the law and child advocacy. The CPS has more power than the police in our country and thereby institute and perpetuate the distress and abuse of many innocent people. The Police have their hands tied by all sorts of rules when they know that a drug manufacturing "house" is in existence and the neighbors are begging them to stop it. Please help these children and mothers. Make the "authorities" follow procedure and rule of law and prove allegations case by case. I can't help but remember the horror of Hitler's vendetta against the Jews! 851. Lucy Moser Riverton, UT 852. Margene Smith West Valley City, UT It is unbelievable to me that Texan authorities would detain children based on an unproven allegation. Just because the Fundamentalist LDS Church is an unpopular group does not justifiy the denial of due process of law. This situation should be treated on an individual basis and not on a collective group basis. Cases of underage marriages should be prosecuted after obtaining evidence of such marriages, but again this should be done on an individual bases with adequate evidence. It is preposterous to suppose that because there may be cases of abuse that all the children are abused. How can Texas authorities be (continues on next page)

Page 98 - Signatures 843 - 852 Name From Comments 852. Margene Smith West Valley City, UT (continued from previous page) claiming to "save" these children when they are abusing the children as well? I am appalled at the way Texas authorities have treated these children. These children should be home with their families while this is taken care of in the courts. 853. Natalie Langford san miguelito, Mexico 854. Hannah Hammon colorado city, AZ 855. Stephanie F Sierra Vista, AZ There must be a better way!!! 856. cindy Barlow Washington, UT 857. John R. Swapp Stockton, MO Let them go Hiler bastards! 858. Jessica Foster Sandy, UT When did the Constitution stop applying to American citizens? This is a battle of human rights, regardless of religious beliefs or personal affiliations. If we do not stand up and stop the blatant persecution of minorities now, where does it end! 859. m. r. o'donnell San Antonio, TX Governor Rick Perry has proven through this fiasco that he is a lightweight and unworthy of the office he now holds. Moreover, I demand the resignation of Ms. Marleigh Meissner the CPS witch who has had her hand in Texas' two greatest CPS disasters -- Waco and El Dorado. If Ms. Meissner represents how the State of Texas "cares" for its children, it is clear that CPS needs to be defunded and disbanded. Anybody home in the State Legislature? 860. Rachel Morrison Salt Lake City, UT 861. robert naylor hildale, UT to whom it may conceren I would like to say altho I am a hildale resedant I am not flds and if ther is child abuse going on than lets areset and try the perpetratiors not the victims in any other comunity in america if athorites recived a phone call alaging child abuse they would not raid the whole town and take all the children and ther is child abuse in every comunity in america not just amonung poligimusts most poligimusts I know are honest hard working citisens if we have an ishue with wellfare fraud than leigalise pluarl marrage so the mothers can't claim single statis. thank you. 862. Alex Morrison Salt Lake City, UT This is a travesty and a mockery of everything this country is founded on. Texas should be ashamed as should everyone who isn't disgusted by this 863. S Benson Salt Lake City, UT This is an outrage what these people in Texas are doing. The real crime is separating these innocent children from their mothers based on unfounded allegations. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? I think this whole thing was a set up. Let these children return home to their families. 864. Don Duncan Lincoln, CA

Page 99 - Signatures 852 - 864 Name From Comments 865. Melvin Roundy vancouver, WA LET THEM GO . They are some of the best people you will ever meet. This is bull shit. 866. John Lester Chicago, IL http://www.mormonwiki.com/Missouri_Period As the Kirtland Mormons began arriving in Far West, the new headquarters for the Church, in early 1838, the Mormons were again mobbed by those who feared their growing power and their unusual beliefs. Some feared the Mormons would vote as a block. In August of 1838, Mormons attempting to vote in the town of Gallitin in Daviess County were attacked and kept from the polls. Wild rumors spread and both sides expected a full out war. A group of Mormons calling themselves Danites led by a recent convert named Samson Avard, began to fight back without Joseph or the Church either knowing or approving what they were doing. Ultimately, many Danites were excommunicated. In October, Mormon Apostle David W. Patten was killed in a battle along the Crooked River in Ray County. Finally, on October 27, 1838, Governor Lilburn Boggs issued what later became known as the Extermination Order. It said, in part: The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the State if necessary, for the public peace-their outrages are beyond all description. If you can increase your force, you are authorized to do so, to any extent you may consider necessary.[1] Though not enforced after the 1830s, the Extermination Order remained on the Missouri law books until 1976. Three days after the order, a mob of Missourians attacked Mormon settlers in the village of Haun's Mill[2] and massacred dozens of men, women and children. On October 31, 1838, Joseph Smith and several others were arrested. The militia commanders illegally condemned the Mormon leaders to death, but Alexander Doniphan, a former state legislator and friend to Mormons, refused to allow it to be carried out, declaring that such action would be "cold-blooded murder." Moreover, he said, the militia could not condemn Joseph Smith, especially in absentia, because he was a civilian, and therefore had to be tried before a civilian court. Doniphan ensured that Joseph would have a chance at a trial. Joseph Smith and other leaders were imprisoned. The Mormons were once more driven from their homes in the dead of winter. Brigham Young and the other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles lead them to Illinois where kind people, especially the citizens of Quincy, took care of them. Joseph Smith and a few others were forced to languish in jail until April of the following year. They were not permitted to see their families or even to call witnesses on their behalf. After several abortive attempts at a trial, (continues on next page)

Page 100 - Signatures 865 - 866 Name From Comments 866. John Lester Chicago, IL (continued from previous page) during a transfer to another jail, guards allowed Joseph Smith and the others escape to Illinois, where they rejoined their families. >>>As you can see above, the EXTERMINATION ORDER against Mormons was STILL FORCE OF LAW in Missouri as late as 1976. Apparently it STILL is in force today in Texas in 2008. 867. Brooke Zitting Sandy, UT 868. Wayne Williams Humansville,, MO I agree that this raid was because someone was antsy to know what was going on in the compound. The children, however, are not going to be helped any by being taken away from their parents. 869. J Hester Chugiak, AK 870. Byron B. Barlow Riverton, UT 871. Brent Hartman Concho, AZ Honor the Constitution and stop this religious persecution! 872. Brandon Harper Gilbert, AZ 873. Amanda Hartman Concho, AZ 874. Ernest Richard: Livingston, TX family-Brown 875. Ruth Walters baxley, GA `These people have the constitutional right to practice their religion. Better to raise children their way than what is seen in the rest of the country. 876. Hyrum Barlow Lehi, UT Free the children!! And mind your own damn business!! Last I knew the government was a servant to the people, not kidnappers! 877. Manti Barlow Riverton Utah, UT I am not a member of the FLDS never have been never will be, but I grew up with these people, they are very intelligent, athletic, pleasant and innocent people. With a catch phrase like KEEP SWEET on every truck, mailbox, license plate and grocery store its hard to believe child abuse could occur. I know these people and Texas doesn't! 878. Sterling Jessop Jr Hildale, UT These people are innocent. Free the innocent children. Stop CPS from interfering with families! 879. steven lee, kolka ferrysburg, MI this is not right,, 880. Bonnie Taylor Lehi, UT I feel that these women and children are being treated unfairly and unconstitutionally. If other people have a problem with others beliefs then bear those problems yourselves. Just because it's not a religion that others understand, it does not make it any less sacred and special to these people. If some one or few have done a crime, a whole group should not be punished alongside them. It is not the masses crime. Yes, if some ONE is (continues on next page)

Page 101 - Signatures 866 - 880 Name From Comments 880. Bonnie Taylor Lehi, UT (continued from previous page) proven guilty, punish that person, not the whole group associated with them. It's like punishing a crazy person who believes he's doing nothing wrong and everyone in his family and friends circle, and even acquaintances. Its not right and there should be justice! 881. Jennifer Johnson Lister, B.C., Canada My dad told me one time, "a lot of things happen that we didn't want to happen, I don't know how to make them all right, but we sure could make them worse." I think that's what happened in this case. I think it is awful how those children were taken from their families. How did that help the alleged 16 year old who called for help? Polygamy does not mean abuse. Abuse happens to every culture everywhere, and not any more so in a polygamous family. 882. Sherry Wolfe West Valley, UT i beleive that there is abuse going on everywhere in the us i'm sure that there is abuse going on in my neighboorhood so what is gonna happen next are the cps gonna come raid my home and take my kids? what is happening to this free country? my baby who is 6 mos is a nursing child he refuses to take a bottle and is attached to me i'm sure that many of those babies refuse to take bottles.... are they being fed? release the children find another way to solve the issues. 883. Shawn Dowler Gilbert, AZ 884. A Bustamante Orlando, FL 885. Hyrum Zitting Humansville, MO This breaking-up of these families without FIRST having proved guilt is un-American and unconstitutional. This is something you would have expected to see in Nazi Germany. Even the media seems to be unsure about these actions. If what CPS says is true that they are not doing this based on religious belief, then no family or small community is safe with CPS on the loose. All it takes is an unproven call from someone in an unknown location. ANY family in Texas could be ripped apart at a whim. Wake up Texas! 886. Penny Barlow murray, UT The unfortunate result of big police action against any group of people is you make them right and the big bad government wrong. This case is no different every day you keep these children is a full day of abuse. Every day you deprive these people of due process is another day that you the state of Texas breaks constitutional law. The Trauma you cause will affect generations. I am a witness to the life time affect or what happens to a child that did not need rescuing, but was rescued from a loving father. Two years is a long time to a child. A little FYI. Every woman that truly (continues on next page)

Page 102 - Signatures 880 - 886 Name From Comments 886. Penny Barlow murray, UT (continued from previous page) wants to leave finds a way. Miss Carolyn Jessop is an example of that truth. She left with her children by her choice. A malcontent will try to make every persons situation the same as his or her own. Lets leave people the right that is given in the constitution. The right to live their religion. lets find real crime and fight it. And remember that the guilt a truly abused person would feel if by asking for help cost the whole community their freedom will make it not worth asking for help. Fight crime by the rule of law. Not By sadly misplaced emotion. And so a great big thank you to the State of Texas for providing trial and persecution. For they believe the lords people will be tried and persecuted. Good job. 887. Jessica Barlow Las Vegas, NV Its a FREE country!!! DUH! 888. L. G. Kirkpatrick Tarpon Springs, FL Dear Honorable Governor Mr. Perry: Stats: Never FLDS, former LDS, former Southern Baptist, current Roman Catholic. Age 64. Democrat. Retired; Disabled U. S. Army VETERAN. LIFELONG DEVOTED VOTER (but missed this year'd Florida Democratic Primary due to illness). I respectfully inform you that I think Texas' treatment of these FLDS children and parents is heinous and Unconstitutional. I have also corresponded with President Bush, and Florida's U.S. Congressional Senators and Representatives, calling for a full Congressional Investigation into the mistreatment of these children. I implore you, Governor Perry, to call an immediate halt to this travesty of Justice. I am faithfully following this story in several widely read and geographically dispersed national newspapers. Thank you for your consideration in this regard. Respectfully and Sincerely, L. G. KIRKPATRICK 889. Darryl Zitting Salt lake City, UT I find it hard to believe that a small handfull of officers and CPS workers could have possibly made an accurate assessment of over 400 individual's situations in such a short period of time. This has the flavor of breach of due process. We, as a country, should be beyond this type of disregard for basic civil liberties. 890. Krystal Las Vegas, NV This is truly backwards! I am astonished that the judge Hernandez bought into the CPS's problem of determining whose child is whose. Didn't the CPS create their own problem by invading these peoples' privacy? CPS had no need to know which child belonged to whom, prior to taking them into their control. And, they took the children without cause. A phone call and unsubstantiated rumors should not be (continues on next page)

Page 103 - Signatures 886 - 890 Name From Comments 890. Krystal Las Vegas, NV (continued from previous page) Hernandez enough for the state to take ones children, for any amount of time. Even criminal defendants get a 48 hour probable cause hearing. But, here, after weeks, the state can continue to hold the children? With what cause? The court can order the mothers to return with records or DNA results, but the children do not have to be held captive while CPS workers and the court sort out the paperwork. 891. Nicholeen Peck Tooele, UT The raid on the FLDS people in Texas is completely unconstitutional. The Texas authorities are going to make these people into martyrs instead of citizens. The government has messed up. Better to fix the problem and appoligize than hold on to pride and ruin families and communities. Freedom has been stripped, and it's clothes hung up on the flag pole, but the heart and body of freedom have been cast aside. Yikes! This is not way to bring people to truth and light. j Please stop this, Nicholeen Peck 892. art jessop west jordan, UT 893. Nate Finley Salt Lake City, UT If those children are/were being abused I want to see some arrests of the abusers, and I want those abusers to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but I want to see it done within the law!!!!.....I don�t see how you can say that there were five abused children so you can take over 400 children from their parents. This is an outrage, the warrants that were issued were from an unknown source, this whole thing is a farce and the lives of several hundred United States Citizens are ruined. Let them go home and if there is abuse prosecute the abuse according to the laws of the United States!!!!.....If you expect the FLDS to abide by the law I expect the state of Texas to abide by that same law. 894. B Barlow Hurrican, UT “What Texas has done is barbaric,” said Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. “The worst thing you can do to these children is separate them from their mothers.” “Taking a child away is tantamount to pouring salt in an open wound, so basically the position of the Texas Department of Child Protective Services is 'Pass the salt,. he told ABC NEWS .com. 895. Laura Munson edmonds, WA 896. Robert Phillips Norwich, CT The evidence could not have been checked out as it would have been easily found to be false. I believe this constitutes illegal search and seizure. The government cannot intervene into families lives just because they don't like that their religious practice is patriarchal.

Page 104 - Signatures 890 - 896 Name From Comments 897. DoriAnn Stubbs draper, UT Thank you for your intrest in helping the innocent. I was there once upon a time and there is a better way of handling this for support with what you are wanting to truley accomplish we the people can help with the solution.Its is time to take a true intellegent look at a win win for everyone... God bless us all to find the you and me in this conversation!!! 898. Lori Zitting Draper, UT "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail- But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever;..." (Book of Mormon, Moroni 7:46-47 ) 899. Juliann Wallace Salt Lake City, UT I have had personal experience in how Texas likes to overstep the boundaries of the law as it was intended. I was in a similar situation and I feel very strongly that this is a violation of the constitution and the authorities are abusing the law against it's citizens. Protecting a few at the expense of many has never been the ethically correct thing to do. This situation begs the question of where our freedom lies as citizens of the U.S. we cannot even raise our children with out fear that if an allegation arrizes that not just our child will be taken away, but now entire communities of people's children are taken away! This is an outrage! 900. anonymous rye, CO i agree with #230 this is religeous persecution colorado 901. joe fischetti temps, AZ Treating all 400+ people as one group is completely antithetical to our traditional rule of law. Without specifically identifying the one person who called for help this action amounts to arbitrary detainment and interference with many different private families. How is this different from taking my children away because my next door neighbor was abusive to his children? 902. LM Stark Burnaby, Canada 903. Gail Price Canon City, CO Listen up, what about the fact that many of these CPS 'agents' have NO licenses? Nor do they have to undergo psychological testing for their jobs like police officers do. Just who are these people snatching up these kids? We must investigate this branch of government who has total immunity! Let these children go HOME! 904. Carole Bentley Frnaklin, IN I have not and never will forget WACO and the American women and children who were burned to death by the U.S. Government under the Clinton presidency. May the same not happen to the Fundamentalist LDS members who should be given their Constitutional rights to return to their homes. 905. Mindy Taylor Cedar City, UT

Page 105 - Signatures 897 - 905 Name From Comments 906. Russell Taylor Cedar City, UT 907. Thomas Forguson Ardmore, OK All of this is based on a hoax. The Authorities do not care. They submitted no evudence that all of the children in danger of abuse. This is classic religious persecution. 908. Eric Millsap Driggs, ID their constitutional rights need to be protected. 909. David Macko Cleveland, OH Rape is a terrible crime, perhaps, after murder, mutilation or seduction, especially if she is married, the most serious crime which can be committed against a woman, more especially if she has just attained puberty or is a virgin. It should be prosecuted severely. However, if a crime has been committed there must be witnesses. Since no witnesses have been presented by the Texas authorities, they are guilty of kidnapping and should return all of the children to their parents, compensate them for damages and prosecute any bureaucrats who knowingly inflicted harm on the parents and children of the Yearning For Zion Ranch. 910. Robert Lee Moline, IL 4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 911. Kassidy Lay St. Bernard, LA I'm appalled! We live in a society of people who think they are so smart - but yet so many are so ignorant! Give the children back to their parents. Investigate the individuals that are responsible for the abuse and leave the innocent alone! Why is it society thinks it's okay for people to do the weirdest things, but not okay to choose not to be a slave to what society dictates is normal. The pressure television puts on young ladies to look and act a certain way. Fake Boobs? Fake everything? That's weird! Arrest the parents who let their young minor girls get fake boobs (they are pushing them to behave sexually)! Is normal wearing makeup (do you realize all the poison you are polluting your skin with - do a research!)? Watching television (nothing but a bunch of brainwashing garbage to force people to think, talk, and act alike)? Is this about religious persecution or is about protecting children? If you want the children protected give them back to their mother's and go after the criminals (the ones who are having sex with (continues on next page)

Page 106 - Signatures 906 - 911 Name From Comments 911. Kassidy Lay St. Bernard, LA (continued from previous page) minors) this shouldn't be too difficult to do! Put them away and the children will be protected! America, America, what will be next? 912. Danielle Colorado City, AZ Texas has ruled to keep the children from their mothers on Dockstader the basis that they will be taught to marry young as opposed to growing up away from their mothers and being taught to get pregnant at 14 and be abandoned after that. I don't see how they will be any better off. Free the children. Let them speak for themselves where they want to live and who they want to live with!!!! 913. Travis Driscoll Pensacola, FL Return the children to their mothers before more damage is done. 914. Fran Meldrum St. George, UT As parents, I believe we raise our kids the best we know how, to keep them safe,to maintain their innocence...however, they always seem to grow up and get minds of their own no matter how hard we try to protect or shelter them. I feel like the parents at FLDS are no different, and either are their children. I feel that they do the best they know how... and just because their ignorant, doesn't make them abusers. And just because their children are sheltered and protected...that can only be done to some extent, it is only common sense to know that it is impossible to protect them from everything. So just because they are naive children doesn't make them abused children. Don't we as parents have the right to raise our children in our own belief? 915. Chrisdee Vega Biloxi, MS 916. Bruce Beckman Haslet, TX If there is evidence of child abuse, why have no MEN been arrested? The priority should be to prosecute the criminals, not to separate the children from their mothers. This is not about sexual abuse, it's about the State's abuse of power and abuse of civil rights! 917. Olivia Peterson Huntington, UT When I see the things going on I have to ask myself what would Jesus do and the answer that always comes up is Let he who has no sin through the first stone. So I ask my self what would Jesus do if there were people who needed help, would he break down church doors and rip babies out of the armes of mother's? Or woud he go on a special mision to teach with love not force, the people who needed his help? The lord say's that his true religion requires sacrifice off all thing's; so when I think to myself what would be the hardest thing to give up, friends, food, clothing, money, homes, children, or loved ones. The answer always comes back my children, they are the most important thing and it would hurt me the most to have something happen to them, it would be wors than tourcher. (continues on next page)

Page 107 - Signatures 911 - 917 Name From Comments 917. Olivia Peterson Huntington, UT (continued from previous page) At night I tell my children a story, help them say there prayers, and spend as much time with them I can. Because in a world like this you never know how much time you have to spend with your children. I belive that mother's love there children more than any one else could ever love them, and if ye have not love ye are nuthing. I dont feel like there was any love put in to the thing's that happend I think that they wer forced out of a friing pan in to the blazing hot fire. There where mother's who had children riped out of there armes and some sent to homless shelters. How could anyone sleep at night having this happen to them or taking part in the way things were dome. The things that were done will only make the children hate you. The thing don to these people was far word than any thing Worren Jeffs ever did to them. If you dont belleve what I say whait untill you have children of your own. 918. Clo Rohbock Apple Valley, UT I grew up in this religion, and I know the allegations to be proposterous, and completely ignorant. So much for FREEDOM, who the hell do these government officials think they are? 919. Debbie Pugh Greencastle, PA I believe that children are better off with their mothers than in foster care. CPS doesn't have a good record of protecting children. 920. Geof McKinney Pueblo, CO All the Texas government thugs involved in this kidnapping deserve the death penalty. 921. Jared Kelsch Herriman, UT 922. Natalie Van Hoevenen, Belgium Leekwijck 923. Katherine Butts Arlington, TX Psychiatrist Perry (CPS's own witness) said that the children NEED TO BE REUNITED WITH THEIR MOTHERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. According to CPS's own witness, this is the best thing for the children. Reunite nursing mothers to at least be with the nursing babies and toddlers--ripping them from the breast can actually cause bonding problems in the future--this is not in the best interest of the children and can cause further harm. The little ones are not in IMMEDIATE OR URGENT danger (the only reason by code to remove them at this point)... As a health care professional trained in childhood development, the mother's presence is vital for these children. Foster care is not the answer and can further harm them... An alternative with mother' presence is needed. 924. Boe Flannigan Mequite, NV Our Forefathers are rolling over in their graves, the lives and liberties that they fought for and died for already so soon gone the way of all the earth. I can't believe it, I can't (continues on next page)

Page 108 - Signatures 917 - 924 Name From Comments 924. Boe Flannigan Mequite, NV (continued from previous page) believe it. I don't care what you say, these people should have their children back, and NOW!! 925. Don Putnam Lewisville, TX These children need to be with their mothers and not Texas' CPS Agency. I too will never forget what happened in Waco, Texas or Ruby Ridge, ID. The government (both the Federal and various states) have shown on multiple occasions that they over-react in their use of force. This latest example is not an exception. The government overstepped its bounds again and another branch of the government needs to step in to correct the situation. 926. Esther White Centennail Park, AZ So now you can take children away from thier parents if you do not agree with the way they interpet thier religion? Even if you find no child abuse, and the children are well educated ,do not marry under the age of 18 and are free to make thier own choices. The court keeping these children based on the way they are taught to worship means that no one in America is safe from this type of abuse by the state. We are all one negative public opion away from the state taking the same action on whom ever they please. Where are our civil liberties? 927. Alfred Barlow Colorado City, AZ 928. Deana Kelm Jackson, MO I've been following this story from the first day it was put online. We have a neighbor who was recently robbed illegally of their child, and supported them until the courts just returned her to them. The CPS needs to have reformation. It has too much power, more than the parents. They don't have to follow the Constitution or the laws of the land! They make the rules, right or wrong, and you jump or you lose, and you lose YOUR CHILDREN! So...while I do agree that there may be serious issues to address in this case, and that is also iffy, too, I believe with all of my heart that these children need to be home. It's their parent's right to have them. They brought them into this world and have been caring for them all of this time. It's where they want to be. There is no excuse for this happening. The government coming in with an army of military style police to ATTACK, and attack who, but a religious group, praying and pleading with God for deliverance from them. Let me tell you, there is a God there listening, and He will vendicate His own. These may be in the wrong faith, but their faith is strong and their God is, too. Anyway, all of this just proves a lot. It proves the government is out of control with its control. It proves that (continues on next page)

Page 109 - Signatures 924 - 928 Name From Comments 928. Deana Kelm Jackson, MO (continued from previous page) we really have lost our rights in the Constitution, and the CPS has more power than any government agency ought to have. Persons can lie on another individual and they are protected while the accused has no defense whatsoever, and they have to deal with the loss of their children, grief, and a false record that follows you everywhere you go. Why can't there be some kind of accountability for the accusor? What can't they be exposed to the accused person instead of hidden and protected by the state? I say it's all unfair, unfair, unfair! Return these children to their homes. Let the DNA testing be done, the evidence will come out easier then. If the parents are guilty of crimes, they should be dealt with accordingly, not as masses, and with no evidence, there should not be any of them taken away. Speculations are irrellivant. Prove something, and then, go from there. By the way, this is exactly what was done to my neighbors. They lost their daughter for about a month, and then, they suddenly were given back their daughter because there was no proof as there appears to be none in this case other than multiple wives and that's about it. Statistics are strong that teens are sexually involved earlier than we would like, but that doesn't prove anything, either, because it is worldwide and not only just to this group. If they are guilty of breaking the law, that's one thing, but since they haven't been proven guilty, then there is no case here. I normally do not have the same way of thinking that CPS does. CPS is like an army of children theives. How nice for them! How well they must like that! It's a monopoly of money-grabbing off of their profits and government funding. It's just all plain wrong, and we ought to have more sense than to let the government have this much control and power. Where have our rights gone? We ought to defend them and not let this way of doing things (CPS is a German-styled program handed down from Hitler), be allowed to continue in its control and governing over our lives. We are supposed to be the ones who decide our own selves for our own selves as long as we are harmless to anyone else. About Hitler's ideas: http://www.scribd.com/doc/222119/Mein-Kampf-by-Adolf-Hitler-translated-by-James-Murphy I don't want a government that is Hitler styled. Since this has been happening to these dear people, I've been praying for them every day. We are going to pray for CPS, too, because they are apparently the enemy, and (continues on next page)

Page 110 - Signature 928 Name From Comments 928. Deana Kelm Jackson, MO (continued from previous page) Christ says to pray for our enemies. It'll either convert them or they will have to deal with the LORD otherwise...so either way, they will have some issues to face. My heart goes out to these people. 929. Jefferson Kelm Jackson, MO I agree with my wife. We do not believe CPS should ever have the power that they do. These children should be allowed to go home, and if the FLDS persons have broken the law, they should be dealt with on an individual basis, not as masses. These are rights we all should cherish and defend! These persons are being wronged by the government the same way that they were at Waco, TX. How can the government get by with it? Why should we let them get by with it. It's us that has to do something about it. Don't look to the guy next to you. We all have our part to play in the world that we live in. If they succeed in these things, and we just stand by, why should we expect help when it happens to us personally? 930. Lorraine Wayman Salt Lake City, UT The ends DO NOT justify the means. I am disappointed that Texas and especially Texas CPS have not even tried to respect the rights of American citizens! Children do not belong to the state. 931. Anna Marie RIverton, UT Freedom of WHAT? Wayman 932. Eliza Hammon centainial park, AZ free the innocent FLDS !!!!!!!!! 933. Beth White Centennial Park, AZ I believe in free agency..thats why we have civil rights and due process based on an individual basis because if you procacute an entire religion like LDS Mormons 1000000000.00 members we need bigger prisons and you may as well be communists..not America Freedom... 934. Rachel Jessop St George, UT Our country was founded on what?? I grew up in Colorado City. I am educated and was taught freedom of choice and the history of our country and the price that was paid for our...freedom??? 935. Ben Broderick Fullerton, CA I am an attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a major L.A.-based lawfirm. In my 8 years of practice, I have never seen such an outrageous, indefensible abuse of civil process. Because a handful of underaged marriages allegedly occured in this community involving girls as young as 12, 400 children are to be taken from the community, including boys (even though there is no allegation that boys have been sexually abused), including children under 12 (even though there is no indication that such children are in any danger), and regardless of whether their parents were shown to have committed any (continues on next page)

Page 111 - Signatures 928 - 935 Name From Comments 935. Ben Broderick Fullerton, CA (continued from previous page) improper actions. All of these children were also removed without any effort to make assessment as to each child's welfare and whether they would suffer more harm from being removed from their homes than they would by remaining. In fact, the state admits they don't even know whose children they have taken -- much less whether those parents were adequately protecting their children from abuse. It is difficult to conceive of a more irrational and overreaching state response to the presumed abuses in the FLDS community. The absence of due process in these proceedings is undeniable and should shock and frighten every American. All of the children should be returned to their parents immediately, unless and until they are shown -- individually -- to require the protection of the state. Taking them away indefintely "just in case" and then requiring the parents to earn them back is a policy devoid of legal or moral principle, which violates the most basic rights of the bereaved parents and children and offends even the rudest concepts of fairness, much less constitutional goverment. 936. Millie Blackmore Kitchener, British How could you do this Texas? Stop hurting the children! Columbia, Canada You can see that they are suffering from this as well as their parents. Do the right thing and start undoing this awful mess you have made. I grew up an FLDS member and I've had the happiest life ever. I was never forced into anything, never hurt, but was well taken care of and loved all my growing up years. I went to school with some of the Mothers who have had their children taken. They were some of the most capable, loving girls I knew. My heart goes out to them. I can't beleive this is happening in this day and age. 937. Jonia Broderick Fullerton, CA 938. Sunnie Knight Salt Lake City, UT These children should be with their mothers! I know personally that they are good women and especially mothers! I can't believe that in our country today this could happen to the innocent! SHAME ON YOU TEXAS!!!!!!!!! 939. Linda Scharf Simi Valley, CA CPS was totaly out of line in taking these children out of the only home they have ever known. I saw on the news that they said the best place to question children is at a neutral location. I can't imagine anythng more frightening to a small child than to pe torn from your family and taken to a strange place, then surrounded by strangers asking them who knows what kind of LEADING questions, and then taking their mothers away from them. I am sure they have scared these children beyond comprehention, to which therapy may be needed for years to come! 940. Rose Hammon Salt Lake City, UT

Page 112 - Signatures 935 - 940 Name From Comments 941. Julie Behling Salt Lake City, UT Leave these people alone! 942. Arthur Hammon Centennial Park, AZ Is this what Crockett, Bowie and Travis fought so hard and died so well for? State sponsored terror!!!!! 943. kenya miller ardmore, OK these mothers and children are innocent free them. they have the free rights to religions as the rest of us do. leave these people alone. let their children go home. 944. Tammi Anderson Dickinson, TX What would our founding fathers say? What of religious freedom? Being separated from their families is not in the best interests of these children. I am appalled that some teenagers were sent to a ranch for troubled teenagers and will be exposed to such destructive lifestyle choices and behavior patterns after being sheltered their whole lives. I am a Southern Baptist woman who is irate at my state's blatant disregard of civil liberties. If these people were Middle Eastern, this would never have happened. If they didn't dress the way they do, this never would have happened. This is prejudice and racism. Furthermore, you might as well start taking into custody pregnant teenagers all over the country whose parents have allowed them to marry the fathers of their children. AT least these young girls are married to the fathers of their children, do not use alcohol or drugs, and raise good, healthy, happy children with an overabundance of love. They say that it is not in the best interests of the children to grow up in this "cult." Where is the harm? These children born into this sect are not growing up to be violent, dishonest, or a threat to society. These are not the people we see doing drive-bys and robbing banks. These are not the people we see mugging old ladies and raping women in alleys. Our state has so many children in foster homes and group homes already who were taken from fathers who raped them, from prostitute mothers, from mentally ill parents, substance abuser, etc. People who put cigarettes out on them or broke their bones before their 2nd birthday. There are not even enough adoptive families to take in all those children. How can we justify shoving those babies back on the list to accommodate families who want to jump on the bandwagon of the latest fad, adopting a polygymist child. How exotic! And they didn't even have to go to China! These children have loving homes. Let them go back. Mark my words, if this situation is not reversed promptly, there will be a tragedy in Eldorado, if not the state of Texas in general when these children grow up tormented, angry at society, and completely screwed up from this ordeal. Shame on this state. 945. Alma Petersen colorado city, AZ

Page 113 - Signatures 941 - 945 Name From Comments 946. Lacey Darger Herriman, UT I am growing up in a polygomous family. I am 14 yrs old. I go to a public school. I have lots of friends. My family (and all that I know that are polygomous) won't let their kids get married until they are 18 yrs old. There is no abuse in any of the families. There aren't any selected marriages, either. The daughters and sons choose who they want to date, marry, have kids with. So why do people think that polygomous families are the only kinds of families that have abuse in their families? There is more abuse in all of the monogomous families than there are in polygomous families! More children die of abuse in monogomous families, or families that are living with their boyfriends, or girlfriends, or step-parents, with children in the household! So why doesn't the Texas government give the children back to their parents, and leave them alone? Oh. I forgot. Because of this "Sarah Someone" that called in because of abuse and rape. So why don't they look for this girl that has the broken ribs? Just like I thought. It's because she doesn't exist, and whoever called in, saying that they were part of the FLDS Church, was just someone that wanted to get rid of polygomous families and sects, just because they are scared. Yes, scared. They don't know us, they don't know any of us. What the world thinks of us is because of things that they heard from the media. Guess what! The media doesn't know everything! People like to think it, because they know a lot, but they don't know it all! They get their stories from rumors and other stupid things like that! So why is the Texas government saying that the fathers are abusing their wives and children? Why don't they ask the children? Examine their arms, faces, legs? They don't wear makeup! They can't hide it! Take a look at some of the pictures that have been taken of the mothers! They look like they have been treated well! Do they look like they are mentally retarded? They talk normal. They were crying over the loss of their children! CRYING!!!!!!! If they didn't love their children, then why would they be crying? Because they don't get to abuse them, whether it is physically, mentally, or emotionally? Taking the children away, now THERE is something that will scar the husbands, wives, and children! It could be physically, mentally, emotionally. My guess is every single one of the afore mentioned will be scarred in one way, shape, or form. Would all the parents out there like this to happen to them? Have their children taken from them for no apparent reason, but that sexual abuse and other types of abuse are "suspected" of being in tow with polygamy? Yeah, right! Why don't the Texas police stop going after religious groups that they have NO IDEA AT ALL what is going on in, and go after murdurers, rapists, theives, instead of going after probably some of THE MOST INNOCENT (continues on next page)

Page 114 - Signature 946 Name From Comments 946. Lacey Darger Herriman, UT (continued from previous page) people in the world? Actually, it isn't all about only the Texas police, not in this day and age. Oh, no. This has everything to do with police all over the world. But right now, until something like this happens to other people in other places, let's just focus on Texas, shall we? The children need to be back with their parents, and hopefully be able to get back to their lives, like normal. Remember the Raid of '53? Yeah. I know from experience, or rather, my grandma knows from experience, being taken from your parents like this can really inflict fears and phobias no one knows could be real! Jumping at the sound of a siren, sleeping with the light on. Shame on all those that support the children being taken and put into foster homes! Shame shame! This is all pathetic. In my opinion, the supporters of the Texas government are just as bad as the people that went into the homes of the families and tore them apart. If the Lord doesn't like what is happening in our polygomous families, let him strike us all down with lightning, kay? Kay. Don't let the Texas government/CPS think that they are His Mightyness! Because they sure as #311 are not even close! So give the children back, NOW!!!!!!!!! 947. Esther Van Harlingen, TX Blarcom 948. K Springford Santa Rosa, CA Put the children back with their families, many children get neglected and abandoned. These kids are not neglected or abandoned, they need their mom's. Deal with each case individually. Don't destroy people's lives unnecessarily. 949. Christopher Kahn Rockville, MD "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Or has this become quaint? 950. Elizabeth Barlow Murray, UT 951. Mark Reynolds Valley Springs, AR To whom it may concern...Whatever happened to DUE PROCESS? What ever happened to a PROPER 4th AMENDMENT WARRANT? Who was the person who GAVE OATH OR AFFIRMATION that the alleged activity was taken place? Where are we living when unproven phone calls are used to attack and kidnap children from their parents? What is WRONG with this people?? 952. Ellen Nielsen salt lake, UT 953. Kathee Reynolds Valley Springs, AR It is an outrage that a group of innocent children be removed from their parents without individual evidence to do so. 954. Myron Barlow Lehi, UT Go after the people that do bad not the whole community

Page 115 - Signatures 946 - 954 Name From Comments 955. Oliver Barrett Eagle Mountain, UT 956. Jeremiah Barlow Riverton, UT if there is abuse prosecute the abuser. an entire religious group should not be punished for the select few. Salem witch trials anyone? 957. Jennie Cook Colorado City, AZ Please protect the rights of American citizens by refusing to cave into the prejudices of anti-polygamous rhetoric. Child abuse is a problem but telling these children that your laws condemn their birthright and target their culture as abusive by nature is to violate their right to live and breathe in world that we all share and should do so with a respect for each other differences. Until every child prostitute is gather off the streets of every major United State City, Texas should reconsider this traumatic attack on woman and children whose right to chose may have violated by their leaders but are certainly being violated by the state of Texas. Some people like myself do not see the Christian religion which condemns all to hell that do not profess their god as any less abusive than other ancient practices which were placed in our collective consciousness by those whose wish to control the masses. 958. Ann M. Naylor riverton, UT Who ever has anything to with this outragous and unjust Barlow act! need to burn in hell!! 959. Diana Millsap Riverton, UT Texas state has made a huge mistake in treating innocent children and women as if they were criminals and separating these children from their mothers. Their premise is unjustifiable and unconstitutional 960. Carrie Wallace Salt Lake City, UT The judge's ruling is a shocker. The American public is asleep on many fronts, including this one. Child abuse is clearly wrong and should not be tolerated. Taking innocent children from their families without a shred of evidence of abuse and a great deal of evidence to the contrary is also clearly wrong and should not be tolerated. There is no way the state of Texas will be able to provide safe homes for all of these children and God help the children if it comes to that. I am amazed there aren't more signatures on this petition. Americans, wake up! Stand up for your rights by standing up for the rights of your fellows! I hate the thought of a young girl being raped but I am equally repelled by the thought of young children being needlessly separated from loving parents and thrown into the perils of state foster care. The FLDS system is strange, but don't be so quick to judge it as abusive, especially if the only information you have about it is coming from the news media. Take a closer look at the foster care system and you might find that in comparison, the FLDS aren't so abusive after all. 961. Joseph David Guadalajara, Mexico What a terrible example to the rest of the world. America, Johnston you should be ashamed of yourself.

Page 116 - Signatures 955 - 961 Name From Comments 962. Heather Haslam Lehi, UT I am in no way for the underage marrying of children but I cant imagine having my 1 yr old and 3 yr old taken from me in the manner that has happened to these people. It seems so wrong to take children who are so little when no abuse against them has been proven. It seems to me that they could take the men who would be the ones in the wrong away from the compound and allow the women and children some sense of home while this trial is carried out. I thought this was America but it seems like in Texas the Constitution doesnt apply. God bless those babies. 963. jason jessop las vegas, NV the state of texas has no rite to steriotype everyone involved just because they got a bogus report of one case 964. Jason Skipper carriere, MS 965. Matthew Buck ELBA, NY Any and all Christians out there should be intervening and praying for and standing up for these mothers and children. Jesus said that whatever you've done to or for the least of these you have done it unto ME. If the men of this cult have done things wrong , then remove them. What this angry mob has done to these women and babies is horrific. 966. LV Naylor Riverton, UT What a shame that this nation should sacrifice the precious lives of good men & women to go overseas in attempt to snuff out terrorism on innocent people, when the most barbaric scenes of unjustice are taking place on our own American soil! Anyone who still has one ounce of blue blood flowing through their veins should feel the sting from was has taken place. God bless America but shame on Texas! 967. Jennifer Hansen Pleasant Grove, UT Since when is the government anti-family? LEAVE THESE PEOPLE ALONE!!!!! 968. Lori Harvey Boone, IA You have wrongfully invaded this compound. You have NOT been able to find the 16 year old girl that made the abuse call. I believe it was all an elaborate hoax since you can NOT stand the fact that they were self sufficient. This just another Waco. Their blood is on your hands. 969. Robyn Bairnsdale, Australia MacDonald 970. BRANDON YUBA CITY, CA This has stunk to high heaven from the get-go. The DAVIS "abuse" is being done BY the courts, the local law enforcement, and the CPS in this case 971. susan wainwright Brighton, CO right is right and wrong is wrong 972. Aaron Walker Longview, TX Stop these Nazi police tactics! Free these people whom you abducted from their homes! 973. john matthews pikeville, KY These children were torn away from their families in a gestapo like fashion. It was based on an anonymous phone call from one alleged victim involving one alleged perpetrator. A call that has been proven to be a likely hoax. (continues on next page) Page 117 - Signatures 962 - 973 Name From Comments 973. john matthews pikeville, KY (continued from previous page) Perhaps it was from a member of the first baptist church. I noticed their buses were used to dispatch the mothers and children off to their separation points. I am not a religious person by any means. So flds, baptist, buddhists, whatever your beliefs. I love you all my fellow human beings. I have a family and so I can empathize with the pain you and your children must be going through. It should have never happened in the USA but the country it has become is very unlike the one our founding fathers intended. I commend you for not wishing to have your children be indoctrinated in this putrid mess of a world we have on our hands out here today. I hope you are reunited with your loved ones soon. 974. Patrick Peterson Huntington, UT What is this world coming to? Taking all the children from an entire community, based on one aligation (if even it was true). Shame on the Texas authorities who instigated this! 975. Teresa Barrett Eagle Mountain, UT Give the Mothers back their children. this is wrong. 976. veronika holm riverton, UT Hey people....its NOT the womans fault,it because of fucking warren and all the other little shits that dont care about the woman,so leave the children and the woman alone okay!! please,,,they didnt do anything...their kids are their lives,they are the ones that they actually care about they dont really give a shit about the men,cuz if they did then they would have already have done sumthing to bee with them, but NOOOO they havent soooo yah,,,just leave them alone k ok!Hey and guess what that was a prank call by the way...... and the press is just blowin it wayyyyyy too out of porportion! 977. Laura Randall Apple Valley, UT For more impact, add a personal comment here 978. christina peterson paducah, KY i have just read that the poor children are to be separated from their mothers for forced dna testing. i have cried for these little babies who are being ripped from their entire world, and now forced to be away from their mothers. THIS IS WRONG. members of our government, and so-called judges, this is to you...do you not have families and children? how would you feel if you were forced to send your 2 year old baby away to a foster home? PLEASE STOP THIS COMPLETELY UN-AMERICAN BEHAVIOR AND REMEMBER THE WORDS, FREEDOM OF RELIGION - AND ONE NATION UNDER GOD... 979. Evan Brown Springville, UT "Article IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place (continues on next page)

Page 118 - Signatures 973 - 979 Name From Comments 979. Evan Brown Springville, UT (continued from previous page) to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Never before has the Constitution been so blatantly ignored. You cannot make the argument that the FLDS did not have their fourth amendment rights violated. This is nothing but religious persecution sponsored by the state. 980. Vilate Zitting Hildale, UT These children have done nothing wrong! Let them return home! 981. Katie Wayman Salt Lake City, UT I don't agree with these people's way of life but as fellow American's they have the right to their Religious Beliefs no matter how weird we think they are! What has happened to these people is wrong and very UNCONSTITIONAL! 982. Adam George Arlington, VA Innocent until proven guilty. It should be against the law to rip children from their mothers based on some CPS agent's belief that there's a chance that at some point a girl will be married before 17. It was never proven that these children especially those under four were in imminent danger of any kind. This injustice is outrageous and totalitarian--and unAmerican. 983. LeRoy G. Collins Leadington, MO This is a travesty of injustice. All of Texas should be ashamed. This must be made right! 984. Ben Edson Washington, DC As someone who has had my 10 brothers and five sisters taken away and placed in institutions for 2 months, I beleive you are doing significant harm to these children and parents. Please give these kids back to their loved ones. 985. Kent McManigal Tunkhannock, PA This action violates Texas and federal law, was based upon a false accusation, and is punishing the innocent. 986. Elizabeth Groulx Bradenton, FL This is a very slippery slope to start on. 987. Andrew Lavin North Salt Lake, UT 988. Ron Proctor Cedar City, UT 989. Terrie Brown Glendale, AZ "We, the undersigned, urge Texan authorities to free the innocent women, children, and other members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church who are currently being detained. We demand that the Constitutional rights of the innocent be preserved, and that due process be served. As individuals are innocent until proven guilty, we call upon the Texas Governor to intervene in this matter and allow the women and children to return to their homes peacefully. We also demand an apology, most especially from the Texas CPS, for the heinous acts of aggression displayed in these recent events." 990. Luke Edson Dallas, TX

Page 119 - Signatures 979 - 990 Name From Comments 991. Carol Adams Daytona Beach, FL These are children that belong with the parents. Respect the life they have you have done them more harm doing this than anything. Where are there rights as a family. My prayers are with them. 992. Marian McCammon, ID I am not LDS nor a polygamist, but seizing 400+ children Mathewson because of one unverified phone call is ridiculous. These children are in much more danger in the foster care system than in loving homes. Totally unconstitutional--not that it matters anymore! 993. Sherri Bixler Perry, GA If we don't speak up now, tomorrow it will be our turn to have our rights cruelly infringed upon, and there will be no one left to speak up for us. The only proven abuse in this situation is being committed by the Texas CPS, and the poor children are probably already scarred for life. 994. Alyx Jones El Paso, TX 995. Jeremy Poway, CA Yamaguchi 996. Matthew Huffman, TX I am watching this case very carefully and I dont like how Ganshow CPS is allowed to break the hearts of these children and their Mothers,there is no proof any of them did anything wrong!..Dont let CPS destroy American families,dont let CPS take the children away from their Mothers..CPS gets money for each child they take into custody,money seems to be all CPS cares about! 997. Fredrick Jessop St George, UT 998. anna knecht moab, UT has God gien you the right to hurt the innocent ,be careful who your hurting. it says it would have been better that a millstone be tied around your necks and you be cast into the depths of the ocean than to hurt one of these. 999. Lenora Broadbent washington, UT 1,000. Nathan Broadbent washington, UT 1,001. John Petrie Ann Arbor, MI 1,002. Cliff Lyon Holladay, UT 1,003. Ron Bradford Bowling Green, KY This is religious persecution at its worst. 1,004. madeline wayman las vegas, NV 1,005. Arnold Jessop Jr las Vegas, NV I was born, and raised in the FLDS faith, though I no longer live it, I left at the age of 24. I have great respect for my father, and his family that still lives there. I strongly beleive the women, and children asociated in the FLDS, are some of the most innocent people you will ever find! I am proud to have been raised there. Ive never been exposed to, or heard of anyone e

Page 120 - Signatures 991 - 1,005 Name From Comments 1,006. Alan Edson San Antonio, TX Let's see how many people stand up for this total injustice. If you don't, please don't start whining when the antichrist shuts down your places of worship, gives some ridiculous excuse as to why he's ripping off your kids for slave labor, and numerous other atrocities that are soon to come upon a sleeping world. If you don't stand up now, you'd better start packing a backpack and head for the hills, cause it ain't gonna get any better! 1,007. tristan read berthoud, CO Just another example of Social Services unfair practices 1,008. David Player Boise, ID These people are protected by the US Constitution under Amendment I: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise of thereof" 1,009. Tammy Holm veyo, UT What is this world coming to when someone makes a fake call and they take away innocent children from their parents. THE INVESTIGATERS IN THIS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. 1,010. Jason Bistline Mtn Home, ID 1,011. Cynthia Knight Absecon, NJ The state's Division of Youth & Family Services should have investigated the allegations of the 16 y.o. first, before any action was taken. They can't even prove that the phone call was from anyone in the FLDS community. What they did is no different than if my neighbor's teen reported abuse of her father and my city police confiscated every child in my neighborhood. The "powers that be" did not have their thinking caps on that day. America has become a police state, no better than Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. 1,012. LINDA NORVELL, MI SUNKLE-PIERUCKI 1,013. Gary Moore Bountiful, UT Widespread CPS abuse of innocent families, across the US, is well documented. Now they've stepped it up, and have gone after an entire community. “Expert witnesses” can say what they like. The tangible evidence before the court was that there were five underage mothers in this community of 600 people. This hardly proves a pervasive pattern of underage marriage, in fact, it refutes the notion. 1,014. Daniel Parks Saratoga Springs, UT 1,015. Lou Mills Beaumont, TX Is there a community somewhere in Texas that there has not been an 13 to 17 year old who has not gotten pregant??????????? send these kids home 1,016. Sarah Taylor St.George, UT I think That they should just leave all the flds in Texas an in colorado city alone thay have done nothing wrong.The Goverment has just been waiting for a chance to screw them over no matter if it's true are not so It's bs that they (continues on next page)

Page 121 - Signatures 1,006 - 1,016 Name From Comments 1,016. Sarah Taylor St.George, UT (continued from previous page) are doing this to them just cuz they don't understand them.So just Give the children an women an who ever else they have back an just let them live there live's they are not bothering anyone so dont bother them. 1,017. Cyndi Lacy Woodinville, WA Please respect the rights and choices of the breastfeeding moms and keep the women and children together. Allow those family bonds not to be broken! 1,018. ROY BAKER Jacksonville, FL Why are women and children taken into custody rather than the accused? 1,019. PHIL M. KEATE Hildale, UT "Patriotism does not consist in aiding government in EVERY BASE & STUPID ACT it may perform, but rather in PARALYZING ITS POWER when it VIOLATES VESTED RIGHTS, AFFRONTS INSULTED JUSTICE & ASSUMES UNDELEGATED AUTHORITY!!! - GOD SAVE US FROM TYRANNY!!! >>> LIVE FREE OR DIE << 1,020. Lawrence Baird moreno valley, CA Do they have this in Texas? I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter 1,021. Nathan Steed N. Las Vegas, NV Isn't Warren Jeffs in jail for splitting up families? What gives you the right? 1,022. Erika Nelson Pleasant Grove, UT 1,023. Bryce K. Hansen Salt Lake City, UT Due process is an integral part of our United States Constitution. Please return the children to their mothers until due process has run its course and the guilty have been convicted in the court of law. 1,024. Benjamin Steed Tooele, UT the removal of the children in Texas in my opinion is a violation of our constitutional right to practice religion and raise families how we see fit. the abused if any need to be prosicuted and delt with. it is not the whole that should lose there families it is discrimination in the worst way because the people practice religion that is different to what is what they call the"norm" FREE THE CHILDREN TO THERE PARENTS. ITS ANOTHER CLASSIC WAY HOW THE GOVERNMENT HIDES BEHIND THERE OWN REASONS TO DICTATE THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS WHAT WE CALL A "FREE COUNTRY" IT IS BLASPHAMY 1,025. Mark Nelson Pleasant Grove, UT

Page 122 - Signatures 1,016 - 1,025 Name From Comments 1,026. Dorothy Cooke Hildale, UT These children are being abused and traumatized from being seperated from their parents. Their parents love them! THESE CHILDREN WANT TO GO HOME, THEY LOVE THEIR PARENTS! The statistics on foster homes in Texas is absolutely terrifying! Please, Please, let these children go home! 1,027. Laura Leigh Wakefield, MA Unbelievable. Yet another attack on the family. The Cutler Governor of Texas should be fired. Along with anyone else involved in this absolute travesty of constitutional and human rights. How can we justify fighting wars overseas in the name of our founding fathers and the grand principles of liberty, justice and equality Americans supposedly believe in when we treat our own this way? I predict this will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court vs. the State of Texas. If you think you don't mess with Texas, think again. It makes me ashamed and appalled to even call them a state in the United States of America. 1,028. Ethel Cooke Colorado City, AZ "Shall we as wives and mothers sit still and see our husbands, and sons, whom we know are obeying the highest behest of heaven, suffer for their religion without exerting ourselves to the extent of our power for their deliverance? NO! VERILY NO! God has revealed unto us the law of the Patriarchal order of marriage, and commanded us to obey it. We are sealed to our husbands for time and eternity, that we may dwell with them and our children in the world to come, which guarantees unto us the greatest blessing for which we are created. If the rulers of our nation will so far depart from the spirit and the letter or our glorious Constitution as to deprive our Prophets, Apostles, and Elders of citizenship, and imprison them for obeying this law, let them grant us this our last request, to make their prisons large enough to hold their wives, for where they go we will go also!" - a voice from the 1953 Short Creek Raid 1,029. Tally Gochis Tooele, UT 1,030. Anne Hall North Oaks, MN I never thought of Texas as a very enlightened place but these events are proof positive. There is no question: you have already permanently scarred these children. If there were an effective World Court I would vote for using it to deal with the politicians and CPS personnel (by horse-whipping if possible) who did a thing like this----which anyone with half a heart would know was damaging. I don't know if any kind of abuse happened in this sect: there will have to be very strong proof, that's for sure, because these State gestapo have no credibility in my books. But whatever has happened, why in God's name didn't you (continues on next page)

Page 123 - Signatures 1,026 - 1,030 Name From Comments 1,030. Anne Hall North Oaks, MN (continued from previous page) just leave the mothers and children in the compound and send in your cursed social workers and other government drones until the whole matter was sorted out? It may well be you have damaged these children for absolutely nothing. But what am I thinking: Texans in general just don't care about people, especially if they act differently from the mainstream: remember Waco. 1,031. Layola Kimball Colon, MI Gov. Perry, do not let this stupid petition have any sway on protecting these children from pedophiles. Thank you. 1,032. Gena Saunders Leesburg, TX To remove all the children of a community and continue to hold them in foster care because the beliefs of their parents may someday possibly maybe lead to abuse years in the future in no way meets the standard of the state that imminent physical abuse must be proven, and it sets a dangerous precedent. What group is next? If CPS doesn't like our beliefs, whatever they may be, are we next?? I am not an FLDS supporter, and I fully support action against parents who may have committed physical or sexual abuse against minors, but this wholesale taking of an entire community of children based upon beliefs and absent actual evidence of physical abuse flies in the face of our Constitution and must be stopped now. 1,033. Nicholas Britain Metairie, LA I don't see how 400 women and children can be put into one big group of "Child Abusers" that doesn't even involve them directly. The government has truly stepped to a new low on this one. Let them go and live their lives like everyone else! 1,034. R. Navas St. George, UT 1,035. L. Neil Smith Fort Collins, CO The Constitutional liberties of Mormons have never been respected by the government. This is only one of several brutal, fascistic assaults on them in this century alone. It looks to me like we need a new amendment, inflicting severe penalties on officials who violate the Bill of Rights. 1,036. David Forbes Medicine Hat, Abuse is wrong and should be dealt with accordingly. Canada However, false allegations should be dealt with accordingly. If 13-year-old girls - or girls or women of any age - were being abused by being forced into any form of "marriage" then that is wrong, wrong, wrong. I am glad someone is finally taking some action - ACLU and others - to tackle what seems to me to be an abuse of government power. When 700 people swoop in on a community - any community - and whisk 400 kids away from their families, something isn't right. Why do government services not do the same to rid our (continues on next page)

Page 124 - Signatures 1,030 - 1,036 Name From Comments 1,036. David Forbes Medicine Hat, (continued from previous page) Canada communities of drug dealers? If these people were not doing anything wrong and abiding by the law, and no evidence has been found to justify such a massive operation, then someone has to answer for all this mess. It bothered me that the government was able to force their way into their temple. If they had evidence something criminally wrong was going on in there, then I can understand that. From my perspective, what could be next? I am still asking myself: Is there something we yet don't know? Did this "Sarah" suggest the FLDS were about to call everyone to their temple and give them all some Heaven's Gate Cocktail or Jonestown Juice? Exactly what warranted organizing 700 people to descend on one little community that generally goes about life peacefully without causing problems with their neighbors? Thank you for taking time to read my comments. 1,037. Debra Farver DuPont, WA The raid on the FLDS compound is a witch hunt. Authorities are aware that the person who made the calls to CPS is a mentally ill black woman pretending to be a 16 year old. Ms. Swinton has a history of making false police reports. CPS and the state of Texas should dismiss these phone calls as a hoax. Ms. Swinton should be held be accountable for the damage she caused the FLDS compound and for the pain and suffering inflicted upon the FLDS women and children. She should also be held accountable for wasting the taxpayers' money. What happened to the FLDS families can anyone. Anyone can call CPS and make false statements to CPS. Once CPS and the judge learned that the Ms. Swinton's phone calls were a hoax, they should have dismissed this case immediately. Texas should apologize to the FLDS women and children. Our forefathers founded this country so we would have the right to worship as we please. CPS and the state of Texas have no right to attack the members of the FLDS church for their religious beliefs. The children should be returned to their mothers. The only stipulation that CPS should be allowed to make is that no one should be allowed to have sex with anyone under age 18. Once an FLDS mother agrees to this stipulation, her children should be returned to her as quickly as possible. 1,038. Christian Teszler VANVES, France 1,039. Peter Pisek Brownsburg, IN 1,040. Ruth Timpson Centennial Park, AZ The civil rights of these children and mothers should be considered here. Ecspecially when they are being taken away because of a false allegation.

Page 125 - Signatures 1,036 - 1,040 Name From Comments 1,041. Jaroslava Pisek Brownsburg, IN 1,042. Jennifer stanford La Luz, NM I think if a crime has been commited take the accused and charge them. Since when does the hole community pay for one families actions? I wish the state of Texas and New Mexico would crack down on the huge population of teen pregnancies in there own communities of girls ages 12-17. Most of these girls are sleeping around with numerous grown men and have mutilple babies with multiple men by the time they are 18. Not to mention the thought of marriage never crosses there mind. Why the double standard. It is not ok to teach your child values and morals to be married and have childern if you are under 18 but it is ok to sleep with many men and have lots of babies daddies as long as you are not doing it for religious reason. I belive that children should not be married before 16. If at that point they want to but out. I was married at 19 and had three boys before I was 22. Am I and my children next. Is this not ok even know my boys are smart healthy productive members of the society we live in. If texas took a look at what these people do on a daily basis to provide for themselves and there families they could learn a few things. These are not teen girls living in hud housing on welfare. These are woman teaching there children how to WORK with there hands and be self reliant. So they are meek and don't fit in with main stream America more power to them. Maybe if they had mingled more people would have gotten to see what great people they are and would be able to come to their defense but I belive you don't go digging in the trash to find pearls and that is what they would have to do to mingle with those amoung them. May God bless those precious children and keep them safe from the terrible thing we in america call a foster system. 1,043. Mary Batchelor South Jordan, UT There is no justification to send a swat team into that community and round up all the children and remove them. The only evidence submitted at the shelter hearing was of five minor girls who were pregnant, two of whom were 17. There was no evidence of the other allegations made about this community. If it is true that even underage marriages are a systemic problem with this community, then why are there so many marriages listed where the parents were clearly adults when they conceived their first children? Why can the state of Texas steal children from monogamous parents in their 20s who did not engage in underage sex? Since when did an anonymous tipster have the power to wipe out an entire community, and how did neglect/abuse become defined as raising children in an "isolated" environment? Dr. Perry asserted his opinion that while this community had many good child-rearing (continues on next page)

Page 126 - Signatures 1,041 - 1,043 Name From Comments 1,043. Mary Batchelor South Jordan, UT (continued from previous page) qualities, he believes that their "authoritarian" belief system harms their children by discouraging "independent thought". The Amish communities live in a somewhat restrictive cultural environment, segregated from larger society by unique beliefs and practices. Their children are removed from public school at a certain age and are not equipped to enter society as adults, ready to attend college and actively engage in today's technological world market. Yet, we allow them to maintain their independent culture because it is self-sustaining and their children are capable of surviving within it comfortably. The same can be said for the FLDS. Do NOT allow these people to be defined by those who malign them or refuse to understand them. 1,044. Rachel Miller Roanoke, TX Due Process and burden of proof are necessary before an invasive action by the government removing the rights of it's citizens (namely the right to parent). A tip regarding one child and one family should not necessarily be applied to a group at large. This is very worrisome to me! If the government is able to infringe on this minority group, what other minority groups will be targeted next? Please consider the rights of the mothers to parent their children in this case. 1,045. Robert Lowery Polkton, NC What unpopular group will be next to sample Texas "justice"? 1,046. Forever Young Lehi, UT What is wrong with the thinking of our American Government? These children need their Mothers! Families have been broken up enough in this group of people, these kids have already been more traumatized than anyone could imagine. Now this!? If there is any abuse cases, they should evaluate each family or situation. To classify everyone in one group as "abusers" is outrageous!! Let the children stay with their Mothers! How can anyone feel OK about taking an infant or toddler from it's Mother..? These Mothers are good providers to their children. My heart aches for them, and aches for all they have been put thru. I was raised FLDS, I had a wonderful child hood. Yes, times have changed alot, and I don't agree with many things that have gone on.. But I do know these Mothers aren't abusers, they Love their children. Putting these kids in Foster care is the worst thing they could do. If they have to put them in temporary placement let the kids stay with relatives, that can relate to them and help them. Think of the children..think about your kids being ripped away from you.. I know I have... heart breaking.. 1,047. Danielle Washington, UT I think this is so wrong. Texas has no right to take those Broadbent kids away. To me, America is letting this happen. Which is wrong. I, being 15, have a new perspective of our country, (continues on next page)

Page 127 - Signatures 1,043 - 1,047 Name From Comments 1,047. Danielle Washington, UT (continued from previous page) Broadbent and I assure you it isn't good. Just let them go back to their parents. No one wants to be taken away from their home and enviroment. And no one, especially at these ages, wants to be taken away from their parents. 1,048. Georgina Barlow Ivins, UT 1,049. Richard Beagley St. George, UT 1,050. Pamela Lawson Weatherford, TX 1,051. Jason Knudson St. George, UT 1,052. Jennifer Winkler Lincoln, CA This case has little to do with child welfare, for while we don't yet know all the facts, we do know enough to reasonably assert that the children are much more likely to be better off continuing in their accustomed, structured and (at least extensively) loving environment, than plunged suddenly in the comparatively chaotic outer world with its many demands on the individual, and where that pre-eminently important thing, love, is only a possibility. Surely, on a technical basis it can be reasoned that a report of rape and beating of a 16-year-old in a place MIGHT be true (on the other hand, it COULD be a hoax by someone outside of the sect), that a group of people there SEEMINGLY very uniform might entirely be into all the same behaviors, and, if this is the case, young people might be being beaten and raped (by husbands). (This still leaves harm to boys and girls younger than puberty not thus far particularly indicated.) Beyond that it's all a matter of distaste for a people, who live in certain ways differently. People characteristically feel threatened by the existence of a different community in their vicinity. The Texas town was queasy about the approach of this sect, as other towns have been about other sects of large, or potentially large, size. During a phase of this country's settling, Indians were not allowed to buy property as a tribe. In Europe, people worry about seemingly alien, close-knit immigrant communities. It seems that when a group amid an open society is seen to reach a certain size, difference and potential for uncooperativeness, the general society feels it can't abide it. May the women and men of FLDS repudiate the practices of underage marriage and pressured marriage - practices that are abuse in themselves and that bring on massive abuse by silly government, may government realize and curtail its abusiveness and folly, and, absent any proven cruelty, may each child be returned to his/her parents. 1,053. Glenda Taylor Lindsborg, KS Not only is barging into a peaceful community with riot gear and tanks, overkill, taking 400 children from parents over a bogus phone call is flat out unconstitutional.

Page 128 - Signatures 1,047 - 1,053 Name From Comments 1,054. Michelle Thornton Salt Lake City, UT What you're doing is akin to gathering up and detaining all Catholic children because some Catholic priests abuse some boys. This violation of constitutional rights will forever remain a black mark on the state of Texas. Shame on you, Texas. And shame on the Texas CPS. 1,055. Sarah Anderson Saratoga Springs, UT These people have not been found guilty of anything. Please let the children go home. 1,056. Mark E. Knowley Salt Lake City, UT The removal of so many very young children from their environment is WRONG!!! Especially when you have NO proof of abuse. Return the children to their mothers and then have special workers monitor their homelife. I am apalled at the lack of care and concern for the emotional well being of these children. The state of Texas needs to re-evaluate what they have done and return those children to their mothers. You are only trading one form of brain washing for another. 1,057. William Manton NorthSaltLake, UT I believe child abuse should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. However, the way Texas has broken the law in the removal of children from their mothers without proof is a violation of constitutional rights. A phone call is not proof, especially being that the person that made the call has not come forward or been found. RETURN THE CHILDREN IMMEDIATELY TO THEIR MOTHERS. The Government foster care system is a system itself needs to be overhauled. I am not FLDS, nor do I agree with their practices. However, I truly believe being this raid began at the beginning of the LDS conference in SLC, UT was a form of a legalistic hate crime against Mormons an the FLDS. 1,058. Connie Bost Price, UT THE MENTAL IMPACT OF TAKING THOSE CHILDREN FROM THE LIFE THEY KNOW AS NORMAL AND SEPARATING THEM FROM THEIR MOTHERS WILL TURN 416 NORMAL HAPPY CHILDREN INTO 416 MESSED UP ADULTS!!!!! 1,059. Martha Benson Farmington, NM I am not LDS or FLDS and I don't support their lifestyle or most of their religious beliefs, but I do support the Constitution of the US and think that the TX authorities went beyond what is acceptable and legal in their raid of the FLDS Ranch - Shame on Texas 1,060. Richard B Smith Salt Lake City, UT What we have to offer in the "outside world" as an alternative to the FLDS lifestyle, is unthinkable and disgusting. There isn't anywhere in America, that if the true stories were told, that could hold their head up to the mothers of the FLDS children for what the Texas Authorities have done. John Singer must be turning in his grave.

Page 129 - Signatures 1,054 - 1,060 Name From Comments 1,061. N Campbell Tyler, TX I ask that you release the children to their Moms until this is over. The innocent children are the ones who are suffering as well as their Moms. 1,062. Jennifer Judd Saratoga Springs, UT 1,063. Charles Campbell Whitehouse, TX 1,064. Chris Henry Holladay, UT Not LDS, OR FLDS, But this seems to have gone to far. Texas is a laughing stock, I'll skip the trip I had to Texas because of the disregard for the law they've shown. 1,065. Julie Colt Annabella, UT I agree that these children need to be returned to their homes. I firmly do not believe that these children will be best served in foster/shelter care. The allegations of abuse need to be investigated on a family by family basis and the children should be returned during the investigation. Why should these people be held to a higher standard that other DCFS cases like physical abuse, obvious neglect and kids of drug parents? The apology isn't necessary in my opinion and "heinous" is too strong a word. I do however, believe they should be returned home ASAP. 1,066. George Dewey Pflugerville, TX While I support CPS's right to do a thorough investigation, I feel that an essential military raid was completely unnecessary, an abuse of authority, and a very concerning violation of civil liberties. Additionally, I feel that the individuals in positions of authority who pushed for and approved these raids need to be investigated and possibly brought up on charges. 1,067. Randy Anderson Vernal, UT It is a disgrace to do what has been done to these children without a through investigation. Investigate according to the law. 1,068. Scott Rowe Malad City, ID Come on people! You can judge a person but to judge people by religon is a joke. What is america partially founded on? 1,069. Martin Millard Costa Mesa, CA This was an outrageous, cowardly and bigoted act similar to the Australian Gov't stealing Abo children in that nation. 1,070. Leona J. Bonners Ferry, ID This is so wrong to keep these children from those they need and love most. This abuse will affect them for the rest of their lives. 1,071. Rebeca Jessop St. George, UT This is wrong on SO many levels! I DEMAND the state of Texas to reunite the children with their mothers!! If they are going to go to these lengths looking for a "pregnant and abused 16 year old", then they should start in Houston and their other big cities, and take care of any underaged, sexually abused people there, FIRST!!! Now that there is proof that the phone call was a hoax, it is absolutely the only thing left to do!! FREE THE FLDS CHILDREN! Take care of the REAL abuse that goes on in your state!!!

Page 130 - Signatures 1,061 - 1,071 Name From Comments 1,072. Spencer Farmington, UT What the Jackbooted thugs of the Texas CPS have done is Henderson an absolute travisty. Every American should be outraged. 1,073. Ian Bushner Niles, IL Although there may be legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of some of the children in the FYZ Ranch, the wholesale removal of every child into state custody is without precedent. We observe in this country certain standards of due process and presumptions of innocence. In this case, an entire community was presumed guilty because of a religious belief they espoused. I do not think that this case raises fundamentally different concerns than those our courts have handled over the course of the last several hundred years. When criminality is involved, there are always third party risks. The stakes often are high. And yet, we stick to the process and do things correctly. That is what differentiates American rule of law from tyrannical whimsy. Neither democracy nor tyranny are defined by the guilt of those in jail. Instead, they are defined by the due process they choose to follow or to ignore. I urge all Americans, in whatever their capacity, to respond to this tragedy by putting us back on the proper track. 1,074. Jennifer Driver Salt Lake City, UT Something needs to be done to help the young girls in the FLDS church who are being married off so young, but taking away all of these children, esp. under these circumstances - is a violation of civil rights, and it is religous persecution. 1,075. John Zitting Pagosa Springs, CO I abhor Texas using FLDS children to emotionally blackmail their parents to testify against themselves and each other in the despiration to get their children back. Worse than Water Boarding. ShortCreek.info 1,076. Albert Bakker Kaysville, UT Send this petition to the FBI to Investigate possible kidnaping charges. 1,077. Brooke Talcott Salt Lake City, UT This has been taken too far. 1,078. Barbra Weiss Stevensville, MT My God, I can not believe what Texas is doing! Well actually in todays world I can. The State says to heck with the Rights of the people, we will do what we want. You raid homes of people based on a call, NOT even made to law enforcement. Now it seem the call was fake, and the caller has been arested in a different State. The Man named in the call has not been in Texas since 1979 and the Police say he has done NOTHING wrong!I am a Baptist and I am sure I do not agree with the beliefs of the FLDS. However they will come for the Baptist children next if we do not stand up for EVERYONES rights! So if I just make a call to some ywca a claim the Police will follow that call up with a raid?? I will donate money to these people to make sure they get the best lawyers in the country. By God if the (continues on next page)

Page 131 - Signatures 1,072 - 1,078 Name From Comments 1,078. Barbra Weiss Stevensville, MT (continued from previous page) State of Texas over steped it's bounds (which it seems clear they have)I hope the tax payers of Texas pay so much in the law suit that will follow, they think twice next time. Maybe they will even fire some of these so called public servants. Just like Randy Weaver was painted as a demon by the media, then he was found NOT GUILTY of all charges and the Government (taxpayer) had to pay him and his kids millions. That did not bring back the Dead Wife and 14 year old boy and the U.S. Marshall. And to think all you Texans always talk about how Free Texas is?? SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!! No Texans welcome in Montana anymore!! 1,079. Carrie Jessop Herriman, UT Innocent until proven Guilty! Those families deserve the same treatment given to any other AMERICAN! Abusers are in every culture, every religion. Ripping babies from their mothers is NOT justice!!! 1,080. harold blythe douglasville, GA 1,081. John Stromness Salt Lake City, UT 1,082. Dell Williams Humansville, MO Premature assumptions on the part of misinformed people and weak one-person testimonies does not give you the responsibility to make 416 innocent people suffer. Diagnose before you prescribe; this way you make a better judgment on how to play the role of protagonist. These children need their mothers. Let FREEDOM ring!!!!! 1,083. Nellie Richins Evanston, WY Imprison the men, NOT the innocent women and children. 1,084. Brent Robinson Park City,, UT 1,085. elaine harting sandy, UT Texas has distroyed due process and the constitution if this action is allowed to stand. 1,086. Al Green Saint George, UT It is almost unbeliveable this can happen in the U.S.A when our constution gurantees freedom of religion. 1,087. Ray Johnson Bonners Ferry, ID I am happy to have been raised in Colorado City, lived there 42 years. I moved when I could no longer agree with some of the proceedings. If some have done wrong they should be helped and not with the same type of help some have had already. Dale Barlow was a childhood friend and a neighbor for over 20 years. I was appalled at the allegations, and much relieved to find he was not even yet the kind of person they tried to portray him as. It seems that Texas is still the "Hang-em-high" state. This seems to me like a surgeon doing a surgery with a hatchet. Carolyn may have an axe to grind, but why not take it out on the guy she hates instead of all the people? Many times the medicine is worse than the cure. "The operation was a success, but the patient died." When this is over, Texas will still be taking their own medicine.

Page 132 - Signatures 1,078 - 1,087 Name From Comments 1,088. Bruce Hammer Manti, UT What do we have here? Are we living in 1941? Or is it 1939? Or is it the Roman Empire under Domitian where people are arbitrarily arrested by anonymous accusations? I guess I was mistaken, we do have concentration camps in the good ol' US of A. Guilty until proven innocent? This government agency obviously has way, way too much power. Calling these people "guests" disgusts me. Habeus Corpus. Arizona and Utah tried this in 1953 and it didn't work so well then either. Oh, but we can all feel so good about ourselves now can't we? Punish the truly guilty through due process or all we have here is Germany 1939, the Japanese internments in 1941. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. 1,089. Tom Hayes Culver City, CA Dear Representative, I am very concerned about the apparent lack of concern for the constitution rights of the people of the United States as it relates to the FLDS raid. I have seen new reporters ask mother's if they would be willing to testify against the men of their community in order to be granted the return of their children. I'm not even aware of any charges let alone a case in which one would testify. I have also seen the State use the testimony of a woman who obviously has a ax to grind who left (escaped) the group 22 years ago. This all seem like Nazi Germany rather than the USA. Protect kids yes, by all means. But attack a group solely because they are different in their religious beliefs, not in our country. Please act quickly to stop the trampling of cival rights. Tom Hayes 1,090. Keeley Brooks Franklin, TN Considering the phone call was fake, will you now give these children back to parents that so obviously love and care for them? Will you now end this religious persecution? 1,091. Thomas J. Stockton, MO You'd think our country had learned somthing in 50 years. I Williams was one of them that was kidnapped in the '53 raid.I was four years old and still don't trust government officals and their motives.Return the hostages, before they're tramatized any further. I've come to realize that Ronald Reagan was so right when he said " The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. " 1,092. ALVIN DEMARRE fairbanks, AK Removal of kids is criminal abduction made by USA government. 1,093. Michael Clark Cedar City, UT Judge Barbara Walther and Texas CPS leader Marleigh Meisner should be in prison. This just shows how much closer we are getting to another Boston tea party. Start the revolution!!! The founding fathers would roll over in their graves if they could see what has happened to this country. King George wasn't this oppressive!!

Page 133 - Signatures 1,088 - 1,093 Name From Comments 1,094. Carolyn Barrani Salt Lake City, UT It is appauling to me that, in this day and age of acceptance of rampant sexual promiscuity in this country, such vicious attacks are aimed against men who take complete responsibility for numerous wives and their offspring. I am not an advocate of polygamy, but this is supposed to be a free country which guarantees the religious freedom of all, and these people are obviously conducting their lives in what they see to be the most righteous way possible, according to their religion. In the rest of the world, people marry very young and get on with their lives since they have little other opportunities, but in this country we set age limits for sex which are violated by the "children" themselves in our society every day. How would Texas have handled the pregnancy of Mary, Mother of Jesus, since scholars agree that she was probably only 14 years of age at the time? The civil rights of the entire FLDS community have been flagrantly violated in a disgusting display of "cowboy justice" and Evangelical zeal. Because of the way polygamists have been traditionally treated, it has caused the communities to hide and morph from within. 1,095. Robert Newel Littleton, CO The future freedom of our country is at stake. Stop this Reynolds heinous "Kill them all and you get the guilty" mentality. Please understand that religious persecution is driving this horrible example of unbridled power. It will be far easier to weed out and punish the guilty in this situation than it will to correct the wrong that is being done by the CPS and Judge Walther. 1,096. Lawrence George Joliet, IL Children should not be coerced or taken from parents unless there is direct evidence of wrong doing. Suspecting that there is harm with no real evidence and taking physical action is something for which no one agency should be responsible. 1,097. Omar Barrani Salt Lake City, UT It would seem to me that were polygamy handled in a more reasonable manner these communities wouldn't have developed in such a warped way and would have indegrated into the overall society better. 1,098. Jerri Lynn Ward Austin, TX The government of Texas has brought shame upon my state. 1,099. Jayne Katherine Searsmont, ME To take these children from their home and keep them in a Berry public coliseum, interrogate them, subject them to medical examinations is not protecting them from harm. In fact, it may be exposing them to further trauma even if they haven't been abused. To think that foster care is without risk is unrealistic. Let them go home and supervise them within the compound.

Page 134 - Signatures 1,094 - 1,099 Name From Comments 1,100. whit taylor enoch, UT I dont agree with the FLDS faith, yet they are a christian group. STOP the religous persecution!!!! The Texas attorney general should be concerned with potential lawsuits by civil libery groups and others who find this whole debacle unconstitutional as well as NAZI like. Free them kids. 1,101. Linda Cottrell Midvale, UT This is very, very frightening that this can happen. Agreeing or not agreeing with polygamy has nothing to do with this nor does looking like an advocate of abuse or underage marriage if you are protesting this illegal and unconstitutional raid and taking these children from their mothers. The damage being done by the outright terror these children are experiencing from being suddenly taken from their mothers is quickly becoming permanent. This whole thing makes me sick. Our constitution has set up the guidelines for dealing with all problems like this, and this is not it. 1,102. Robert Giramma San Diego, CA I think we have a serious Fourth Amendment violation here. I've seen no evidence to justify taking these children away from their mothers. 1,103. Austin Bistline Milliken, CO We all know CPS has an agenda. Please judge, let the agents be cross-examined. It is completely immoral to let one persons testimony be presented as evidence without any proof or questions as to why they draw their conclusions. I grew up FLDS and was never abused, nor did I see abuse. My parents had every right to teach me what they believed and I still had the strength to make my own decisions when I came of age. I'm a decent, well rounded individual. I thank GOD, CPS never stripped me from my loving parents, and I'm sure if they had, I would be having some serious issues to deal with now. 1,104. Linda Burton West Point, UT Why single out the FLDS when the environment in many inner cities is much, much worse? It is an obvious singling out and persecution due to religious beliefs. The children are not safer in the foster care system, because children in foster care are 4 times more likely to be molested. 1,105. John Quay Sewell, NJ 1,106. Hunter Gray Pocatello, ID 1,107. Dylan Broadbent Washington, UT im 12 and i couldnt imagine being taken away from my parents its just wrong im not proud to say i live in america any more. when you were my age could you imagine what it would be like being taken away from your parents. i didnt think so. so they should give the kids back to there parents. And just give it up. 1,108. Jessica Davies Sandy, UT

Page 135 - Signatures 1,100 - 1,108 Name From Comments 1,109. Vicki Tracy Salt Lake City, UT I do not believe it is okay for the FLDS to break the law, but I do not think that it is okay for Texas Rangers to break it either. When they say "don't mess with Texas" I say, "Texas messed with them first." 1,110. Melanie Baker Bluffdale, UT I agree wholeheartedly that something needs to be done to stop the FLDS practices of underage, forced marriages and their prophet's ability to take mens' families away from them and give them to someone else, etc. etc. But there are better ways to go in and put them under surveillance or keep tabs on their practices while the children stay at home with their own mothers and fathers (their real fathers). Were the search warrants and the taking of the children even legal considering the phone call was not a legitimate call for help, but from a person with a history of false alarm calls??? This church's constitutional and civil rights have been grossly violated. 1,111. Marc Christensen Sandy, UT This is a crime these children need to be with their parents. If they can prove abuse maybe remove that child or children but not all of them. 1,112. Jim Masterson Riverton, UT It's too bad that we are living in a time in the US when civil authorities can't be trusted to act within Constitutional guidelines. Will people in the near future look back to the time of governmental waterboarding and mass detention as a sad blip in US history, or will this be remembered as the time when the Constitution was officially abandoned as a relic of a bygone era. 1,113. Jody Wood Mount Pleasant, UT In the United States of America, our Constitution guarantees that citizens are supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty!!! This action taken by the State of Texas to "legally kidnap" children away from their parents without reasonable cause is a blatant violation of the Consititutional rights of these American citizens. If suspected abuse is reported and can be highly substantiated to be a real possibility, it should be investigated on a family by family basis rather than a mass confiscation of children from their loving families. Regardless of their religious beliefs and lifestyle that is not accepted by mainstream America, the FLDS people have a Constitutional right to their civil rights. They have been treated worse than any other minority group in the United States of America. The Muslims, the Quakers, the Amish, the Mennonites, the illegal aliens, and countless other groups in this country have not experienced the kind of blatant persecution that the FLDS people in this situation have suffered. Shame on you, TEXAS!! How dare you violate the Constitutional rights of these tax-paying American citizens with only an anonymous phone call that turned out to be a hoax as your justitication!!! You are (continues on next page)

Page 136 - Signatures 1,109 - 1,113 Name From Comments 1,113. Jody Wood Mount Pleasant, UT (continued from previous page) disrespecting all that our forefathers fought for in the Revolutionary War to secure our freedom from persecution and judgement from an unrighteous government!! The State of TEXAS is being self-righteous and vindictive in the name of protecting children from abuse that cannot be substantiated, without proven cause, and by seizing these children in an act similar to "false arrest" of citizens. I call upon you, TEXAS, to release these children NOW so they can stop being abused by your anti-American actions and be returned to their loving families who have suffered enormous agongy and torture by your unconstitutional and gestapo tactics!!!! Stop tramping on the Bill of Rights that our forefathers and current sons and daughters have fought and died for in the United States of America!! 1,114. Michelle Pfeiffer St George, UT It was unfair and totally wrong to tear apart the families and have all of these children removed from their homes and mothers. Even before the call was proven to be fake, an investigation should have been done to determine if any harm was being done to these children before they stepped in. 1,115. Craig Kelsch Draper, UT 1,116. David Ray eagle mountain, UT I hate to say it, but the actions of the CPA resembles Warren Jeffs' himself, i.e. "take the kids and re-assign them to someone else" mentality. I pray that the officials working on this mess will have God's wisdom in finding its solution. I'd like to see those women and children gaining their freedom inside that compound like anyone else. But you don't establish freedom by trampling the constitution! Two wrongs don't make a right. There is a way to help them, and so far this is the wrong way. 1,117. n. williams St. George, UT I think that this whole thing is bull.. I wish that the goverment will just leave the FLDS women and children alone..They have done nothing wrong. 1,118. Stanley Willson Elmo, UT Just because their religion is different than someone else shouldn't mean they have no right to believe or live that religion. 1,119. Anonymous Lubbock, TX It's a shame that I can't sign my name because I fear Anonymous retaliation by my own state government, let it be understood, if this leadership stands by and does nothing to protect the civil liberties of these individuals, then we will refuse to stand by them in the next term elections, or ever. 1,120. Kathy Ann Bonners Ferry, ID I am a mother who lost my baby about 2 years ago. It still Johnson hurts. I draw comfort in knowing my baby is with Jesus. I can't even let myself think of the pain of having your baby brutally taken from you. Would either Father, Mother or baby ever heal? KAJ 1,121. jesse kelsch herriman, UT

Page 137 - Signatures 1,113 - 1,121 Name From Comments 1,122. Wayne Maughan Benson, UT It is disgraceful that the rights of so many have been violated on the suspicion that one may be guilty. There have been events in the history of our nation that have caused shame as history reflects upon them. Once again Texas is involved in another such event. 1,123. Hannah Tucker Kearns, UT I wonder if all the Mormon, Catholic, Protestant, etc...children would be taken away if one person of their faith called in for help? 1,124. bruce heaton slc, UT Is it a Texas thing to bring preemptive actions for imagined and/or unsubstantiated wrongs? First Bush and now your CPS. 1,125. Malcolm Leitch West Jordan, UT I thought America was supposed to be a free country established by the Pilgrim Fathers to allow people to practice their religion, but I am not so sure anymore. I notice that until 2005 the legal age of consent to marry in Texas was raised from 14 to 16. What suddenly happened in 2005 that caused 14 year olds unsuitable? I am not advocating child marriages, but Texas should have looked at its own recent history before abducting so many innocent women & children. It�s religious persecution plain & simple. 1,126. Robert Richter Colorado City, AZ The state is acting downright vindictive. How the **** is an infant at risk of sexual abuse because of some underaged marriages. How the **** can someone be considered guilty of a crime they are going to commit? For Texas to want to take infants away from their mothers makes them 10X worse than Warren ever was. 1,127. anonymous Bona las vegas, NV This is outrageous! Everyone knows this is all bull----. I am almost afraid to be an American now. Texas is totally screwed up. They are going to have one mighty big mess to clean up off their state seal if they don't do the right thing REAL fast and return those kids to their mothers SOON! I mean REAL soon!!!! That Meisner lady I'll warrant has no children of her own and has never read the Constitution or the Bill of Rights!(or maybe she was a CPS "helped" infidel in the first place.) As i said this is Totally outrageous. 1,128. Maria Gray Pocatello, ID 1,129. Shirlee Draper St. George, UT This is an absurdly untenable violation of human rights. If the government can decide that raising children in a particular lifestyle constitutes abuse, then ANY religion (or lack thereof) can be interpreted as abuse. This absolutely cannot, will not be tolerated by free thinking people. 1,130. Suzanne Reese Draper, UT At first I was glad to hear something was being done to stop the mistreatment of teenage girls in the group, but this has turned into such an extreme violation of their civil rights - to remove infants and boys for things that might happen to them years from now is ludicrous!

Page 138 - Signatures 1,122 - 1,130 Name From Comments 1,131. Preston Grifton, NC Henderson 1,132. Carl Loerbs Anchorage, AK This has gone too far! It's obvious that there is NO threat to the safety of the vast majority of the 416 FLDS kids kidnapped by Texas authorities. The whole sequence may have been set in motion by an impersonator in Colorado. It's time to allow the vast majority of the kids to return to the environment they have grown up in. 1,133. Curtis Bloomfield Snowflake, AZ Violation of civil rights is always wrong - even under the disguise of protection. 1,134. Karl Fey Haddonfield, NJ What an appalling miscarriage of justice! And to think that this was all brought on by a hoax phone call is mortifying. Innocent lives are being destroyed for no good reason and the Texas authorities have shown nothing but contempt for the rule of law, let alone simple human compassion. It's time for the federal government to move in, reunite the families, and prosecute ANYONE even remotely involved in this fiasco. We treat terrorists with kid gloves yet move in with tanks and swat teams on UNARMED AMERICAN CITIZENS, herd them like cattle, and then - in true SS fashion - forcibly break up these families and force them into concentration camp conditions. The families must be reunited and the Texas authorities responsible for this Gestapo-like rampage must be brought to justice! 1,135. Elsie Richter Colorado City, AZ The children need to go back to their mothers asap. These parents love their children and should not be accused of abusing the children in the future. The parents are not guilty of a crime if it hasn't happened. 1,136. Rose Bradshaw Centenial Park, AZ 1,137. Chrispin Seaman Guadalajara, Mexico This is just Religious of a minority group. 1,138. Laura Con Junction City, OR Discipline CPS for this outrageous action against defenseless women and children. 1,139. Joseph Beck Cincinnati, OH As a retired certified social worker, I recommend that the children for whom there is no specific evidence of abuse be returned home with their parents immediately along with sufficient CPS staff to provide in home 24/7 supervision until the investigation period is completed. This would enable CPS staff to monitor parent child interaction without traumatizing the children. In those instances where there is evidence of abuse of a specific child by a specific parent, CPS can follow accepted child welfare procedures in order to remove the abuser from the abused. Please don't further traumatize the innocent children by removing them from their family and home environment. Respectfully submitted by, Joseph Beck Respectfully submitted by Joseph Beck

Page 139 - Signatures 1,131 - 1,139 Name From Comments 1,140. Katie Bagley Montpelier, ID 1,141. Jason Price Las Cruces, NM Give these children back to thier families, you have no idea what you have down to these children! Prosecute or give warnings to the people who did commit a crime, but understand this taking of children is far too extreme a measure. 1,142. Tracie Sullivan St. George, UT If this isn't kidnapping I don't know what is. Texas doesn't have their caller, "Sarah", and they can't arrest the alleged perpetrator Dale Barlow because he wasn't there so I can't see what grounds they have to hold these children on. IT'S TIME TO LET THE CHILDREN GO!!!! 1,143. Jeffrey Burge Lewis, CO How the state of Texas handled itself in this matter violated the country's constitution. Why aren't alter boys removed from the catholic mass, they are in a dangerous situation would you use an M-16 to remove them? 1,144. Cheryl Jackson Necedah, WI Taking those children away from their mothers is SO wrong!!! There MUST be a way to work on the issues that exist without further traumatizing 416 INNOCENT children! Babies! Nursing babies!!! Come on! How can it possibly be in their best interest to remove them from their mothers? 1,145. Laddie Page, AZ just anonher example of our dying democratic society! Dockstader goverments opinion of how you should conduct your life. 1,146. Travis Snyder henderson, NV Seizing 400 children! For what trumpeted up reason?! 1,147. Crystal Taylor Nampa, ID I cannot understand how this is happening. Innocent women and children are being taken from their homes and families while the rest of America stands by and watches. This is an outrage. These women and children should not be persicuted for their religious beliefs. 1,148. Gary Pendleton Ivins, UT The issuance of a search warrant based on the facts presented was a gross violation of principles of Fourth Amendment law. 1,149. G. Lipsey Palm Harbor, FL While I do not agree with FLDS on poligamy - I believe the children should be with the mothers. To snatch them away in this fashion is cruel and violates their basic civil liberties. Until abuse can be proven, give the kids back. 1,150. Kathryn Monroe Salt Lake City, UT I only recently moved to Utah from Washington D.C. I am not a member of the LDS Church. I am an attorney, but most importantly I am a mother. I cannot imagine the pain and damage caused by the mothers and the children alike as the result of this forced, insensitive, even cruel separation. There must certainly be a kinder, more humane, and healthier way to address this issue. In the interest of the children, the mothers and children should be allowed to stay together, in some capacity, until the state sorts out whether any crimes have been committed and by whom. Being separated from their mothers and transferred (continues on next page)

Page 140 - Signatures 1,140 - 1,150 Name From Comments 1,150. Kathryn Monroe Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) to the care of strangers will cause the children undue, and possibly irreparable, pain and harm. 1,151. Debra Pendleton Ivins, UT 1,152. JENNIFER FRITZ South Weber, UT THIS IS FRIGHTNING THAT CHILDREN COULD BE TAKEN AWAY LIKE THIS. THIS SEPARATION REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING THAT HITLER MAY HAVE DONE. I DON'T AGREE WITH THE FLDS CHURCH, BUT THE MOTHERS ARE NOT THE ONES ABUSING THE CHILDREN IN MY OPINION. THEY HAVE PROBABLY BE ABUSED THEMSELVES. THEY SHOULDN'T BE PUNISHED BECAUSE OF THE LIFESTYLE THEY WERE BORN INTO. THOSE WHO HAVE SUBJECTED THE ABUSE SHOULD BE THE FOCUS, NOT THE MOTHERS OR CHILDREN. 1,153. Fred Davis Rock Hill, SC The scumbags that removed these children to traumatize them and introduce them to anal sodomy in the public school system by agenda should be incarcerated. Fred 1,154. Tammy King Logan, UT 1,155. MATTHEW St. George, UT While i don't agree with the religious views of the FLDS, I BAUER must say that this is the wrong way to go about fixing things. We need to find ways to open communication with them, not condemn them for their beliefs. Lets zone in on the specific wrong doings and hold the responsible parties accountable. They aren't all evil people and the children don't deserve this. 1,156. Gus Pendleton Ivins, UT If government entities are going to start prosecuting entire populations based on a bit of hearsay who is going to be next?? 1,157. douglas Williams salt lake city, UT if some child is being abused, then deal with the one family, not 400 kids. 1,158. Cindee Steed Alton, UT 1,159. David R. Peterson Redmond, UT These people may differ in some ways from others, but they are still citizens of this country and the children should be reunited with their parents, if there are abuses they should be delt with on an individual bases and not as a family of 416. 1,160. Mark Cox West Valley City, UT While I am not a supporter of polygamy or the FLDS Church, these people have civil rights like any other Americans. After all, our country was supposed to be founded on religious freedom. This doesn't mean that we're exempt from the Laws of the Land, but it does mean that all people have civil rights, and are subject to fair trials based on the evidences found. It's the same kind of rights that gays and lesbians demand, which are other groups I don't support.

Page 141 - Signatures 1,150 - 1,160 Name From Comments 1,161. Bernice Barlow colorado city, AZ 1,162. Anna Collado Staten Island, NY What a shocking disregard for families, freedom of religion, and civil rights. Heads should roll because of this. Return these poor children to their families. 1,163. Jared Curle Spanish Fork, UT I cannot believe that all of the children in custody are in imminent danger of abuse. This is completely unreasonable. The possibility that some of the children have or could be abused is not justification for the removal of all of the children in the community. This whole situation smacks of religious persecution. At the very least, the God-given, constitutionally guaranteed rights to privacy, unlawful search and seizure, etc. must be secured for these families, or we are all in real danger of these events being repeated, perhaps to our own peril. 1,164. Tyler Albrecht cedar city, UT I am not associated with the FLDS group. I am a Doctor and I treat many of the kids in my personal practice. My entire staff would agree that the most honest, sweet, and humble kids are those from the FLDS group. The moms that I have met love their kids as much or more than any other mom I have ever met. This is very wrong to take these kids out of homes and away from mothers who are doing their best to raise their kids. I personally know many of these mothers and feel as though the texas government made a huge mistake. There are many more kids throughout America that are raised in much more scary environments then the FLDS. If every kids was taken out of their home for thinking that someone was being abused, there wouldn't be many more kids in american homes. You can't take 416 kids away from loving mothers on a call that could possibly be true. I can't believe that something like this can happen in America. It is really sad to see. 1,165. Zachary Shutt Farmington, UT Keep up the good work. 1,166. Abbigail Blake Ivins, UT Can you say Auschwitz, TX? 1,167. stan thompson draper, UT 1,168. candace ooka ogden, UT let the kids go home!!!!!!!!!!!! 1,169. kay bowden murray, UT I don't think any good can come from putting those innocent children in foster homes. Return them to the ranch and remove the men. I don't agree with their beliefs, but the children should not be punished. 1,170. Jacob Hawkins Cedar CIty, UT I live in Cedar City, Utah very close to a few FLDS or polygamist "compounds". I do not agree with the beliefs of these people nor do I agree with the way they raise their children or treat their women. It would not surprise me one bit if the "prank allagations" had been proven true. BUT... If we let Texas get away with this, what's next? Are they going to come to my house and take my kid because I tell (continues on next page)

Page 142 - Signatures 1,161 - 1,170 Name From Comments 1,170. Jacob Hawkins Cedar CIty, UT (continued from previous page) her no, she throws a fit and the neighbors call the cops.... Not in my country 1,171. alan kossak cedar city, UT Bigotry in America and in the world just never ends. 1,172. ERYAN PALMER BLACKFOOT, ID CPS in Idaho wouldn't take my kids away from my ex-wife even though she was busted for using meth! 1,173. Za Sidd Sandy, UT This is a blatant disregard of civil liberties guaranteed to the people by the constitution. Those children must be returned to their respective parents as soon as possible. 1,174. J Webb St. George, UT If there is abuse, find the abusers and arrest them. Now, the children are victims, again. Their mothers love them. Take the men into custody and find a home in jail for them! 1,175. Jose Longoria Harlingen, TX Free the FLDS, Jail the CPS 1,176. porsha ooka ogden, UT 1,177. Katie Zindel Ogden, UT 1,178. Blackmore Linda Cranbrook, Canada Give the children back... 1,179. Maria Ray eagle mountain, UT The authorities in Texas are proving themselves to be just as abusive as Warren Jeffs himself. Now who can these women and children turn to for help if they should want to? Innocent people are being punished. These women and children are being further frightened and mistreated and their civil rights are being extremely violated along with every other American citizen who must live in a country where their kids can be taken away because of vague and/or missing evidence and biased accusations. What happened to America? What happened to our constitutional rights? Free the hostages!!!! Reunite these children with their mothers!!!! 1,180. jay slaugh vernal, UT i think the kids should be sent back home to their families 1,181. Ty Reber Provo, UT Removing more than 400 kids from their families and having your therapists and lawyers work on them as long as possible is a blatant abuse of power. 1,182. And Mrs Chris Nephi, UT Please leave these people alone. They live in their own Bader world, not hurting anyone, WHY now must ONE judge decide that it is her right to upset their ways. We choose to live as man and wife(1)IN the in the US we have the right to decide what is Right for us. NOT one JUDGE. Leave them alone and start doing your job!!!there are lot of real Sexual Devils, that WE are sure you put back in to the public school system, YES. 1,183. Mary Stewart Colorado City, AZ 1,184. RoyAnn BLUFFDALE, UT Thank you for doing this petition. I am very frustrated to Gregerson see innocent children taken from their moms. Nothing I have read ever said that the moms are abusing their (continues on next page)

Page 143 - Signatures 1,170 - 1,184 Name From Comments 1,184. RoyAnn BLUFFDALE, UT (continued from previous page) Gregerson children. I do not believe for one minute any of those moms abused their children. If there really is a sixteen year old girl (which now is in doubt) talk to the sixteen year old girls. Do not traumatize young children. I definitely say GIVE THE CHILDREN BACK TO THEIR MOMS! I cannot imagine having my children taken away from me. I have absolutely nothing to do with the FLDS people but I certainly am very sympathetic to their pain and would not want my children taken from me or anyone else, especially when there is no evidence to implement any of the moms. 1,185. Kristen Reber Provo, UT I feel like the decision to remove these children was made in haste and was highly biased. Just because they live a different lifestyle than most Americans are used to is no reason to believe they are being abused. Numerous studies show that being raised in foster care is less than ideal. I think the kids should be returned to their families who love them. 1,186. Dave Gingras Gilbert, AZ If they go this far with a false claim, and justify it with they dont like their religion can a Lutheran be far behind? 1,187. Lorraine Colledge West Jordan, UT My heart is just torn by the way those children have been torn away from their mothers. I feel great sorrow for the mothers who have lost their children. This is the United States of America. We have religious freedom. Why is this religion being persecuted? 1,188. kopp latner orem, UT 1,189. matthew beagley riverton, UT 1,190. ashlee bistline riverton, UT What ever happened to the freedom of religion? Give the kids back to their parents!!!! 1,191. brenda mcfadden sandy, UT I am not a fundamentalist, but I am a U.S. citizen. I think that the way this situation has been handled is unconstitutional. I do believe that any abuse needs to be taken seriously, and handled, but obviously not like this. 1,192. Don Basile St.George, UT 1,193. Daniel Stewart COLORADO CITY, Connor Boyack: This is against human rights!!! This AZ petition needs to be sent to the head of the United Nations, not just Texas. 1,194. jim goldsmith sun valley, NV this judge: Barbara Walter should be removed! 1,195. Evan Bingham Ephraim, UT Come on guys. this doesn't seem fair at all. If there is one or two cases of abuse then go after them. But to blanket confiscate hundreds of kids is over kill. If there is evidence of teen pregnancies you might also need to go to the local jr high and start some more arrests. Come on governor, is this kind of religious persecution really part of the constitution? 1,196. Mark Sorensen Santa Fe, NM

Page 144 - Signatures 1,184 - 1,196 Name From Comments 1,197. Rhett Crapo Kirksville, MO I believe Texas CPS went far beyond their bounds in the way this situation was handled and the FLDS organization had its consitutional rights violated. Those that commit crimes must be held accountable, but even those that break the law have specific rights protected by the constitution. Each FLDS family deserves due process, and the mass removal of all children was absolutely wrong. It seems obvious that Texas law enforcement and judicial system has acted in a biased manner against an unpopular culture and I am ashamed that such blatent disregard for individual rights, regardless of the circumstance, has occured in the United States. 1,198. Alexander Ivory centennial park, AZ 1,199. Child Abuse? Anycity, United States If it's not child abuse or endangerment, then could Minor Outlying someone explain to me why girls as young as 12 years old Islands have children already? What is that called? I noticed alot of you are from Utah that signed this petition. How old were you when you first had sex? I was still riding a bicycle at that age, not making babies. Don't they have bicycles in Utah? I just see something wrong and some possible brainwashing from generation to gneration. I would really like for you to explain this to me. 1,200. Eric Sposito Leonardo, NJ Anyone down in Texas ever hear of Due Process rights? How about the Constitutional right to life, libery and the pursuit of happiness? This over arching reactionary move by the State of Texas smacks of a police state. I guess this is what America is coming to. God help us all 1,201. Davina Lehi, UT Please, let the innocent children go back to their mothers. Gjennestad 1,202. Jean Stoltz Salt Lake City, UT When did this country become stop believing the Constitution and the Bill of rights. When anyone an swear out an untrue affidavit to a judge to gain a search warrant, our Constitutional rights are diffenatly in jeopardy! If it can happen to these people than it can happen to anyone of us. 1,203. z w. eagle mountain, UT It is so sad to see any kind of abuse, I see the neighborhoods in my Country filled with much worse things than this kind of crime "which has yet to be proved a crime at all" The crime should be on the heads of the people who did this. Last time I checked the law stated INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. This act from Texas authorities is just unbelievable IN AMERICA. I was personally raised as a "plig" kid and I wasn't abused nor was I brain washed, I am a happy totally involved in the world, and a citizen of the UNITED STATES person, and I once was very proud of that. People talk about this everyday but what they don't see, they don't know, and it is usually not the worst case (as the media tries to report)

Page 145 - Signatures 1,197 - 1,203 Name From Comments 1,204. David Stoltz Salt Lake City, UT As my wife has said so elequently: When did this country become stop believing the Constitution and the Bill of rights. When anyone an swear out an untrue affidavit to a judge to gain a search warrant, our Constitutional rights are diffenatly in jeopardy! If it can happen to these people than it can happen to anyone of us. 1,205. K Sorenson Meadow, UT HORRIBLE!!!!! 1,206. Lori Smith Springville, UT I am LDS and don't agree with plural marriages or underage marriages - but I beleive in the mothers and their right to their children. These mother are with their children 24/7 and they love them and the kids need their mothers. The state of Texas is on a witch hunt. I hope that the judicial system will see the trauma that these children are suffering and get them back to their mothers. Throw the men out if needed, but keep mom and child together. This is an injustice only 2nd to Waco!!! What is the problem with Texas! 1,207. Cheri Russell Tooele, UT What has happened to them familys is unbelievable. So any body can come into our homes at any time and take our children for what we believe in. This is the most heinous thing i have ever seen. Those familys need to be reunited with their mothers. Before they cause more deepened pain for them children. Not to mention insecurity that they already are feeling and will for quite some time. Please return them home! 1,208. Beverly Duffield Bountiful, UT Among the hundreds of lives affected by unlawful and wholesale actions there cannot help but be many violations of Constitutional and human rights. Separating mothers and children is the act of villians and is morally wrong! I do not subscribe to this religion, but I certainly do not understand the singling out of women and children, the most vulnerable, much less their separation. It is so wrong on so many levels and is a threat to any citizen whom may be wrongly accused by any person with a gridge. 1,209. Mike Thompson Orem, UT These people have a right to their beliefs. The destruction the State of Texas has done to these children and families will never be fixed. They ought to burn in hell for what they have done. 1,210. Andrea Riverton, UT I do not agree to the ways of the FLDS church, but as a Ortiz-James mother I believe that the children should be with their mother's and family. It's been proven that children that are made "the ward of the State" are worse off. It seems that they are not neglicted or severly abused, but I think that Texas or any other state is NOT ready to deal with this and the children should return home. We as citizens of The United States, politians, and all of high authority have known for years of their practices and NOW are doing (continues on next page)

Page 146 - Signatures 1,204 - 1,210 Name From Comments 1,210. Andrea Riverton, UT (continued from previous page) Ortiz-James something? They leave us alone, we should do the same. Our Judicial system can't even seem to know what to do with the child molesters, abusers, and pedophiles that we deal with outside their walls. We set free mothers and fathers ALL THE TIME who KILL their own. I don't see this happening within them. They don't kill them or lock them in closets to starve, Just give the children back and leave them alone!!! 1,211. Ryan Martindale Salt Lake City, UT This is not to say I agree with the FLDS church, but holding all the children of a group of people is outrageous - the proof of abuse needs to be presented clearly. All I've heard is claims. I can't believe that all of the children have been abused, and I think they are being held without having sufficient evidence. 1,212. Cole Machado Eureka, CA 1,213. Karen Campbell Providence, UT The only danger I believe those children face is the world the "authorities" have placed them in- away from the security and safety of their parents who are deeply devoted to them and religious. I am outraged by the actions that have separated children from parents. 1,214. Linda & Steve Columbia City, IN Please consider the implications of violating these peoples Deam civil rights. If we, as Americans, lose our collective conscience and watch silently as any group of our citizen's rights are so obviously violated; then any one of us can or will be next in line for this treachory. Please stop now! 1,215. Chance Stewart Tropic, UT I don't agree with all aspects of the FLDS religion. However, until this alleged abuse is proven all this is, is a political stunt that the Texas CPS is using to get in the headlines. Whatever happened to freedom of religion in this country. 1,216. Stefani Watson Ivins, UT Although I do not share the FLDS beliefs I have spent time with them as a Parent-Infant-Advisor and as an audiologist. I have never seen any signs of child or spousal abuse. It is very hypocrital that as a country we claim tolerance for others religions and beliefs. We, as a country, have many times given the lives of our soldiers and spent billions of dollars to insure this freedom in other places and deny that same freedom on our own soil. It is a shame that we can allow pornography, which has been proven to cause abnormal sexual desires and is usually a precursor to rape, murder and dissolution of some marriages under the guise of freedom of speech but people who are not mainstream should be given a reputation of perverts and marked as dirty old men for practicing their belief system. It is a terrible situation in that the general public has assumed that popular views of (continues on next page)

Page 147 - Signatures 1,210 - 1,216 Name From Comments 1,216. Stefani Watson Ivins, UT (continued from previous page) sexual relations and relationships are the same for all people. I do not agree with under age marriage, but I do not think that raiding a community and seperating families is the right way to handle the situation. I urge you to return the children to their mothers and let them practice their religion in what is supposed to be a country of religious freedom. 1,217. Deborah Preseau WVC, UT Please arrest the men who have been accused of crimes against these women and children. Don't punish the innocent children let them be in their mothers arms. They have already had chicken pox. Do they have immunizations? Will they be physically sick when moved into the public? They must be so confused and scared. Please arrest the men accused!!! Let the innocent be free. 1,218. Michael St. George, UT Jurgensmeier 1,219. david corless logan, UT this is plainly a lie. nobody called the cops; if they did, it was a fake, and the texan goon squad knows it. this is just a fishing expedition to destroy families, steal property, steal children from families. texas cops, judges, and lying prosecutors are jerks, pimps, jack booted thugs. law means nothing to these horror stories. i sure hope these people sue the idiots for millions, and bankrupt the little toads. 1,220. Louis Langholtz Park City, UT The subjectivity of the doctrine of "child's best interests" in parens patriae is grotesque. It needs to be replaced in spirit and practice with a far deeper recognition of fundamental fairness that is inherent in due process - "benefit of the doubt" - or more specifically applied to parenting: the presumption of fitness to parent until proven unfit beyond reasonable doubt. The clear terrorism of Texas CPS in this case is but a focal point of attention to what's been increasingly happening to parents especially fathers around our country over the last few decades: the bonds between fit loving parents and their children being forcibly severed by increasing government enmeshment into the family. 1,221. Russell Sadler Logan, UT Just as sexual abuse should be curtailed, constitutional rights need to be upheld. These children were removed from their homes on the sole basis of their religion. Where sexual abuse is found, it needs to be stopped. But the state of Texas is holding children from some families where no sexual abuse has been found. The decisions reached in Texas have not served justice.

Page 148 - Signatures 1,216 - 1,221 Name From Comments 1,222. Robert Hansen Logan, UT I have watched over several years as the State and Federal Governments have imposed their desires and will over the family. While I do not agree with some of the FLDS practices a proper and through investigation was in order BEFORE removing children from their parents and devastating hundreds of children and parents lives.The psychological damage from such actions are even worse than parental kidnapping and should have no place in this country. 1,223. Beverly Estorga San Andreas, CA 1,224. Chad Whitaker Lava Hot Springs, ID I can't believe that police took such a drastic action with such little evidence. These people live in America, where they're supposed to have rights and protection from just such actions as these. After all, what's the point of living here if the government can take your children on minimal evidence? 1,225. Lacey Farr Saint George, UT To generalize an entire religion doesn't seem very constitutional or justified. 1,226. Gary Harrington Fort Mohave, AZ 1,227. Liz Wayman Holladay, UT I am very disturbed at how the state of Texas has handled this situation. They have walked all over the constitutional rights of these Americans. I do not agree with how the FLDS people choose to live their lives,however we do live in America a country that was founded on the basis that people could live the religion of their choice without persecution. Last I checked we also still believe that people are innocent until proven guilty.Unless the state of Texas has absolute knowledge that these four hundred children are ALL being abused they have absolutely no right to kidnap these children from their parents!Get with the program Texas we are in the twenty first century now and are no longer burning people at the stake! SEND THEM HOME!!! 1,228. Stephanie Smith Cedar City, UT The children have been torn away from there family's and everything that they know and for no aparent reason. There is no proof that any harm has been brought to any of the children. But now they are being harmed with fear, and for what because everyone does not accept and understand what they believe. Reguardless of what they believe or don't believe no one has any right to go into someone home and tear children away from there familys without cause and proof that they are in danger. They are people just like anyone else who love there children my heart goes out to everone of the parents and children that have to sleep apart tonight and every night that thay are kept away from each other. The people that are in charge of this should have there children or grandchildren ripped (continues on next page)

Page 149 - Signatures 1,222 - 1,228 Name From Comments 1,228. Stephanie Smith Cedar City, UT (continued from previous page) away from them and not be givin a real reason and see how they feel about it. 1,229. Martha Barlow Ogden, UT As a former FLDS I think everyone who has signed this should be ashamed of themselves. I doubt any of you have done much research to see what kinds of disgusting atrocities that are not only allowed but smiled upon. I am speaking with my dear sister (who is in that Texas compound) and the children's best interest in mind when I say that this petition deeply saddens me. If any of you would picture your child, niece or nephew being raised in an environment like that I think you would quickly change your mind about sentencing those 416 children to that kind of a life again. I love the people in that community with all of my heart but the truth is, something as disastrous as this raid is an incredible step forward and leads to a better future for those isolated children. Please, think of the life that you are sentencing them to before you sign this petition? 1,230. Jerald Dastrup Sigurd, UT Who decides what is right and wrong? Our society is neither healthy or sane so the norm of our society is wrong. How can we as a society condemn a group that has a better track record than the society as a whole. I don't agree with this group but I surely don't agree with the culture of african-americans in this country. Over sixty percent of the children are born out of wedlock, many to teenage (some very young teenagers). Many of these children are being raised by drug using mothers and grandmothers with little is any father influence. Shouldn't we take these children out of this terrible mess? Who decides? How is the FLDS culture the worst threat to children? 1,231. David Sandy, UT Authorities in Texas say they had been watching the YFZ Smedshammer Ranch for years. Just how effective are the Texas Rangers if they did nothing in the past, but stormed the place with a tank following a hoax phone call from a known prank caller? Now that they have a big mess to deal with they want to start researching the allegations. Pitiful. 1,232. Therresa St. George, UT The unabashed misuse of power is staggering in this case. Worthington There are ways of removing the children from the fathers without removing them from the mothers, AND, now they find the phone calls were FAKE! Texas wanted to get rid of the group, that is all there is to it ... 1,233. Glenn Jaspering Provo, UT only the ones that have evidence of abuse should be held not all of them. Geeeez Texas do you remember Waco? 1,234. Spencer Olive las vegas, NV

Page 150 - Signatures 1,228 - 1,234 Name From Comments 1,235. Margaret Dripps Ogden, UT you need to return these children to thier mothers. You can't just take children from family's before a crime is committed. Go after the ones that have committed a crime. Not all of them in the church have committed a crime. 1,236. joseph thompson Eagle Mountain, UT 1,237. Brett Jenkins West Jordan, UT What the Texas CPS has done is an absolute disgrace. I am dumbfounded that a state that claims such a patriotic heritage could act so unconstitutionally and so coldly as to destroy these families and their rights! I can't believe that the governor has not stepped in and condemned the actions of his agencies and asked them to make things right. As things now stand I have lost every bit of respect for Texas and Texas government officials and the only way it can be regained is to simply do the right thing and reunite these poor families before permanent damage is done. Conservative people nationwide regularly criticize other states for stripping individual rights from citizens, but Texas has just dropped to the bootom of the barrel in one fell swoop!!! I call on Texas to stand up, admit their mistake and make it right!!! Let the children go back to their mothers and fathers where they belong and remove the judge responsible. Talk about activist judges, this one had her mind made up before she heard any evidence. 1,238. Carolyn Kemp West Valley City, UT I am outraged that such an act has occurred and has been sanctioned by government officials in the state of Texas. Perhaps the completion of a course in civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution should be a requirement (in addition to disciplinary action) in order to educate all who have been party to the enactment of this atrocity! 1,239. Heidi Foster Taylorsville, UT I have been following the events in Texas with a great sense of dread. It is horrific to me that Texas can even attempt to justify separating these families. There is not one shred of evidence of underage pregnant girls. IF there had been, the state would have presented it at trial. All they were able to supply was 5 girls (all of legal age in Texas - 16), a number WELL below the Texas teen pregnancy rate. Ordering DNA evidence, only further invades the privacy of these people. They have been very upfront about who their children are. I have to wonder what the state's true motive is here. By allowing this travesty of justice to occur we are sending the message that we no longer value our rights as citizens. 1,240. Brandon Tippetts Payson, UT To pick a group of people out of a crowd based on their religion? sounds like discimination to me. These people may not be totally understood by everyone but there are many religions that are as well. Just because a few cases have been reported does not mean there all like that noone would like to be judged by all the actions of other (continues on next page)

Page 151 - Signatures 1,235 - 1,240 Name From Comments 1,240. Brandon Tippetts Payson, UT (continued from previous page) members in there church I thonk there is alot of love in these homes and hope there children are returned 1,241. Nichol Holwege Payson, UT I don't support Polygamy, but I think that those children should be with their mothers as long as the mothers are willing to live outside the compound. 1,242. Larry J. Wells Monticello, UT The fourth amendment rights of those people were totally violated. This a repeat of what has been done to the Japanese, Native Americans, Blacks and early day Mormons, to name a few. This can not happen in America - homes entered without PC, children taken from parents because of belief and association. This is not about protection, this is about terror and trauma too children in the name of Bible Belt belief, the end justify the means - in the name of heaven. There may be crimes, but because one crime is committed in Texas - all Texans cannot be detained to determine if they too might commit a crime in the future or may have committed one in the past. Larry J. Wells 1,243. Russ Dogg North Ogden, UT Famlies should be together untill the guilty are proven guilty. The children have done nothing wrong. 1,244. P Robinson Salt Lake City, UT 1,245. S Peterson S.L.C., UT Please get those children back with their mothers. What are you thinking. CPS has gotten way to powerful, next time it could be your family that gets ripped apart. :( I pray not! 416 children ripped from the loving and nurturing arms of their mothers, What is happening in our country? Thank you Connor Boyack for starting this petition. Thank you KSL for putting it on the air. 1,246. Tom Miller Smithfield, UT When perverted politicians join forces with perverted feminists, attorneys, judges and social workers, that's when we are in the worst danger of abuse and rape of all citizens and rape of justice. If it can happen to them, it can happen to us next, and it already has, to far too many of us already. Tom Miller 1,247. P. Wayman Grantsville, UT This situation was handled in a terribly unjust manner. For the judge to remove all of these children from all of these families based on one unverified phone call is completely unwarranted. This judge seems to have a religious bias and she should be removed from these cases. These innocent children should be returned to their mothers. I have yet to hear that authorities have found one instance of physical abuse regarding the children they have taken. If (continues on next page)

Page 152 - Signatures 1,240 - 1,247 Name From Comments 1,247. P. Wayman Grantsville, UT (continued from previous page) the state finds an instance, it should be processed within that individual family, not as a whole community! 1,248. Lorine J. Centenniall Park, AZ Dockstader 1,249. Sandra Pleasant Grove, UT Stop the child abuse. Return these children to their VanderWilt mothers! Who is going to hold Texas for the abuse of these people who are just trying to live their lives the best they know how. Just because the FLDS believe different from mainstream America doesn't mean they don't deserve the same rights that the Constitution and Bill of Rights promises us all. 1,250. Charles Barlow Colorado City, AZ I guess because we don't send our kids to the mall to hang out and listen to hip hop and get tatoos but instead teach them how to build a house and study the scriptures then we are child abusers!!!!!! NOT!!! 1,251. janella C. palmer Lister BC, Canada Please return the broken-hearted, lonely, innocent children to the empty, aching arms of the only people who are really interested in their well being. Give them back to their parents. They have done nothing that they should be held hostage the way they are. 1,252. James Holloway Providence, UT I do no believe the way these people do nor would I condone any illegal activity, but, it has become obvious that the state of Texas is being used to fulfill someone else's agenda as due process and rights of the innocent are being TRAMPLED upon. I questioned the use of Baptist buses used to ship these children and women from their homes. If there is a bias upon the side of the Judge then please step and and preserve our proper court and rights issues. Once it was found to be a hoax call these people should've been let go immediately! The greatest abuse these children are now seeing is coming from the State of Texas judiciary. Do what is legal and right. Thank You Note: if there were abuse here you would have my support, but, only if you use the proper channels to prosecute...... 1,253. Jacqueline de Orem, UT The trauma of taking those children away from the ones Gaston who love them is going to be terrible for them for years. I have a Ph.D. in family science and I think that what you are doing to those children is far worse than leaving them alone. And, you are engaging in religious bigotry also. 1,254. ana gutierrez beverly, WA um, yeah, wat goes on in people's life is none of our biz 1,255. Lisa Thomson Salt Lake City, UT I am not associated with the FLDS people in any way, but the more I hear about this story on the news, the more I am astounded at what Texas is doing! Of course NO abuse of children should not be tolerated on ANY LEVEL. But it sounds like Texas has attacked an entire group of (continues on next page)

Page 153 - Signatures 1,247 - 1,255 Name From Comments 1,255. Lisa Thomson Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) people rather than individual abusers. Remove the children who are in danger, but don't remove an entire neighborhood of endangered children. Under that logic, shouldn't there be mass raids on every inner city where parents are involved in drugs or other crimes -- because their children "might" be exposed to drugs or crimes, or raids on every high school where there is a girl younger than 16 who is currently sexually active and/or pregnant. YES, please stop the crimes and abuse being committed, but please don't terrorize hundreds of other innocent -- and safe -- children in the process!!! 1,256. Gerald Fifield Corinne, UT Let�s stand by the CONSTITUTION; whether you like it or not. Texas should go after the fraud who contrived the whole mess. 1,257. Tiffany McCoy Purcell, MO i dont agree with everything the flds does but wat texas is doing 2 them is wrong there is worse stuff happening in this country than wat is happening there. the women and children shuld b allowed 2 return 2 their homes where they belong not in shelters n treated like crap. it is their religion not abuse. if they have no problem with it y shuld we. idc wat ne1 else thinks but thats my 2cents n u got it. 1,258. Kelly Beck Cudahy, WI 1,259. Kenneth Coman Ogden, UT I thought America was the land of the free and the home of the brave. Let these kids go. 1,260. David Neale Midvale, UT 1,261. erin aronson Fort Worth, TX What you have done is unAmerican, immoral and ILLEGAL! I don't expect the families of FLDS to be permitted by the US and Tx gov't to be brought back together any more than the families of the Branch Davidians were, when they were brutally attacked without provocation. You may get away with this now, but one day, we will all have to give a reckoning for what we have done. It's in your hands now. Your phony "tipster" has already been exposed. 1,262. J M Boyack Springville, UT I don't agree with any of the FLDS actions, but I don't agree with how Texas is handling the situation. They have not been able to identify the girl that claimed to have been abused. They went in before getting all their information substantiated first. Their evidence they have brought forth is not credible and will not hold up in any court. The person the sheriff claims is his under cover person does not sound credible either. JMB

Page 154 - Signatures 1,255 - 1,262 Name From Comments 1,263. Ross Chatwin Colorado City, AZ Texas is punishing the whole for the crimes of a few. If the United States will stand for the continuation of violation of FLDS civil rights, it will bring down the whole nation. Who will be next, will there be anyone left to call on when the CPS comes to take YOUR children? If this is what happens, we don't have an America. 1,264. Chris Anonymous St. George, UT I think this is ridiculous. I know a lot of FLDS and they seem very nice. So, even if a few of the families are abusing their children, it's not much different then people that aren't FLDS is it? I think law needs to focus more on kids that live in drug houses and are getting exposed to meth and violence then to crack down on people that mind their own business and isn't any different from the normal joe out there. I don't believe in the underage marriage, but guess what? There are older guys all over the world that are having relations with underage girls, so why is this any different? And to the media, get a life. I think it's funny how the media is saying FLDS are isolated and don't get out and the husbands keep their wives and children on a leash. You media people back east that have never even seen a polygamist, why don't you come to Utah and go into the Wal-Mart or even my orthodontist office and take a look around and you well see an FLDS woman with her children and I guarantee if you say hi, they will say hi back. And then you will realize that you were not cut out to be a reporter because most of your viewers or readers are either FLDS or live by a sect and know that you are feeding the world full of crap. We already know there was a false report about Texas, so the case should be dismissed and let the families get back to their normal lives. 1,265. miriam morgan huntington, UT I think they should take the children back to thier mothers it is hard on a young child to be away from thier mothers for along time.And i dont believe the families have done anything wrong just becouse those people dont believe in polygamy doesnt mean its wrong people should be able to live how ever they want. 1,266. Anji Coman Ogden, UT You have no right to take those children. What a horrible prospect for anyone with children, anyone could make a call and have you come and take my children. Arrest the wrongdoers! If that ends up leaving the children defenseless; if all the fathers and all the mothers are guilty, so be it, that would be a legal and correct course of action. But taking the children was wrong and is wrong. Do not make it worse by defending your actions as correct - Right your wrong, and move properly against the lawbreakers. 1,267. Amy Hansen Provo, UT When there is a perpatraitor in a home, that person is removed. Children are not removed from mothers--if the children are being abused--which we actually don't have (continues on next page)

Page 155 - Signatures 1,263 - 1,267 Name From Comments 1,267. Amy Hansen Provo, UT (continued from previous page) proof that they all are--I don't agree with underage marriages--but we have no proof that all of these children are being abused. Anyway, you don't separate children from their mothers!! That's a great way to make things worse mentally for them. This is completely against constitutional rights! There are so many children in far worse homes that have "the potential to become abusers" but that gives absolutely NO right to remove them from the home. This is a "Baptists hate FLDS People" thing--this is a religion against a religion thing. We have such a free-sex society and if we are going to prosecute polygamy, we need to prosicute adulturers as well--only with polygamy the husband is actually taking care of all of the family and the wives know about each other. So it is legal for a man to have sex with as many women as he wants, but if he marries them, it is illegal. I do NOT agree with polygamy, but if someone wants to live it and they are an adult, I really don't care. There are a lot of sick people in this world and if all that Texas can do to solve this problem is to take innocent children from innocent mothers (everyone is innocent until proven guilty) than I think Texas should leave the United States and create their own consitution that doesn't allow anyone who isn't Baptist to do what they want. In my religion I am also taught that being a mother is the greatest thing and ordained of God. I am not FLDS and I do not believe in the practice of polygamy, but for CNN to repeatedly say how terrible it is that this religion teaches these girls that being a mom is their greatest calling--there is NOTHING wrong with that!! Being a mom is an honor and a privilege and if our society actually had values, we would see greater moms and greater children. We all know that kids that come from good homes--a home with loving parents--especially a father and a mother--they are less likely to get into trouble with the law and to be successful in society. So let's not destroy these precious children and precious girls that actually have some good values by stripping them from all they hold dear and know (their mothers and religion--let's maybe guide them and let them know that they and their beliefs are not all evil--just the practice of underage marriages (especially older men to younger women). I would love to help these children and girls that have had hard lives. The best thing for these mothers and children is to have each other to strengthen each other during this hard time. IF texas really cares about the children, they will take out the offenders (men that have married underage girls and or abused them) and let the mothers be there for their children--as we would in all other sex-offender cases. Where does Texas come off not following the constitution?

Page 156 - Signature 1,267 Name From Comments 1,268. Miranda Boss Herriman, UT An absolute outrage!!!!! Did they do this to the Catholic church when so many of their church authorities were PROVEN to be sexually abusing children? No way!!!!!!! This is not a case of caring for the childrens well being, this is all about polygamy and trying to make a statement. Texas is trying to see what exactly they are allowed to get away with, how far will the people of this supposed free nation allow the government to infrindge on the rites of the citizens. Everyone needs to take a stand and let if be known that " We the People" will not allow this to happen!!!Innocent until proven guilty...... bull shi_!!!! 1,269. Todd Dutson magna, UT 1,270. Sarah Knudson Centennial Park, AZ 1,271. Esperanza magna, UT Dutson 1,272. A Maynes Riverton, UT I'm very concerned that such a large 'blanket' was thrown over these allegations. I am willing to believe that there may have been abuse within this compound, but cannot fathom that there was abuse perpetrated in each of these homes. This makes me a bit anxious to associate myself with any group (homeschooling, church, adoptive families, etc.) and run the risk of being unjustly accused and losing freedom I have taken for granted. 1,273. Rod Vining Irvington, AL More child abuse takes place every day in the Government run PUBLIC SCHOOLS across the USA than at the FLDS ranch. That arrogant judge Barbara Walther was quoted as saying during the hearings "can I give them, (the children) back?" WHAT? The question is, "what is the COMPELLING REASON TO STRIP THEM FROM THEIR HOMES AND FAMILIES, IMPRISON THEM, CONFISCATE CELL PHONES, CUT OFF COMMUNICATIONS, LIE TO THE PARENTS, SEPARATE CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS, AND SO ON. The original reported "abuse" tip has been proven to be a HOAX. The Texas State CPS workers, the judge, attorney general, etc,. are the ones who need to be prosecuted. We are supposed to live in a FREE, and "INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY" Constitutional REPUBLIC, not in the current "police state of Texas". 1,274. Alanna Van Pelt Spanish Fork, UT I am not FLDS, and do not practice polygamy, but I cannot believe what I am hearing and reading in the news about these mothers and children. I can't believe this is going on in America!!!!!! This isn't just about weird sects being abused by the system, this is about the civil rights of every person in America having the possiblilty of being stripped of them with the power we have given the legal system and family services. I am so shocked I don't even have words to describe it!

Page 157 - Signatures 1,268 - 1,274 Name From Comments 1,275. Staci Midgley Ogden, UT When did we return to the equivalent of the Salem Witch Trials? So much for America's highly-publicized "Freedom of Religion." 1,276. Erica Cox Utah, UT I do NOT agree with the views of the FLDS church, but as a mother and a citizen of this country, I do believe in the rights of the children! Somewhere in all this mess, these childrens' freedoms and rights have been violated. Isn't going into State Custody abuse in itself? Let these children go home! 1,277. Kenneth D. Orem, UT The phone call which led to the search warrant was Cahoon fraudulent. Therefore the search warrant should not have been issued and has no merit. The constituional rights of these people have been violated. Whatever evidence was collected should be inadmissible. Their children must be returned and justice restored. 1,278. Michael Hansen Casper, WY 1,279. Nolan Kingston Lancaster, CA So many laws and rights were outright violated that if this is going to be the basis for taking 416 children away from their homes and mothers, then I avidly support and encourage that every single mainstream Christian mother and father in the United States have their children taken away because I am certain that we can find far more people who are obviously guilty of child abuse and who are registered sex offenders among them. Put all mainstream Christians in Concentration Camps, separating all children from their parents! That's the only way to right this wrong! Oh, but then that would mean another Trail of Tears, wouldn't it? Good grief! That is the America of today. No wonder we're so hated across the globe! I predict, therefore, that there will be a Civil War in the United States that will be centered on the Lousiana Purchase States and about 100 miles beyond those borders. Every member of mainstream Christian religions will be the target not of persecution but of retribution. In that day soon, many Christians are going to say, "Lord, Lord! Look at all the many wonderful things I have done in your name!" Sadly, he's going to say to each of those Christians, "Let your crosses and other dumb idols represent you because I don't know you. Now get thee hence, Satan!" Because of the injustices of this country, the population of the United States will be reduced by 33%. On that day, I will sadly stand back and say, "Rome wasn't built in a day..." 1,280. Michel Rivetti Herriman, UT I think the treatment of the FLDS is based on the ignorance and malicious feelings of a few publicity seekers who care nothing for other human beings. It is wrong to do what they have done and should be greatly ashamed at their actions. How could they take children away from their mothers and (continues on next page)

Page 158 - Signatures 1,275 - 1,280 Name From Comments 1,280. Michel Rivetti Herriman, UT (continued from previous page) fathers when no crime has been proven and little if any evidence has been submitted to justify such horrible acts. I am not FLDS, and I do not necessarily agree with their religious beliefs, but I do know they are American citizens and human beings. What are we becoming, China?!?!?! Why have not more Americans become enraged with this? 1,281. Mary E Hill American Fork, UT I do not support the FLDS Church, but what happened to due process of law, executed according to Constitutional rights and due process? Nazi leaders accused non-conformists in a similar manner. My great uncle, Peter Vassel, had his boys school in Schwarzburg, Thuringen, Germany taken over when he would not teach what Hitler wanted. He died in a prison camp. We can not go that direction in America. There is a right way to help children and women, but the actions taken in Texas are way out of line. These mothers and children will die of broken hearts, and such actions will cause people to go underground to hide from authorities. This threatens all of our rights. I am grateful to sign this petition. 1,282. Margaret San Diego, CA Ginzburg 1,283. B Cook Salt Lake City, UT For American citizens to be treated as enemy combatants and denied their Constitutional rights is not only appalling, but is a threat to the freedoms that our nation has long stood for. The government of the state of Texas has clearly over-stepped the boundaries of good sense and responsible governance! 1,284. Jessica Ramirez Ft. Richardson, AK Bad- bad in so many regards. Who's going to pay all this? Us as taxpayers. Who's going to mother these children better than their own if the only wrong committed was in their religious beliefs? If their religion and actions thereafter are wrong then where does it stop? The real abuse is in the actions not taken by by-standers and those in postions to speak up. Please see through to the truth and use justice to examine evrey angle of the situation. These children deserve better. Deserve better than what our world today will ever be able to display. 1,285. Doran (JR) Hurricane, UT I feel that these people are having their constitutional rights Jessop violated, and I think the courts should do what's best for the children and return them to their mothers. Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure (continues on next page)

Page 159 - Signatures 1,280 - 1,285 Name From Comments 1,285. Doran (JR) Hurricane, UT (continued from previous page) Jessop The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 1,286. edward mooney belfair, WA The Catholic church has used marriage laws to control countries as a first step in total domination. First the mormons who is the next it may be you http://ghostfromhistory.blogspot.com/2008/04/anti-christ-bush-his-nazi-false-apostle.html 1,287. Richard Chappell Phoenix, AZ "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" - creating laws for the express purpose of breaking up a religion is fundamentally illegal. It's time to take responsibility, Texas. If there are real abuses, deal with them. But in this case, the state has become the real abuser. I am ashamed. 1,288. Michael Dwyer Delmar, NY enough is enough! Just throw us all in concentration camps and get it over with 1,289. Christina cox provo, UT Please return these children to there mothers. these children are being treated as if they them selfs are the criminals... what has gone so wrong that we lock children away not to have communication with anyone let alone there family's. this in and of it self is a tragity and an abuse of our legal system as well as our constutoinal rights. please return these children to where they belong. 1,290. Rick Dupree benton, KY 1,291. Timothy Preseau West Valley City, UT Reunite children and mothers. Let them return home. Take the fathers out of their homes. They appear to be the ones who have committed the criminal acts. Not the ones you have in custody. 1,292. Bradley Wade Cheltenham, Australia 1,293. WILLIAM CAPE CORAL, FL There is no question that both the civil rights and liberties NMEDVECKY of these people have been violated for the sole purpose of persecuting them for their beliefs and moving them away from "Good folk". This whole travesty is disgusting and un american. Shame on you!

Page 160 - Signatures 1,285 - 1,293 Name From Comments 1,294. Ruth Cook Salt Lake City, UT When the murder of a little Asian girl recently took place in a neighboring community, I decided to talk to my 4-year old son about the reality of dangers around us and the importance of safety issues such as staying close to Mom and Dad. I sat with him as we watched clips of news on the story of this little girl so that I could answer any questions he might have. When he expressed concern for his safety and the safety of his baby sister from the monster, whose face he was now seeing on the TV as the man responsible for committing the crime, I told him that he didn't have to be afraid because some very good policemen had done their jobs really well and caught this guy so that he couldn't hurt anyone else ever again. After 100 or so more questions, he seemed to be satisfied with what I had said. Several weeks later while catching bits and pieces of this story in Texas, he has again presented me with some pretty tough questions such as, "Mother, if policemen are good, why did they take all those kids from their moms and dads and make them cry?" Or, "Will those policemen come here and take me and the baby away from you?" Last but not least, "Who will take care of all those little kids that don't have their mothers anymore?" After tearfully answering him as best I could I realized that I had some questions of my own. Why HAS this been allowed to happen? Who actually IS taking care of all of those little kids and looking out for them the way their own parents would be? WHY have the human rights of our brothers and sisters been so brutally violated? Whether we agree with their belief system or not we can (at the very least) agree that they ARE in fact human. We should also be able to agree that one of the most basic human emotions is the bond of love between parents and children and when you have a government that is willing to trample that bond based on weak at best allegations, is when things have gotten way out of hand. To me, it begs the question, WHO should we be telling our children to beware of? As the mother of two small children, my heart simply breaks to see the pain in the faces and hear the sobs of those moms. And when I hold my own babies in my arms and rock them to sleep at night I can't help but wonder if any of us are safe in this our "free" America. It is absolutely true that one of the greatest blessings you can have is the blessing of children. They are indeed our most precious resource and parents have the right to love and raise their children without fear of separation or persecution! Please return those children to their families and mend the hearts of people everywhere.

Page 161 - Signature 1,294 Name From Comments 1,295. CINDY NEWARK, OH I have no problem with the State of Texas wanting to CALDERWOOD prosecute child abusers. However, I do not want people prosecuted based on an annonymous phone call. I fear for this Country when I hear people applaud the actions of the State of Texas. If we as a Nation allow the State to violate the rights of a group of people simply because their lifestyle is odd and they do not conform to the social norms, what will stop the State from doing it to "us" the "mainstream"? To be quite honest, I believe that if I were required to choose between the FLDS or the CPS to hand over my own child to, I would have to choose the FLDS. It is my belief that the CPS and the foster system will cause more harm to those children than the FLDS ever could. CPS agencies are notoriously incompetent and detremental to children. I do question why the State of Texas did not arrest the accused men instead of removing the children. This would make more sense, would it not? Nobody is arguing that the State of Texas should not arrest and convict child abusers. The argument is that if the State is permitted to violate the rights of these people with impunity, they will most certainly feel empowered to violate the rights of others. 1,296. X Shafer Lansing, MI 1,297. alan archuletta west valley, UT the department of family services does many great things, and has many hero's, however, they sometimes lose site and need to be put back into there place. my belief's are not strange to me, but I wonder if enough people thought that I was weird, if my children would be in danger of being taken? 1,298. J. N. Not given, UT I think it is sad when we live in a society where CPS now has the authority to remove children from good parents, based on an anonymous claim. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? What happened to being able to know who your accuser is? One of the mothers made a comment in the media comparing this fiasco to the holocaust. She was absolutely right! Is scares me to think that our government has the power to separate children from their parents based on religious beliefs, and do so in the name of protecting the children. Didn't Hitler do the same thing? 1,299. S K Heyburn, ID 1,300. patrick Murphy Bountiful, UT If you want to help the mother's and the kids together, and seperate the men from them!Than keep the fathers away from them.(Simple.) That is where the problems are anyway! I have not seen sex abuse in regards to mothers and the children. I cannot see why CPS have not seen that.. The children and the mothers need to be together doing this awful, and sad deal for the families.. I am (continues on next page)

Page 162 - Signatures 1,295 - 1,300 Name From Comments 1,300. patrick Murphy Bountiful, UT (continued from previous page) surpise that thier rights are not being look here. Can you imagene how the rest of the world is looking at this! 1,301. Joseph Salt Lake City, UT I have a hard time believing that all of these kids are at risk Rickabaugh for abuse. After all, it's not the m.o. for the FLDS to take child grooms. This is just another example of the jackbooted thuggery by the government under the guise of justice. Let's not pretend this isn't about polygamy. If that were a Baptist commune they wouldn't have removed all of the children. Remove the abused children and lock the abusers up and throw away the key. Let the others be. 1,302. David Mathias Robbinsdale, MN The beginning of tyranny is always cloaked in "good intentions". Just wait until they come for you. 1,303. Heather Oder Gahanna, OH 1,304. Lawrence Culp Grand Island, NY 1,305. Kirt Jones Orangeville, UT 1,306. K HELLER WOODLAND HILLS, WHAT EVER HAPPINED TO..."INNOCENT TILL UT PROVEN GUILTY", THESE FAMILES ARE BEING TORN APART BY OUR GOVERMENT ! AND YOUR FAMILY MIGHT BE NEXT! 1,307. Mary Rivetti Pullman, WA From what I've read, the children are much more at risk in the custody of the state than if they were still with their families. The state was trying to avoid "another Waco," but still approached the situation with the same mentality of fear. The basis for intervention was recognized as suspect right away. The state needs to decide if it is polygamy per se that is untenable, or if child abuse is at issue. We're glad that the ACL�is able to address this issue with a concern to appropriate preservation of human rights. We hope that in turn the YFZ group will respect the rights of its own members. 1,308. George Rivetti Pullman, WA 1,309. Herbie Headley Beltsville, MD It seems also that this one particular judge has complete control over the whole situation. One phone call from an imposter and a whole community is uprooted and demoralized for the whole world to see. Government over stepping via discrimination. 1,310. Monte Wells Monticello, UT I do not agree with the FLDS beliefs or and I believe in punishing crimes of abuse - BUT I do believe that these peoples civil rights are being violated. Based on the information I have I'm not sure how you search someone�s home and remove them from the home without probable cause that a crime has been committed. This appears to be more based on disapproval and fear of the FLDS religion. My concern is that if the state can justify their actions in this case what is next. What happens when (continues on next page)

Page 163 - Signatures 1,300 - 1,310 Name From Comments 1,310. Monte Wells Monticello, UT (continued from previous page) the government doesn't agree with the next group? This is why we have rules of law that need to be followed. It is my opinion that any law that allows the civil rights of a person to be taken away with out probable cause that a crime has been committed is an unjust law. 1,311. Barbara Hulet Olathe, CO The people who work for the Child Protective Service has to have sworn an oath. Demand those oaths and get those poor kids back to their mothers. Each one has defied their oaths, this is huge. Barb 1,312. LeAnn Albrecht Orem, UT Is this history repeating itself? If the government can invade the privacy of these people when are they going to come through my front door? I don't tolerate "ABUSE." Each individual case should be considered not a mass round-up of all. When the Catholic Church priests were convicted for abuse of young men did the government arrest all the men in the Catholic Church including the Pope? Where are our First Amendment Rights? 1,313. Brandon Larsen Oxford, NC I believe that the children should be released to the custody of their mothers and that the mothers be released. 1,314. Shawn Brown SLC, UT It is scary that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away like this. To think that someone could make an anonomously phone call and from this patttern of behavior, I could lose my children. This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! 1,315. David Hope Salt Lake City, UT I don't agree with the FLDS beliefs, but I do believe in freedom of religion. Just because they are different from most of us doesn't make them evil. Their community has a lot less crime than the rest of the United States. Why would we want to ruin that? 1,316. Freddie Geisler Fall River, MA 1,317. Karl Bateman West Valley City, UT Free the children and stop this violation of civil rights. No more 4th amendment violations! 1,318. Sandi Wolfley Thayne, WY 1,319. Jason Mickelsen West Jordan, UT I dont think it's right what texas is doing to these people,they mind there own bussiness and don't bother any one look at all the illegal aliens coming in what do we do nothing and they way this was handle by officals way out of control the never even lokked into the phone call just went right in and did what the wanted and thats bullshit whast happen to our rights oh we have none. 1,320. John Hammon Kennett Square, PA When people ask me why I am defending these people, I say, "because the government has done this before." This action traumatized not only the children, but the next 3 generations. Why do we distrust the government? All the time, I hear, "yeah, but that was 50 years ago. They wouldn't do that now." Now I hear, "Well, they must of had (continues on next page)

Page 164 - Signatures 1,310 - 1,320 Name From Comments 1,320. John Hammon Kennett Square, PA (continued from previous page) a good reason, obviously that girl called." When that reason failed, they say, "Yeah, but there are in a safe place." . . . . . Yeah, whatever. If there is going to be accountability, we should start with the government. 1,321. Lynette Holmes Cedar City, UT My children still have nightmares from being taken illeagally three years ago. I had to prove my innocence to get them back 7 months later. My Autistic Child is still clingy and has separation problems. The damage that they have done in Texas will never go away for these children...It hasn't for mine. Child welfare services needs to put their efforts into the Druggie Parents...not the sweet ones. 1,322. Ann Wright Cedar City, UT Ditto to #1320. What gives these agencies in Texas the right to abuse the rights of these American Citizens? I have seen how safe foster care can be for these children... The government needs to be accountable for their abuses. 1,323. Don Perry West Jordan, UT If there have been "crimes" committed, the wrong people are being held. The "victims" are being victimized. Is this the way the law works in Texas or the United States? 1,324. Clarissa Jenson Eagle Mountain, UT I do not agree with underage marriage or with abuse. But these people still live in America and should be considered innocent until proven guilty. Many should not have to suffer for the crimes of some. 1,325. Laura C Logan, UT These people have rights too - I personally believe Texas officials over stepped their boundaries! 1,326. Monica Mejia Webster, TX I know of another case where TEXAS CPS interviened in a child abuse case that was brought on by a bad divorce. The father didn't want to pay child support, so he called CPS on the mother. The children were taken from a perfectly good home where they were loved and taken care of by their mother, who did nothing wrong. After months of seperation, and tons of money to the lawyers, all criminal charges were dropped, but CPS still threatened the family by telling the mother that when her newborn baby was born, they would be at the hospital to pick the baby up until the CPS case was complete. I do not agree with the LDS church and their beliefs, but I also know what a devistating toll this can have on the children and their mothers. If what I heard was correct, some of the children don't know who their mothers are. That is not normal, but is that a crime? Is there any crime in raising your children in a community where all the women love all the children like they are their own. I don't understand why the children were taken from their mothers without a thorough investigation first. I think this is an abuse of power and I can't except it.

Page 165 - Signatures 1,320 - 1,326 Name From Comments 1,327. Richard Lindsay Bountiful, UT Yes, any marriages involving under-age girls must be stopped, but to seize ALL of those children, rather than taking this on a case-by-case basis...smacks of religious intolerance, persecution and bigotry. And disturbingly, this looks like Nazis rounding-up Jews in Europe sixty-five years ago. Rick, Utah 1,328. Dorothy Gentry Castle Rock, CO I do not agree with the FLDS, but I do feel that these people have been victimized by the Texas law. Please free these children. 1,329. Shana Galbraith Boise `, ID 1,330. Bryan Owen Huntington, UT As a citizen of the United States of America, I feel the women and children of the FLDS in Texas are being denied their Constitutional rights, and a great injustice has been done. 1,331. james cornwall slc, UT 1,332. Daniel Holmes Cedar City, UT It doesn't matter if you agree with the FLDS or not, their rights are being trampled on and if they can do this to them, they can do it to the rest of us. These CPS thugs do not care about what is best for these kids, it's their job to break up families and it is obvious they will break their own laws, the laws of the US and lie to achieve theirs goals. LET THESE KIDS GO HOME TO THEIR PARENTS!! 1,333. Rose L Stubbs Colorado City, AZ 1,334. Joni Miller Mapleton, UT Even though I do not agree with the FLDS at all, I feel that the rights of these mothers and children are being violated. It is not the fault of these mothers and children. Give the children their mothers back. It is what is best for them period!!! 1,335. joshua williams centennial park, AZ Freedom of religion is the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. It is generally recognized to also include the freedom to change religion or to not follow any religion. Freedom of religion is considered by many in many nations and people to be a fundamental human right. to take over 400 childeren on a false pretense of being in danger of abuse seems highly biased and anti constitutional. just because we may not fully understand a group of people and there religious practice and beleifes does not give any one the right to tear a family apart like they have done in texas. 1,336. Leslie Erickson Newton, UT I'm happy to have a place to express my concern over the Texas authorities taking all these children. There has never been anything mentioned of young children being abused, and the stress these children are being subjected to at being taken from their families and homes must be worse than anything they experienced there.

Page 166 - Signatures 1,327 - 1,336 Name From Comments 1,337. Barbara Dugdale West Jordan, UT Lets keep these children with their families. They don't understand what's going on. All they know is that their whole world is being turned upside down. 1,338. William Michael Brigham City, UT The removing of FLDS children from their homes and Bush families was a terrible and tragic mistake. This is a clear and undeniable case of religious persecution with horrifying results. Children are being denied thier parents and parents, their children. The children are terrified and want to return to the safety of their homes like any child would. The reason for their being taken has been demonstrated to be a hoax. Does one caller justify the removal of all the children in an entire community? Or, should specific cases of abuse be investigated without the removal of all children in a community? If a neighbor has abused a child will my children be taken as a result? I demand, with all the energy of my soul and heart that the children be returned to their rightful homes. 1,339. Lynn Parker Salt Lake City, UT I am married to the lawyer who has been actin as media spokesman for this community. We have been acquainted with members of the FLDS church in Colorado City, UT and Hildale, Arizona for over 10 years. We know many of these families and while we don't agree with all of their religious practices, we know them to be a healthy, loving, strong but private spiritual community where there is tremendous support and concern for one another. Their belief system may be different from ours but they are God fearing, family loving people. They are also American citizens and by constitutional right are entitled to the same treatment as other Americans. Childhood protective services states that in cases of suspected abuse, children are to be removed from the home only if determined to be at immediate risk. Removing all children from the surrounding community at gunpoint based upon the unsubstantiated accusation of one individual is an outrage! Historically, such events have only occurred in countries ruled by terrorists and dictatorships. 1,340. Clark Salisbury North Logan, UT Are we really living in the United States, the land of freedom? If abuse takes place, it should be handled on an individual basis, and I am totally in favor of those who are abusers being prosecuted to the full extent of the law. For the State of Texas to kidnap 416 kids because one report was called in is not constitutional. We live in a country where I could not believe this could happen, but it has. 1,341. John Pilcher South Jordan, UT I do not agree with what the FLDS people are doing, but the civil rights of all US citizens must be protected! Free the people and use the due process of law to solve the problems.

Page 167 - Signatures 1,337 - 1,341 Name From Comments 1,342. Sally Teal-Holman Sandy, UT Would it make any sense if one child at a local elementary school made a plea for help from being abused, and the state took the whole student body into custody and decided to place them in foster care? NO!! So, what's the difference in what they are doing in Texas? If they are concerned about the young adolescent girls who are pregnant, then why not just keep them and question them? To hold babies and small children just because one person (supposedly) made a call for help is ridiculous! And now it looks like it may have been a crazy person who made the call who had nothing to do with the FLDS goup. This is still America! We're not living in Germany during World War II, people!! But what do we expect from Texas---where America's worst president of all time comes from! I hope someone starts seeing the wrong in all this. 1,343. Brittany Burkburnett, TX I believe that abusing a child is a terrible thing and should Thompson not go unpunished, but I do not think that the state of Texas went about this the right way. The men who are committing the crimes should have been taken, arrested, and prosecuted. These poor children have done nothing wrong. They are innocent and because of the innocent nature in which they conduct their lives they have gone through terrible things in the last couple of weeks. No matter what happens here, the children lose. They have already lost because they will be affected negatively for years to come. They may never completely understand the violent way (did they really need tanks) in which they were removed from their homes and their mothers. Please fix this crisis and do so in the best interest of the CHILDREN. 1,344. John Durham Provo, UT More detriment is happening to the children by removing them than leaving them there. Remove the perpetrators not the inocent children. 1,345. Chris Webber Cedar Hills, UT I do not agree with abuse, and want every abuser prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I also do not agree with abuse of due process, which I feel has been done in this case. Please release those who are not in imminent danger of abusing or being abused. 1,346. Barbara Iles St. George, UT I do not believe in plural marriage, but these women & children have had their civil rights violated. If there are individual abuse cases, investigate them; do not take all these children from their mothers on the word of one individual the authorities can not even identify. 1,347. Steven Borup Brunswick, GA 1,348. Frank Staheli Santaquin, UT See more coverage of the FLDS human rights violations at SimpleUtahMormonPolitics.com 1,349. Alexander Jamaica Plain, MA Fedorov 1,350. Kelly McCook Meeker, CO

Page 168 - Signatures 1,342 - 1,350 Name From Comments 1,351. Andi Wooten Aurora, CO The injustice being done to these families is outrageous. They are being treated as guilty before being proven innocent, which can have lasting psychological consequences to the children they are paid to protect. I may not approve of or agree with their way of life, but they are Americans and are under the same constitution. It is short-sighted to think that complete removal is the only option. The women and children must be returned to their homes immediately. 1,352. Heather Chance Taylorsville, UT Children should not be taken away from their parents. Please give the children back. 1,353. Margaret Wight5 Blue Island, IL I grew up there and I know how badly some girls want to be saved. They just dont know where to go. I hope we can help those that want our help. 1,354. ALEX KAMIL NEW YORK, NY 1,355. Susan Clark Malad, ID PLEASE let those innocent children back in their homes with their families!! It is unlawful to punish people for their religon! There is no reason to take them away from their homes!! I hope the authorities who are responsible for this injustice pay the consequences!! 1,356. MICHAEL BERRY Cedar City, UT well i see atlest 416 cival rights violations hope the sue the state of texas 1,357. Trevor Mecham South Jordan, UT You should have taken the men in custody that have did the abuse not the children away from there mothers. Punish the people that are guilty. I don't agree with the flds faith or plural marriage. But I do believe in equal rights. 1,358. Flinton Williams Centennial Park, AZ 1,359. Roberta Parker Saint George, UT Though I do not agree with under age marriage I also do not believe in government bullys ripping children away from the only life they know. It reminds me of the government "re-education" programs used on the native Americans. Think it through...there's got to be a better way. 1,360. Jonathan Dick Los Angeles, CA 1,361. Jesse Harris Sandy, UT Allowing this blatant trampling of parental rights in the face of the flimsiest of evidence and no charges being filed is simply un-American. Are the FLDS weird? Absolutely. Could there be abuse happening? Potentially. But without due process, simply rounding them up is a repeat of what Arizona did in 1953. I hope Texas gets hit with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over this one. 1,362. Connie McFarland Farmington, UT I don't support or believe in the beliefs and relegion of these people, but I do think that it was wrong to have taken these children from their mothers. There might be some individual cases that could be handled different, but not as (continues on next page) Page 169 - Signatures 1,351 - 1,362 Name From Comments 1,362. Connie McFarland Farmington, UT (continued from previous page) a huge group. I also think that the mothers or young girls should be given the chance to choose if they would like to stay or leave. 1,363. Bruce Gomer Herriman, UT Whatever these people have or haven't done is not worth the Texas bigots wiping thier feet on the U.S. Constitution!!!! I have witnessed the Texas Baptists lust after seeing what's inside these temples for over 30 years now. What is happening now is nothing more than religous persicution and I know it. I'm non-Morman and all my relatives are from Texas. They are a very big disapointment to me now. 1,364. debi brozovich Payson, UT Brozovich 1,365. Lena Rowley Salt Lake City, UT This is just a nibble at everyones civil rights. Let the government take a nibble and they will take a bite! Children should not be abused, but, neither should their parents. These children could be safely returned to their families with supervision while all this governmental STUFF is completed. Keep the young pregnant ones if you like, but give the babys back! 1,366. Karlene Eddings Malad City, ID These mothers and their children need to be reunited and back in their homes! This is America, the land of the FREE. Freedom of religion, apparently these people are being denied their rights. This is totally immoral. 1,367. Rosalie Beard West Jordan, UT To those Texas authorities who made these decisions and to the State of Texas:A great injustice has been done in this nation that guarantees certain rights from such things as unlawful search and seizure. There has not been concrete evidence produced by the State of Texas to justify this heinous act. Many many citizens of this country are outraged, enough of them to send you a roaring voice. If you turn deaf ears and wield your power without thought to this Voice, the consequences are unending. In dealing with a few cases of abuse (if proven), you have included many innocent children and parents who will suffer lasting emotional scars. Are you now more interested in saving face and wielding power than in doing what is right? It is the children who will ultimately pay, their parents, and our Nation! How sad a commentary, but it can be rectified NOW if you will do what is truly best and compassionate for these little ones. 1,368. Jennifer Moore Kaysville, UT While I don't agree with the religion or lifestyle of the FLDS people, children need their mothers. Investigations can still take place while allowing children to go home to the mothers that take care of them and love them.

Page 170 - Signatures 1,362 - 1,368 Name From Comments 1,369. Allen Grover Salem, UT I don't believe in abuse in any sort or form but this doesn't give the right to take children away from parents without a just cause and pure evidence. The 16 year old girl that made the call hasn't even been identified and 400 plus children are driven from there homes and family because of it. Is this really America of freedom of worship and rights? I don't care what religion you are, you have right to live it if not infringing on the rights of others. And in this particular case, we haven't heard of ONE abuse case that has gone on that has been substantiated and infringed on the rights of someone else. Wake up people! If we heard a rumor or call from someone that you abused a family member, should we hall you in, check your DNA and humiliate you in front of the world? Maybe it would be needed for some to come to their senses. 1,370. Kristi Young Alpine, UT I believe these children will be unduly traumatized by removing them from the environment and parents they have known. The belief that they are being saved from becoming future perpetrators and future victims is only an assumption. Yes, it is a religious culture that teaches certain principles. Even with the �sweet�, submissive personalities this culture creates, they are free to accept or reject these principles. Isn't that what all religious cultures are? This decision should be made on the facts and current consequences not on assumptions. We know for sure that ripping them away from their parents, their environment and their way of life WILL traumatize and have a long-lasting negative impact. We can only assume what the future will bring and what decisions these children will make as they grow older. 1,371. Marsh Poulson III Salt Lake City, UT Punish crimes not mothers and children. 1,372. Cassandra Saint George,, UT It's INNOCENT until Proven Guilty! This is totally Mackert unconstitutional and WRONG. 1,373. Kent Barrus Provo, UT Since when do Americans incarcerate "suspected victims." Detain likely perpetrators if you must, but to take into custody children, and prevent them from contact with their mothers, so that the "benevolent state" can oversee their upbringing is cruel and unconstitutional. 1,374. Norman Binkley Nevada, TX There is something about the mo.of April that gets goverment bureaucrats and law enforcement in a spin.I assume in Texas its not to hot,not to cold to get out of your office or car.Anyway!!!I would think that the next raid on the next compound will probably go differently than this one.These people have been taught that there is no justice outside there church.Some call what has happen justice,some don't,but I think most men feel it is there duty to defend their wife and children against injustices,with there life if necessary.I believe this precieved injustices will (continues on next page)

Page 171 - Signatures 1,369 - 1,374 Name From Comments 1,374. Norman Binkley Nevada, TX (continued from previous page) make them hardend to the outside world and prepare for total resistance.They are not without means to make Waco look like childs play.I know from what I have read on various post that there are some who would rather see them all dead than to put aside this bitterness they have.Again this could be what goverment and law enforcement want to happen.Gives another reason to pass another law or go after another group they are interest in.Of all the hundreds of post I have read,I have never read one that supports child abuse,yet if someone ask that goverment and cps go by what the constitution sets forth,they are attack unmericessly.Return the children to there families and allow these people the same due process you would want for youself. 1,375. John Wood Layton, UT These proceedings has put American justice into the dark ages. Presumption of guilty until proven innocent violates American civil rights to the core. Texas foster care system is in no position to tell others how to raise their children. Any damage to these families that the government can do is being done in the name of judicial expediency. I was taken from my mother for three weeks when I was five years old. At 45 years old, I still consider this to be the most devastating time of my life. The harm that your doing will live in infamy 1,376. Tricia Francks Kingsland, TX 1,377. Susan Humeston Pembroke Pines, FL Just follow the US Constitution and then all will be better handled. 1,378. Rachel Hendricks Centerville, UT I disagree with polygamy too but taking the children out of their homes in this way is both morally and constitutionally wrong. How could a phone call coming out of Colorado have any impact on a search warrant being ordered of an entire community in Texas? At what point should all Americans worry that their towns be seized by the state? 1,379. David Fix Midland, TX As a "former" citizen of Midland, Texas I'm ashamed and appalled that an APC, a piece of military equipment, would be used to threaten peaceful folks though albeit on a different religious "wavelength". Sheriff Painter should resign. Why in heavens name should such a thing even be in any counties "arsenal" is beyond me unless it's for intimdating the locals. Any argument the State of Texas had with these folks could have been done without the use of force. The whole dog and pony show is an exercise in "teaching" folks to submit to force even when it has been proven to be false. Don't fool yourselves into thinking the Constitution means anything but what the powers that be interpret it to mean at any given time and place. It is, to quote some sage, merely a piece of paper and not a (continues on next page)

Page 172 - Signatures 1,374 - 1,379 Name From Comments 1,379. David Fix Midland, TX (continued from previous page) contract upon you and your heirs that ironically you feel bound to respect but your leaders never seem to. Why is that? The answer should be obvious. 1,380. Marlene Hyte Cottonwood Heights, The authorities of Texas should have traced and confirmed UT those phone calls before removing (kidnapping) all those children. I feel curiosity fueled their enthusiasm to finally have a reason to bombard that compound. I do NOT support polygamy, but I will never condone thievery of children. 1,381. Paul Pederson Harrisville, UT Please release the children to their parents and their lifestyle. 1,382. Cleon Anderson Salt Lake City, UT These people have a constitutional right of due process. Child Protective Services should not be allowed to incarcerate people (even children) and operate outside the law. What we are seeing here (boxing up and transporting people to detainment centers) is comparable to Nazi Germany�s rounding up Jews. Texas now appears to be a police state. There is nothing in the Constitution of the United States that says stupid people can�t have and raise children. Give the mothers back their babies. 1,383. sara smith payson, UT dont free them kids. keep them were they are and safe from the crazy people they lived with, they get to play now and watch tv and have toys and from what i seen on tv they had no toys leave them and let them leqarn to be kids. i live in utah and im not a morman and never will be one, from what i have learned this all started ffrom the morman then they changed there laws . after they screwed up omg whats wrong with people, let the state of taxas show people that what these crazy people have done to these kids is wrong and maybe utah will learn something from it morman seem to think they are perfect and the chosen ones lmao 1,384. Brooke Dallin Orem, UT 1,385. Sharlene Vert Salem, UT 1,386. Stacey Clark Malad, ID RETURN THE CHILDREN TO THEIR FAMILIES!!! Who is going to be next? The baptists? The Mormons? The Catholics? EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY WANT!! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FREE COUNTRY!! 1,387. John Mason Payson, UT Taking children away from loving parents is sick and wrong. It will do much more harm than good. Please try a different approach. I'm embarrassed for Texas officials. 1,388. Maryann Jones Cottonwood Heights, I am a non-Mormon, Non-FLDS who believes that each UT person is entitled to his or her own religious beliefs. While I don't understand the FLDS lifestyle and certainly do not (continues on next page)

Page 173 - Signatures 1,379 - 1,388 Name From Comments 1,388. Maryann Jones Cottonwood Heights, (continued from previous page) UT condone sex with a minor, until the state of Texas can prove that child abuse is taking place, these children need to be returned to their homes and parents. And then each situation needs to be dealt with on a case by case basis. 1,389. Matthew Parrott Carmel, IN An obligatory nod to the most basic principles of presumption of innocence and sanctity of family would be appreciated. What if somebody made a prank phone call about abuse in the judge's hometown? Would it be appropriate to put her children into foster care if somebody did that? 1,390. D Murphy Los Angeles, CA If these people had any doubts about their CHOICE in lifestyle before, they certainly do not have any now. This whole thing stinks of fanatical, vigilante mob force. Targeting and displacing an entire community of children and mothers over one phone call (real or not) is unquestionably extreme. If this behavior from these Texas authorities is tolerated by this free Nation, all of our civil rights are in danger and we're much more vulnerable than we thought. I don't know how all of this will play out, but from the information we have been given so far, this is wrong on many levels and it simply cannot be. I don't care how "happy" these authorities report the children to be - they want to be home with their families and they should be. 1,391. Shannon Hawkins Logan, UT 1,392. Jennifer Davis Cedar City, UT After discovering the call was made by an anti FLDS lady why do they continue to feel they can rightfully keep those children in custody. This is wrong on so many levels. This will also continue to prove to the families affected that they cannot trust anyone. They will continue to withdraw from society. 1,393. Debra Hale American Fork, UT Return the children to their parents. You are doing them a greater disservice by putting them in foster care, than they would be at home. There civil rights are being violated and Texas is going to go down in history as making the biggest mistake in child protection. You are not protecting these children, you are hurting them, and the future FLDS children who will now be kept in an envirornment where they are taught not to trust anyone outside their own circle. I am not a member or happen to agree with their teachings, but they still have basic human civil rights and they are being grossly violated! 1,394. caol Lindsay centerville, UT This is just like Iraq. We go in because someone says there are weapons of mass destruction, there weren't, but we stayed. Texas gets calls from a "Sarah" saying she is abused, she was a bogus caller, but we stayed. Leave (continues on next page)

Page 174 - Signatures 1,388 - 1,394 Name From Comments 1,394. caol Lindsay centerville, UT (continued from previous page) these people in peace. It's a culture. Coining is cultural, braces are cultural, polygamy is cultural. Homosexuality, drug use, refusal of prenatal care. There are lots of things that go on that many people don't agree with. I work in labor and delivery and I see teenagers pregnanat by adults all the time and NO one cares. WHy, because they are not polygamist. 1,395. Wayne Grantham Sherman Oaks, CA Law enforcement has to relearn the Constitutional rules of due process. 1,396. jodie palmer Salt Lake City, UT 1,397. Steven Sutton Anderson, CA We, the people, insist the FLDS are just as entitled to due process under the law and their constitutional rights as are any of us. Not because of our firm belief in their absolute innocence, but because we firmly believe they are American citizens, endowed by their Creator with certain rights inalienable. We believe these inalienable rights are being denied. We believe any possible criminal cases are being irreparably damaged. We believe in justice. This is why we protest. 1,398. ALICIA slc, UT ZOLLINGER 1,399. Jennifer Zitting Hurricane, UT I don't know what more we could have expected from a state that produced George W. Bush. But being different isn't a crime. We have to speak up at these injustices or the next thing we know, we'll be the ones who are "different", and it will be our children being hauled away to foster care. (PS, have you taken a good look at the foster care system lately? Do you REALLY think those children are safe there? I can see why their parents are terrified.) One of the most monstrous things Warren Jeffs did was to tear apart people's families, and now the state of Texas is doing the same thing. 1,400. C Landgraf Midvale, UT I also do not fully understand or agree with the teachings and lifestyle of the FLDS members. Yet, I was very troubled from the start of this raid, especially to learn that it was all initiated and executed on evidence of hearsay. 1,401. Craig Laurence Lehi, UT The beauty of a constitutional republic is that it is designed to foster rule of law while protecting the minority. It would seem that democracy prevails in Texas. Use the law to root out corruption; don't use corruption to root out the law. 1,402. Robyn St. Clair Glenrock, WY Send those children back home while the investigation is ongoing - so far NOT ONE SINGLE thing has been proven. It was a fishing expedition based on a fake call and the Constitutions of both Texas and the US are being violated. The CPS people should be investigated next.

Page 175 - Signatures 1,394 - 1,402 Name From Comments 1,403. Erik Prusse Montpelier, ID I think it is an outrage that they are removing the mothers for the children between 6 months and 4 years of age. I think the whole case is outrageous. What happened to freedom in our country. 1,404. David Dye Mona, UT What a warped sense of justice this appears to be bringing to the Texas state agencies and officials. As a social worker, it is apparent to me that the perpetrators are the workers in the state agencies involved. The act of what has happened is unconscionable. If there is indeed abuse, remove the perpetrators and not the victims! 1,405. Ruth Knudson Salt Lake City, UT Innocent until proven guilty. 1,406. Jared Parks Oro Valley, AZ 1,407. Paul Bryant salem, IN A.C.L.U. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!! 1,408. C. Browning Clearfield, UT This is evil in the worst sense. You are thinking only of yourselves and the power you will attain by doing what you are. Sit down and think about what you are doing. Would you want this for "your" child, for "your" wife?Would you want DNA testing done to them? These people are just like you and your family. They have feelings just like you do; they are not animals. They are human beings that know what love is, what caring is, what evil is. Do you really believe they are any different than your loved ones? You are full of the devil when you believe they are any different. Satan is driving this force, not God. If these people are doing anything wrong, God will be the judge. You have no right to take this upon your shoulders. The Constitution is the safeguard and the means of protection from government for these people. You are judging them as God should. You will be held accountable by God if you judge them. I would hope that you would have the decency to go to a quiet room, each of you who are involved with their lives at this time, and sit there and think about what you are doing and if you can't come to grips with realizing they are fellow Americans, fellow human beings with the same desires as you and your peers then sit there for a longer period of time. You need to get the evil thinking out of you because Satan is behind this effort. This situation is setting a presidence for taking children away from their parents. These people may be doing outwardly, in a group, things you don't like, but I bet you can find dozens and dozens of people who are not in groups who are involved with sexual abuse, living together not married having sex, sex, sex, and who will answer to God only, because you don't see them as a problem. The law today is protecting the guilty; the law today is not protecting the innocent. How different the word "innocent" is today also. The very innocent in this case are the children. You are not protecting the innocent children. I ask you again, go to a (continues on next page)

Page 176 - Signatures 1,403 - 1,408 Name From Comments 1,408. C. Browning Clearfield, UT (continued from previous page) quiet room, sit down and think about your actions and then ask yourself: what right do I, as a fellow American, a fellow human being, have to do what I am doing to these people. If you can't come to "feel" for them, then I feel sorry for you. In the end we will all stand before God and be judged according to our actions in this world. Please do not think of your job. The Lord will bless you if you QUIT your job and do what is right. If you don't have faith in Him to help you if you do what is right, then I feel sorry for you again. Read the scriptures and gain that faith and you will be happy for your change in attitude. "Evil never was happiness." Believe! Act as God would have you act, not as Satan would have you act! 1,409. Shaun Tobler Montpelier, ID I am not a polygamist nor do I agree with the lifestyle, but that does not mean that people's basic civil liberties should be violated. I am against child brides in the utmost way possible. I thought we had learned from the internment camps of WWII. Do process should take place before a child is removed. 1,410. Timothy Chezem West Valley City, UT In any case of abuse, there should be a strong, thorough and complete investigation of the accuser and the accused; no more-no less. This is clearly a case of pure prejudice and harassment and violates the very principles our country was founded on. Where is the accuser? Can the accused not be found and arrested? Is there a "State Religion" in Texas? A child belongs to his or her parents, they do have a right and responsibility to raise them in their belief system and religion of choice. I do not condone child brides or under age marriages in any way; the State of Texas could have worked with the YFZ ranch in a supervisory position to remedy and correct this practice (assuming that it is happening there and that what is in the press is completely true). I am personally as disgusted by the response and actions by the State of Texas as I am by the very concept of child brides. The only imminent danger that these children are now in is the quality of care they may or may not receive and the prejudice with which they will be treated by the foster care system in Texas. Do what is right, find the accuser and accused and investigate the one reported incidence of child abuse--Stop the witch hunt and remember our citizens, whether they be black, white, asian, muslim, catholic, baptist, atheist, or any oother race or religion have the same rights under the Constitution of The United States of America. 1,411. Carol Darger Farr West, UT I am former FLDS. These Kids ARE NOT abused!!! Nor are they taught to be abusers!!! They have the most wonderful life you could ask for!! Let them go home!!!!! 1,412. Lynda Cook Salt Lake City, UT Please let the children go home to their families.

Page 177 - Signatures 1,408 - 1,412 Name From Comments 1,413. Linda Flannery Salt Lake City, UT I do not agree with, or believe in, or follow the religious practices of the FLDS, but I know that their civil rights are being violated! The woman should be reunited, on the compound, with their traumatized children, and the men should be relocated somewhere else . The men are the perpatrators! Keep the woman and families together while everything gets sorted out. 1,414. Edmund Hatch Enoch, UT 1,415. Hyrum Darger Farr West, UT LET THESE KIDS GO HOME. THESE PEOPLE ARE BEING TREATED LIKE ANIMALS!!!! I know some of these people. These people are not abused!!!! 1,416. Don Lindsay Centerville, UT All of these children WERE safe - NONE showed signes of physical abuse (other than early pregnancy) - NONE were bruised - ALL WERE HEALTHY. There is MORE DAMAGE done by removing these children from their family, home, AND CULTURE. 1,417. Staci Jessop Beaver, UT 1,418. Julie Jessop St George, UT 1,419. TIM JESSOP SALT LAKE CITY, UT I PERSONALLY KNOW DOZENS OF FAMILIES WITHIN THIS 'FUNDAMENTALIST' BACKGROUND WHO PROMOTE PERSONAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT, BELIEVE STRICTLY IN LEGAL AGE REQUIREMENTS FOR MARRIAGE AND ENJOY VERY HEALTHY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS THAT CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN THESE LARGE FAMILIES. 1,420. Janet Hansen St. George, UT Could this be the beginning of religious persecution in the United States? I believe all the FDLS have lost their civil rights. Many are being persecuted because some allegedly practice child abuse. The worst abuse is taking the children away from their mothers. Whose next? 1,421. MIke Schend Centerville, UT Ask the kids. I bet 99.9% would rather go back home then live in some foster home. 1,422. Carla Holm st george, UT I was born and raised in polygamy and chose to leave at the age of fifteen key word [chose]toleave!No one forced me to stay i did have to run away because i was fifteen.And guess what i ended up pregnant at sixteen by an older man outside of polygamy of my own free will and choice!I was never sexually abused as a child!This is an outrageous media circus.I would not change the way i was raised i had more family and love and security than most children in america!I know most of these women first hand they are amazingly loving caring moms!My heart is breaking for these families!

Page 178 - Signatures 1,413 - 1,422 Name From Comments 1,423. Judith M. Provo, UT If there is abuse in the home, the perpetrator is arrested, Robertson not the innocent children or innocent parent. The fathers who are guilty should be arrested and jailed. This is so tramatic to those children and mothers. The fathers will just find other wives and start this all over again if they are not punished. In America we punish the guilty, not the innocent. 1,424. Raymond Ward West Bountiful, UT No matter how much the judge says she thought and prayed about this decision, it's bald-faced religious bigotry and persecution. The authorities involved have a severe case of "We done a stupid unconstitutional thang, so now we have to prove we wuz right!" Send the children and mothers home and then deal with any real, evidence you get in a legal way! You can find something wrong in every home, but these officials seriously belong in Nazi Germany. Seig Hiel! Long live the Fuhrer! So long religious freedom, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and freedom from testifying against yourself. This whole thing is detestable! 1,425. Regina Molina Salt lake City, UT I dont Believe in Poligamy, but I do not think its right for Children to be taken away from there mothers, I think they should take the wives and kids from the men that are treating them wrongly, but keep the moms and children together! 1,426. Valerie Jamison Riverton, UT While I don't agree with the polygamist lifestyle of this group, their rights should be respected. The CPS workers admitted that they found no evidence of abuse or neglect among these children. They were found very healthy, much more healthy than society at large. This is amazing that these children, after being raised on whole foods (no junk food) and wholesome outdoor play their whole lives are now being considered better off by Texas officials taken into a society where processed unhealthy junk foods and video games are the norm. Isn't American society as a whole dysfunctional right now? How are these children better off in our dysfunctional society of violent video games, ritalin taking kids, prozac, couch potatoes, over-drugged ADHD children, and people addicted to pornography? 1,427. David Roberts Portland, TN Stay focused on the initial allegations of the 16 year old and don't venture into the gray areas that have now involved all the children. 1,428. Cyril Jackson Huntington, UT I fear that this is the first step towards taking our constitution away from us. Isn't abuse taking someones kids away from their parents. those poor kids are scared and alone. how could you do that. how do you sleep at night. 1,429. Evelyn Thompson Lehi,, UT

Page 179 - Signatures 1,423 - 1,429 Name From Comments 1,430. ge milli kansas city, MO Perhaps Tx CPS could be more effective if counseled with Janet Reno! Then we could have another proud moment in US history where we see peaceful families willing to die for their beliefs. It is ingrained in them. I know because I once was one...no longer believe...but have also lost "faith" in my guv'ment to do this cruel thing to these children. If allowed to play out as CPS wants, someone should follow with a case study in 20 years to see how many mass killings have been perpetrated on innocent Americans by confused individuals who had their "identity" skewed by the court. 1,431. Roger Gillespie Provo, UT 1,432. Drew Briney Payson, UT As an attorney, it appears to me that this raid was contrived and underinvestigated before the raid occured. First, the bogus call was predictable - it has happened in Utah before. Second, it appears from media reports that there were red flags concerning the calls before the raid happened. Third, with armored vehicles, snipers, etc., it appears that Texas authorities failed to do their homework about how this community would respond. Fourth, the use of Baptist church vehicles to gather up the women and children was foolish at best - your actions appear as religious persecutions enacted by the steriotypical southern bigots actively portrayed on television. Fifth, your search was far beyond that commonly used and appears beyond normal procedure. Sixth, had you bothered to do some research into this community, you would have discovered that similar approaches in the 1880s and 1950s have led to further seclusion and isolation of these people and that has perpetuated the abuses. Seventh, if your legitimate government concern was underage marriages and abuse, you would have been wiser to only keep teens at risk - not tiny toddlers, babies, and small children. The idea that merely existing in a polygamous home is abusive is an attack to cultures internationally and has no historical support. There are dozens of women and children who have demonstrated in favor of this lifestyle - to blow off their voices carte blanche is arrogant at best. At least you learned the lesson not to have the governor sponsor the raid but the rest of your errors are so glaring that religious profiling is the only rational explanation for your actions. I agree with you that child bride practices should not be tolerated. I further agree that forced marriages should not be tolerated - and the two together are despicable in my eyes. However, before taking the actions you have taken, a responsible judiciary would have required better information and a little more patience. As it is, I think you will reap the rewards of a well deserved trophy - embarassment and public backlash.

Page 180 - Signatures 1,430 - 1,432 Name From Comments 1,433. Derek Johnson Afton, WY If men have sexually abused kids, then they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but there is no reason to displace these innocent women and children. These kids have a better family life than most children in our country. Furthermore, I do not agree with Polygamy, but it seems odd to me that we will prosecute men who have more than one wife who provide and care for their families, but if Shawn Kemp or Hugh Hefner have multiple girlfriends or kids with multiple women it is seen as acceptable and not against the law. Basically our government is saying that its ok to have children with as many women as you want, but they just have a problem if you actually care for them. 1,434. Jess Craig Monroe, MI I have often thought it would be wonderful to live a simple life the way things used to be 100 years ago. From what I understand that is what this group was attmepting to do and being isolated from todays modern US society was part of that. It seems we are only hearing the bad side of this group and in Texas it seems they even changed the laws after the group arrived and are now trying to use those new laws against them. It also seems that the original call for help was a hoax from someone that had spent many hours on the phone with a person strongly opposed to this group. I feel they are being persecuted for thier beliefs and have had thier children taken away as a result. They may seem odd to us but they should still have the same protection and rights. Please return the children to be with thier Mothers. From what I understand they are even going to seperate the Mothers today from the children 5 and under. How can this be allowed to happen in the US in 2008????? 1,435. Octavian Paul Arad, Romania Draja 1,436. Kerry Buscemi Portage, IN These children should NOT be separated from their mothers. This is outrageous. 1,437. Weston Shapley LasVegas, NV 1,438. Sara Huestis Apex, NC I am very concerned that 416 children were taken from their homes. It is not even possible that all 416 of these children were in danger of being or already had been abused. I have heard immense and disturbing prejudice against the FLDS groups. I am LDS and while i do not agree with the FLDS teachings, i still do believe in their constitutional rights. This whole matter is appalling to me. Maybe it is true that some of the children were abused and that should be looked into, but it's completely absurd that every single child should be removed. It looks like plain old prejudice to me.

Page 181 - Signatures 1,433 - 1,438 Name From Comments 1,439. Connie Thompson mona, UT innocent until proven guilty.The state of Texas has violated our US rights. We are not communists.Also it is not a cult is is a town.Who are you going to hurt next? 1,440. PATRICIA Salt Lake City, UT I can't believe that these people have nothing better to do KIRKLAND than to torment FLDS people. They are not bothering anyone and they cause no trouble AND they have lived like this for years, If the girls don't want to live in that envirnment then they should be free to leave.,But I think it is so wrong for the cops to beable to enter without permission and disrupt their lives. Put the shoe on the other foot, How would you feel if I went to your home and walked in, took your children away from you because I didn't like the way you were raising them. Just because I don't agree with that, I should have the right to do that to you??? People need to go get a life and leave others alone. I felt the same way about WACO, If they would have left them alone none of those people would have died. I feel people are just noisy and in everything except what they should be in to... Go catch the Druggies, drunks and child molesters!!! 1,441. VerDon Parrish Syracuse, UT I disagree with the FLDS's teachings on polygamy. I haven't heard a word about abuse, other than teen females marrying young. So why are all of the children younger than teenagers being kidnapped from their mothers. And why aren't ALL of the young men permitted to return? My bet is that more will be abused in foster care than would be if they were returned to their families! As Dave Savage has intoned, are we now living in a Gestapo-run state where a false accusation about your neighbor can be made and suddenly people disappear?' 1,442. Ben Johnson Sandy, UT 1,443. Richard Holley Huntsville, UT Find those that are guilty of crimes, and Prosecute the perpetrators, but this is wholesale dismantling of families and a community because you don't agree with their lifestyle. 1,444. Truman Shapley LasVegas, NV 1,445. Karen Wray Canon City, CO 1,446. elaina Wendelboe Provo, UT For more impact, add a personal comment here 1,447. Nilanthi King Magna, UT These poor children are being taken away from the people (mothers) who bring them security. I don't believe in polygamy, but these children are facing more trauma in their current environment due to the lack of sensitivity in which this is being "handled." And now DNA testing? How ridiculous is that? Take children away from their families against their wills, stick them in an unfamiliar environment in which total strangers are always in their faces, and now poking them with needles (or doing some other methods to (continues on next page)

Page 182 - Signatures 1,439 - 1,447 Name From Comments 1,447. Nilanthi King Magna, UT (continued from previous page) obtain DNA-- no matter if it's less painful, it's still invasive) to type their DNA. If almost any other citizen (disregarding convicted felons) of the United States had his/her DNA typed against his/her will, there would be violations of freedoms and privacy. What is going to happen to these kids' DNA profiles after all this is over? Are they going to be stored forever by our government? All without the consent of their legal guardian(s)? If these kids were allowed to legally live in polygamy this long, then they should be left alone. I agree with others on this petition-- let the children (especially the little ones) and the mothers be together, and then go after the men's practices. Is the ACLU doing anything for these kids? 1,448. Loren Harbaugh Kearns, UT For more impact, add a personal comment here 1,449. Linda Cliber Allyn, WA I believe in protecting the rights of children and those who are abused, however care must be taken in not becoming the "abuser" in lending aide, a better way must be used in taking whatever legal steps are called for, if they are breaking the law then deal with those people according to the law and their constitutional rights, do not "herd" all those innocent children together and take away their Mothers and their security..You have the responsibility to take control of this situation and to calm the "knee jerk" reaction and bring some sense to this situation for the good of everyone. God bless your efforts. 1,450. Eileen Rivetti West Jordan, UT I am appalled by the decisions made by the government concerning this case. The mothers and children involved deserve to be together during this most tramatic time in their lives especially while the convictions for the fathers are still being decided upon. 1,451. Camille Kelsch Fairview, UT 1,452. Dale Widdison Hooper, UT The disregard for the Constitution by the State of Texas officials is very upsetting. To take children from their homes without reason is wrong. 1,453. Diane Graham Montague, TX 1,454. Dorothy Mathias Robbinsdale, MN I can't imagine what I would have done if my small children were taken away and not let return home. You are persecuting these women who have not been proven guilty of anything. You are traumatizing children who are completely innocent. 1,455. Sarah las vegas, NV What do you think will change by removing children from Wiggin-Steed their mothers and families? The religion is still going to be there weather you're willing to accept it or not. Freedom of Religion is one of the many reasons America was founded. I don't see you hurassing the Native Americans (again) or (continues on next page)

Page 183 - Signatures 1,447 - 1,455 Name From Comments 1,455. Sarah las vegas, NV (continued from previous page) Wiggin-Steed the Amish, telling them that they're believes and way of life is wrong. The only reason why you continue to raid and tear apart families in that community is because you have done it so many times before. It has become so easy for you to point the finger and tell them that they're immoral. "Judge not less ye be judged". Does that not ring a bell to you? Let the children return home and leave them and all who still have faith in something other than money and power alone. 1,456. David Yarbrough Stockton, UT The intent of the law is to protect children who are being abused or who have been abused. When everyone is rounded up then treated as guilty until they prove their innocence it becomes a constitutional travesty that is directed at an entire group of people that certainly must contain some innocent people. In this case the target has clearly become religion or religious stereotyping not child abuse. It also smells like a fishing expedition to find more opportunities for prosecution. I suggest that every official, if not all of their own immediate family members, who are involved in this investigation be certified by polygraph, DNA, and sworn statements to be morally clean, free from fidelity transgressions, be in compliance with same sex laws and marriage laws, and swear under oath that they have never turned their head to avoid prosecuting these violations when they have witnessed them or heard whispers of them occurring in their own community. The goal should be to catch the individual perpetrators not create irrevocable damage to every family possible as a way to go down in history. Granted, this a an unprecedented case in many ways but rather than shipwreck an entire society with vindictive punishments, or by bombing every man, woman, and child, why cannot our 21st century professionals use this event as an opportunity to implement some advancement that includes some people who are different than ourselves. Education, freindship, forgiveness, and cooperation are great tools that may help a group of people who for dozens of generations have been hidden from the opportunities that we have enjoyed. In fact, we have been asked by our government leaders to use patience outside of our own country for several years, this is what I believe we are spending trillions of dollars in Iraq to accomplish. Thank you, David Yarbrough 1,457. Leannah Pledger hurricane, UT I am a former flds mother of eight! That freely left the flds, with all eight of my kids.Who are now either in public school or are well rounded adult american citizens. I left the flds of my own free will and choice! I experienced no (continues on next page)

Page 184 - Signatures 1,455 - 1,457 Name From Comments 1,457. Leannah Pledger hurricane, UT (continued from previous page) abuse or neglect of any way, shape, or form, nor did my kids. And I also had the misfortune of growing up next to both carolynne and flora jessop, who i can testify are making FALSE accusations! PEOPLE CONSIDER YOUR SOURCE!!!!!! 1,458. Marilyn Oakey Cottonwood Heights, I have never felt so angered by the treatment and abuse UT the State of Texas has done to this community. To remove these children from their homes is more abusive than allowing them to stay with their parents. They should be returned to their homes immediately. The state of Texas can't take care of them and had no plan in place to do so. It is just plain wrong!! 1,459. Stephen Olsen San Diego, CA 1,460. Frederic Johnson Virgin, UT I am not FLDS or LDS, but of Christian BELIEF. Now a native Texan living in Utah, I am ashamed of Texas for this unconsitutional taking. The FLDS people are generally very good Christian folk with excellent work ethic. They built my house, we use their dairy, and had an FLDS horseshoer until harassment drove him away. At his point in time we all should consider that the few threads that hold the Constitution to the people are being cut. The STATE is keeping children from their homes because of PERCEIVED abuse. The STATE psychologist stated that the whole incident perpetrated by the STATE was a "lose-lose" situation but that the taken should not be returned to their home because it is "a special place, it reinforces their beliefs". Isn't that what home and religion do for BELIEFS of most growing up in the US? Believe it or not - that is your right. The STATE ABUSED the children, the families, and OUR CONSTITUION when all they had to do was investigate a perceived community crime. Pray for the children, pray the Constitution, and pray for Public outcry to get the kids back to their homes. God Bless us all 1,461. Jared Larsen West Valley City, UT Its strange how the initial allegations of abuse of that 16 year old girl dont even apply anymore, now it seems like a witch hunt to prosecute them for their beliefs. They say its not about the "polygamy" its about the "abuse", but they say we need to put an end to the "polygamists" cults. It should be put an end to "Abuse" So how is it not about polygamy, and only about the abuse? where is the proof of abuse. They interveiw the kids and the kids say there is none, so they say they are brainwashed. The only abuse theese kids are getting is by the authorities of texas. Watching the media you realize the Mothers of the FLDS (continues on next page)

Page 185 - Signatures 1,457 - 1,461 Name From Comments 1,461. Jared Larsen West Valley City, UT (continued from previous page) care so much about their kids, and it is wrong to deny them, their rights! 1,462. GEORGE apple valley, UT JESSOP Jr. 1,463. Carl Young Coloma, WI I feel their Constitutional Rights have been severely abused. When will the government stop dwindling away at our Constitutional rights. 1,464. Anita Higgins Staunton, VA 1,465. LoriAnna Young Coloma, WI This country was founded on freedom of religion and our Civil Rights are quaranteed under the US Constitution. Stop this government madness, they are innocent until proven guilty. 1,466. John P Clay Logan, UT You are attacking a religious belief. Please confine your efforts to violations of law. 1,467. Martha A Clay Logan, UT Few if any of the kids have broken any laws. Quit punishing them. The mothers will provide the best care for their children. 1,468. Rozan Kitchen American Fork, UT Any other case involving a search warrant proved a hoax, would have been thrown out and the evidence obtained deemed inadmissable in court. The judge knows the law, and is deliberately ignoring this constitutional standard. For what reason are we witnessing this travesty carried far beyond reason, as if to justify the initial actions? Not only were their basic constitutional rights violated in the searches and the seizure of children in an entire community, but, we have Texas continuing to abuse the law of the land, in denying a fair hearing to individual families, with associated proofs of regarding the specific children in that family. I see that the presumption of innocence no longer applies, and this has dire ramifications to each of us in the United States. 1,469. Aaron Black west6 haven, UT this raid was a violation of these people's rights, and texas should be held accountable "without prejudist or otherwise" 1,470. John Collins wilmington, DE Innocent until PROVEN GUILTY. What is this, the French Revolution!!!! I'd rather take the chance of a few kids being abused than live in a POLICE STATE! 1,471. bruce shoeman murray, UT 1,472. Carol May Bremerton, WA First, I am grateful that the state of Texas, in exercising it's Almighty Hubris, has not decided to burn these people alive, as we know you are wont to do. Neverthelss, I am very disturbed that people can be be considered suspects of heinous crimes merely because they dress oddly and prefer to live a sheltered existence. I am very disturbed that the state government believes the constitution does not apply to these people -- as it did not (continues on next page) Page 186 - Signatures 1,461 - 1,472 Name From Comments 1,472. Carol May Bremerton, WA (continued from previous page) apply to women or blacks in earlier times. I am very disturbed that law enforcement jumps to sicko conclusions about the presence of beds in a temple -- and cannot think of any alternatives such as sleep or illness -- even when they lack evidence for their allegations. I am very disturbed that Texas law supported the marriage of 14-year-olds and now supports the marriage of 16-year-olds -- unless they belong to a religion that Texans don't like. I am very disturbed that teen pregnancy is just a fact of life in Texas -- but it is considered a crime when it happens amongst a group that Texans don't like. I insist that reparations be made to these people -- and I hope they are awarded HUGE punitive damages. 1,473. Wessy Shaps LasVegas, NV If one child is abused must hundreds of innocents children pay the price? How would you like it if you was trying to live your life with your family and the next thing you know your children are being ripped from your hands, not because your a bad parent but because someone else thinks your children should live a different way.But hey its not your child thats being taken away from you,you dont have to cry youreself to sleep every night worrying about your childs safety,what do you care? 1,474. Sydney lehi, UT I feel like we have made these people out to be bad and Zimmerman they are like me and you with different beliefs. I feel sorry for them and the way they have been treated and what has been said about them. Please leave the children and woman alone. Sydney Z. 1,475. Chad Zimmerman Lehi, UT 1,476. Rich wright West Valley City, UT I don't believe that the children are in immediate harm and should be returned to thier mothers care. The trauma from the states action far exceeds any trauma the children experienced in the compound. I don't think Texas has thought out the plan for this very well as their actions against the FLDS church members will only cuase any molestation/child rape to be covered up more for fear of further state action similar to what has already occurred. 1,477. PAUL HESS riverton, utah, UT 1,478. Merritt Staley Eagle Mountain City, UT 1,479. Dennis Kiszka Orange Park, FL This is blatant religious persecution by a state agency for political gain. This should never happen in the United States of America. 1,480. Leona Johnson porthill, ID please let those mothers be with their children. CPS told us that taking peoples children was a very last resourt. And what about innocent untill proven guilty.

Page 187 - Signatures 1,472 - 1,480 Name From Comments 1,481. cynthia moyer west valley, UT I firmly beleive that what has been done is WRONG. I cant understand how these nazies sleep at night! clearly the constitution has been violated. These children need there moms let them go home. 1,482. Denise Knighton Layton, UT I don't believe the same things that these people believe but for the government to come in and take all the children in a community because some may be abused would mean that they could come into any community and do the same thing. So if say the Jones family two houses down were abusing their children, they could take my children because we live in the same community. This needs to be done on a case by case investigation. 1,483. Nita Morrell Bountiful, UT Put yourself in the shoes of these poor mothers and scared children. This is not right. 1,484. anonymous kearns, United States even if there is abuse there... it should be handled case by anonymous Minor Outlying case.. only take the ones guilty, can you say Islands "concentration camp"? 1,485. Kris Gilleland Rome, GA I'm not a LDS, FLDS, or Christian, and I think this is genocide. NOT that FLDS is innocent and sweet - but due process should be followed. CPS is dangerous if they can take THAT much power to destroy a WHOLE group. Our judicial system should never be used for group trials of a whole community. 1,486. Justin davis Bend, OR Do ANY authorities in Texas or any other state have the privilege to invade and imprison private citizens without regard to their natural rights? There ought'a be a LAW against that...( um, maybe the Constitution) 1,487. SherylLynne Centennial Park, AZ Since when do you send in tanks & snipers for a prank Hammon phone call, sounds like Texas was on a witch hunt & now trying to justify their wrong doing. TEXAS FEELS THAT THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW You are accusing these people of welfare fraud & Texas is wasteing $60,000.00 a day of tax payers money. I know one of these fathers that you are accusing & know that his children mean everything to him. I am not a part of the FDLS, but my heart truely goes out to them. I no longer feel safe in this USA when I can see that Texas can break every law & know one will do anything. These children are not abused, SEND THEM HOME!!!!!!!!!!!! 1,488. Ethel Jessop Pinesdale, MT 1,489. Ronald Buck Toledo, OH This is an outrage! I am not one who believes in polygamy but I know the difference between separating my beliefs from one�s constitutional rights. It's most unfortunate that people turn a blind eye to desecrating the most revered constitution the world has ever known because they do not align themselves with the beliefs of another sect of our (continues on next page)

Page 188 - Signatures 1,481 - 1,489 Name From Comments 1,489. Ronald Buck Toledo, OH (continued from previous page) population. The question bares in mind who will be next? Who will the majority bow down to the State and Federal Governments granting them permission to trample the rights of certain sects of our population because, the majority does not adhere to the beliefs and or the philosophies that the isolated hold to be true. 1,490. Ronald Stone Roy, UT Leave the innocent people alone,go after the law breakers 1,491. John Pack Sterling Heights, MI This is an outrage. The more I learn the more it is Lambert obviously religious persecution. 1,492. Katherine ft. duchesne, UT Religious freedom is for all religion's not those that don't Richman agree with another's practices 1,493. Susan Wolfley Thayne, WY This is way beyond shocking. I thought we lived in a FREE COUNTRY. Where did the freedom go. I do not support the FLDS beliefs but these lives have been abused by the government officials who have taken away their freedom of speech, freedom of religion etc. Why mistreat the innocent ones. Go after the one who caused the problems for the investigation if there really is a cause. Since you have made no arrest...... let these families be together again. 1,494. Kristina West haven, UT Richardson 1,495. Cyril Jackson Huntington, UT I can't believe that the united states Government could take those children from their parents and think that it's alright. I don't know how you can sleep at night. Think about your own kids and how they would feel if the free government of the great United States came in your home and took your children away from you because some one in your Religion was faultily accused of something. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION or does that only apply to "Normal People" what ever that means. And where is our President during all this? Oh ya he's over in Iraq taking Sadam Husain out of power for being inhumane to his people. 1,496. E. D. Stewart, Jr. Courtland, VA I'm so thankful that another Waco Massacre didn't evolve out of this. However, from my understanding of the news I see and hear, the government has still far overstepped it's bounds and needs to quickly back up! 1,497. Kelli Collins Salt Lake City, UT 1,498. Lesley Weis West Jordan, UT Investigate the abuse without persecuting for religion and defiling all they hold sacred!! 1,499. Gramzi Jessop Washington,, UT Here's a bit of "Cowboy Advice" for Texas ...... "If ya find yerself in a hole, STOP DIGGIN'"! It is to late to save face. Yours is completely disfigured. Just call it quits. Get smart! But, I suppose that is asking too much for the sovereign state of Texas, huh?

Page 189 - Signatures 1,489 - 1,499 Name From Comments 1,500. LeRoy Weis West Jordan, UT This is disturbing and illegal. I am totally disgusted with Texas. Who's next??? 1,501. Anson Johnson Kanab, UT 1,502. Chris Cantu Taylorsville, UT 1,503. Doug Marchant Highland, UT As a past child welfare worker, myself, and a doctoral student of clinical psychology I am disgusted by the manner with which this case has been handled (as far as I can understand). I do not believe that rights of these parents have been honored. I do not believe that the true best interest of the children is being served. To remove all 400+ children is beyond comprehension for me. How is an infant presently at risk here? Why is each child removed without any specific evidence of abuse? Eventual termination of parental rights seems to be a big stretch for most of these children without concrete evidence. 1,504. Ethan Nuttall Logan, UT 1,505. Todd Stone SLC, UT The FLDS people as well as so many others in this country should not have to be subject to loosing their Civil Rights 1,506. Robert Adamson eagle mountain, UT prosecute the provable abuse. The raid was a set up. One or two bad apples does not justify the one paint brush covers all approach. Mass taking of children from parents is not justifiable. 1,507. Folasade Staten Island, NY I oppose the violation of human and constitutional rights Campbell that the families at YFZ Ranch are being subjected to. 1,508. Paul Roubinet Bountiful, UT At least give these people due process. 1,509. Charles Wray Canon City, CO It is way past time for our states and Federal Government to bud out of the affairs of it's citizens. Are you looking for another Waco? 1,510. Emily Mortensen Logandale, NV 1,511. Terry McK SLC, UT What group is going to be rounded up next? 1,512. Vincent Jefferies Castle Dale, UT Separating women from their children seems a lot like what the Nazis did. This is disgusting and very disturbing. It shouldn't surprise anyone, I suppose, because it is happening in the same state that allowed the Branch Dividian fiasco to happen with all of the women and children casualties that occurred there. SHAME ON TEXAS. 1,513. Mary Brasher Laramie, WY 1,514. Derek Nelson Sunny Isles Beach, Due Process should exist, especially when proof is lacking FL and only allegations and an unidentified caller are the basis for such a rash act 1,515. I R Smarted R U? Riverton, UT To Signer #1199: You must have failed to realize this is a petition for this cause, not against it. It is also not a forum to make discussion and ask the signers questions (I�m (continues on next page)

Page 190 - Signatures 1,500 - 1,515 Name From Comments 1,515. I R Smarted R U? Riverton, UT (continued from previous page) making an exception here since a few like you are abusing it and need to be set straight). All your comment did was cast one more vote in favor for our petition. For you and those like you, find a place where you can ask your questions and not make an even more ignorant fool of yourself. In short explanation to your questions: Every single religion/race/culture/ect has experienced the rise of teen pregnancies. The media has focused on this matter since it�s sensational and scandalous (thank the TV show �Big Love� for giving an even more disturbing image of untruth), and those who hate plural marriage will greedily feed on it as those who know little are left wondering what to think. Perhaps you failed to notice this, but only two girls among the over 400 children under the age of 18 who were ripped from their homes were found to be pregnant. Look at the rest of the country and you�ll find just how low that rate actually is. And yes, I did own a bicycle and my mind is in perfect health - free of brainwashing. I�m also 24 and have no children since I am unmarried. Your note of how many Utahns have signed this is very interesting to me since you tried to use it as a weapon against us. Please excuse this, but DUUHHH. The media bombards our papers almost daily with pictures of the victims of Texas� heinous blunder. I hope that like the few actual instances of abuse, your sad lack of understanding will never be the norm. 1,516. Dale Erickson Newton, UT These children need thier mothers. Why persecute these young children, they are the only one who will really be hurt by these proceedings. 1,517. Bradley Jay America, UT There are many things I DONOT agree with what the FLDS are doing. However I am completely apposed to the way Texas has handled this. This could not have happened over night. Texas has been planning this for a while now. THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON POLYGAMY BUT ON FREEDOM! Texas What a Joke! 1,518. Jarad Brinkerhoff Glendale, UT You are Violating their Civil Rights. Let them Go!! 1,519. Angi Jackson Huntington, UT This is an outrage! I cant even stand it for those poor little children and their mothers. If there is abuse there why would they go after the innocent ones rather than the ones they are accusing. The State says when there is suspected abuse then the children are removed from the place that is harming them so they can investigate, There is obvious harm done to these children but not by the Parents BY THE STATE! How could this be O.K.? The only abuse these kids have had are by the ones who came in and (continues on next page)

Page 191 - Signatures 1,515 - 1,519 Name From Comments 1,519. Angi Jackson Huntington, UT (continued from previous page) ripped them from the only thing they have ever known, from their security. I want to ask another question, If the State can do this to children they suspect are being abused then why wouldn't they go into homes of everyone who's ever put their children through divorce, or moved to a different State when the kids didnt want to move from their friends or whatever. There could be numerous examples of things that parents do that are hard for the kids so take all of them away and traumatize them even more. How many Catholic Priests have been convicted of child molestation, so go take away every catholic child from their mother, THAT MAKES ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE! 1,520. carl gibbons Roy, UT i was told by a Russian in Mosco in 1989 that the problem with the U.S. was that if their was 10 law breakers in a group of 50 but they could not be identified in the U.S. they would be turned loose. In Russia all 50 would be punished. U.S. liberalism is becoming Russian Communism. 1,521. Ernest Potter Murray, UT DCFS or CPS can be just as abusive to a child a not held accountable for there decisions. Children are often abused by both state employees the courts and facilities and foster parents. Till the law is that the state is responsible for the child while in their custody which includes putting DCFS, Judges, and Attorneys making decisions in jail for life if the child is mistrearted are passed states should not be allowed to take children at all. And I am considering coming fourth with my case to show how bad this system is at a cosiderable consequence to me and my children to show that the states should lose their riagth to take children 1,522. Mellie Huffman Hopewell, VA The ones being punished here are the children who have been taken from their homes and families and most importantly their mothers!!!!! The children and mothers are suffering under their forced seperation. 1,523. Cory Jaynes West Jordan, UT 1,524. Glenn Ross Poway, CA Johnson 1,525. Tammie Nelson Eagle Mountain, UT What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Yes there are probably some bad things going on, there are definately some laws being broken. But tearing children from Mothers who love them is not the way to go about it. Our Constitution is being trampled the government should not have the power to do such things. 1,526. Annie Frazee Alpena, MI

Page 192 - Signatures 1,519 - 1,526 Name From Comments 1,527. Shauna Johnson Virgin, UT I live on a sheep ranch less than 20 miles from the FLDS communities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City,Arizona. I know many of the people from these communities, as friends, business associates,neighbors,county planning and economic development activities, and as people who love their land, and their families. When we started looking for contractors to build our home , the contractors from these communities got the highest recommendations from people we talked to who had used their services. They were highly spoken of for their honesty, integrity, work ethics,knowledge and skill, and the very high quality of the work that they do. They also turned out to be way ahead of other builders in the area in their knowledge of energy efficiency and green building. Plus, they build their own homes using energy efficient methods, and we were invited to their communities to see first hand examples . During the time that they were building our home,we got to know and become friends with many of them. The work crews, which were made up of older skilled craftsmen as well as youngsters who were obviously apprenticing to learn the building trade, were cheerful, proud to answer questions, respectful of us and our ranch, curious and interested in our animals,and easy happy people to talk with. Many of them arranged for their families to come up and share picnic lunches with them, and see what they were doing. The children were absolutely delightful. I found them to be a little shy initially,but quick to warm up to us, and with a common bond of the love of animals, their natural happiness and curiosity came bubbling up. They asked intelligent, thoughtful questions, and a lot of common sense and knowledge . In all the time that I have spent with the FLDS folks and their families, and in their communities I have never seen any signs of repression or abuse, of the women or children. The women move freely in and out of their communities, shopping, and doing business. Many of the women have home-based businesses, mostly based on their cooking, sewing,quilting, and other crafts, which allow them to be at home with their children. Many of the children who are old enough are little enterprenears, raising and selling small livestock such as rabbits, or kittens. They are savvy little money handlers, making change correctly and with a smile. When you visit their communities, you will see large groups of children of all ages, riding horses, or bikes, or pulling wagons, the older kids cheerfully looking out for the little ones. When I go to the dairy store to buy fresh milk, cheese, and homemade breads, groups of children are always present, to get an ice cream cone. Each child orders his or her own, and an older child helps the little one to count out his money.IT IS (continues on next page)

Page 193 - Signature 1,527 Name From Comments 1,527. Shauna Johnson Virgin, UT (continued from previous page) LIKE GOING BACK IN TIME, TO THE WAY IT WAS WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN. So here is what the great Texas government has done; BASED ON FALSE ALLEGATIONS, fed by the warped media bias that is based on falsehoods, cynicism and heresay. With a great and impressive show of force, they invaded the safe and peaceful community in which these folks live, where their children are free to play in their neighborhood without fear of drugs, gangs,porn on the internet,alcoholic parents, random shootings, drive-by shootings, kidnapping and random acts of violence and vandalism. A community where the citizens are concerned about good health and nutrition, raise much of their own food, following the tenets of their religion, and tolerating the rights of their neighbors. The state of Texas has removed these children from this environment and placed them WHERE? TO PROTECT THEM FROM WHAT? The Constitutional Rights of this group of people has been TRAMPLED in an unwarranted way that I never thought I would see in this Country. It sickens me, and it is terrifying. If this can happen to a group of good people like these, it can happen to any of us. 1,528. Grregory Smith Waterloo, IA This is a violation only slightly less tragic than what Hitler did in loading Jews up on Trains to take them away. It smacks of utter tyranny and despotism on the part of Texas to take all these kids away from their moms. Punish the offenders one at a time if there is evidence, but STOP this full scale religious persecution! 1,529. Ben Schoppe Ephraim, UT 1,530. Hannah Cottrell Midvale, UT Maybe the FLDS Church is doing something wrong, but they still have constitutionally protected rights. 1,531. Lorin Black ogden, UT Waht an act against the 4th amendment, against the men wemen and children in the YFZ community. texas shuold have asked to surch the ranch, you can get much better results. Try to listen to them. Instead of just trying to hurt them. OPEN YOUR EYES, SEND THEM HOME. 1,532. Marie D Steed Cane Beds, AZ these children are sweet and innocent and should be with their loving parents...my thoughts go to my own sweet grandchildren,and to have them torn from their parents would be devastating to all involved. 1,533. MaryAnn Riedel Riverton, UT 1,534. charles peart nibley, UT Too much power in the hands of too few to destroy the lives of so many. The Texas CPS says the children are doing fine...balony!!!! If they're so happy after being torn from their mothers and homes, why then won't TV cameras (continues on next page)

Page 194 - Signatures 1,527 - 1,534 Name From Comments 1,534. charles peart nibley, UT (continued from previous page) be allowed to show the conditions in the (holding tank)gymnasium??? My guess is that it is a scene of frightened children crying for the security and comfort that only their mothers can provide. Is this not the ultimate abuse? If the men are the problem, at least let the women and children stay in their homes and be free to live their lives. 1,535. Nick Ewing Lehi, UT I'm appalled 1,536. Ray Leseth Las Cruces, NM 416 children wondering if they will ever see their mother again...... Think about it!! 1,537. Joshua Draper St George, UT 1,538. Ann Boyle American Fork, UT I am deeply concerned that Texas has seen fit to take the babies away from young mothers who they believe were forced into marriage. Why would the state be interested in punishing the victims in this mess? 1,539. Allen Zitting Hurricane, UT 1,540. Dylan Kelly Lehi, UT 1,541. Gerald Wahlberg TAylorsville, UT I do not support or believe in the practice of poligamy and I strongly believe that people who abuse children should be prosecuted. I do, however believe in our constitutional rights guaranteed by the bill of rights. These people have had their constitutional rights trampled upon by a liberal minded judge and authorities biased by religious sentiments against the FLDS. People's rights must be protected at all costs. 1,542. Ian Diamond stockton, MO it's wrong that these people are being held. 1,543. Pam Wright Riverton, UT Let's keep this legal please! These children need their mothers! 1,544. Debbie Rohbock Sandy, UT I think that you have takin this thing WAY to Far!! It is not right.. and you know it! Send the woman and children home! 1,545. jill stauffer afton, WY this is a sad time in americas history.we have done similar things to native american children and i had hoped we learned a lesson from past errors. the family is sacred. please do not punish all of the familes for the crimes of a few. 1,546. terry l. west Morgantown, WV 1,547. alan j draper st george, UT 1,548. Trisha Weaver Cedar Hills, UT I may not agree with their lifestyle, but I am appauled by this illegal activity! It is WRONG to take innocent children away from innocent mothers! Abuse is also wrong- find and prosecute the guilty not the innocent. I believe that's (continues on next page)

Page 195 - Signatures 1,534 - 1,548 Name From Comments 1,548. Trisha Weaver Cedar Hills, UT (continued from previous page) what our constitutional rights are for. By the way, who will take care of these children better then their own mothers?? If you can go in and deceptively take them away, you can take any child away--that is kidnapping and that is illigal! This is an embarrassment to the United States and our so called Freedoms. 1,549. leon jones Saint George, UT Due procress is not an unprecedented action of this type based on ONE ALLEGED and unproven phone call.Are we a nation of laws or not? I wonder. 1,550. lawrence mullin salt lake city, UT when in our countries history or bill of rights has the goverment the right to destroy families,based on a phone call? This is an outrage and those who perpetrated this hates AMERICA!! 1,551. Steve Olsen Alpine, UT You are setting a bad precedent by separating children from parents based on a bogus phone tip. 1,552. Louis Menditto Panaca, NV 1,553. Robert Sorenson Alpine, UT Enough is enough, were is the proof of all these allegations, we are innocent till proven guilty. 1,554. Claudia Cawley St George, UT 1,555. Patricia Steed Heber City, UT I understand the intent of what has happened but, I agree that many of the things that have transpired are absolutely unacceptable! Treating everyone as if they have committed a crime. Does that mean we need to take all religious communities (some cities have a ward house on every corner) when there has been a reported case of abuse and do the same to them! Sounds absurd doesn't it? 1,556. J. Preston Jensen St. George, UT I commend Connor Boyack who initiated this petition. I share the same feelings that have been shared by the previous 1536 petitioners excluding #1199. It is time for the silent majority to take back our lost freedoms and this is a good place to start. 1,557. David Beckstrand Alpine, UT Constitutional rights have been violated as has due process. The state of Texas had one complaint that authorities have been uable to verify for several weeks now that they use to justify removing 400 plus children from their homes. The innocent are suffering in the name of the state. What gives our government the right to do such things...there is no constitutional right nor judicial right only autocratic authorities who seek to place their values on society. If we don't stand up for the FLDS rights, who will be next? 1,558. Kelly Taylor Draper, UT They may have a very different lifestyle, but it is all those children know. I feel terrible they have been separated from their mothers and everything familiar to them. What a traumatic thing for them to go through which will impact them now and in the future.

Page 196 - Signatures 1,548 - 1,558 Name From Comments 1,559. Laura Snelgrove Blacksburg, VA As a child who was abused by my father more than a few times as a child, I am stunned that the authorities are not hauling perpetrators off to jail, not innocent children. If there is sexual or other abuse happening, please protect those children by removing the abuser(s), not the victims! 1,560. Susan Oakes Ivins, UT Please let those children and mothers be together. What a awful thing to do to innocent children and babies to take them away from their Mothers. The mothers aren't abusing their children. Please, please give the children back to their mothers. I'm not a polygamist, but I'm a mother who would be heart broken to have my children taken away from me!!!!! 1,561. Amy Saunders Eagle Mountain, UT What you, the elected officials of Texas, are allowing to happen to these families is unconstitutional and immoral. Religious freedoms are why the founding fathers and pilgrims fought so hard and sacrificed so much. Please remember that and free the children of these FLDS families. Thank you! 1,562. Janet Thompson West Valley, UT I believe that the way the state of Texas has handled this issue is not in accordance with the laws of our country. Our country was founded on laws that do not discriminate its people based on religous beliefs. That is exactly what is happening. Our ancestors came to the United States of America to be free from religious persecution! I also feel that the CPS was very dishonest to these mothers and their children. Think of your own mothers, wives and children. Would you like them to be taken from you based off of an allegation that has yet to be proven true? These people should be treated with the same respect and concern as you would expect. They are families being torn apart. Please return them home peacefully, and go about the investigation in a more civilized manner. 1,563. SCOTT Visalia, CA Innocent children need to be protected, but on a case by MARSHALL case basis. Your Child Protective Services is way out of line and out of step with constitutional protections. The action of your Texas officials reeks of persecution and over zealous self-righteousness. 1,564. Not for molesting Orem, UT They are committing crimes against children and should pay the penalty just as any other citizen. Children need to be in custody and kept safe from the horrible child molester who call themselves husbands!! 1,565. Danielle Edwards West Jordan, UT Are you going to take all the young male children away from the Catholic Church because of all of the allegations regarding Catholic Church Priest's molesting them too? I don't believe in the FLDS religion, but I do believe in their rights. They are peaceful people, and as a new mother myself, I can't believe Texas would take those children away without truly investigating each individual case!

Page 197 - Signatures 1,559 - 1,565 Name From Comments 1,566. Tawni Holm Toquerville, UT The flds people living in texas are good people!! And never have they done anything to deserve the treatment they are receiving from their fellow americans. everything the texas state is allowing to happen to these dear people is in direct violation of the constitution! Does the constitution no longer matter in this free country of america? When was the third right restored? who let hitler back into power? Why is the state of texas persecuting its most peaceful citizens? The children should be restored to their parents BECAUSE THEY ARE GOOD PEOPLE!! AND THEY RAISE THEIR CHILDREN IN A SPIRIT OF PEACE AND LOVE IN A WORLD WHERE VIOLENCE REIGNS FOREMOST!!! By the acts the state of texas is taking against these beautiful people, one would be led to believe they are trying to do away with the constitution. Our ancestors didnt fight so hard for freedom so that one day we could abolish it! I am disgusted with every person involved in this raid! following orders in no excuse!! God gave you the knowledge to know right from wrong! And you know this is wrong!!! Let the flds people alone to live their lives in peace! Shame on the CPS!!! How long will it take before you relize you are going against the very thing your organization was made for? your operating backwards! if your going to take away children, take them away from situations that are actually abusive! Stop kidnapping the innocent!!! Free the Innocent FLDS!!! 1,567. Eileen C Millsap Stockton, MO Texas is trampling upon the civil rights of these children and their parents. I can't believe they are getting away with it! We should all contact the Governor of Texas, and request him to step in and stop this abuse, both of families and of power. 1,568. George Wisecup Houston, TX I pray that the innocence of the children is not destroyed. Texas is engaged in a great evil and will be judged. If Governor Perry was a leader or even an ordinary "good" man he would be on the front line defending these children from the vicious attack of these demonic state agencies. 1,569. K Jensen Bountiful, UT I cannot believe this police action could take place in America. When I start to read my newspaper each morning I find myself afraid, for the first time in my own home. Is "big brother" watching over my shoulder? I know, in my heart, I have done nothing wrong but how easy it has been for the officials in this area to build a case that allowed them to take innocent children from their parents on one anonymous phone call. It is bad enough we no longer feel safe when we travel to foreign countries but please don't let this follow us into our daily lifes and give us stiff necks from looking over our shoulders. Because it could happen to YOU. 1,570. Chris Jessop Pinesdale, MT This is outrageous! Shame on Texas! Free the innocent!

Page 198 - Signatures 1,566 - 1,570 Name From Comments 1,571. Carol Graham independence, MO 1,572. Craig Johnson Eagle Mountain, UT 1,573. Stanford Packer Sierra Vista, AZ Texas may have a point about crimes, but there is no precidence for the way the prosecution is being handled, unless the presidence is from nazi germany or in the south for lynching blacks. Let the children go back to thier mothers and prosecute the back woods judge for improper prosecution. Texas seems to be getting a deserved black eye for bigotry. let the children go and prosecute based on ways outlined in the constitution. 1,574. Michael Deering Benton, KY This is a travesty of not only justice, but of religious liberty for ALL Americans. Where was the incontrivertible evidence to warrant the Order to search and seize? An anonymous phone call from Colorado Springs??? Who of us shall be next? Shall the Amish be declared a "cult" and by some anonymous phone call making an unproven and uninvestigated allegation, have the full weight of the state's militarized police come crashing into their churches, kidnapping their children and declaring them unfit parents?? We're making the Nazis look like pikers. Instead of midnight raids and round-ups in the night - the state of Texas does it in broad daylight, getting cover from the media to tar and feather the FLDS with guilt before a single defensive argument can be made in court. What we have witnessed is guilt by declaration, and the burden placed on the defendants to prove themselves innocent. Texas has trampled the Constitution in this case, and set precedent for tyranny of the likes these shores have never experienced before. I'm sickened and ashamed that such things can occur, and that we think we can still consider ourselves Americans. I shall now forever consider Law Enforcement and any state agents as no different than the Waffen SS, or the Stasi. This is tyranny, plain and simple. Not justice. -Michael Deering 1,575. Dale Memmott Clemson, SC Either they are guilty or they are not! Until they are proven guilty, parents should maintain custudy of their children. This is against constitutional rights. to assume all are in danger of abused due to a hoax phone call and perhaps a couple hearsays of underaged marriages is rediculous. Texas had better be just as concerned and after all the children in not only drug abuse homes, but those who are neglected in any way including emotional abuse. perhaps all parents should be concerened that Texas will take your children away! 1,576. Laurel McOmie Bluffdale, UT I am sickened that so many American's fundamental rights could be trampled over completely unsubstantiated allegations. The further into the "investigation" you get, the less you have to justify your actions, while you (continues on next page)

Page 199 - Signatures 1,571 - 1,576 Name From Comments 1,576. Laurel McOmie Bluffdale, UT (continued from previous page) simultaneously seem to care less and less about your lack of evidence. Great job, comrades. Way to abuse your power to attack people who live and think differently then you. 1,577. paul penrod Salem, UT This is a blatant attack on civil rights. I don't condone poligamy but I think there are young children all over texas having sexual relations. This action is more about rights to liberty and freadom and privacy in this United States of America. 1,578. Angela Cantrell Salt Lake City, UT Freedom and Justice for ALL. These families situations should be looked at individually. I am not a member of the FLDS religion, but I have had a chance to get to know some polygamist families. I found most of the information about them I had heard previously to be both inaccurate and very ignorant. I cannot speak for all polygamist families, but the ones I have met are faithful kind good people. The women are often feisty, and independent. Many of them had college degrees. Their kids were wonderful. I hope Texas authorities will open their mind and heart and allow those families who are able to provide a safe loving home to their children to do so. 1,579. melinda barlow st.george, UT To whom this may concern, I am a member from the flds church...but i no longer believe that way! I have to admit Yes its so damn wrong for these young girls being married and getting pregnant at 14 or what ever age,But I also think it's wrong to take little children away from their families! I just think if you put these kids in foster homes or whatever kinda care, they will end up gettin away and they will be in more danger because they will get introduced to drugs, alcohol ec. I have been there done that...I am not just saying this I was young when i left at 16, but i also made that choice! So I truelly think you should GIVE THE CHILDREN BACK! they will be in better care and health, then if you give them to someone else! Take care of the real PROBLEM like UNDERAGE MARRIAGES! arrest the men who are doing all this bull shit...and let everyone else out of it... I was also raised with good Morals & Values, I can thank my parents for that.Thanks for taking the time to read this and please do something about it! 1,580. DaNaze Dalby Bluffdale, UT Please find a way to resolve this issue so children can return to their mothers. 1,581. DANIEL CENTENNIAL PARK, IN GOD WE TRUST. TIMPSON AZ 1,582. Barbara Tate Salt Lake City, UT You are punishing these poor children for an anonymous tip from someone who (I think) doesn't exist. I believe this whole thing was made up so you could interfere with these (continues on next page)

Page 200 - Signatures 1,576 - 1,582 Name From Comments 1,582. Barbara Tate Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) peaceful and kind people. Yes a little strange to us, but let them be. 1,583. Roger Billingsley Pocahontas, AR 1,584. Clark Kent Reseda, CA For more impact, add a personal comment here 1,585. Edson Hammon Centennial Park, AZ Serious abuse of Power and abuse of innocent children. Both contradict the premise and mission of "Child Protective Services". How do we as citezens under constitutional protection expect to trust these people in power and office. "Bad Call" to blanket a community, not to mention a home because of an "unidentified caller". Serious and unrepairable damage commited on behalf of this government agency. Free these children and create constructive dialog with the families and community. Reestablish dignity to your name by helping, and stop abusing these kids and the "power" entrusted to you. 1,586. Tanya Simler Cedaredge, CO I understand that those involved in the seizure of these children feel they are doing what they feel is right, but you need to take another look at it. To tear families apart when there is no evidence of abuse between the mothers and children is absolutely wrong. You are scarring these mothers and children for life, and I would ask you to consider to do the right thing for those involved. This affects all of us. You are taking the rights of parents away and placing children in government care, which is usually not helpful. You are abusing the rights of innocent people who you haven't even thoroughly investigated. The burden of proof is on you, and the evidence of abuse is not there. 1,587. Jamie Barlow Washington, UT 1,588. Emily Carlson Tooele, UT 1,589. S. DeGrassi Santa Ana, CA On the pretext of a "prank" call from black woman, the government has taken it upon itself to raid an entire community, kidnap their children from their homes, subject American citizens to illegal DNA testing forcibly, illegally remove articles from their homes as "evidence", and on and on. This is BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS. We FREE Americans DEMAND that these victims be released IMMEDIATELY ... every one of them ... IMMEDIATELY! We will tolerate no more Waco or Ruby Ridge incidents from this illegal government. 1,590. Josh Hadley Clearfield, UT 1,591. Jeremy Fife Newarj, CA 1,592. Derek DelQuadro Salt Lake City, UT Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition (continues on next page)

Page 201 - Signatures 1,582 - 1,592 Name From Comments 1,592. Derek DelQuadro Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) the government for a redress of grievances. Why did Texas State Rep. Harvey Hilderbran push into law a bill that raised the legal age of consent to marry in Texas from 14 to 16 after these people moved there? Want to ask him? Here ya go, give him a call. :) (512) 463-0536 or (830) 257-2333 You can also fax a letter to him at (512) 463-1449 or (830) 792-4289 1,593. Aaron Merrill Santaquin, UT The Texas Authorities have made a bad judgment which I believe should of been handled differently. If this can happen to the FLDS then it can happen to me, my family, and/or neigborhood. I stand in using common/logical sense, love, compassion, understanding, respect and justic all together when it comes to things like this. You do not take the innocent with the guilty. 1,594. Levi Barlow La Verkin, UT The real TRUTH is out there for those who want the TRUTH. 1,595. Susan Drake Kennett Square, PA A lot more harm will be done to these children, especially the young ones by taking them from loving mothers. 1,596. Richard Norton Santa Fe, NM These people are citizens just like you and me. The end does not justify the means. Pleae reunited the children with their mothers. 1,597. Gideon Naylor Salt Lake, UT I just wish we could make Texas its own country so that AGE 8 the rest of the United States wouldn't have to be a part of something so bad. Also, so that the other countries would stop staring at us like we're a bunch of maniacs. (You should see what maniac means in the dictionary.) 1,598. Merrilee Boyack Poway, CA Prosecute abuse - not your agenda. Over 400 children have been kidnapped illegally by YOU. Own up to that and correct it. 1,599. Christopher Perry Burlington, NJ I am not a Christian and do not agree with the FLDS religious views but what has happened to them is wrong because it amounts to a collective prevention based on a FALSE tip from an individual with possible ties to a crisis center that has a personal grievance against these people. 1,600. Dennis Gentry San Mateo, CA First off, I'm no fan of even the Mormon Church, let alone the FLDS sect. But I am a fan of the U.S. Constitution. And we absolutely should be doing our best to protect children who are at risk of harm. But unless they change course, CPS and the Government of Texas is going to come off as a bunch of bullies, thugs, and incompetents. If the CPS actually cared for the children, they wouldn't be separating any of them from their mothers unless there were specific, credible allegations of abuse, they would have a damn good reason (continues on next page)

Page 202 - Signatures 1,592 - 1,600 Name From Comments 1,600. Dennis Gentry San Mateo, CA (continued from previous page) before separating five year olds or younger from their mothers, and they just plain wouldn't separate nursing mothers from their kids. 1,601. Alice Leon Sandy, UT Just like Mr. Boyack, I don't agree with the FLDS Religion, but I very much believe that the rights of the PEOPLE were violated! It sickens me to no end that they have taken the mothers away from their children on allegations that are yet to be founded. And allthough I am not LDS, I can only imagine what the children must feel. It's like taking my kids from me and putting them in temporary custody with the FLDS! Can you imagine the shock and the fear these children are in and now you are going to place them in foster care in the mainstream world! Its outrageous! 1,602. Douglas Albion, IN It is horrible that the Government will not stop the witch Morrissey hunts, the children were not abused in any circumstances as far as I am concerned. For the Texas authorities to come in with a militaristic stance and weapons, it is comming down to them vs us. It is not american nor is this state action american either. This case has NO merit. Release the kids back to their parents and stop wasting our money on stupid crap! 1,603. xotika van hof kenai, AK Very sad to see these women and kids lined up, well maybe they will use them for micro chipping experiments.. 1,604. Cynthia Barlow St. George, UT 1,605. kathy bradshaw humansville, MO This incident is an example of what our country is coming to. What happened to the constitutional rights of the American people? While my son is in Iraq,fighting terrorism, our government is home, "terrorizing" its own citizens. Yes, if there is an abusive situation it needs to be investigated. But Texas made a BIG mistake. They better be big enough to fix it!! 1,606. Kristi Leatham Logan, UT 1,607. Hyrum Johnson Misquite, NV 1,608. Matthew Arnol Dallas, TX 1,609. Joseph Shoopack San Deigo, CA I am a firm supporter of religious liberties. I do not condone child abuse or marriage between men and women who are under the legal state age to marry. But what Texas has done in taking 400+ children away from their families is a blatant disregard for their constitutional rights. Placing them in a foster care system probably increases their odds of being abuised. Charges need to addressed on an individual basis rather that state persecution of an entire community.

Page 203 - Signatures 1,600 - 1,609 Name From Comments 1,610. Wayne Mein Grover, UT Taking children away from their homes on the basis of an anonymous and unproven allegation is an extreme abuse of power by the state. Investigation is warranted, but should be conducted with minimal disruption of the lives of those families unless and until unlawful activity is confirmed. The childrens' abduction by the state is probably the most traumatic experience of their lives. Forcing parents to turn their children over to the state -- it's immoral and a denial of the most basic of civil liberties. 1,611. Bethany Sturgeon Santaquin, UT Like so many other petitioners before, I find it outrageous that the victims (especially babies, toddlers, and young children) have been taken out of their mother's loving arms rather than any ABUSERS being arrested and taken to jail! What are you people thinking? 1,612. Joshua Merrill Salem, UT 1,613. Ada Fischer Bonners Ferry, ID Although I am not affiliated with the FLDS church, my heart has been broken over the loss these families are suffering.I feel indignant and outraged that the sacred rights that the forefathers of our country gave their very lives for have been violated by the individuals who should uphold our constitutional rights as American citizens. If government officials can come in and invade the homes of an entire community based on a phonecall by one anonymous caller, what will they do next? Should all the children within my community or church be torn from their parents because someone somewhere within my community happened to abuse his wife or child? Does that crime determine whether I'm a fit parent or not? No! I feel that the same consideration that we want for ourselves should be granted to these parents. 1,614. Sarah Graham Dallas, TX 1,615. Bonnie Eckman South Jordan, UT This should have never happened. Who's next? The government should not have the right to decide how someone's child is to be raised!! If there was abuse find and arrest the abusers! You can't honestly believe ALL 416 kids are being abused. 1,616. Michele Cruise Berwyn, PA 1,617. Jo Ann Nielson Salt Lake City, UT Shame on the "great" state of Texas! You have invaded the privacy of the FLDS homes and sacred temple. Who are you to take away such precious freedoms? Return these children to their mothers and let them go home! 1,618. Kevin Dolan Rochester, NY 1,619. Rafael Salt Lake City, UT In this situation, there's no such thing as "until proven Hankishiyev guilty". Those women did nothing wrong, and there's no reason for any investigation or punisment.Taking children from innocent mothers is the crime that does not have (continues on next page)

Page 204 - Signatures 1,610 - 1,619 Name From Comments 1,619. Rafael Salt Lake City, UT (continued from previous page) Hankishiyev precedents even in countries under dictatorship.Children have to be returned to their mothers immediately. Thank you. 1,620. Linda Carter Bonnerdale, AR Who will be persacuted next? Baptist, because They teach judgement for sin? Or Seventh Day Adventist, because They observe Saturday as the Sabbath? Or how about Jehova Witnesses, because They teach that the government can't get them into "paradise". Need I go on? This is clearly a blatent abuse of our constitutional rights concerning freedom of religion! 1,621. Lee Perry Kaysville, UT State of Texas do your jobs already. Find the abusers and give these mothers back their children. I know that it is much harder to actually gather evidence and prosecute criminals, but that is what the constitution requires. These are individuals living in a community and have rights as individuals. If you dont have evidence that each one of these children has been abused then give them back to their mothers until you do. 1,622. Toan Lam Salt Lake City, UT 1,623. Pete Hansen Seattle, WA I'm sick and tired of CPS overreaching; convicting and judging those who have not seen Due Process. It's outrageous to rip these children from their mothers at a time when these children need them most. It's time to demand respect for the legal rights of our citizens. 1,624. Norma Weidow Pinesdale, MT 1,625. Nora Cooke hurricane, UT My heart feels sad 4 them.May god bless that all goes well 4 them. 1,626. Narayne Rougeau North Logan, UT Please return these children to their mothers, and direct your efforts toward finding the perpetators (men), if any, in this legal battle. Removing 416 children from their homes based upon one phone call is akin to going into a Catholic parish and removing all the children within that parish from their homes based upon the accusations of one priest molesting children. It does not make sense, and you are doing more harm than good by traumatizing these children and their mothers in such a way! How soon before someone comes into your home and tells you that they don't agree with the way you are raising your children and decides to remove them "for their own good". Whether or not you agree with these particular people's lifestyle (I don't), it is their Constitutional right to do so, and you have no right to hold these children hostage and punish them for what you perceive to be the adults' misdeeds. 1,627. Shelley Barlow Hildale, UT

Page 205 - Signatures 1,619 - 1,627 Name From Comments 1,628. Teresa Rock Springs, WY I do not agree with the FLDS lifestyle, but I do however Hungerford believe that greater abuse is taking place everyday in the homes of drug users, porn addicts, and homes where parents are seldom home. How can we justify this when we allow those with same sex attraction to raise children when studies show that the children from those homes are forever affected. Why have you not taken care of things on a case by case system. Making those who allow and those who marry underage girls accountable? I do not believe that the 416 children witness violence and physical abuse on an everyday basis. Yet in many parts of this country there are many children that can not walk safely down their streets, let alone go out and play. I believe we have a far greater need for change and accountability in many other areas besides the Yearning For Zion Ranch. 1,629. Sherrie Black ogden, UT these people have not been treated like people. you must go see them @ captivefldschildren.org 1,630. Esther Peters West Valley City, UT Aren't we a government by the people, for the people? High and mighty invasions without proof is unconstitutional! FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS! 1,631. Jesse Barlow Riverton, UT It's very unconstitutional to do what Texas has done. We have rights because of this very thing! 1,632. Rosanne Farley Salt Lake City, UT To whom it may concern, Basic human rights are being violated, I don't agree or condone with the FLDS, but this whole situation was handled very poorly. These children are raised to believe that the world is evil and is trying to take them from God, now, this belief has just been rationalized in the minds of these children. My heart goes out to the Mothers who are seperated from their children. Shame on you Judge Walthers, you should have thought this through with wisdom and tact. You should know better and not have allowed citizen's rights to be violated. What kind of a judge are you? Rosanne Farley 1,633. Tammy Jessop Lake Havasu, AZ I am FLDS. I have a 15 year-old-son. He was taken by the CPS in November of 2006 and placed in a foster home. He was living with his brother at the time because he did not want to come with me or his Father and live the strict standards of the religion that we had embraced. He was angry because of the rules and standards of the home he was in, basic Christian standards, and one night took a truck that belonged to the family business and was stopped by the police. They took him to a Juvenile Detention Center and the CPS stepped in because he said he was being mis-treated by his brother. I came quickly to him and the CPS came and investigated the home, his brother, and myself. They found that the reports were (continues on next page)

Page 206 - Signatures 1,628 - 1,633 Name From Comments 1,633. Tammy Jessop Lake Havasu, AZ (continued from previous page) unsubstantiated and let me take my son into my custody, but kept his file open until April of 2007 when they declared that the reports were unfounded and closed the case. I have spent the last two years with him giving him his choices and helping him to become a good citizen. I would do anything for my son, going to the ends of the earth. I love him more than my own life, and my life is dedicated to his happiness. All that I have done is what I thought was best for him and would bless him. I know that all FLDS mothers share that pure desire for their children. 1,634. kEN aBATE Cottleville, MO Where is the proof these chuildren are being sexually abused, nothing but heresay so far. I do question Tx authority to forcefully take DNA samples without the individuals permission especially the children without their parents permission. True the results of the DNA test will determine how old young these girls were when they gave birth, but is this procedure legal.... I doubt it. Kinda reminds me of the mess at WACO. Living inside that compound does sound peaceful compared to the outside world here. I do not agree with their lifestyle when it comes to what the media and authorities have tried to force the outside world to believe..... I feel sorry for those precious children being separated from their parents, and forced to live in foster homes, where theyare 80% more likey to be physically or sexually abused, they will be tramatized for the rest of their lives.... what is the worse of the two; returning them to their parents or putting them in a strange foster home.... where do we draw the line here. Who is next to have their door kicked in and their children kidnapped because of a false accusation. 1,635. Holly Driscll Middletown, DE I suppose because the FLDS members are not a "protected" or "privileged" group it makes it somehow OK to deny them their rights. Afterall who will speak for polygymists. Today it's FLDS, tommorrow the Amish and then maybe Catholics and then maybe you... The abuse call has been expossed as a hoax. A 33 year old black women from Colorado Springs targeted these people in what may amount to the biggest hate crime on record. 1,636. Robert Zumwalt O FALLON, MO I do not adhear to the Beliefs of LDS, or any other religion for that matter. In this case it realy doesn't matter to me what their belief structure is based upon. In this country people are innocent until proven guilty and there is no proof, nor any substanciating evidence based upon the first claim made which empowered the government to act. It looks like these people are having their basic constutional rights trampled all over and the state is trying every trick they can think of to justify their actions. It reminds me alot of the Duke Lacross Prosecutor who would not admit when (continues on next page)

Page 207 - Signatures 1,633 - 1,636 Name From Comments 1,636. Robert Zumwalt O FALLON, MO (continued from previous page) he was wrong and had the evidence to prove it, but could not start the ball he got rolling to the detriment of his career. If, and this is a big IF!, laws have been broken, then yes the guilty should be tried. But stealing a whole generation of children like this is just plain wrong, especially with a total lack of the abuse for which they have based their claims on. 1,637. John Cohen Brooklyn, NY "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984). Nazi concentration camp survivor. 1,638. joshua bistline hurricane, UT 1,639. linda alexander sage, AR I hope they sue Texas and its cps for evrything they have and more... 1,640. Hannah Harrison Royston, Herts, United Kingdom 1,641. Robert Strain Wofford Heights, CA "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984). Nazi concentration camp survivor. 1,642. Marden Barlow Bluffdale, UT I was born and raised in the flds church and left in 2004 any one is free to do whath they want they don't have to live there. Im glad for being brought up there it has made me who I am. 1,643. Susan Ramsey Largo, FL May due process be served. Please! 1,644. Mary Jo McKnight St. Marys, PA Texas is a horrendous State that condons this type of action. First Waco where men, women and children were burned alive.Now this fake charge where the children were taken by a fake phone call. This country was founded on religious freedom. Whose children are you going to confiscate next? 1,645. Robert Zitting SLC, UT If is bad people go get them!!!!! They can't all be bad. If we have the people to occupy entire countries we can surly go get a few bad apples off of a ranch. 1,646. Christopher south jordan, UT Where is there freedom here? They have the right to Kelsch assemble in there religious beliefs. Where is the person who supposedly called in? It seems our government does not care about the rights of the people or wether they are causing extreme greif and torment. How would you feel if it (continues on next page)

Page 208 - Signatures 1,636 - 1,646 Name From Comments 1,646. Christopher south jordan, UT (continued from previous page) Kelsch were you or people you love? If there is abuse where is the proof and why do you rip families appart without it? Who is in the wrong them or you? PLEASE GIVE THEM BACK THERE FAMILIES 1,647. john glyn-jones monterey, TN 1,648. Sharla Williams Stockton, MO These children are finding out that the fears thier parents told them about the "outside world" are really true.Where is the compassion, security, love, or trust? Where are thier constitutional rights? Wow Texas you are big alright, big at distroying innocent lives! Why not be big and give these beautiful children back to thier loving Mothers! May God protect these families and may God deal swiftly with Texas!! 1,649. Barbara Grant Mastic Beach, NY I am appalled that the Judge is taking away nursing babies from their Moms. It is The Mother�s right to Breastfeed their babies as long as the Mom and child wishes to. To tear these babies away is going to be emotional not just to the babies but to the Moms as well. There are laws that protect a Mother�s right to breastfeed her children. There are many breastfeed babies who will not take anything else but the breast. 1,650. Brad Steed Washington, UT This is a direct injustice to the citizens of this so called "free" nation. 1,651. Hugh McBryde Columbia Falls, MT I remain aghast that there is no crime of violence or sexual abuse charged against any resident of the YFZ ranch, yet Texas keeps the children and assumes guilt that they are not willing to show cause for. 1,652. Sara Feil WVC, UT Please don't take away the nursing babies from their mothers. They need that nutrition. As well as take care to put back all of the other children who need the tender care of their mothers. Foster mothers cannot replace their real mother. 1,653. maryellen D. murray, UT My primary concern is the IMMEDIATE SAFETY of those children. I have 7 NIECES AND NEPHEWS ADOPTED out of the TEXAS state foster system, over the course of the last 13 yrs, from Beaumont, Katy and Houston. Over time SEVERAL OF THEM have voluntarily confided in me MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS OF ABUSE they received in not 1 but VARIOUS FOSTER HOMES IN TEXAS, often in the name of punishment. A mild example being made to kneel on beans for 15 minutes for not eating a meal item. They are truthful young adults and I have seen their scars and their emotion. In addition I lived in Houston for 1 1/2 years in the early 90�s. At that time I had a close friend who was a (continues on next page)

Page 209 - Signatures 1,646 - 1,653 Name From Comments 1,653. maryellen D. murray, UT (continued from previous page) caseworker for child services, working with foster placed children. Every worker she knew including herself was over loaded with more cases than they could manage well. She shared accounts of dangerous consequences. I am deeply troubled and concerned at a potentially, already over taxed system taking on 416 children at once! One solution: Would it not at the least; make more sense, be less disruptive and traumatic, to all lives involved, take fewer state staff and citizen taxes, to negotiate separated quarters for those children, on-site at their ranch? These could be supervised around the clock by Texas Family Services staff? They could receive UNINTERUPTED EDUCATION, supervised visits from their mothers, the camaraderie and morale of associating with their cousins and friends, access to their belongings, any counseling deemed needful, etc., until such time as individual cases of concern are ferreted out. Would this not be more appeasing to an alarmed national public and minimize unfavorable economic impact to the state and these families, in properly caring for the needs of 416 children? 1,654. Chad Woodworth Eagle Mountain, UT I'm not affiliated at all with the FLDS community and this saddens me that the Texas government would come in and destroy this community with only a prank call to go off of. The government has no right to come in and destroy the strongest bond on this planet - Family. Breaking any family apart no matter what there beliefs is wrong. I agree they should be treated as innocent until they are proven guilty. I hope Texas pays for the atrocities to mankind they have committed. 1,655. Leah Porta San Jose, CA The state has NO right to remove these children from the care of their mothers and family. Why are we all sitting around watching the state keep these children and place them with strangers? This looks tastes and smells like Germany in the 1930�s. Why are we so paralyzed when it comes to our governments actions here? 1,656. susan harms midvale, UT This will not stop here we the people of this great nation can and will not stand by and witness you kidnap 400 children on a hoax phone call. Do the right thing please free these peoples children and fire the CPS workers who are in colusion with who ever started this . 1,657. Constantin Mount Prospect, IL For more impact, add a personal comment here Ciceovan 1,658. Ionut Volosen College Station, TX Please do not remove the children from their family and give them to the foster home service. This is the biggest mistake you can ever make. These children are safe in their own family. Please do not destroy the life of these (continues on next page)

Page 210 - Signatures 1,653 - 1,658 Name From Comments 1,658. Ionut Volosen College Station, TX (continued from previous page) children. I am not a FLDS member, I do not agree with most of their idea, but these children should not be removed from their own parents, and given to families that have no idea how to properly raise a child 1,659. Sergei Lubich San Fran Sicko, CA I am not a mormon, but I do believe that this is another example of injustice to occurs on the daily basis to all Family minded Americans. This would not happen to an Islamic mosque or a "minority" church as the media is supportive of them. This can and will continue to happen to the white Christians This is a classic government attempts to destroy the only thinking, law abiding groups that don't accept constant dumbing down. Divide and conquer -- government policy. Welcome to the new world order. 1,660. Merilyn Daggett Rathdrum, ID Let ALL the FLDS people GO! The real immorality in this country are the HOMOSEXUALS with their many indescrimate sex partners. 1,661. Robert Weston Murray, UT The state of Texas is going too far. I do not believe in the FLDS nor do I believe in poligamy. Those people still have civil rights and I believe they are being violated. GIVE those KIDS back to their mothers. Thank You 1,662. Michelle Timpo Colorado city, AZ Just let em go!!! 1,663. Heman Hunter Wasilla, AK 1,664. Dennis Wilhelm toledo, OH I am deeply concerned about the FLDS case in Texas. As a devout Christian, the state�s argument that religious beliefs taught in conjunction with the �threat� of �damnation� are inherently so abusive that the state cannot conceive of a proposal by which children would ever be safe in the care of their parents, is dreadfully alarming. The lack of probable cause, via one phone call authorities now believe to be a hoax, will surely taint any evidence to the point that no criminal convictions will ever arise; however deserved they are found to be! The lack of due process, illustrated by an en masse hearing for 416 children in direct violation of Texas law, et cetera ad nauseum, is shocking beyond belief. Texas CPS is currently detaining an eighteen year old adult woman against her will, with a certified birth certificate to prove her age, because they believe she is lying about her age. District Judge Barbara Walthers deliberated for a mere five minutes before giving her ruling. A seventeen year old Canadian citizen visiting her grandmother has been made a ward of the state of Texas, without benefit of the Canadian consulate. (continues on next page)

Page 211 - Signatures 1,658 - 1,664 Name From Comments 1,664. Dennis Wilhelm toledo, OH (continued from previous page) I see abundant evidence of a miscarriage of justice, dangerous legal precedents and abuse of powers. As an American, I demand that action be taken to uphold the Constitution and due process. 1,665. Kim Thompson Corpus Christi, TX I hardly doubt that CPS or the city of San Angelo is going to release those children. In case you didn't know this, the city and the state stand to collect $324,480,000 (an estimate and a low end one at that). why would they let them go? CPS is causing permanent emotional trauma to these children. And that amounts to abuse with motive. How do we protect these children against that? 1,666. Jerold Williams Centennial Park, AZ This is truly a case of the Texas government flexing thier muscles "AGAIN", does no one in a place of authority in the "Great" state of Texas remember Waco and what a fiasco that was? Not to mention blatant murder by a state of a "Free" country. There was a time for shooting first and asking questions later, it was called the "Wild West", but that time has come and gone. Let us all remember what this Awesome country was founded on and to what lengths our forefathers went to in an effort to secure some freedoms for thier posterity. Return these families to a semblence of normalcy and quit meddling in affairs of religion. There was a good reason for separation of church and state, and this proves it very plainly. 1,667. grace hope delta, UT THE STATE OF TEXAS IS WAY OUT OF LINE HERE. I THINK THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE ATROCITY, THAT THESE CHILDREN ARE BEING RIPPED AWAY FROM THE LOVING CARE OF THEIR MOTHERS AND PUT INTO FOSTER HOMES WHERE OTHER CHILDREN ARE NOT SO WELL MANNERED AND THEY ARE SUBJECTED TO A WORLD THAT IS TOTALLY ALIEN TO THEM.. PLEASE LET THESE CHILDREN GO BACK TO THEIR PARENTS. I AM NOT A FLDS MEMBER BUT GROWING UP IN UTAH I HAVE BE ASSOCIATED WITH MANY OF THEIR MEMBERS ALL MY LIFE AND I CALL THEM FRIENDS. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT THEM IS NOT TRUE. THEIR CHILDREN ARE RAISED TO HAVE RESPECT FOR THEIR ELDERS AND ARE VERY WELL MANNERED AND THEY ARE NOT SOCIAL MISFITS LIKE MANY WOULD HAVE YOU THINK. 1,668. luann willliams centenial park, AZ What kind of precedence is the government setting with this kind of treatment of the American family? If this is allowed in one case we have every reason to expect it to be repeated elswhere. If the constititution protects anything (continues on next page)

Page 212 - Signatures 1,664 - 1,668 Name From Comments 1,668. luann willliams centenial park, AZ (continued from previous page) it is the family. In any other CPS involvment, children are kept with the family, giving parents every opportunity to prove innocence or come into compliance. In this instance it seems that the family has been assumed guilty and will remain that way until they can find any excuse to deny them the rights to their children. Texas and any other state, should have to investigate abuse on a case by case basis and deal the deal with each. 1,669. Charles Lee Corpus Christi, TX I hope this incident will make the federal goverment look more closely at CPS and the damage they are causing not only in Texas but in every other state and take some action against them. There should be no entity in the US that is exempt from scrutiny or reprimand. 1,670. NEW DEFENSE ARIZONA, AZ OK PEOPLE... FOR ALL OF YOU SEEING THIS SITE FUND = AND WONDERING "WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?" --- A CAPTIVEFLDSCHLDREN.ORG NEW WEBSITE HAS BEEN PUT UP WHERE YOU CAN DONATE TO THE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND TO HELP GET THESE INNOCENT CHILDREN BACK TO THEIR PARENTS! GO TO: www.captivefldschildren.org --- THIS IS A FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF EVERY CHILD & PARENT HERE IN AMERICA - A FIGHT THAT MUST NOT BE LOST! GOD GRANT THEM FREEDOM & LET THEM LIVE! >>> F R E E D O M << 1,671. Victor R Petersen salt lake city, UT What the child protective services is doing is Jr. unconstitutional and horrifying to think that an entire religion and a peoples lives can be up rooted simply on the basis of rumors and an unconfirmed wittness AKA. 16yr old girl that doesn't exist. This is a perfect example of our failed society, government and the protection of our most basic rights. If in fact a complaint is made of abuse it needs to be investigated properly not in this midevial witch hunt by child services the Texas government and the pathetic press looking for something new to print. When a complaint is made concerning sexual abuse the person needs to be investigated not the entire religion as if this was the case we need to storm the LDS temple to see just what they are up to as it isnt a public place or maybe the vatican as we all know that sexual abuse is done by its priests. The simple point is that these people choose to live their lives away from main stream america and who can blame them you have nothing but corruption to offer. My prayers are with the women and children as well as my appologies for such a pathetic government in which you no longer have the right to be free. 1,672. Pamela Lazo westminster, CA These children need to be with their mothers! How would I feel if my rights were taken away like this?

Page 213 - Signatures 1,668 - 1,672 Name From Comments 1,673. Teresa Perry Kaysville, UT Are we still in America? We are so much better than this! Give these children back to their mothers and find the abusers throught the justice system we have in place. 1,674. Cindy Pickens OKC, OK If this can be done to one religious organization, where's the line going to be? One phone call and lives are changed forever. Be careful, people. It could happen in your church or even your home. Send these children back to their mothers!! 1,675. deborah burke St. Louis Park, MN who's next? Is this a dry run to test the will of free thinking people? Are people so brainwashed that they can no longer see "militia style" takeovers of our Bill of Rights? The children and their parents are you and me. Get Smart!!!! 1,676. barbara brevoort southgate, MI 1,677. Priscilla Kisiela Cave Junction, OR I strongly urge you to intervene and stop this dreadful miscarriage of justice. Ripping apart families in the name of "protecting" them is not justice, not mercy, and unconstitutional. Who is next in line to get their children snatched, just because their beliefs or dress is different from what some consider mainstream? Shame on Texas! 1,678. julie olive logandale, NV 1,679. Lyndsey Merrill Santaquin, UT 1,680. Jiri Liska Lombard, IL The best place for all children is with their mothers. The way Texas raided the compound is shocking, reminiscent of Gestapo in Poland; the way the female judge deals the case is simply disgusting, she seems to be angry and basicaly hostile toward these people simply because of their life style and religion. The world is watching ... the America's freedom is in jeopardy! 1,681. Jimmy Wynn Lawrenceville, GA It is unconstitutional to indict an entire religion due to the accusation of a case or so by individual members. Free the women and children immediately. 1,682. Micah Larsen St. George, UT I think that any man found guilty of child abuse or molestation should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, as well as any other participant found guilty in the crime. I think doing this would resolve the problem that is going on among these people after not too long. However, taking all of these children away from their mothers with no evidence that a crime has even taken place is wrong, and heartbreaking to think about. 1,683. KEITH LEBRUN OVERLAND PARK, Those officials who violated these people's rights should KS be brought up on charges and jailed!! 1,684. Charles Ford Washington, UT The actions of Texas of the most repugnat non constitutional actions I have ever seen. Page 214 - Signatures 1,673 - 1,684 Name From Comments 1,685. Kyle Early Downsville, NY 1,686. SUE Price Aberdeen, NC This was from a hoax phone call! Their constitutional rights have been violated.Bring the children home where they belong!This is not Hitler's Germany.! 1,687. J M Huestis Apex, NC Please respect due process for these people (especially the children). Everyone deserves it, even people many may think are weird, backward or otherwise different. Thank you. 1,688. Jack Reynolds Clermont, FL 1,689. Krista Black St. George, UT Texas you may have meant well but I begin my BOYCOTT today. I will boycott you and your citizens until you fix this. 1,690. Susan S Douglas, GA When they start taking children from their homes under false pretenses, when it's really their religion and lifestyle they're against, you may be next. Beware. 1,691. Tammy Langford Dover, TN Quit being hypocrites. If a public schooled girl wanted to have sex, you'd provide her with birth control, so she could do what she wanted. Then if the birth control didn't work, you'd fund the abortion. Since she can make her own decisions. At least these girls were married. 1,692. Stephen Fox Statesville, NC I am appalled at the heavy handed tactics of law enforcement in this situation. As of today, these children are mostly being housed in a gym with all parental contact prohibited. There is no substitute for a mother's care. Didn't they have an undercover cop inside the temple for 4 years? If this person wasn't able to observe illegal activities...why would an anonymous tipster be better? This is a travesty reminicent of Waco. 1,693. Great Hope Great Falls, MT 1,694. Keith Collins Cody, WY Kidnapping and holding the children separate from their parents is a crime. Give them back to their mothers. 1,695. Katie Petersen West Valley City, UT 1,696. R. Scott Herriman, UT McDonald 1,697. jeffrey NELSON PAYSON, UT Me and my wife are LDS ,with my job as a tile rep. I met NELSON somes flds people,very honest in them dialing,good parents. Even met the three wifes.this women have somes say plus well educated,smart and great personnalities.We also met somes of the children who are well behave and polite,they know to work. 1,698. Annette Morgan Huntington, UT My prayers are with you. Good luck. 1,699. john hope delta, UT come on texas enough is enough. stop harassing and belittling these people 1,700. Greg Olson Temple City, CA, CA THis is outrageous. Please protect the innocent who have not done anything wrong.

Page 215 - Signatures 1,685 - 1,700 Name From Comments 1,701. Marie Young Salt Lake City, UT Maybe Texas should have a campaign to seize all underage children from any parents who are smokers. It has been proven by statistics that there is no safe level of second hand smoke, that children are suffering from cancer, asthma, and a host of other health issues from second hand smoke. Also, as far as indoctrination, it has been proven that children raised by parents who smoke are far more likely to take up the habit. These children are minors who have no recourse but to breathe the air they live in. By Texas CPS officials thinking, this qualifies big time for child abuse. This is what happens when you have bigoted logic in authority, which paints everyone with the same brush. 1,702. misty johnson benton, AR 1,703. Esther Timpson Centennial Park, AZ 1,704. Colt Campbell Pleasent Grove, UT This is a gross misuse of CPS authority!! Give the children back to their parents... 1,705. Warren McFerran Orlando, FL I am a Christian (not a Mormon) and I am horrified at the tyranny taking place in Texas. To start with, I have repeatedly heard the expression that only the welfare of the children matters. What happened to the rights of the parents? Don't parents also have rights, such as those expressed in the First Amendment? Also, why did the State of Texas kidnap the boys, if only the girls are supposedly being abused? And why did Texas kidnap the very young girls, such as 4-year-old girls, if only those girls past puberty were supposedly in danger of "abuse"? I even noticed that one of the kidnapped girls was 16 years old! Supposedly even the State of Texas admits that she is old enough to get married. Why were the children kidnapped as a group? Why was not each child considered a separate case? Why doesn't it matter that the complaint behind this tragedy is a fraud? Why does no one seem to care that the State of Texas deliberately raised the acceptable marriage age from 14 to 16 for the express purpose of making the FLDS members appear to be criminals? What will happen to these children? Will they become available for adoption by some "loving" devil-worshipping couples? Will they be made available for adoption by lesbian lovers or by pairs of "gay" dads? (I assume Texas doesn't discriminate against lesbians and gays who seek to adopt children.) Is this what the State of Texas considers to be the best interest of children? Pardon me if I vomit! 1,706. Carolina Garza Harlingen, TX No government entity should hold so much power. I believe that the state has now set a precedent. A very scary precedent. I hope that this petition falls into the hands of the people that can do something about this (continues on next page)

Page 216 - Signatures 1,701 - 1,706 Name From Comments 1,706. Carolina Garza Harlingen, TX (continued from previous page) matter to resolve it quickly. I can only think about the children being uprooted from their environment into a foreign one and having to cope and deal with a situation that they know nothing about. God be with them and the families. 1,707. Douglas Yates Sevierville, TN People gave their lives to protect what you sacrifice for political gain. 1,708. s b salem, IN Give the children back to the parents 1,709. char clingman Downers Grove, IL 1,710. William Hill Yuma, AZ This is outrageous. 1,711. Chris Wenmoth Santa Rosa, CA This situation is exactly what the founding fathers were trying to prevent the government from doing when they added the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. This raid and taking of children is a violation of the First Amendment. Judge Barbara Walthers should be removed from the bench for violating her oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Shame on you, Texas! 1,712. Angela Anderson Mount Vernon, NY Allowing the state to take children away that are not being abused -- but are being "groomed" -- is a threat to homeschoolers. 1,713. Heather Sorenson Layton, UT Now they are going to seperate nursing babies from their mothers after their DNA tests, where are the parents rights?! 1,714. Jeremiah Jessop las vegas, NV I wish all these (goverment and cps ) people would stop worrying bout what everyone else is doing and start worrying bout themselves and thier own kids..thier the ones who are doin drugs raping and killing leave these people alone.. 1,715. Tomas Martini Centerville, UT there should be freedom enough in this country to practise their own religion without government interference 1,716. Erin Smart San Francisco, CA 1,717. Oliver Barrett Eagle Mountain, UT Shame on Texas!! a false flag op to see how america reacts to nazi like new world order tactics!! Where are all the so called patriots-- as a former FLDS, this went way too far-- leave the children alone and let their mothers raise them. 1,718. roxie schliesman Holmen, WI 1,719. preston terrell verona, VA this government should be ashamed what they are doing!!!!!!everyone involved should be arrested&held without bail!!!!!!!! 1,720. Mary Jo Tillman Pattonsburg, MO I feel that by accepting an anonymous callers charge without checking the facts and going in and taking peoples children is the crime committed here and going on a fishing (continues on next page)

Page 217 - Signatures 1,706 - 1,720 Name From Comments 1,720. Mary Jo Tillman Pattonsburg, MO (continued from previous page) expedition is a violation of the rights of these people. These children should be returned to their mothers and all allowed to return to their home. 1,721. Amelia Zitting Centennial Park, AZ 1,722. Lowell J Crane Sandy, UT MY HEART GOES OUT TO THESE RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE 1,723. Don Glendale, UT Fotheringham 1,724. David Fister Moscow, ID Please bear with me for a moment. Imagine a group of people living by themselves away from the mainstream society. They don�t interact with people outside their group. They are suspicious of outsiders. They live differently. They wear strange clothes and sing strange songs. They don�t even talk the same way as those outside the group. They have a peculiar religion which nobody else understands. The little bit that people do understand of their religion, they find utterly appalling. Some of them even have strange marriage practices including polygamy. They are thought of as a dangerous cult. They have one leader who dictates to them the way they should live. Many of them are directly descended from their leader. They have peculiar customs. In fact, their customs are considered abusive by the outside society, and those outside believe that these customs will mean hell and eternal damnation for the people in the group. They just aren�t �Christian.� (Read: they don�t conform to the dominant society�s vision of �God�s Law.�) Even worse, they provide living proof that it is possible to live a different lifestyle than what is mainstream. This is highly embarrassing to the outside culture which feels that its ways are ideal. Now the dominant society feels so threatened by the few people living in this group, that it decides the group must be assimilated. The children are separated from their parents because they are the easiest members to re-educate. The society believes it is �rescuing� the children from lives of oppression, depravity, and deprivation. The adults are given up as a lost cause and any more children they may sire and bear are likewise taken away. The children are given to strangers and sent to a public school far away from their homes where they cannot contact their families or friends. They are raised in the traditions of the dominant culture. They are forced to wear the clothes of the dominant culture and practice the religious traditions of the dominant culture. They are forbidden to practice the religion of their parents. They are taught that their former way of life was primitive and inferior (continues on next page)

Page 218 - Signatures 1,720 - 1,724 Name From Comments 1,724. David Fister Moscow, ID (continued from previous page) to that of the dominant culture, and that their families and anyone else who continue in the old ways are �stupid, dirty, and backwards.� They are told that the outside society is going to teach them a better way of life, one that will give them more choices and opportunities. If they express a desire to return to their parents, they are shamed and humiliated. All of this is done �in the best interests of the children.� It is for their own good, and it is believed that they will be thankful later for it. Some day they will realize just how savage, neglectful, and abusive their former culture was. It is the hope of the dominant society that years later, when the children are finally allowed to seek out their parents after a full indoctrination into the mainstream culture, the children will not return to the ways of their parents, and indeed they won�t even fit in with the old culture. Their new society has changed them, and now owns them. The way of their tribe is lost forever. Does this scenario seem familiar? Is it even possible in a free society? I am, of course, speaking of the American Indian Assimilation Policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. http://www.kporterfield.com/aicttw/articles/boardingschool.html This policy had a devastating effect on the Indian tribes. They lost a whole generation of their members. They lost human resources. And they continue to be among the most impoverished peoples on the North American continent. This is one more example of the ruling class claiming a superior right to the children of the ruled underclass. As long as the underclass cannot feel secure even in its families, there can be no economic development within the tribe. Could history repeat itself? Students of history know that history always repeats itself. People do not learn the lessons of history and they continue to make the same mistakes, over and over and over again. Stay tuned. Again, unconditional freedom to associate with one�s family is an essential ingredient for human resource development within the tribe. If we take away that family security, we take away all incentives to develop the family. If we take away that security and those rights for only a small group within society, we take it away for everyone. �Nobody is free until everybody is free.� We must not imagine that because we are not the target group today, that our freedom is assured tomorrow. And we should not imagine that if we had lived one hundred years ago, that we would have been more sensitive and left that strange culture alone.

Page 219 - Signature 1,724 Name From Comments 1,725. george barlow St.eorge, UT What i want to no is why the goverment is doing this to the flds kids when they are doing nothing wrong...And why didnt they do this to the cathlic church when they had proff that the prists where rapping little boys.....Give the childern back they need there mothers..you have no idea what you are puting these kids threw this is the worst way they could hanndle it...Wake up every one they are taking our rights away..... 1,726. GM Weiss NYC, NY Give the children back to their parents 1,727. Virginia Haines Indiana, PA I shutter to think I lost my father my entire childhood to his 20 years of military service only to see the very rights he fought for a defended flushed down the toilet. 1,728. John Galton Knoxville, TN This soft Waco is a genocidal attack against White people living their own lives and breeding successfully. To our Jewish overlords, illegal immigrants breeding like rabbits at 13 years of age is okay; but the kikes want no blue-eyed blonds (= "Nazis"), no Christians! The Jew World Order is illegitimate. 1,729. Syrie Barsness Cheney, WA Why is it that youth today can practice all kinds of abhorible behavior with apathetic parents who just don't want to destracted from their favorite tv program or drink and that's ok, but these children must be seperated from loving mothers for no fault of their own. This is wrong and clearly an ussurpation of law. 1,730. Betty W riverton, UT You ppl have no heart. I mean, taking little children from their parents, ones that LOVE them and WANT them?! COME ON AMERICA, WHERE ARE YOU??. Give the poor scared little children back to their parents and let them live Freedom of Religion!! 1,731. Andra Ghent La Jolla, CA 1,732. Rachel Kelsch Centennial Park, AZ As an American citizen I am outraged at this horrific abuse of CPS power that has been allowed by the state of Texas. I am all for prosecuting child abuse, however I think CPS needs to take a refresher course in what abuse is. As far as I understand it is NOT abuse to teach your child to sing, cook, or clean instead of letting them rot their brains with MTV or video games. It is NOT abuse to feed them whole grain bread and home grown beef instead of stuffing them with a 'single serv pop in the microwave' bowl of mac & cheese. It is NOT abuse to dress them in prairie dresses verses mini skirts and jeans. All along the thing CPS keeps repeating is that this is for the welfare of the children, (Excuse me while I scoff) Imagine the fear that these children and their mothers must be feeling because of CPS. I'm a Mother and I can't imagine the pain of having someone tear my sweet boys from my arms and place them only God knows where with God knows whom and (continues on next page)

Page 220 - Signatures 1,725 - 1,732 Name From Comments 1,732. Rachel Kelsch Centennial Park, AZ (continued from previous page) then tell me it is in MY child's best interest. If they are allowed to do this in Texas where will it stop? This is AMERICA!! SHAME on ALL involved in this mess and SHAME on the ONCE great state of Texas for allowing it !!! 1,733. Bruce Rose Orderville, UT 1,734. Nathan Fischer Bonners Ferry, ID My mother was a 7 year old victim of the 1953 raid against polygamy in Az. Good men have fought and died for freedom and liberty from oppression and tyranny. Let us not stand idly by and watch the fabric of our constitution be torn to shreds by those who should be the formost defenders of its cause. 1,735. Justin Barlow St George, UT This Attack by the State of Texas is nothing more than a BLATANT disregard for constitutional and human rights! For the people of the United States to Ignore this attack is to say We don't care about our rights! I CARE!!! Give them their rights, as guarantied by The Constitution!!! 1,736. Jan Gee Sacramento, CA These people's first, fourth and fourteenth amendment rights have been clearly violated. The women and children should be returned to the compount and the MEN should be taken away. THEN the women and children should be returned. 1,737. Joshua Hammon Colorado City, AZ 1,738. David Mcgroarty Houston, TX Who are you to judge whats right for those kids???? I dont agree with FLDS beleifes but this is USA founded on religuis freedom but i guess thats not whats matters right? Also they dont have any PC anymore this whole thing makes me sick what happened to freedom? 1,739. Kristie Carter West Valley City, UT I cannot believe that the state of Texas is getting away with traumatizing 400 children and their parents. Why are their rights being violated? I don't agree with the way they live, but that doesn't mean it is okay to ignore their rights and especially the rights of their children. 1,740. Ryan Holt Enterprise, UT I think hittler believed the state could raise children better than their parrents also. Is that what we have come to? 1,741. Walter Saul Orlando, FL A neighborhood has been kidnapped, child abduction has been (non)legally sanctioned and enforced. Who's next? 1,742. darren brown benjamin, UT 1,743. Stephanie Dayton, OH Multiple self induced abortions are called "art", but decent, Hutchinson loving parents have living children kidnapped. 1,744. Matthew Hudson Holly Hill, FL Good afternoon. I am a student of American History, and can tell you that we are guaranteed a republican form of government in the very words of the constitution. Why I (continues on next page)

Page 221 - Signatures 1,732 - 1,744 Name From Comments 1,744. Matthew Hudson Holly Hill, FL (continued from previous page) mention this is that in a republic, the needs of the one are as or more important then the needs of the many. We also live by Rule of Law which keeps the government from trampling on our freedoms. This situation stinks to high heavens. A fake phone call, a raid on innocents because of issues that were not part of the warrant, denying (so far) Habeas Corpus to the people you have captured, and trampled on their rights! I honestly hope that someone realizes that you are no more than public servants, and are accountable to the people. We are the government, and we elect you to uphold laws. When you fail to do so, or put so much of your own personal bias into it that you pervert the laws, then you trample the rights of the single individual that a republic is established to protect. Abide the laws! 1,745. Melode Rencher Saint George, UT I know that the FLDS people are good people and their children would be WAY better off back with them instead of being shuffled through state custody and foster care for the rest of their lives. Sure, there may be a couple cases where the abuse is there, but think about it- If someone were to take a group of over 400 kids from ANY religion or culture, I garauntee there would be cases of abuse. So why not handle things on a case by case basis and return all the innocent kids!? 1,746. Tonya Fritts Chatsworth, GA If this doesn't constitute a violation of constitutional rights then I don't know what does. This is nothing but religious persecution. The first baptist church buses to take these children away was just as disturbing as the armed men. I am ashamed to see this kind of behavior in my country! 1,747. Charles Schick Pasco, WA The news media is making a circus of this issue. The state of Texas has always been against the rights of people to live within the United States. 1,748. Savannah Crooks Las vegas, NV I wish that the state of Texas would give the children back to their parents. They have every right to practice whatever religion they want according to the constitution. Leave them alone and give their children back! 1,749. Lisa Bierly Midvale, UT As a mother of my 2 youngest children that were illegaly removed by a Utah DCFS/CPS caseworker, Barry Richards, my heart goes out to the children and their families as a result of this illegal raid. The removal of these children were a direct violation of their 4th and 14th Amendmeant Rights to the US Constitution. What bothers me specifically, is the fact that we have laws and procedures to ensure that CPS doesn't take children illegaly- a CPS investigation regarding any kind of abuse shall be investigated BEFORE a child/children can be (continues on next page)

Page 222 - Signatures 1,744 - 1,749 Name From Comments 1,749. Lisa Bierly Midvale, UT (continued from previous page) removed from their parents. A "Shelter Hearing" shall be performed within 72 hours after the child/children are removed-none of these laws were enforced by the authorities.The taking of these children was planned far in advance. The Texas CPS a couple of years ago hired 280 new CPS workers to be ready for this kind of raid. I also found it interesting that they already had foster homes available to these children and the teenage boys went to a ranch. CPS did not want the teenagers because they were too old and not "marketable" as the younger ones. Also, the children were being taken and put into "permanent homes", which means that these parents of the children will not be able to get their children back unless there is a tremendous outcry from the public. All of our Civil and Constitutional Rights are at stake here. If the Texas CPS can take and remove children from their parents "in plain sight" and get away with it-it will only get worse. Colorado and Arizona compounds will be next, I imagine. As a mother who has been totally ravaged by the Utah DCFS, Ag's office and the juvenile court-I can honestly say that the chances of these parents getting the children back are slim. The Texas state government will do anything to support what laws they have violated and make up excuses why they broke the law. To "err on the side of safety and caution for the children's sake" will be their excuse-to hell with the law and the US Constitution. My prayers go out to the families in their pain and suffering and I pray the children will be able to return home to a safe, happy, and stable environment. 1,750. Adrienne Jensen West Jordan, UT As a mother, I cannot imagine having my child taken from me for no fault of my own, especially an infant or a toddler. What are the odds that every single one of the 416 children was being abused? Not great. I understand that when abuse is occurring and a parent doesn't do something to stop it, they can be penalized, but we also need to realize that these women are victims of their community as much as the children are. Most of them WERE these children. Cut them some slack. Imagine having your 6-month-old taken from you and cared for in a huge coliseum...Wow. Shame on the judge and shame on CPS. 1,751. amber parsons El Dorado Hills, CA As a former Texan and Mother of 5, I would urge you to rethink ripping infants and small children out of the arms of thier mothers over the ubstastantiated claim of one teenager. I thought Texans were made of sterner stuff. 1,752. Dorothy Zitting Hurricane, UT To Mothers of America: Is there to be NO national outcry to this Texas Holocaust? Where is the ACLU? Why are these children arrested and judged guilty on hearsay and the overactive imaginations (continues on next page)

Page 223 - Signatures 1,749 - 1,752 Name From Comments 1,752. Dorothy Zitting Hurricane, UT (continued from previous page) of the press? Why do we not address the abuse and threat to our own innercity children who are basically threatened with daily harm on our streets, or stem the tide of our own criminal diseases. Must we neglect our own society's ills and go out to round up a people for their rumored underage marriages? Many of our own fall under that category too. This is a monstrous case of the pot calling the kettle black, Texas! Who's next, the Muslims who are accused of terrorism? They too believe in their religion and some practice polygamy. This Texas WITCHHUNT should be a shame to all of us who love our liberty and love our children and wish to be innocent until proven guilty. PROVEN fraud or abuse should be dealt with in any society but to abuse and traumatize 400 children for fear there may be some real crime is ludicrous! SHAME ON TEXAS and shame on all parents who are not devasted and willing to decry such gross injustice and to put forth their voices to their congressman in massive public outcry. Everyone is appalled at Texas but no one speaks out? Signed, A Mother. 1,753. Pandita Peterson Chapala, Mexico 1,754. Doug West Jordan, UT Does the state of Texas have proof that any crime has Westenskow been committed yet? If so, prosecute the accused only. This is a tremendous waste of public funds. 1,755. Woodruff Steed Cane Beds, AZ I have the same ancestors as almost all of these people and they are good people, and would never abuse their children. I came from colorado city and I was never abused I am perfectly happy 15 year old who has nothing bad to say about that community! 1,756. Dean Umpleby Hyde Park, UT If there are underage marriages, built a proper legal case and go after the adult men that are committing the Crime. Are we now going to take every girl under 17 who is pregnant away from her home and all of here syblings also? Where is common sense? 1,757. Mel Jessop Pinesdale, MT 1,758. Rosalie Palmeiro Little Falls, NY Those children belong with their mothers. There was NO evidence just hearsay which is not accepted in any court. This has been a fishing expedition. 1,759. Leanne Ypma Houston, TX It is an outrage to violate due process and to harm alleged victims, particularly on this scale. What a shameful misuse of power and money in this state! 1,760. M M wvc, UT My heart goes out to the families in Texas! I am very offended by everything that they are being put through!!! Those children do not deserve the CRAP that the so called authorities are putting them through!!! The very best thing for those (continues on next page)

Page 224 - Signatures 1,752 - 1,760 Name From Comments 1,760. M M wvc, UT (continued from previous page) children is to be with their families!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that some one gives those roughten peolpe that hurt those families and tore them apart,the taste of their own wrong doing!! ( A taste of their own medicine!) Those people who hurt these wonderful families deserve EVERY THING BAD THAT HAPPENS TO THEM!!!!! 1,761. Aleksander Bristol, VA Religious freedom means religious freedom, and this case Morgan should not be followed through as it is based on a *faked* phone call. 1,762. Stephen Nix Folsom, CA I am very concerned where this could lead. CPS is out of control in this country and parental rights are in deep trouble. They need to have their powers severely limited. 1,763. Doug Stone Salt Lake City, UT The entire situation is outrageous. While I may not agree with the FLDS religous practices, the children are obviously well taken care of and Texas should be ashamed. The children should be returned immediately to their parents and homes. With crime running rampant throughout our states and cities, law enforcement should show this type of force in dealing with gangs and other serious criminal activity -- the entire system is upside down. 1,764. Lee B St Georg, UT I am from colorado City. I left 4 years ago and I have made it just fine out here .I do think that what thay r doing in TX is wrong and it is ...... BULL SHIT...... 1,765. Ruth Wayman Riverton, UT 1,766. helen spencer cedar city, UT I know as a Mother that my Children are always in for a good adventure. But with all young the fun of the adventure wears off. Children need stable homes.And those stable homes are most of the time with those who have loved them from the beginning. To often those who are guilty get the slap on the hand. I know a Mom who is a druggy she goes to jail,rehab and the minute she's out her children suffer a life with her and her immoral ways.Over and over again. This country should be about keeping good, strong families together.I say return all who are innocent home and preserve everyone's constitutional rights. 1,767. Logan Kelly Vancouver, WA I think what is happening to the innocent women and child is competely BULLSHIT! Nothing has been proven, and where else in this country do you see the government taking all the women and child where one "molester" has abuse one or two children? If they're so concerned maybe they should investigate where they place these kids. More foster homes house child abusers than inmates in the system. Here they are trying to send innocent children to (continues on next page)

Page 225 - Signatures 1,760 - 1,767 Name From Comments 1,767. Logan Kelly Vancouver, WA (continued from previous page) places of "Safety" Give me a break! Get some proof before you snatch away someones children. What the hell kind of a government do we live in that allows child molesters to live 5 or so miles away from elementary schools but takes children away from they're parents without provable cause. Free the CHILDREN!!! 1,768. Adam Hunter St. George, UT I Adam am a former member of the FLDS church do feel like the children should very much so be given back to the mothers, and spend the time and money of the state where it should be, on more important things, rather than the tearing apart lifes. I used to be apart of the group (left on my own will) and did not see child abuse. I think the taking of the children is probably more devastating to them than the abuse they are getting out there. My reason for leaving was for a different future, which we all have our choice cause, THIS IS AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE, free agency and free of choice. I know this is a big thing for the media, but it really makes us sick, the ones that have left. Please do us all a favor and just return the children. Thank You so much!! 1,769. suzan HAWES Saint George, UT 1,770. Katherine Morris Provo, UT As a person who is a member of a religion that many in the U.S. think is peculiar, this action taken by the State of Texas deeply concerns me. Just because a group's lifestyle and religious practices are looked upon as strange doesn't mean that that the government has license to ignore their constitutional rights. This could set a very disturbing precedent. 1,771. Chrealee Blackfoot, ID It is wrong to take children away from thier parents England-Johns because there might be abuse, or they might abuse their children. 1,772. Dave Cooper Marion, MT I am a Law Enforcement Officer, and I am disturbed by the actions of the CPS, local and State law enforcement. You LEOs took an oath to defend the US Constitution. You should be ashamed of yourselves. I pray that the local Sheriff and others in charge are sued to high heaven.. 1,773. Ashley McCown Colorado City, AZ 1,774. willy blackmore st george, UT 1,775. Shirley Lowery Springtown, TX This is what we can expect from authorities and elected officials? TX CPS is seen as a terrorist group and with good reason. What has been done to these families is far worse than any allegations made against them. We are watching as "evidence" is collected and made to fit into the right holes.

Page 226 - Signatures 1,767 - 1,775 Name From Comments 1,776. Rachel Kingston Salt Lake City, UT What is happening in Texas is mind boggling. How could the civil rights of people be so totally trampled upon. Are we in 21st century America or 20th century Germany? Sometimes it's hard to tell. It even turns out the call from the 16 year old Sarah who was claiming to be abused was a hoax. Since the raid I have heard horror stories about the Texas CPS system, where many children have died and many more are being drugged. I hope the public can take a stand and fight for the freedoms that belong to every American, even the ones who don't believe like everybody else. I hope the governor of Texas steps in and does the right thing. I pray for those children that they might be protected from the haughty decisions of a very arrogant judge. 1,777. Celesta Holm Washington, UT I was born and raised FLDS and I am proud of it! I wouldn't have changed my childhood for the world. And that does not mean I was brainwashed, coerced or tricked into it! Everyone has a choice to do what they want. Though I am not apart of it anymore, because of my OWN decision, I deeply care for my family and friends who do live it. They are good honest people and would never abuse children! I grew up in a very loved environment by my WHOLE family.. and big families rock! I have never once in my 21 years living there witnessed abuse. I guarantee those children at the YFZ Ranch didn't know about abuse until now! They are innocent people! Everyone who has been apart of this terrible massacre should be ashamed of themselves! Have you no heart? Can't you see that those children are far better off with people who love them? Why can't you get evidence first before barging in on innocent people because of a phony hoax? Investigate. Get the truth about it instead of believing lies! Give the children back! They need their mothers and their mothers need them! Leave the innocent alone! Give the children back! 1,778. Jerry PARKE Las Vegas, NV Let the innocent go. It is neither right nor Constitutional the way the investigation into alleged crimes at the FLDS coumpound has been handled. If there are crimes against children then Texas authorities should investigate them LEGALLY without infringing on the innocent. Taking everyone into custody and then threatening to take away all they have, (children, community, church)without regard to their rights as Americans and apperently without much proof of wrongdoing is barbaric. A much published story about Sadamm Hussein told of him using similar tactics to pressure people in a town he visited to inform on an attempted assasin. Is that what our nation is to become, a place where the sins of your neighbors can be visited upon your family? As far as I (continues on next page)

Page 227 - Signatures 1,776 - 1,778 Name From Comments 1,778. Jerry PARKE Las Vegas, NV (continued from previous page) can see the only thing that has been proved is that the FLDS seem a bit strange to most people. That shouldn't be a crime, even in Texas. As for me I have listened intently to the FLDS people AND to the CPS from Texas and if I had to have one or the other as neighbors I would choose the FLDS. They may be a bit strange but I haven't seen them stealing any children. The CPS would probably be a real pain in the (you know) as neighbors and seem like they could be downright dangerous if they don't like you! 1,779. Mary Gordon Salt Lake City, UT I feel that each case should be considered by itself. Where is the due process of law? Do the people of Texas really want all these children and their mothers on their welfare rolls? I don't think that the state of Texas really thought out what the consequences of their actions would do. 1,780. Cindy Smith North Vancouver, This is an outrage! Give those children back to their Canada parents immediately and get busy hunting down real criminals. 1,781. Christopher Salt Lake City, UT A search warrant has to be very specific. If the CPS & the Comstock state of Texas cannot produce the (fictional) girl, then they in violation of these people constitutional rights. I have total contempt for child abusing pologymist but I have even more contempt for a facistic government that ignores the laws they a sworn to up-hold. The law is supposed to protect everybody even weirdos and criminals. Ever heard of Al Capone? 1,782. Brenda Campeau Milford, UT I had my two youngest children kidnapped by the state only two days after moving back to a small town in Beaver co; cps social worker came to my door and told me someone reported me for abusing & neglecting my kids I pretty much told her off if u know me that is the worst thing u can accuse me of she harrased for 6 months and scared my kids even trying to tape record them at school making them get in her car when walking from school this went on for several months until she took me too court & I was coirused into signing a service plan even though i had done nothing wrong I gave my kids to their father in Nevada To Keep them safe from this monsterous women she then had a hearing that I was not informed of stateing that they were in danger she had the dad bring them back to Utah lieing and saying he would be thrown in jail if he didn,t I even had a attorney draw up a temporary custody order giving him custody what danger they were in was never known I never found out for 3 days and was so tramatized I was hospitalized. Then the real abuse happened to my kids being abused in foster homes, drugged lied to I jumped throw hoops & hoops its all a hoax they never intend on giving kids back just destroying (continues on next page)

Page 228 - Signatures 1,778 - 1,782 Name From Comments 1,782. Brenda Campeau Milford, UT (continued from previous page) them I was even jailed for 90 days for the first time in my 40 years of life it took them two weeks to come up with a boguse charge & while I was in jail they tryed to get my kids to sign thier own adoption papers. they denied my family them when I got out of jail I hired a good attorney and got them with my brother 3 years later I can,t see my kids or my brother or they threatened to take them away. My 17 year old went to wy. with a uncle at the time she is now back with her parent,s is a cheerleader & on the honor roll as was her mom her & her brother are not allowed to see their brother & sister, I have never even spanked my kids they keep all them from testifing at my parental rights hearing even the judge would not accept any clear & convincing evidence on my behalf only people that could testifie against me was 3 people who worked for the state even after pretty much proving I never neglected or abused my kids they still took away my rights on evidence of amental evaluation from thier hired therapist saying I had a border line personality, I had my own evaluation done for 500.00 dollars saying I was a pretty average person they ignored it. 1,783. john katrenick cleveland, OH How come separation of church and state is not applied in this case? It's always an issue when it's the other way around though, isn't it? 1,784. Anthony Williams Chattanooga, TN Who's next in the Inquisition? Methodists? Baptists? This is the kind of government action you would expect in China not the USA!!! 1,785. Joyce Lucerne Ceder City, UT I believe that their Constitutional rights are being violated. They are putting these children through a lot of emotional trauma without any just cause. Think about this; if a child of your faith is abused in your community, does the state come and take all the children of that faith? 1,786. BROOKE PARKE Las Vegas, NV As a member of the LDS Church and the wife of a Priesthood holder I challenge all members of The Church to look closely at this situation in Texas. Is the type of persecution happening there really any different from the actions of the ignorant in Missouri over 150 years ago? Actions that led to the migration of thousands of our ancestors to the Salt Lake Valley? A trip on which so many who searched for freedom to worship God in their own way died before reaching their destination. Where are the FLDS to run? Is there any place more secluded in the most free country in the world than where they were? There have been people in our church who have done wrong but we are not punished for their actions. Why is it different for the FLDS? Certainly God, the framers of The Constitution and those that love freedom don't think that this group should (continues on next page)

Page 229 - Signatures 1,782 - 1,786 Name From Comments 1,786. BROOKE PARKE Las Vegas, NV (continued from previous page) not enjoy the same rights as everyone else. Yes it is true that at times we have been embarassed by the pratices of the FLDS and its true that they ignored the word of the true prophet. But the time may be here to stand as one voice, the voice of the LDS church to demand that these outrages cease. Our new and beloved prophet may as directed by Our Heavenly Father not take a public stance on this issue. Instead listen, listen for a small still voice that may remind you that as our granmothers and grandfathers were persecuted for their beliefs so now are the FLDS. Are these people that we shared our lives with in the premortal any less deserving of our love and support than our own children who have strayed from the teachings? Surely we can take a moment to ask the Holy Spirit for guidance in this matter and if you hear what my husband and I heard perhaps we can stand as one, as freedom loving people bound together by the teachings of the True Church and and shout "free the innocent". If this is not the Constitution hanging by a thread it is darned close to it. 1,787. Dew Wright Colorado City, AZ As a current member of the FLDS, I have a few more parties to go to before I start being good again, but I think the people here are good. Give all the kids back to their dads and just give all the wives to me. 1,788. Oscar Jessop St George, UT 1,789. D Westphal Blue Springs, MO I am outraged and appalled at the blatant violation of the US Constitution in removing over 400 children from the care and supervision of their parents, who are presumed to be fit until they are found guilty in a court of law. It is unconstitutional for a Child Protective Agency or Investigator to conduct ANY investigation, without a caregiver's WILLFUL permission, in a residence or within the curtilage of private property without a warrant, when "imminent danger" or "exigency" does not exist. I fail to see how a phone call from a person, that may have been a hoax in the first place, can rise to the level of probable cause to substantiate a warrant to force the removal of 400+ children. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America) Anonymous reports are NEVER probable cause. If you never have met this caller, wouldn't it be prudent to do some checking first to assertain whether in fact this person (continues on next page)

Page 230 - Signatures 1,786 - 1,789 Name From Comments 1,789. D Westphal Blue Springs, MO (continued from previous page) does indeed exist and made the reporting phone call herself? It is a "seizure" to speak to a child without consent. Does CPS have attorneys for each of the children when they go to interrogate them about possible abuse? I doubt it in this case. Removing a child from the non-offending parent because the child witnessed domestic violence is unlawful and unconstitutional. If there was abuse going on at the compound, why not remove the abuser instead of the children????? Denying DCF entry is NOT hindering an investigation. It is an assertion of one's 4th Amendment right, as well as your right to remain silent. 1,790. Jerzy Hart Houston, TX Ripping these 416 children out of their homes and away from their mothers, who are not accused or even suspected of any crime, is one of the most heinous travesties the state has ever engaged in. There is absolutely no legal justification whatsoever for this. The state has perpetrated a crime against these children and these families. And I do not say this as a member of the FLDS, the LDS, or any religious organization. I say this as a citizen who recognizes the outrageous wrongdoing by the state. 1,791. Jeri Wofford Buchanan, TN This is unconstitutional in so many ways. Even if there was something going on in that compound, it is now inadmissable evidence. CPS was way out of line here with their heavy handed tactics and have done more to harm these poor children than anyone! I seriously have to wonder which group of us is next? The homeschoolers? Maybe the Amish? Maybe you and I? This travisty cannot be allowed to continue. These children need returned to their mothers and their homes before any more damage is done to them. If you, meaning CPS, had a heart, you would take the "alleged" abuser out of the home and leave the mothers and children in their houses where they are most comfortable and the least amount of damage mentally is done to the children. Now, what would be so hard about that? No, we have to go in like storm troopers and make a big mess of this just because of one faked phone call? What has this country become? It certainly is not the America I was born and raised in! 1,792. castellano gregory new york city, NY First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Second they came for the trade unionsists and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't a trade unionsist. (continues on next page)

Page 231 - Signatures 1,789 - 1,792 Name From Comments 1,792. castellano gregory new york city, NY (continued from previous page) Then they came for the Gypsies, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't a Gypsy. Then they came for the Gays, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't Gay. Then they came for the retarded, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't retarded. Then they came for the physicaly disabled and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't physicaly disabled. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn't a Jehovah’s Witness. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me. 1,793. Richard V. Lee Washington, UT Why are you punishing the victims? 1,794. Sarah Brandauer Ruth, CA 1,795. Gregory Holm St. George, UT I Grew up out in hildale and I know for a fact that we are good and righteous people. I wouldn't trade anything for my childhood or where I grew up. I Loved every second of it. I have the most caring and loving parents any child could have. Leave these poor and innocent people alone. They have wronged no one! 1,796. dwight hall bothell, WA reign in the rogue Texas CPS before they hurt anyone else. 1,797. DAVID ST.PETERSBURG, Let them children go home now !!! CHANDLEY FL 1,798. Sheila Mannix Long Grove, IL Another example of hurting the innocent while the guilty make money. Can someone please look into the bonding the each of child's case number and how much federal funding/taxpayers' dollars is going to be stolen in this "effort in the best interest of the child." 1,799. Edward King Edmonton, Canada Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and render unto God the things that are God's.

Page 232 - Signatures 1,792 - 1,799 Name From Comments 1,800. Steve Acero Mastic Beach, NY This is not different then teenage girls who get pregnant.But! the Goveremnent does nothing to those parents.This is so unfair to these people.They are peaceful people.Theses are there religious beliefs and the freedom to practice their religion.How about the Goverenor of New York after his immoral acts the Goverement left his kids.I think its is amazing that you are not in leaving the mothers with these kids.Texas is really going to screw up these innocent children.Foster care is not a loving place.Most people who do foster care are in it for the money.My wife neice got messed up from being in foster care.Set these people free!!! 1,801. Amy Jessop Saint George, UT Amy Jessop Just give there kids back! 1,802. Dean Booth Williston, ND 1,803. Becky mitchell Fairview, UT typical abuse of power in supposed best interest of the children. give them back 1,804. John Free North Hollywood, CA 1,805. mary anne haas crossville, TN 1,806. Roz McAllister Cleveland, OH There was not a VALID allegation to begin this raid. This was a fishing trip on the part of CPS. Due process has already been violated. This invesigation could and should have been done without the separation of the families. The families should be reunited immediately! Keeping the children in orphanage setting is NOT in their best interest! 1,807. Jennifer Cohen Harrisburg, PA Send the little ones back home! It takes a deep level of depravity to rip children from the arms of their mothers. First written in 1946, the poem by Martin Niem�ler speaks volumes: "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn�t speak up because I wasn�t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn�t speak up because I wasn�t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn�t speak up because I wasn�t a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up." [1976 version] 1,808. Joseph L Jessop Washington, UT I am totally speechless!! 1,809. Deborah Brisbane, Australia People all over the world are appalled and outraged at the Lawrence actions taken by the state of Texas. The FLDS mothers and their children should be reunited and returned home immediately until investigations by the state are completed. There is no justification for the wholesale removal of an community of children from their homes and the arms of their mothers. Innocent until proven guilty. 1,810. Margaret West Jordan, UT I'm an attorney, I'm not FLDS, and I certainly oppose Tarkington sexual abuse of minors. But from what has been stated in the media, it appears certain that the constitutional rights of (continues on next page)

Page 233 - Signatures 1,800 - 1,810 Name From Comments 1,810. Margaret West Jordan, UT (continued from previous page) Tarkington these people--parents and children--have been and are being violated. Why is the State of Texas ripping these children from their homes without any evidence that most of these children (certainly everyone except perhaps some teenage girls) are being abused? Why didn't Texas just arrest the abusing men who married underaged women or remove teenage girls who were at risk of being married off underage-- rather than removing all children of all ages and genders from all families regardless of any evidence of abuse? The news accounts report that two babies born since the raid have been taken into state custody. Where is the justification for that? Who will take better care of these newborns than their mothers, who will nurse and love and bring them the stability and nourishment that is so vital for infants? What about the kindergarten-aged child, who even under the most extreme accounts of FLDS life is at no risk of being married off? The only justification for taking these young, young children from their mothers is that the mothers allegedly believe in an organization, and Texas believes some members of that organization might have committed crimes. The constitutional thing is to arrest those members of that organization who have committed crimes--not to take the children from anyone who believes in that organization or is affiliated therewith. There is no evidence that these mothers have done anything wrong themselves and are abusing their children or letting their young children be abused. The law requires that there be evidence of imminent danger for the child to be removed from his or her home. There has been no such evidence in this case. It is a tragic case of persecution on the basis of religion and denial of due process of law--in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments of the Constitution. It is also abhorent that the mothers of children aged 5 and older were tricked into being separated from their children and were not given the opportunity to even tell their children goodbye. The Nazis were the last group I am aware of to use such tactics. 1,811. Brad Parker Elko, NV 1,812. ronald brown Biloxi, MS Set these children FREE!!! They will not make good Baptist's. Whatever a Good Baptist is. John was not a BAPTIST he was a baptizer. Long Live the FLDS cand the true men of God!! 1,813. Mario Doreste Sharon Springs, NY 1,814. John Smith West Jordan, UT I am appalled at the heavy handedness and neo-Nazi tactics used against American Citizens. Would this have been done to Muslims? To Blacks? Polygamists are today's Jews in pre-war Nazi Germany. Who will they come for next?

Page 234 - Signatures 1,810 - 1,814 Name From Comments 1,815. Colleen Down Draper, UT I am most concerned about the young men who are being put in less than desirable circumstances. These children must be treated as individual citizens one case at a time. 1,816. Edward Hack Orland Park, IL It is imperative that the Government, sworn to UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, does just that. I do not agree with the way that this group lives, But in the United States, I defend their rights, as given in the constitution, to live that way. 1,817. Gail Head Paradise, TX STOP TX CPS' "ILLEGAL" mode of operation for the $$$$$$$, money they can gravy boat in for kidnapping and stealing children and destroying families. EACH CPS worker "SHOULD" have done to them just exactly what they do and have done to others --- parents, families, and children. It's long past time for them to be held accountable and PROSECUTED for their "criminal" activity -- breaking the laws and statutes and denying Constitutional rights. 1,818. sherin holm St. George, UT Hi i am from colorado city and i know the people there are good people. those children need to go home. 1,819. Jessica Bistline Hurricane, UT i come the same place all these kids do, its not cool what they are doin! i wasnt abused or neglected and neither are they... let them just be them, and stay the hell out of their lives! 1,820. Sarah Zitting humansville, MO "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;***" Joseph Smith said: "The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, or punish the mobs, states,or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them. It has but his one fault.***" -Truth vol.19 1,821. Valorie Wood West Valley City, UT I agree with this petition. The FLDS group has not been proven guilty. Let them go!!! Our world is so mixed up. Let them go and go after people who have done something to hurt the community. I am a mother and my heart breaks to see these children torn from their mothers. You're worried about them getting harm done to them by being married early, what about the harm, emotional stress, worry, fear, that you are causing by taking these children away. And if you are taking nursing babies away, there is no reason for that. Wake up and see what you're doing. These people should be as free as we are...let them go home!!! 1,822. Lillian Hammon Colorado City, AZ You are stomping all over these people's consitutional rights. This is still America!

Page 235 - Signatures 1,815 - 1,822 Name From Comments 1,823. Laura Meadows Morgan Hill, CA Apparently I missed the memo that we are NAZI GERMANY!!!!!! So now we do not have freedom of religion and what the HELL!!!!!!! Holding harmless women at gun point and dragging there kids away. Our government is against the people and they only look at ways to make money. CPS is a horible organization that is only looking at way to rape the tax payers for more money. Legal kidnapping for profit. Give these women back the children!!!!!!!!!! 1,824. Tammy LaForce East Bend, NC CPS all over the country needs to be closed down!!! They are not for the children, all they care about is the money!!! 1,825. David Reynolds Marysville, WA How abusive can the State of Texas get to rip nursing babies from their mother's arms. They are torturing people!!! I am amazed at how those women still maintain as well as they do. If this were done to almost anyone else there might be a few dead officials being choked to death by a raging mother bear. The State of Texas has illegally kidnapped children all under the guise that it is okay to commit crimes and break the law you espoused to uphold if you think someone else may have broken the law. The whole nation should be up in arms to protect our rights as citizens of the United States. They do not care about the children or them being abused for the abuse they have just heaped upon them will outweigh any abuse they decry. Every mother ought to rise up in protest against this greatest of atrocities! 1,826. Adelaide Marie city of the sun, NM shame on U Texas for Stealing our children and influesing Bennett Fox news to say RESCUE in it's stead...... once again SHAME ON U TEXAS give those children BACK TO THEIR MOTHERS 1,827. Sheila Chew Rochester, NH I cannot deny how pleased I am to see the significant response from concerned citizens by way of signing this petition. It is about time that the cps abuses that have been plaguing this great country of ours are brought to light before the masses. What poetic justice. Nevertheless, I am saddened that it must be at the expense of the aforementioned victims. This very well could have been prevented had the mindset of the American public were not as such, so as to give way to the inclinations of this corrupt system. As a mother, I can certainly imagine the heart pains inflicted upon the women, but I cannot wrap my mind around the injuries born by the little ones. This has got to be the most despicable display of unrestrained abuse, and I have no doubt that this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is why I implore all, who have been compelled to sign this petition, to please take a moment and sign another within this site addressing similar concerns as it pertains to cps corruption, but on a grandeur scale - Request For All US (continues on next page)

Page 236 - Signatures 1,823 - 1,827 Name From Comments 1,827. Sheila Chew Rochester, NH (continued from previous page) Cases To Be Revisited, sponsored by Dr Shirley Moore. Together, we can bring an end to this "gestapo" reign of terror. 1,828. Kelly Harmon North Logan, UT It appears that these people are being persecuted for their non conforming religious practices. While polygomy is illegal, they are not being charged with polygomy. Their civil rights are being trampled on by wicked and unwielding persons of power. Many of my ancestors were persecuted, many lost personal property, and some lost their lives in this persecution which was initiated or tolerated by wicked people of power in local, state and national goverment. It is my belief that all persons of power who abuse their power by preying on or persecuting such people will be held accountable to God for their actions. Please release these children to their mothers, leave them in peace until you have convincing evidence of abuse. Only then should charges be made against a father and mother and a trial set for their hearing. Such a mass invasion is unconstitional as well as a great sin in the eyes of God. I pray for the release of these people and for the souls of wicked persons of power. 1,829. Daniel Ebert Mankato, MN 1,830. Steven Wells Eagle Mountain, UT Nursing babies are being ripped from the arms ot their mothers by our government. When this country was formed the government was afraid of its people, now the people are afraid of its goverment. Shame on us for letting our government become this scary. 1,831. Jeff Brown Ivins, UT I was astonished at the tactics used by the State of Texas. But for the fact that these folks have diferent religious beliefs, they would have been treated totally diferently. Religious freedom is not just a phrase it should mean something. PS the fact that they were hauled away on Baptis busses showed there is no separation between church and state in the State of Texas. 1,832. Dwain Merrill Salem, UT The siezure of over 400 children without evidence of any abuse is causing a bad reputation for the state of Texas and You Govenor. Where's the next community in Texas that is going to get hit with CPS? I demand that you give those children back to their mothers and the innocent fathers! Go after the abuser not the whole community or neigborhood! 1,833. Alla Kaminsky Marblehead, MA I believe that this horrible act of taking more than 400 children away from their mothers, without any physical evidence of any danger to the children, is an act of religious persecution. It reminds me of the way Nazis treated Jews during World War II.

Page 237 - Signatures 1,827 - 1,833 Name From Comments 1,834. Deanna Adamson Eagle Mountain, UT There is no basis to take every single child from its parents in this matter. If any abuse happened it needs to be addressed one case at a time. If one child cried abuse in every small town in America, would you take every child out of that town? Get a grip Texas. 1,835. Joyce Davis Cottonwood Heights, If they can do this to them without cause or real evidence, UT they can do it to the rest of us. God forbid this could happen to anyone in the USA. 1,836. Elizabeth Dutson Washington, UT Me and my three year old daughter were watching the news on the raid. It showed one of the mothers crying and my little girl said "mom, lets go find her little girl and give her back." Even a three year old can see that what they are doing is wrong. 1,837. Tym Suprise salt lake city, UT I believe those kids need their mothers more than they need you intervening 1,838. Georgia Hammon Colorado City, AZ Is Texas so "big" that it has out grown civil rights? If only you felt as threatened by ILLEGAL immigrants as they do toward FLDS children. Let's re prioritize and go after the abusers. Unless that's too hard for you and you need to prey on children. 1,839. Madie Rohbock Eagle Mountain, UT I thought we lived in a free country! I guess I need to think Knudson again! The state of Texas is abusing these children by taking them away from their LOVING parents! I pray God will bless those people and that they will be released to go home soon! God bless!!!!!! 1,840. Jamie Escobedo Raleigh, NC 1,841. Eliza Williams Centennial Park, AZ "Know this, that every soul is free to choose his life and what he'll be." Texas has bent the law just a little too much here... and what sickens me, is it obviously, because of the government's "help", could happen again, anywhere and to anyone. If people would just mind their own cotton-picking business and keep their special opinions and agendas to themselves, the world would be a happier place. May the innocent be protected and the prosecutors be served their "just-ice desserts"! 1,842. Noelle Leiser Pasco, WA If only CPS would actually intervene where there was evidence of abuse. Give those children back to their mothers, and when/if evidence of abuse is found then take APPROPRIATE action. 1,843. Kell Harris Traverse City, MI 1,844. Kip Rishton Draper, UT I do not agree with the FLDS views on many things including plural marriage, but I do not believe the children have been treated fairly being taken from their mothers. The parents have stated they are willing to abide by the state laws - in fact they say they have been sheltered by the fanatic leading them. Please insure social justice is (continues on next page)

Page 238 - Signatures 1,834 - 1,844 Name From Comments 1,844. Kip Rishton Draper, UT (continued from previous page) served for these families. Let the children return to their mothers. 1,845. Rev. Keith Los Lunas, NM Which part of "right to establishment of religion" don't they get. Leave these folks alone. I may not agree with their practice, but it is theirs. I haven't heard of any of the children being in danger. Did ya know that most states till recently allowed marraige at 14? some were allowing it at 12. Is the state going to go after the Muslim families next? I know for fact that many of them have similar marraige practices. How about the Amish, they're pretty harsh on their children? Really, What's the problem here? Did they forget to pay their taxes? 1,846. Dino Har Delta, UT You have no right sending in a raid after innocent people and taking there children away. If you want to set the record straight, give those people back there kids. And go after the catholic churches and lets see if you can raid them you sons of Bitches. 1,847. Polly Hammon Centennial Park, AZ With the logic being used in this case, if I were you, I would be a little nervous because apparently in Texas if you are next door to someone who possibly commits a crime or who might commit a crime, you are a criminal also. When one person's rights are violated, all of us are at risk. This social imperialism is disheartening in a country that preaches cultural diversity as one of her strengths. FYI Texas teen pregnancy rates as reported by the great state of Texas, (Every 10 hours, a 14-year-old teen gets pregnant. Every 3 hours, a 15-year-old teen gets pregnant. Every 1.5 hours, a 16-year-old teen gets pregnant. Every 52 minutes, a 17-year-old-teen gets pregnant. Every 35 minutes, an 18-year-old teen gets pregnant. Every 28 minutes, a 19-year-old teen gets pregnant.) Are all of these cases being investigated with the same rigor as the FLDS situation? 1,848. christina gan Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 1,849. Kylee Cottrell Midvale, UT I do not agree with the FLDS in many views, but I still highly believe they had NO RIGHT to invade them especially with tanks. I did not find that out until a little later, and I must tell you that made me sick. 1,850. Darla Haws Lake Point, UT 1,851. Robert Palmer Decatur, AL 1,852. Tiffany Marik Phoenix, AZ This should be done on a CASE BY CASE basis!!

Page 239 - Signatures 1,844 - 1,852 Name From Comments 1,853. Paul Maraschiello Vienna, VA As a former Social Worker, I am shocked by this raid. Is this America or Nazi Germany? 1,854. Janet Brandauer Ruth, CA I do not support the beliefs of the FLDS but this was an outrageous act of abusive control by the governmental agencies of TX. I do hope there are still some people in governmental office who have a conscience left and can stand for what is just. I plead with you to stop this governmental abuse 1,855. Joshua Kingston Salt Lake City, UT The Texas raid goes against all that this country stands for and even being innocent until proven guilty. It is more of a witch hunt than a child protective services case. You don't take more than four hundred children on a call. A call that turned out to be a hoax. I fear for the freedoms of the American people if something like this is possible. Finding out the true cases of abuse before removing children in abuse is usually the standard form of enforcing law. Not assuming that everyone in a community is guilty and then taking children based on that assumption. It goes further. The Texas justice system even after having the children for a few weeks they are still assuming that the parents are guilty of abuse and punishing children and parents for a crime that they are finding to be baseless and inaccurate. Again Texas thinks that you are guilty until proven innocent. Our constitution truly hangs on a thread in our current political world. 1,856. Brittany Cottle Syracuse, UT 1,857. Sarah Jessop Hayden, CO I used to be a part of these people. What the government is doing is legaly and moraly wrong. 1,858. C.R. Groom N.B.S., CA There are two types of bastards, some are born and its not their fault, and 'some are self made'. This is America and has its Constitution,"obey it". cps and other State and Government people think they are Americas God, suprize they only think they are. charlie 1,859. Lizzie J. Bonners Ferry, ID This whole thing makes me sick. What is our nation coming to??? 1,860. Mina Hansen South Jordan, UT In the United States, we follow the rule of law. While I do not agree with this group's religion, I am concerned with the violation of the mothers civil rights. I am also quite convinced that the children are suffering more by this so called act of "protection" than they ever did at the hands of their parents. 1,861. marie lavery saratoga springs, UT We cannot just sit here and let these things happen. one freedom lost to one person sets a standard we all have to live by. no one ever take my babies because of a crime never done or someone else's crime!

Page 240 - Signatures 1,853 - 1,861 Name From Comments 1,862. Alma Nielsen Kearns, UT Shame on Texans for allowing this obnoxious abuse of power. Shame on all docile, complaisant Americans who don't demand restitution for such a shamefull constitutional violation. The voters of Texas need to replace the Governor, the Attorney General, the Chief of police and whomever else they can replace to send a strong message. OUR RIGHTS SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED! This issue should not even need to be decided by the Judiciary. The fact that it is reflects on Texas's total lack of comprehension of the principles of freedom. Should the Judiciary fail these citizens of Texas, in preserving their religious liberties, which was bought and paid for with much precious blood, will their by anyone willing to take up arms in their defence? 1,863. Annie Fischer Bonners Ferry, ID Why are all these children suffering for the action of a few adults? They need their parents! 1,864. Robert Davis Not a "Free" county,, WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT OF OUR COUNTRY? Who UT is protecting the rights of these people? We are so focused on fighting for the rights of another country (Iraq, etc), but are too much of hypocrites to get out and defend our own! Apparently, the state of Texas has more power than the President of the United States! 1,865. Hyrum Black hurcan, UT you people are SICK!!!! GIVE THOUSE CHILDREN BACK TO THERE PARENTS. 1,866. carl read corpus christi, TX 1,867. Michael Brinson Mesa, AZ While I may not agree with the FLDS, there has definitely been a great injustice perpetrated in taking their children from them. Based on the respect and good comportment of those children being raised in the FLDS community it is certainly better than what we can expect to see by sending these poor children through the foster care system. CPS probably can't wait to start prescribing unneeded mind-altering drugs to these poor children. 1,868. Stephanie Wells Eagle Mountain, UT 1,869. Michael Wynters West Bloomfield, MI The activities conducted by the Texas Government against the FLDS are unconstitutional. First, the warrant relied on by the Texas Government was defective, as there was no "indicia of reliability" with respect to the informant. Indeed, it now appears that the abuse alleged by the informant caller was a hoax. At the time, however, even though it was not known that the call was a hoax, there was no evidence to suggest that the info put forth by caller could be relied on either. Such reliability is required when one is trying to get a warrant based on the info of an informant. As such, the warrant was defective. As a valid warrant is required for entry into homes, the actions by the Texas Government here should be declared unconstitutional. (continues on next page)

Page 241 - Signatures 1,862 - 1,869 Name From Comments 1,869. Michael Wynters West Bloomfield, MI (continued from previous page) Secondly, the Texas law that bans parental consent for marriages under 16 (which the Texas Government was relying on in this case) may violate the 1st Amendment Free Exercise of Religion Clause. According to the Supreme Court in Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993), if "the object of the law is to infringe upon or restrict practices because of their religious motivation, the law is not neutral; and it is invalid unless it is justified by a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to advance that interest." According to a recent New York Times Article, this law was enacted in 2005 for the sole purpose of banning the activities of the FLDS church. As such, I would argue that the law is not neutral and as a result, it should be subjected to the strict scrutiny eluded to by the Court. 1,870. Yung Ta potomac falls, VA Since when Texas becomes Nazi and Communist country? 1,871. Venessa Bunker Mona, UT 1,872. Tom Nesheim Clintonville, WI I understand that taking children from there parents should only be done as a last resort,when there is immediate danger of abuse.And this clearly is not the case.Now this week the cps is seperating children 4 and under from there mothers as well,including nursing babies... I feel strongly that this is a terrible miscarriage of justice.... 1,873. Shelly Raburn St. George, UT How can we have such ignorant people in power? Do they not know how to read? Do they know what the Constitution of the United States of America is? No one should have that much power. Our government is supposed to have a checks and balance system so these things don't happen! None of our children are safe! Just because you don't understand does not give you the right to judge the innocent. 1,874. B Dacus Memphis, TN I have heard report after report of child protective services violating the rights of American citizens just because someone with malicious intent makes a call to report alleged abuse. In this country, no one should be able to forcibly enter a home unless an investigation has been done externally to provide sufficient evidentiary support for the action. I have heard reports that the raid on the FLDS community was based on a prank phone call out of New Mexico. 1,875. Lin Johnson Lebanon, OR While there may be serious cases of abuse among this community, which i would be totally against, to remove all children is a MAJOR overstep and abuse of governmental powers. In our state (OR), social workers commonly go into homes, interview, and observe on an INDIVIDUAL basis. THEN they take the case to the judge to apply for (continues on next page)

Page 242 - Signatures 1,869 - 1,875 Name From Comments 1,875. Lin Johnson Lebanon, OR (continued from previous page) removal. How can you march into a compound (with ARMORED VEHICLES!!--SHAME ON YOU! If you had shown peaceful means, i doubt the resistance and mistrust would have been as severe!!), walk around and observe children, and then declare that ALL children are at risk of abuse because of the abusive practices of some in the community. This was quick and lazy work on the part of social workers and the judge. This is analogous to my little town, which is riddled is meth abuse, spouse and child abuse. With this governmental precedent, I can expect that the local law enforcement will find it necessary to remove my children, too, because there is a pattern of abuse in our community. Again--I believe your agencies skipped steps by not interviewing and observing EACH CHILD IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL HOMES PRIOR TO SEEKING REMOVAL. There should have been an affadavit for EACH INDIVIDUAL CHILD--Not a community of children lumped together. Your abuse of power is gross and infuriating. Yes, they very well may be abusing their children. This is horrendous. But your abuse of power is no less revolting. IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN A BETTER WAY------BY RESPECTING THE BILL OF RIGHTS!! 1,876. Kenna Heaton Ruth, CA 1,877. James Duncan Melville, NY I hope the day will soon come when all of the government functionaries involved in this travesty of justice are brought before a court of the people. 1,878. Laurenda Peters Shawnee, KS This is a travesty of justice and fact that the State is turning a blind eye on this stripping of Constitutional rights is unjustifiable, and grows worse and worse each day. Please take action. 1,879. Lori Zitting Murray, UT 1,880. Shannon Evans Herndon, VA Although I don't believe that this group is correct in their principles, I also find fault with other members of "normal" society. A man who divorces his family then moves on to the next, leaving misery in the wake, is also doing a disservice to children. CPS needs to have proof before taking away children. This was an attempt to raid, not an attempt to protect children. 1,881. Jamie Dalton Enoch, UT I believe this act of government aggression on the sect of a very discriminated people boils down to an act of war. Freedom of religion is a fundamental and self-evident RIGHT. Return those children! 1,882. David Gardner Medusa, NY steeling children from their mothers is the most evil thing there is. there must some alterier motive. money?? 1,883. Deanna Sheckler Wilbur, WA These children need to be with their mothers. These ladies are not criminals! God help us all! Who knows what group the CPS will go after next.

Page 243 - Signatures 1,875 - 1,883 Name From Comments 1,884. M.B. H. Colorado City, AZ I personally know these mothers and fathers to be upright and true to the Constitution of the United States and to the preserving of their children from any corruption that is running rampant through the media, Hollywood, and this United States of America. Americans, stand up! If the government can do this to these people-- ARE YOU SAFE? How can one judge have so much power to order the disruption of so many families on a "fabricated phone call", and then sit on the bench to pass a judgement on these same families that she had already made up in her mind before she ever entered the court room and before she ever issued the search in the first place? How can she send one search warrent to cover a whole community? How can she say that putting 500 people in two rooms with cots a foot apart and only two bathrooms for all(only showers, no tubs for small children) is not abuse? Diabetic children not being able to attain the proper medicines they need etc. etc. etc. Nursing infants torn from their loving mothers. Children repeating and repeating that they "don't want to go" and now "just let us go home." Where is the patriotism displayed by our noble patriot fathers! What did they live and die for? Come alive--Give the children back to the arms of their loving mothers! Find out the real story--listen to the mothers and the children. They will tell you what it is like living in these barracks that the CPS has provided at the tax payer expense. 1,885. Greg Mortensen Bountiful, UT 1,886. Frank Doyle, Jr Virginia Beach, VA In this country even if we do not believe in the actions of others we still have to defend them. I served my country to protect our basic human rights and the constitution. 1,887. JKR R ee, CA YEP...YA ALL COUNTED YOUR CATTLE AND REALIZED YOU HAVE 437...NOT 416! NICE PUBLICITY TEXAS! 1,888. Jeremy Marsigli Orem, UT 1,889. Marcus Jessop fredonia, AZ Give the kids back to there moms. How could you possible take a nursing baby from its mother isnt that child abuse also? 1,890. Benjamin Barlow FOB Falcon, Iraq I am from the FLDS religon and I am a US soldier in Iraq fighting for our freedom. I think mabe we need to come back home and fight for our constitutional rights. I swore to protect our constitution from all enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC!!!!! 1,891. Debra Sparks Aurora, MO I thought this country had religious freedom and right to unlawful entry and seizure and due process. These children are not abused, let them go home. CPS IS abusing them!!!

Page 244 - Signatures 1,884 - 1,891 Name From Comments 1,892. Jon Ray Weimar, CA I DO NOT LIKE THE FLDS, EITHER. I HATE ABUSE IN ALL ITS FORMS. IT DOES SEEM THAT THEIR ARE ABUSES WITHIN THE FLDS GROUP. WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR WAYS OF BREAKING UP THIS STRONGHOLD OF ABUSIVENESS. BUT TO USE ABUSE TO END ABUSE IS DIABOLICAL. ARE THE VICTIMS OF ABUSE GOING TO FEEL RESCUED WHEN THEIR RESCUERS ARE AS ABUSIVE AS THEIR FLDS TORMENTORS? FIND ANTHER WAY. SEND THE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN BACK WITH AN APOLOGY AND A PROMISE. 1,893. Dave Lemmon Pocatello, ID For heavens sake, hurry up and get your DNA samples and get these innocent children back to their Mothers. Although I do not agree with the doctrine or teaching of the FLDS, sometimes Governments tend to run amuck and appologize later. 1,894. Jennifer Marcy Palm coast, FL I thought the USA had freedom of religon??? Please, let these women have children back ASAP... 1,895. Holly Horsley Centennial Park, AZ 1,896. Tressa Brigman herriman, UT 1,897. Jean Wiggin Ann Arbor, MI 1,898. Lorin H washington, UT Just imagine if they were your children! 1,899. Alison Jones Virginia Beach, VA All people are entitled to due-process. If through this process, wrong-doing is found only the responsible parties should be detained, investigated and charged accordingly. 1,900. Eli Steed Washington, UT how would you like people busting into your homes and place of worship taking your kids 1,901. Kay Cowan Henderson, NV Without any proof that a crime has been committed, the State of Texas took those innocent children from the arms of their mothers. I am disgusted with the State of Texas. 1,902. Elaine Smith Prairie City, OR I am speaking up because of this quote from the German Pastor Martin Niemoller: "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

Page 245 - Signatures 1,892 - 1,902 Name From Comments 1,903. M. Therese Santa Ana, CA This is an outrage that cannot and must not be tolerated. This illegitimate government must be stopped now. I suggest everyone check out this website: . . . http://www.captivefldschildren.org/index.php . . . . And be sure NOT to miss this video: . . . http://www.captivefldschildren.org/ViewVideo.php?VID=1 . . . These children are abused? The abuse is going on now and will continue if they are put into government "homes" where they will be exposed to the filthy and degenerate "culture" our "government" has worked diligently to send this country plummeting into for decades. 1,904. Jeff Jeppsen Nibley, UT Talk about a national embarrassment! Has anyone in Texas heard of a document called the Constitution?! Please apologize to the FLDS and the Nation and free those children to their parents! Jeff Jeppsen 1,905. Lisa Brown Oklahoma City, OK Please correct this injustice. I have worked as a Court appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children, and from what I understand, the state of Texas has not followed standard policy and law. There was no show cause for all of these children. There is talk of permanent placement and terminating parental rights--this is WAY TOO EARLY in the game for this! The first objective is ALWAYS to try and keep the families together, and reunite children with parents. The state of Texas has not even tried to do this. Also, the original 16 year old complainant has never been found, making any information gathered at the compound fruit of the poisoned tree. This is so incredibly unjust, I can't believe it's happening in America. 1,906. Annice Smith SLC, UT I am deeply ashaimed of the Texas Government and CPS. The actions taken against the YFZ Ranch (not compound), were unwarrented and unconstitutional! Texas CPS and authorities had no rights to enter the private ranch of the FLDS people! The calls they said to have recieved were NOT to 911! They were NOT from anyone from the YFZ Ranch! They were recieved to a call center NOT located in Texas! They were recieved over the period of weeks! NOT days! Anyone interested in the location of these calls, had time to find out BEFORE the Texas authorities RAIDED these innocent people! You have gone onto private property without justified warrents! Torn these children away from thier mothers and father! Frightend them! And now they are faced with never seeing their families again! This is an OUTRAGE!!! Our constitution was designed to protect our families! The Texas CPS has gone too far! Return these children to their families. The foundation of our country is the FAMILY institution. You are tearing the foundation of our country apart! Page 246 - Signatures 1,903 - 1,906 Name From Comments 1,907. Thom Clark W. Jordan, UT Taking children by a DFS agency is a business. The more they take the bigger they are. This country is in real trouble when those who enforce the law opperate above the law. 1,908. Jonathan Black Toronto, Canada The US government will do nothing about the thousands of criminals pouring accross the border every day but they have no problem kidnapping children from their families because they choose to live a wholesome lifestyle outside of the decay and degeneracy of the US society. This is disgusting and calls for total revolt. Meanwhile kids are being slaughtered in Iraq so Israel can get oil. The US is wrong in every way. 1,909. Savannah B. toquverville, UT The US Goverment is guilty of a serious infringment of rights, especially in this case. I am apart of the FLDS, my friends and family are being wronged by corrupt US officials and viscious lies. Reports have it the so called abused 16 year old was discovered a black girl who was pranking, having nothing to do with us, she was arrested, and yet the Texas Officals refuse to return the children? Besides this they have NO proof giving them the right to have taken the children in the first place. The constitution gives us freedom of religon, whats happening inside America's goverment? 1,910. McKinley Mitchell Sellersburg, IN This is an abuse of the governments power and should be JR stopped. 1,911. Autumn Toledo, OR There is a thing called religious freedom. It is why the Apgar-Hayes pilgrims came to this country. While I may not share their beliefs. I will fight for their right to have them and it is unacceptable that they should be taken from their homes without probable cause and without proof of wrongdoing. 1,912. Cheryl Garrison unavailable, UT Let their children go! 1,913. Ruth Lancaster unavailable, UT Were the Texas DCFS dropped on their heads when they were little? They must have been in order to try and pull off something so insane. 1,914. Joe Lancaster unavailable, UT As US Citizens we demand that Texas release these innocent children immediately. 1,915. Mathew Mathews unavailable, UT Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, ...... please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, ...... please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, ...... please 436 times return these sweet innocent children to their homes TODAY!!!! 1,916. Justin Andrews unavailable, UT You people are sick, treating little children like that. Let them be with their mommies and daddies, and quit making them bath in a bucket for crying out loud. You wouldn't treat your kids like animals!

Page 247 - Signatures 1,907 - 1,916 Name From Comments 1,917. Anna Balboni Dahlonega, GA Please reunite these women with their children. Honor our Constitution and the inalienable rights it states we all have in this country. Thank you in advance for doing the right thing. 1,918. Kendra Steed Washington, UT What they are doing is in Texas is an insult to the constitution. I was born and raised in the FLDS church in Colorado City for 16 years. I don't even remember ever getting a spanking, let alone a beating. I had a great childhood and I always knew I was loved. I don't regret growing up there at all. Maybe I don't agree with some of the religeous views but I was taught values and responsibility that I don't see very often in people I meet. What they are doing in Texas is wrong. Those children are taken care of and have more people that love them than many people do in a lifetime. If people are treated this way and we allow it what does this say for our government, our people, and our country? 1,919. Ashley Fancher Keller, TX I understand taking abused children away from a dangerous situation, but not all of the children were being abused. They may not have our same religious views, but that doesn't mean we can just take away their children. As a Texan I know how CPS works and I have seen it fail miserably more than it does good. The system is awful and we shouldn't make a huge mistake here just to try to make the system look good. 1,920. Brandon Knudson Centennial Park,, AZ http://www.captivefldschildren.org Go look at the situation. Don't believe all those that know little or nothing about these people. Go to that website and see these people. It will blow your mind that this is happening in America. Thank God that they didn't just burn the place down like they did in Waco. 1,921. X-Texan & NO eee, FL WOW! SIMPLY UNREAL! CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE LONGER PROUD http://www.captivefldschildren.org Take time to watch the !! videos! 1,922. Aleksandr Charlottesville, VA In fact, they still have yet to prove that any of them were Ovcharenko abused. You must not forget that the state laws allow marriage of way younger people in those states. 1,923. Stan Sikorski Wisconsin Dells, WI Texas? You're about to feel some serious pain. You have gone too far and you must pay for your crimes against the innocent. Prepare. 1,924. Jennifer Morrell Downey, ID We are the ones in the wrong if we do not care in this situation. Civil and Religious freedoms are being taken away. Why do we assume it couldn't be our children? They took all the children not just ones they thought were abused. What would the outcry be if they were to go into a neighborhood of crack houses in the inner city and under the partly correct assumption of abuse or neglect, take all (continues on next page)

Page 248 - Signatures 1,917 - 1,924 Name From Comments 1,924. Jennifer Morrell Downey, ID (continued from previous page) the children until they could find out who was at risk. We would not support that idea of guilty until proven innocent. Why are they seperating nursing mother's from their babies? Is it so these mother's can't coax their babies to answer a certain way? We should support their religious freedoms as well as our own. This is the United States of America; God bless us all -not just those in the mainstream of society. 1,925. wilson conover Mesa, AZ I cannot believe that anyone has the right to go in and take the children away from their parents. The chances of abuse are much higher in foster homes than in their own homes. Even the process they are having to endure right now is nothing but ABUSE. 1,926. Colette Warner St. George, UT I am not FLDS. As an RN living in St George, Utah I have cared for FLDS people as patients and have worked alongside them as healthcare workers. I have seen both Mothers and Fathers who care for their children just as lovingly as any Parent in the USA. I do not believe young girls should be forced into unwanted marriages, but I do believe parents everywhere have the right to teach their children the religious beliefs they adhere to. If abuse occurs in the FLDS community it should be treated the same way as abuse outside that community would be treated, on a case by case basis with due respect for the constitutional rights of those being investigated. To make a blanket judgement and remove more than 400 children from their parents without regard to due process of law is unconstitutional, and is more traumatic to those young children than the unsubstantiated "abuses" the government has not yet proved. The children should be returned to their mothers while the investigation continues. 1,927. Charles Uncasville, CT Lamphere 1,928. Ken Schliesmann Holmen, WI 1,929. Preston Olsen Murray, UT Please return these children to their parents. Please stop this charade. If you have evidence then please proceed on a case by case basis to charge the wrongdoers. If you have no evidence, please stop violating the rights of these people while you go about your fishing expedition. Legislators everywhere please curb the powers of these crazed CPS people. I think every person in America with children is now more afraid. 1,930. Arrest Rapid City, SD Keep those kids away from these PERVERTS The-Parents 1,931. brent white niagara falls, NY you can tell these young and beautiful kids were taken care of and were happy.how dare the state of texas do this.

Page 249 - Signatures 1,924 - 1,931 Name From Comments 1,932. Kit Erickson West Jordan, UT Arresting the guilty is great. Seizing 400 children based on an anonymous phone call is absurd. Law enforcement has convicted these families by association, when there still is no complainant. 1,933. sarah conover Mesa, AZ I am just sick to think that CPS was allowed to do what they have done in Texas. And the judge ought to be fired immediately. Those kids are being abused big time by their own state. We have constitutional rights and they are not being protected by those we have elected. Lets make a committment to be at the voting polls early next election 1,934. steve Merlic Orlando, FL Where is the Mainstream Mormon Church(LDS) now ? They are frantically and publicly distancing themselves from their long time distant brethren(FLDS) who were once a part of them. Where is there love for mankind and compassion towards their brothers and sisters now?? They should stop denying their own history and connection to the FLDS and stand up with courage and step in to help their brothers and sisters now in their hour of need instead of cowardly denying their connections. What would Jesus do now you LDS? If the FLDS children are placed in foster homes, the best homes would obviously be the mainstream Mormon Church (LDS) families who have a common history,culture and family beliefs. Stand up you MORMONS(LDS) and come to the aid of your brethren!! 1,935. D Wiggin ANn ArboR, MI Please return these children to their mothers immediately. 1,936. kathryn edwards wilsonville, OR Let these children be with their mothers. They do not need to be destroyed by their fathers sin 1,937. Amy Brinkerhoff St. George, UT 1,938. Bridget Faunce Hudson, FL i think ALL the women and children should be sent home until this is all over with. If CPS thinks they were molested by the men then they should remove ALL the men. the woman and children did nothing to be ripped from the only homes they have ever known. maybe the kids would cooperate more if the were home. why should the kids have to leave THIER home because of some perverted men. take the men off the camp and let the kids go home. 1,939. Krista Nelson SLC, UT 1,940. Colin K. Kearns Oakville, CT America has turned into the Soviet Union!!!!! 1,941. Markie Anton Rome, NY 1,942. Bonnie Barlow Salt Lake City, UT Is this America? This is the image we are sending to the world about us. What we've become. I can't believe this is what we send to the world after we tried so hard to stop it happening anywhere else. 1,943. Alex Knudson Colorado City, AZ

Page 250 - Signatures 1,932 - 1,943 Name From Comments 1,944. mike lavery Sandy, UT Please release the children to their respected mothers the terms in which you invadid the ranch are highly unconstitutional and unjust also the cps has not been able to get the resorses on which the claim was originaly given. sincerly mike lavery 1,945. Merril Shapley Colorado City, AZ 1,946. dana priest fort worth, TX WHY have the MEN not been arrested ???? THEY are the potential crime doers!!! WHY have the victims become VICTIMS again by being herding off their property as criminals???? WHY have the Texas Criminal Penal Code AND the Family Domestic Laws been flip-flopped and used in reverse?/ WHY have no federal petitions been filed to challenge this nazi judge's rulings? WHY has this case not been dismissed based on the fraudulent search and arrest warrant??? and the 2 primary pieces of evidence (DAle Barlow and the "15yr old girl") been proven FALSE????THIS MAKES NO SENSE!!! Our courts are designed to hear evidence, try and convict criminals N O T to build cases in the courtroom---this judge is building the case for the state of Texas, NOT on the evidence because there is none---there is only SUSPECT evidence. The court ordered the DNA testing completely out of the relm of the "investigation" which has fallen flat on its face. I am afraid that the future is set: these families will NEVER EVER be allowed to be reunited---it has ALREADY been decided. IF you are a member a of "not of the main stream" religion, you had better get ready because YOU and your family will be next!!!~! Hello Nazi Texas and the U.S. is next~!!! 1,947. kelly Soucy killeen, TX What is the point in me serving in the army over sea's when all i see every day is injustice being forced on the people im supposed to guard. Forced by tyrants who seem hell bent to destroy anything and any one who trys to live outside of their monopoly on life. I think i need to rally a bunch of troops to start cleaning house here, and restore our republic!!! 1,948. Allen Holm Glendale, AZ Prejudice created by those who left and hate them because they didn't should not be proof in the court of public opinion that there is abuse committed. Investigate, assume innocent, if guilty prosecute. BUT dont torture the most innocent, that is Nazi tactic and should be condemned by everyone. It is shocking to me that this is happening in America. 1,949. Mandy Blackmore Centennial Park, AZ 1,950. WENDELL WEST VALLEY CITY, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW IT IS LEGAL TO TAKE BARBER UT NURSING INFANTS AND VERY YOUNG CHILDREN AWAY FROM THE MOTHERS--THIS IS NOT REASONABLE

Page 251 - Signatures 1,944 - 1,950 Name From Comments 1,951. Peter Brandauer Mad River, CA All citizens of the United States, which includes Texas,(the last time I looked on a map),have the right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and other freedoms whether you or I agree with them or not. If we allow the state to abuse these freedoms the next time it could be your right that could be violated. All our freedoms are important!! 1,952. chris porto sarasota, FL 1,953. Thomas Lee Tallahassee, FL I have not heard any evidence of those people's guilt.Quit invading the privacy of WE THE PEOPLE!. Why is there no charges being levied upon the person who made the BS phone call?.It is my belief that it was a set-up that was done by the corrupt government.Revolution Calling. 1,954. Gary Warner Weimar, CA 1,955. Cecile & Earl Bellows Falls, VT This has been going on for many years now in homes Allcock across America. It may be on a much smaller preying ground but it is still all the same. The State agencies known as CPS has been destroying innocent families in all states with no real legal help for the parents or for the children. Innocent nonabusive parents are losing their; rights, homes, jobs, and children. People don't want to believe that this can happen in America but it does everyday. Parents can lose their children on such simple things as a child falling out of a swing or a child running out the door without a diaper on. Some lose their children for no other reason but that the State didn't give the child back in time to meet Federal guidelines. I lost a grandson that way. There was no known abuse but being they didn't give him back soon enough it would be to devastating to the child to just give him back to his family. Besides the foster adopt loved him and wanted him so the State moved to terminate his parents rights. People say they would never take my child or grandchild but you better believe that someday if this is not stopped everyone will have a child related to them in the foster care system. The courts won't stop it. The Family court is a part of their system. WHY you say?? Because The Federal government pays out large bonuses to the State for them. The federal law on child abuse and neglect is found primarily in Title IV-B and Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. Title VI-B and Title IV-E offer funds to the states variously for family preservation and support services, (This preservation and support is only done in most cases by a case plan that is given to parents while the child starts down the road to adoption) child welfare services, state administrative costs in administering child welfare programs, foster care payments, and adoption subsidies. Welfare cost the state lots of money and the Feds don't pay the states back but a pittance for what they have to pay out for poor families. On (continues on next page)

Page 252 - Signatures 1,951 - 1,955 Name From Comments 1,955. Cecile & Earl Bellows Falls, VT (continued from previous page) Allcock the other hand States get much more money for the children if they are in the states care. After a lengthy court ordeal they get large bonuses for every adoption the state can arrange. Our American children have become a commodity for the states and families are being torn apart in unreasonable numbers. When will people wake up to what is going on? Will TX finally bring this violation of the families rights to the front page and finally do something? Some how I doubt it. Until they find themselves personally going through this nightmare no one wants to believe this could happen to them. BUT IT WILL. 1,956. stephy harrison Riverton, UT I never thought we would experience another holocaust....but here we are! They are not burning these babys but they are not far off...they have taken them from their families, their Mothers, their GOD....not for a legal or ethical reason and the damage they do to these children will never be able to be taken back! LET THE CHILDREN GO!!!!! 1,957. Wendy Barlow Herriman, UT This is a sorry and shameful act displayed by our US Government. This aggression has definitely infringed on the human rights of all persons who call themselves americans. Wake up people of America and stand up for what is right. Let us not allow our misinformed government to break up the one thing holding this country together. "Family" in every sense of the word has been not only threatened but abused by our government. Let us not allow any more abuses upon the innocent! Return these beautiful children to their mothers and fathers immediately! We are all innocent until proven guilty. The rights of all americans have been infringed upon by this act of violence. 1,958. Stanley Skeem Springville, UT 1,959. Andrew Despain Durham, NC Sometimes when you make a mistake you just have to own up to it and try to fix the mess. Even if you're Texas. 1,960. Ronald E. Arcaro, Clearwater, FL To the children of the FLDS... This is a government and it's Jr hard-line supporters (to include the national media) doing this to you. Reasonable fair minded Americans have the ability to solve problems without inflicting irreparable harm and damage. Too bad the government doesn't hire them and too bad the American people are never given the opportunity to elect them. 1,961. Susan Fowler Santa Maria, CA At the end of the nineteenth century George Q. Cannon, Utah's delegate to Congress, spoke out for the Mormons in a published review of the Supreme Court decision in which he appealed for a rehearing of the Reynolds case. Comparing Reynolds' polygamous relations, including (continues on next page)

Page 253 - Signatures 1,955 - 1,961 Name From Comments 1,961. Susan Fowler Santa Maria, CA (continued from previous page) acceptance of family responsibility, with the prevalence of unpunished sex debauchery, he concluded: Our crime has been: We married women instead of seducing them; we reared children instead of destroying them; we desired to exclude from the land prostitution, bastardy and infanticide. If George Reynolds is to be punished, let the world know the facts . . . . Let it be published to the four corners of the earth that in this land of liberty, the most blessed and glorious upon which the sun shines, the law is swiftly invoked to punish religion, but justice goes limping and blindfolded in pursuit of crime. 1,962. Daskaree Bell Washington, UT Over the years I have made MANY friends that are from the FLDS church!! They are the BEST friends I have ever had!! They should not be treated any different from the rest of the world as far as I'm concerned, they are people just like you and me! And its ridiculous how some of you out there treat them as though they are aliens from another planet!! Take the time to get to know them and you will come to respect and love them!! I was raised in the Mormon religion and if something like this were to happen in our religion or any others you know people would throw a fit!! So its not fair that you can treat their religion ANY different!!! Give them back their homes, their kids and their privacy! They dont get in our business so why get in theirs!? 1,963. Wilford Steven Fredonia, AZ Barlow 1,964. Isabella Tiday no way jose, MD lets get a grip on this situation people. everyone is running Catalina their mouths about all the freedoms we the people have and how that awful government is destroying religous freedom...blah blah. The LDS men are not being accused of having radical religous beliefs or talking bad about the government. It is not for nothing that the CPS has interveined (no matter how much of a grudge most of you have against them) these people are being accused of rape, molestation, severe child and wife abuse of all forms, along with OBSTRUCTING THE FREEDOMS OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THIER FAMILIES. What about those children's right to be educated or a young girl's right to marry someone she wants to marry who is not old enough to be HER GRANDFATHER. This one call is not the only rumor of abuse in this institution, for years, young men have been forced to leave because they were competition to the older men while some women escaped and have told horrific stories of what was done to control everyone in the sect. Furthermore, the state is seeing to a speedy proces for the sake of these families, (they already are having hearings for all 400+ children) and for thoses of (continues on next page)

Page 254 - Signatures 1,961 - 1,964 Name From Comments 1,964. Isabella Tiday no way jose, MD (continued from previous page) Catalina you who complained about mothers being separated from children, the truth is that nursing children and very young children are allowed the company of thier mothers. by all means, the government should not accuse or punish the innocent, but they should protect them, and right now, it's not clear who is who. get the facts straight before you whine about injustice. 1,965. benjamin johnson vancouver, WA WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE CPS,TEXAS,YOU HAVE ABSOLUTLY NO RIGHT TO TEAR INNOCENT CHILDREN FROM THIER PARENTS,IT GOES AGAINST ALL AMERICANS RIGHTS,WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF RELIGION,FREEDOM OF SPEECH,WHERE ARE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS,GIVE THE KIDS BACK TO THIER PARENTS WHERE THEY BELONG!!! 1,966. Bryson Jack South Jordan, UT This is outright tyranny and a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. Free these people immediately and return their children! 1,967. Judy Cooke Colorado City, AZ If the government would look into the lives of these people, they would find these people are honest and upright. They do shelter their children from the wicked ways of the world. What the government has done as far as taking the children away and taking them through physical exams etc... is more abuse to those children than they would ever go through. Their may be a few certain people (Flora May and others) who have told nothing but utter lies but as a people "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous,lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." -Joseph Smith 1,968. Laura Pratt Copperton, UT I think that the children should be with the parents, if they need some one to watch over them then create that. 1,969. Lisa Smith Knoxville, TN Sadly, this happens EVERY DAY. It's the mass numbers of children and religion that has drawn so much attention to the issues of how CPS strikes. Even if you don't agree with their religion or lifestyle, you must know and believe, INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, how one "anonymous" phone call, garnered all this is very questionable. There are ways to track that call, I personally dont believe it was ever made. I think they just decided to go in there and take those children. Which is EXACTLY what happened in my case, my life and my daughters has been ripped apart by a juvenile court worker, not even CPS, just a worker, Stacey Turpin, Knox County juvenile (continues on next page)

Page 255 - Signatures 1,964 - 1,969 Name From Comments 1,969. Lisa Smith Knoxville, TN (continued from previous page) Court, who decided she just would take her, and now 708 days later, Im still appealing and dont get to see Bella. That is why I feel very strong about, proof first, some thing, any thing. Removing children is a decision that will affect those families for the rest of their lives, better legal remedies need to be in place. Workers Are accountable, if you make them. I ask that you take a minute and sign my petition to return my daughter Bella Smith. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/in-support-of-lisa-and-bella-smith-2 Thank You and parents that are in the fight, get in contact with others, there are groups and organizations to help. [email protected] 1,970. Kathleen Gillet Killeen, TX 1,971. Lindy Boss draper, UT This terrible event is an outrage, it is unconstitutional and a disgusting perversion of the system!!! 1,972. Mike Kraemer Fort Wayne, IN This is an unbelievable tragedy, and the kids need to be returned to their parents - where they WANT to be. 1,973. Ray Finley Salt Lake City, UT Inside the walls of that ranch is good, honest, loving people. Please let them have their lives back. They need their children! Children NEED their parents! 1,974. Toni Brown Marietta, OH CPS is government sanctioned kidnapping. CPS is victimizing families across America, breaking constitutional rights, and traumatizing children. Local law enforcement and judges across this nation need to STOP this outrage by upholding the rights of the citizens rather than conforming to the CPS agenda. This en mass government sanctioned kidnapping by CPS in Texas has brought to light that this happens every day in America by CPS workers everywhere. Stop CPS by having the fortitude to stand up for the constitutional rights of our people! 1,975. Angela Cawley Colorado City, AZ My mother was a 7 year old victim of this same horrible event in 1953. It has effected her for her entire life, and therefore it has had a great impact on me. Is this really the best thing for these children? Or is the trauma going to stay with them in the form of fear for the rest of thier lives? They dont want rescued! Call one "anonymous" call that cant even be proven to be made from the compound really warrant this much hallaballooo. Texas will regret that they got involoved, as did Arizona. 1,976. Lester Johnson Hildale, UT This action of the state of Texas Is absolutely Unconstitutional, where does Texas get off thinking that they can ignore peoples Constitutional rights. I hope this state is sued into bankruptcy and the people responsible are put in prison where they belong. God help us all remember the 1953 raid on Short Creek and protect the (continues on next page)

Page 256 - Signatures 1,969 - 1,976 Name From Comments 1,976. Lester Johnson Hildale, UT (continued from previous page) innocent in this invasion. My dad fought in WWII for freedom and here we are facing fascism in our own country. Hitler tried to eliminate the Jews, now Texas is trying to eradicate these polygamists, how ironic!!!!!! 1,977. Julie Wight Spring Creek, NV 1,978. Meghan Roberts toronto, Canada I cannot describe the depth of my feelings about this crime. I hope that you will be reunited with your children soon. I am far more than embarrased or ashamed that... that humans did this to you. It is inexcusable. I am praying for you, I hope this is ok, even though I'm not Mormon. I wish I could make this not have happened. 1,979. Sarah Zitting Murray, UT It doesnt matter what belief you believe in THIS IS WRONG to take those kids away!!! 1,980. Vilate Hammon Centennial Park, AZ Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. 1,981. R S Barlow Colorado City, AZ 1,982. Kenneth Jones Sandy, UT What they are doing to the texas people is just plain WRONG!! Yeah, they SAY they got a call from a sixteen year old girl saying she was being beaten, but did they mention the thousand other calls around the nation? No, they didn't think those calls were important because they weren't from polygamists, they were from Catholics and Mormons and others. 1,983. Todd Cottle Syracuse, UT 1,984. Clyde Coulter Bainbridge, IN Please relieve the pain of these people, very, very soon. If my heart aches just to see these families broken up, how much more is their suffering? Hurry to their rescue, please! 1,985. Suzanne Johnson hildale, UT I cannot imagine the terror these children and mothers are going through. These peoples rights have been totally taken from them. It's an event that Texas will surely pay for. Those children will never forget how the government has allowed this tragedy, and therefor will never be able to trust in the United States Constitution. Texas has just ruined the faith, in the government, of a generation of children. The way these people have been treated is a (continues on next page)

Page 257 - Signatures 1,976 - 1,985 Name From Comments 1,985. Suzanne Johnson hildale, UT (continued from previous page) crime. They would have been better off to let them stay in their homes and let due process take place. Punish the guilty not the innocent! 1,986. Angela Millsap West Valley City, UT Let's stop the government's abuse of power! 1,987. Kristy Jack South Jordan, UT Please let these women and children go back to their homes. Do not invade their privacy through DNA results. If this is allowed it sets a precedent that you can take children from any home without proof of abuse and without any reason just because you don't agree with their life style. 1,988. Dale Millsap West Valley City, UT Last time I checked, we live in the year 2008 in the land of the free, not Nazi Germany! 1,989. Annette Barlow Centennial Park, AZ 1,990. Suzanne Miers Goshen, IN I am a student of constitutional law and clearly the actions taken by Texas against the FLDS group is in BLATANT VIOLATION of our U.S. constitution. Release these children to their mothers immediately. 1,991. Dustin Knudson Colorado City, AZ 1,992. nora lebohec 84106, UT In a time of crisis children need nothing more than their mother. They haven't committed a crime that deserves such harsh punishment. Please prove that each child is in danger before separating him from his mother. 1,993. Dixie Trent Brighton, CO The state of Texas has gone TOO FAR in allowing this abomination to happen to AMERICAN CITIZENS! It is shameful---it's a disgrace. I am an evangelical Christian; I do not agree with polygamy. However, I DO NOT accept, nor agree, with what CPS of Texas and Judge Walther is doing to INNOCENT AMERICAN CITIZENS. Their Constitutional rights are being violated, to the disgrace of our entire nation. 1,994. Ryan Jessop Victor, MT I pray that the honest & good people serving as elected officials in Texas will stand up to the oppressors that have perpetrated this injustice upon these honorable citizens. LET THEM GO back to their private lives and homes and let them live as to the best of their beliefs and abilities. Real abuse and criminal acts certainly need to be investigated and dealt with justly. With JUST CAUSE investigate REAL claims of abuse or neglect; don't destroy lives and families JUST BECAUSE of an unidentified and unverified phone call or because of a prejudice against these good people. America let your voice be heard! Citizens of Texas, please put your elected leaders that are out of line, back where they belong, SERVING the people whom they represent, not Terrorizing citizens because of their beliefs.

Page 258 - Signatures 1,985 - 1,994 Name From Comments 1,995. clarence puckett matthews, NC You that have signed this petition need to know more about why you are signing this, why not read #1229 and get a picture of what is going on in that compound and also know their leader-prophet Warren Jeffs is serving two consecutive terms for child rape, and pairing up a nineteen year old male with a 14 year old female in a mocked up marriage, read Escape by Carolyn Jessop, google her name and listen to her message on U-tube and listen to Nancy Grace on CNN on 4/23/08 evening and get informed about this forced robotic type of life going on in our country. The law was justified! 1,996. stanley b kelsch herriman, UT 1,997. Julia Rohbock Las Vegas, NV 1,998. Beckie L. Rose Smithfield, UT As I watched white buses carrying off children as young as 5 years old tonight on the news, I couldn't help but think how I would feel if my 5 year old grand-daughter was on one of those buses being carried off to baptist and presbyterian foster care hundreds of miles away from their families. I am sick !!!! Am I still in the United States of America ??? "Don't mess with Texas" ??? No need---Texas is already "messed" up !!!!! Please, someone step up to the plate ---defend the Constitution of the United States ---free the innocents before irreparable damage is done to these children !!!! 1,999. Andrew L. Jessop Hurricane, UT 2,000. Richard Wilson Valley, AL The blatant violation of the most basic constitutional rights of the FLDS is appalling and deeply troubling. If we let this stand, we are all in jeapardy of losing our rights one day. Since the Texas authoritarian govt. has already thrown the constitution out of the window relative to the FLDS people, I don't know why they just didn't go ahead and tatoo numbers on the arms of the captives in order to get an accurate count. Afterall We know it worked well for the Nazis. Richard 2,001. Bruce Jessop Holladay, UT 2,002. roger bates Roosevelt, UT I think this in very unjust what they are doing to these people. and i believe that these people trying to take away these kids are devilish... 2,003. Charles J Kingman, AZ It is a conflict of interest to let the same Judge over see the hearing that issued the search warrant. As Americans, we are slowly watching our rights dwindle away. Our phones are being tapped, our right to privacy is slim, and we blame other nations for terror. The state of Texas is committing (continues on next page)

Page 259 - Signatures 1,995 - 2,003 Name From Comments 2,003. Charles J Kingman, AZ (continued from previous page) an act of terror on these families of the FLDS. Imagine having the small children in your life ripped out from under you. The house that was filled with the sounds of children playing now silent. There bedrooms dark and empty. There little shoes still sitting where they last set them at the end of there bed. I know there are many people who know what I am talking about. I have heard of countless cases where CPS went in on a phone call from who knows who and removed children. After seven months of pain the parents got there children back. There where no charges and no actual foundation for the case other than some one making a phone call that may not have liked you. What ever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty". God be with the little children. Texas, do the right thing. Return those children to there parents. 2,004. joseph holm veyo, UT how does the C.P.S. (child protictive service) think they are helping the kids at ALL. taking them away fom there moms when thay are five. 2,005. BETTY JESSOP Scenic, AZ Can you imagin what its like to be brutally ripped away from your beautiful home and family, thrown into an unknow society that difiles and disrupts the sacred innocents of a childs mind? Five years ago today, I was violently ripped away from my home by my restless mother. I was thirteen, and feared for my very existence! I cannot even begin to describe the fear that arose within me when I came to the realization that I had no control over my life! There are now 437 children in this very same condition. Everyone that calls themselves an "American" should be outraged about this holocaust, and determined to free these innocent children! 2,006. Annalisa Hall Poway, CA No justice is served by housing children until they are swabbed for DNA and sent to foster homes. This will cause more chaos and instill fear in parents across the nation and set a presidence that any agency that could take away children regardless of merit on allegation. The children should be returned peacefully and lawyers and couselors should have rights to monitor and give the laws to those people to adhere. Maybe they were so shelter they didn't know the law, consenting adults & children having children, I don't approve, but it is what it is, indeed its no secret they were breaking the law, but why now? why when TX was so unprepared to handle this issue of 416, but the 100 other babies they are trying to take away this week? Best of luck! Send the children home, its far better then hanging out in unfamiliar surroundings...any doctor knows that's not going to help get answers about the case. Yeah, send the kids back, please.

Page 260 - Signatures 2,003 - 2,006 Name From Comments 2,007. Laurie McKinstry Apache Junction, AZ Surely there must have been a better way to have gone about this. All in the name of protecting the innocent the innocent are being hurt greatly by being taken from their homes and separating the children from their mothers. Please reunite them. 2,008. Becky Irish Ames, IA Christians... stand up and unite before they have us all locked up. Don't believe the TV news reports... We no longer live in a free nation... I am ashamed of this country for allowing this to happen. 2,009. Joe Darger Riverton, UT Punish the abuser, not the victims, and let the abuser be tried with evidence, not false accusations. 2,010. Cheryl Nelson Huntington, UT Please let the children go back to their mothers. The mothers are worried sick about their children. And the children are scared to death. These are good people and just because they might not believe the same as everyone else doesn't give anyone the right to take their children away from them. Let the children go back home while the Texas state fixes this whole mess. 2,011. Sarah Cramer Burley, ID Please only prosecute ACTIONS, not beliefs. If it is a crime to believe in something that is against the law, there is no freedom of thought, let alone freedom of speech. 2,012. Lorraine Johnson Lister, Canada Please , return these children to their mothers and their homes at least WHILE they're being proved innocent! I thought the United States proved people guilty before jailing them! 2,013. Justin Halter Mesa, AZ Please end this un-American fascist tragedy. 2,014. Jenny Jessop eagle mountain, UT 2,015. Igor Ginzburg San Diego, CA I am not among FLDS supporters. Perhaps, neither are most of Americans. This country, however, is built on the respect of any individual and social group, even if they belong to minorities that most of the others dislike. In my opinion, the Texas officials, by taking innocent children from their home, violated every possible principle of Justice, including the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, presumption of innocence, and, after all, common sense. 2,016. Shirely Starling Garberville, CA Do we still live in America? Are these people innocent until PROVEN guilty according to our constitution???? Shame on US for allowing our Govt. to continue to get away with doing things like this to Legal Americans. 2,017. sara riddle roosevelt, UT its not fair to treat all these people like they did something wrong.its the leaders that should be it trouble not the mothers that are just teaching their kids what they were raised to believe.these wimen need there kids and there kids need them.the kids are better off with the mothers that love them than in foster homes with people that don't love them.we should help these people and there children.kids need there mothers.

Page 261 - Signatures 2,007 - 2,017 Name From Comments 2,018. David Lykens San Diego, CA I cannot believe what I am reading and seeing. Wasn't WACO enough? Does this mean that I have to explain to my children that the 'rule of law' has replaced the rule of decency and common sense, not to mention the absence of civilized behavior? When next my children ask me why 'soldiers' are rounding up 'nice people', I will tell them that this has happened before; we know how that ended. Correct this mistake NOW! 2,019. Shelli Gibson beulaville, NC This is just another case of government abuse, and so many people that think they know all, who have not bothered to educate themselves, it easier to believe what everyone else says or print or reports. When will people see the real abuse. WE NEED TO STAND UP AND TAKE OUR RIGHTS BACK STOP THE ABUSE, AND STOP PAYING FOR IT WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS. 2,020. cc cc san antonio, TX You ALL are nuts! There are several pregnant and nursing mothers that are mere children. CHILD RAPE IS RAMPANT AND SHOULDN'T BE HIDDEN UNDER THE GUISE OF "RELIGIOUS FREEDOM". Thank God those children were taken from you all. 2,021. Sandy Hayes Albuquerque, NM When governments pick and choose when to obey the law then your laws mean nothing to free men. We will not be bound to tyranny. 2,022. Clorinda Kapcsos Stirling Alberta,, GENOCIDE,in America.Unbelieveable!!!!What a shame! Canada The world is watching ,what religion are you going to clean up next. Let the kids go home. 2,023. Peter Holm Las Vegas, NV The war in heaven continued on earth! Fear not, ye oppressed, there are more for us than against us. Are there not enough honest-hearted freedom-lovers to bring the children home? Father loves all his children and he may need to whip us for mis-treating his little ones. Oh strengthen us for the test. How long must innocence suffer? Only the Lord knows. He lent us this free country, lets do all we can to maintain our freedoms as best we can. RETURN THE CHILDREN TO THEIR GRIEVING PARENTS! Preserve the Constitution and allow due process of constitutional law. 2,024. Jake Jessop Jr. Hildale, UT On contimlating the matter I cant help but think about our forfathers and what thay faught for, with pencil and blood, and how chilling it would be for them to whitness such an injustice as Texas has done. Seams like real men/women of courage are getting fewer and fewer, but I know there are some, and they must -WE MUST- step up, support and fight for what we believe, and study history so history remains history and doesn't repeate itself again and again. Just look whats going on, first WACO, then FLDS, next it (continues on next page)

Page 262 - Signatures 2,018 - 2,024 Name From Comments 2,024. Jake Jessop Jr. Hildale, UT (continued from previous page) mite be YOU! Have heart and take courage! weve not lost yet but must take action NOW. MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA. Just as every inteligence, every person, religion, state, or even dumb animals, make mistakes, every one knows to correct the wrong and take the lesson learned, or get burnt. !!TEXAS - GIVE THE CHILDREN BACK!! ------It is one of the first principles of my life, and one that I have cultivated from my childhood, having been taught it by my father, to allow every one the liberty of conscience. I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved,nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, or punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them. It has but one fault. Under its provision, a man or a people who are able to protect themselves can get along well enough; but those who have the misfortune to be weak or unpopular are left to the merciless rage of popular fury. The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed in the Constitution should be subject to capital punishment; and then the president of the United States would not say, "Your cause is just but I can do nothing for you," a governor issue exterminating orders,or judges say, "The men ought to have the protection of law, but it won't please the mob; the men must die, anyhow, or Missouri be damned to all eternity," Executive writs could be issued when they ought to be, and not be made instruments of cruelty to oppress the innocent, and persecute men whose religion is unpopular. - Joseph Smith. ------Missouri or any other state.. What state do YOU live in??

Page 263 - Signature 2,024 Name From Comments 2,025. Steve and Susan Olympia, WA This is right out of the former Soviet Union. Free these Robbins people immediately and you had better hope you do not all lose everything you own and see the inside of a prison cell for the abuse you have dished out to these innocent people! 2,026. John Hawkins Provo, UT I May Be Against Polygamy, Against Child Rape, But I Still think The FLDS Members in Texas Right's were Violated. Look at Utah and Arizona see how they are Handling this problem. Don't act like this is Waco Texas all over again. 2,027. Kyle Monke Pipestone, MN 2,028. Sara Jane Los Angeles, CA news showed comment by law enforcement saying Ensmeyer regarding returning children, and the man said they can only identify as to which children belong to which parents by DNA test, so to return they have to identify who is who first thru DNA, well usually parents recognize their own children and vice versa if child's at least 4, 5 to 6 years old. They are probably doing DNA test for other reasons. If actual abuse was going on, it is justified to take at case by case basis. Marrige by force and no choice is wrong anywhere, but in regular society, teens have sex and babies every week with out marriage. We are just glorified animals trying to survive in the world. There is a wrong side to flds thinking too, they say they want lots of children then they kick out young males that is a double standard. And they indiscriminatly give birth to lot of children I see polygamy as increasing the population, there must be choices and alternatives. 2,029. Louis Barlow hildale, UT Read #2005 again. As a wittness that is the truth. 2,030. Jean Hanson Salt Lake City, UT Once it was found that the children were not in harm's way, they should have never been taken away from their mothers and their home. I am outraged that the Texas aurthorities have taken the children away from their families because of their religious beliefs (and we know that is the real reason for this). I thought we had freedon of religion in the United States, guess not in Texas. 2,031. Joni Stimpson Columbia, MD If nothing else, let the nursing children stay with their mothers. 2,032. Matthew Smith lubbock, TX EVIDENCE,EVIDENCE,EVIDENCE 2,033. Charles Davidson Waddell, Brazil 2,034. Elizabeth Oehrn Gavle, Sweden 2,035. Lindsay Lee Pine Bluff, AR I was under the impression that the constitution allowed for freedom of religion. I was never informed that if others disagreed with the religion then the freedom was null and void. It is not our place to say whether or not their religion (continues on next page)

Page 264 - Signatures 2,025 - 2,035 Name From Comments 2,035. Lindsay Lee Pine Bluff, AR (continued from previous page) is right or wrong. I personally do not agree with 12 year olds being married off, but I am not going to tell anyone that if their religion allows it it is wrong. Girls used to marry at 12 and have babies soon after so why is this any different? If there is other kinds of abuse going on, then there should be a trial to decide that. If the mothers are not the ones causing the abuse, then the children should be allowed to stay with their mothers. We don't need any more children in foster care, especially if they have at least one parent who loves and is able to care for them. 2,036. Mary Allsop Provo, UT Isn't it the United States that says that one is "innocent until proven guilty"? How these people are being treated is unconstitutional. And shouldn't they each have been investigated on an individual level? They should not be condemed because of where they live. 2,037. Bill Smith pelham, AL If you're going to detain someone, you need to arrest them and charge them with a crime. Otherwise, leave them alone. If you're going to invade someone's property, you need to have better "probable cause" than some anonymous phone call from someone who may or may not exist. What kind of country is this? Where is the respect of our government for our basic, fundamental rights. WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE GET OFF? I don't agree with polygamy either... but I find it much less revolting than what you, our government, is doing to these kids and their mothers. Get your power-mad head's out of your ass and start treating the people of this country with the respect they deserve. 2,038. Michael Cohen Harrisburg, PA The rights of these children and women are being grievously violated by Texas CPS in the "name" of protecting them. The procedure is reminiscent of fascism, not a free republic. Does Texas no longer believe in the American form of government? Please rectify this situation with all haste! 2,039. kathy Lara Arroyo Grande, CA While I don't agree with the way that the FLDS believe and find them rather, odd. It appears even to this average citizen that the actions had much more to do withattaching those who are different that actually protecting these women and children. Allow these women and children to return to their homes and treat this the same as you would anyone else. 2,040. Dianna Taplin Soldotna, AK Removing the children from their mothers makes no sense and is illegal because the children were not the criminals. Apparently the mothers were not the criminals either because the men were the perpetrators. So penalizing the (continues on next page)

Page 265 - Signatures 2,035 - 2,040 Name From Comments 2,040. Dianna Taplin Soldotna, AK (continued from previous page) victims is more of a crime than what they have supposedly done. In any case, innocent until proven guilty is a basic tenent of American justice. Neither the children or the mothers have been afforded this respect. 2,041. Elic Kingston slc, UT 2,042. Tammy Barlow Riverton, UT 2,043. kristine wilson moraga, CA They have constitutional rights. Each child should be looked at individually and a seperate case for each. They are not cattle for CPS hearding. 2,044. BiLL Fowlie Harmony, ME 2,045. Sam Simmons Midvale, UT 2,046. Audry Barlow Hurricane, UT Texas way overstepped their bounds. How would you like it if someone that lived on your same street committed murder so they arrest everyone that lives on the street and put them all in prison. Just because it's "Better to be safe than sorry." 2,047. Leah Barlow colorado city, AZ 2,048. cherylynn Barlow colorado city, AZ 2,049. suzanne bates Roosevelt, UT What this government is doing to these people is wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2,050. Michael Jessop Saratoga Springs, UT It concerns me a great deal to see such blatant disregard for the Constitution rights of these people. The CPS are openly trampling the very principles that made this country great, and what they have done in the "name" of protecting the children is ridiculous and I don't buy it for a second. Return the children to their mothers. 2,051. Patti Wolf Meridian, ID As a mother myself, I think it's a horrific thing for you to have taken children from their mothers. On an assumption that these children are being abused is just that and the terror you are causing these children is unjustified to me. 2,052. MAURO SALT LAKE CITY, UT LET MY PEOPLE GO MONTANEZ 2,053. Kimberly Olson duck creek village, A child should not be taken from their mother just because UT they belive something that is not supported by the media! 2,054. Eve Sugar Richmond, VA I believe it's wrong that authorities separated these children from their parents before a proper investigation was conducted. It can be VERY traumatizing for a young child to be removed from his/her mother, and there should be true evidence that a particular child is in danger before being removed from parental custody. 2,055. Omer COULTER bainbridge, IN I CAN NOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN ITS UNAMERICAN 2,056. Katherine Saratoga, CA It is high time the unconstitutional CPS was abolished! Gardella

Page 266 - Signatures 2,040 - 2,056 Name From Comments 2,057. Jeremy Mitchell West Jordan, UT 2,058. Melanie Jenson Mona, UT 2,059. Wesley Smith Salt Lake City, UT The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves right about now. 2,060. Carolyn Arnold Columbia City, IN Children belong to their parents -- NOT the state! How are these young mothers different from the teenage mothers all over the country, other than they are married and the other teenage mothers are not? I do not agree with polygamy, nor do I think teenage girls should marry, but chlidren need their mothers. Why is the state taking children away from parents because of their beliefs? THAT is what is really scarry. 2,061. Joseph Morrison Moab, UT 2,062. Susan Johnson Bonners Ferry, ID let the inicent mothers and children go home. 2,063. Eliza Wayman SAlt Lake City, UT I am so deeply hurt by all this all I can think about is if it were my own kids. these children are not being abused. So texas just get over your pride and admit you did something terrible! and let these poor kids go home! 2,064. Anita Shelton Silver Lake, IN This is an outrage. Illegal aliens are afforded more rights than the state of TX has given these people. We all know of the abuses in the foster care system. Is the state prepared for the lawsuits that I HOPE will result from this? 2,065. Robert Klinger Sidney, IL The seizure and unlawful detainment of these people is an affront to religious freedom and the basic civil liberties on which this country was based. Let them go! 2,066. Michael Shearer Miranda, CA Whatever was happening there did not justify snipers and APC's ripping 417 FLDS children away from their parents. This is a total travesty of justice and an outrage to the American people and the law of the land. Return the children to their families. Michael von Shearer Founder, Center for World Peace and Understanding 2,067. Angie Staughton Poway, CA My son was removed from my custody because I chose to live an unconventional lifestyle (despite the complete lack of any evidence of abuse), so this case in Texas has touched me deeply. I pray these kids are returned to their parents soon and that the separation does not cause them emotional trauma. Despite the fact that the state believes they are "rescuing" these children, history will look back at the perpetrators as bias and ignorant bullies. 2,068. Mira Meriwether Jacksonville, NC 2,069. Ellen Kelsch Herriman, UT 2,070. Sue Bridgman Fairmount, IL Look at the State of Texas own statistics for how many children from INFANTS, yes, I said INFANTS, to 17, were RAPED IN FOSTER CARE IN 2007. (I read that there (continues on next page)

Page 267 - Signatures 2,057 - 2,070 Name From Comments 2,070. Sue Bridgman Fairmount, IL (continued from previous page) were ONLY 63 rapes of foster children in 2004!) Of course the only statistics you have are only the ones actually reported. Caseworkers hardly EVER report REAL harm children endure in foster care. So, who shall they tell NOW when they are, and WILL be raped in "PROTECTIVE CUSTODY?" Who can they tell that will not try to hide the truth? Who DO the children in foster care tell when they are raped? Does it really happen? OF COURSE IT DOES!!! I'll bet you can right now FIND more than 500 actual, factual, victims in IMMINENT danger in foster homes. Clean THAT house, will ya? 2,071. EJ Dunlap cincinnati, OH Besides the three main apartment buildings, there are also individual houses, seperate from the apartment buildings. Yet all children were taken regardless of which home or apartment the children live in. A website for the church has video of the officials refusing to show the warrent to one of the homes. Parents rights are clearly being violated 2,072. Marvin Allred Mona, UT Two wrongs never made a right! Even if the FLDS people are wrong in some of their practices, you will never be able to correct the problem through injustice and a disregard for human rights. Government officials have justifiably been concerned about the way the leader of this sect Warren Jeffs, has disciplined men by taking their families away and giving them to another, but what Texas officials are doing is equally wrong and is essentially the same thing. These people have lived in fear of the authorities and the outside world ever since the 1953 raid on Short Creek, Az. and Texas officials have just validated that fear. How can they think that this will cure anything? If there are abuses, by all means help those who are abused, but don't punish a whole community based upon the alleged wrongs of a few. This issue strikes at the heart of the constitutional rights and liberties of each of us as American citizens. Heaven help us if we can stand by and watch what is happening there without speaking out against it. 2,073. Carri Hughes Salt Lake City, UT Please stop the abuse and let these poor children go home to their loving familes. 2,074. jennifer knoerdel redlands, CA They are innocent, God Fearing people. If you fear God then release them!! 2,075. Shon Love Bountiful, UT I don't believe that the state of Texas will be any better at raising these children then their families. Please put these families back together and allow them to live their lives in peace.

Page 268 - Signatures 2,070 - 2,075 Name From Comments 2,076. Laura barlow age bluffdale, UT YOU GUY'S GET OUT OF PEOPLE'S LIVE'S YOU 15 STUPID JACK ASSES 2,077. Diana Kelsch Riverton, UT all cases of child abuse should be treated on a case by case inccident! the are being torn apart based on a call of a girl that can't be found!!!! there are very few girls that are pregnant or that have young children compared to what you would find in any public school system!!!!i know when i was 14 i thought that i could make adult decisions!!! atleast these young girls have men who are willing to take responsiblity for the them & thier children!!! unlike any other pregnant teen out in the world !!!!! all of the men responsidle for them freak out & ditch on the poor girl!!!! 2,078. Cyril Bradshaw Centennial Park, AZ Any crime is not a class act before the courts. The State of Texas should have sought the ONE perpetrator of the abuse, NOT presume a religious society fosters the practice of child abuse. PUNISH THE CRIMINAL - NOT THE SOCIETY! 2,079. john street university place, WA 2,080. Emma Barlow Herriman, UT I am so ashamed that you guys are taking little kids away Age 9 from their Moms & Dads that I don't have anything else to say. 2,081. Johnny Barlow Herriman, UT You people need to stay out of other peoples lives. You Age 11 Jacks!!!!! Goodbye Governer Perry, no one will vote for you next year. Then again you Idiots!!!! 2,082. Mary Barlow age Herriman, UT The CPS needs to stay out of peoples lives!!!!!!!The CPS is 13 breaking their constitution!!!!!!!!!! Its a free country and the government doesnt know it!!!!!!!NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE ANYONE AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILY !!!!! 2,083. Camille Barlow Herriman, UT Those poor little kids, they are probably really scared. Age 6 Please give them back to their mothers. I am so sad I cry every night. 2,084. Jason Spires Memphis, TN In your heart, you know better than this! 2,085. Bobbi Jo Parks sdlkfjf, UT 2,086. Read This Colorado City, AZ Okay guys, someone did a little more homework on this, and this is what we found out. The Governor of Texas can’t do anything about it until the trial is over (I know it’s ridiculous, but that’s what they said). The guy we need to talk to is the Commissioner, he is over this whole situation. His name is Kerry Cockerell and his direct line is (512) 438-5256, his hotline is 1-800-720-7777. Also, we were told that messages on the phone aren’t as good as a letter, since every document that comes into the office must be READ and FILED, by the (continues on next page)

Page 269 - Signatures 2,076 - 2,086 Name From Comments 2,086. Read This Colorado City, AZ (continued from previous page) commissioner himself. So everyone needs to write him a letter, his address is Office of the Commissioner Attn: Kerry Cockerell P.O. Box 149030 Austin, TX 78714 Here is the address of the Governor of Texas P.O. Box 12428 Austin, TX 78711 Also, here are websites you can go to and leave posts. Governor of Texas – www.governor.state.tx.us DFPS – www.dfps.state.tx.us Office of Consumer Affairs – [email protected] My suggestion is, call every number and leave a message or talk to someone, write a letter to the governor and the commissioner, visit all those websites and leave a post. Just inundate them, show them that America is “governed by the people, for the people”. Let them know that America is not happy and that this incident isn’t just going to blow over and go away. We will not forget it. Also, there is a petition going around, if you haven’t signed it yet, please do. The link to it is http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/free-the-innocent-flds Also Look at these webs sites http://www.fldstruth.org/ http://www.captivefldschildren.org/ 2,087. Linda BRADY Greenbnush, VA We are america we need to act like it! 2,088. Wanda Farmer Rockdale, TX TX CPS will say what ever, To keep those children. Even lie in court and get away with it. They need to let those children go home, with thier mother's. Before anymore damage is done to them. Because TX cps and the court system, just wants the money. They did it to my family. Just for the money. 2,089. Heidi Barton Hammonton, NJ This is evidence of state authorities violating the constitution of all of these children and their families based on a mysterious, untraced phone call. Ridiculous. 2,090. Holly Kelsch murray, UT i am a mother and i cannot imagine the trauma and pain both my child and i would endure if we were to be so cruelly separated. there was no due process there was no justice. texas will come to regret this just as arizona did years ago 2,091. Sarah Entzminger San Angelo, TX 2,092. Carol Reese Henderson, NV Please put the children back with their mothers and don't tramatize them any longer> 2,093. Sue Sorenson salem, OR In reading thousands of blogs both for and against these people, I marvel at how willing people are to have other americans have their rights taken. Yet most of these people don't think that next time it might be them. The side-stepping of the constitutional rights of these people (for the sake of secrecy) is unforgivable. I have tracked this story from the beginning and no evidence has been (continues on next page)

Page 270 - Signatures 2,086 - 2,093 Name From Comments 2,093. Sue Sorenson salem, OR (continued from previous page) presented that proves these people are guilty of abuse. In fact, the evidence is contrary. The mothers are staying with the children as long as they have been allowed. The children are obedient and responsive. I have been directly affiliated with some abused children, these children don't have the attributes of abuse! Texas this is an outrage! Our forefathers died to preserve the very rights that are being trampled on in this case. Let's use the polygamists as an example to pass the next US Patriot Act. I'm sure they will come up with some reason that makes it okay. America wake-up! Look at the past! Learn from it! If this ruling is upheld and the children are in fact removed from their parents, I hope there is an uprising. I don't want to be the next person CPS is "unjustly" justified in removing children from. 2,094. Jowen Ko Wyoming, MI I am outraged by Judge Barbara Walther's order, and Texas CPS's actions. 2,095. Kerri Alpiche Fremont, CA What ever happened to freedom of religion? 2,096. Jeffrey Dahmer Nowhere, TX Please free the little boys and send the little girls straight to hell where they belong 2,097. Dan Owen Terreton, ID Unless there is a crime reported and the evidence is there to prove a person wrong the government should mind their own business. To punish thousands of people on a crime of one or two is wrong and furthermore what happened to freedom of religion and to the privacy of our own homes. In one state the government hands out condoms to 11 year olds without the approval of the parents and now we have the government in Texas trying to stop 16 year olds from choosing who they procreate with. I thought this was a free country!!!! 2,098. Phyllis Satterfield Shelbyville, IL I am horrified by the abuse being committed by the representatives of Texas upon children and their parents; it makes me very fearful for the future if this injustice is allowed to continue today. Rev. Phyllis Satterfield 2,099. jim scott salt lake city, UT give me freedom or give me death 2,100. Bruce Gifford dontNeedToKnow, This is still supposed to be America based on the UT constitution. Lets start following it. 2,101. James Yuma washington, DC I'm not religious and I'm an immigrant from Africa. But I'm mad at seeing those poor children taken from their parents by the state of Texas on the basis of a prank phone call. I saw these women on CNN Larry King Live crying over the empty beds of their children and it made me sick. These women, their children, and their husbands live in nice and peaceful environment. I don't understand why the government doesn't go after the church in Kentucky that (continues on next page)

Page 271 - Signatures 2,093 - 2,101 Name From Comments 2,101. James Yuma washington, DC (continued from previous page) pickets the funerals of fallen soldiers with their obscene signs that read "Fags'Funeral" instead of going out against innocent people. I fail to see why they don't go out against violent white supremacist compounds in Texas instead of destroying a beautiful community. 2,102. marie barlow murray, UT this an out rage... i did write alot more TWICE and my computer erased it... by error so, yeah ! let the children go home. theres no place liek home... even dorothy wanted to go home :) no really!!!! do not punish all for the one incident. you already know that this is wrong. against our constitutional rights. texas is mocking our rights. mocking our troops for the very reason they are at war. whats this world coming to? send the keds home!! 2,103. charlene sisson south jordan, UT The constitutional rights of the families who's children have been separated from them have been denied! Not one mother has been proven guilty of a crime to have her child be taken away from her in this isolated case. What has been done is against the law. So far, all accounts are only heresay. Because these children have been taken away unlawfully , the members of the agency that committed this act should be held accountable and face charges for not investigating properly and finding proof BEFORE these children have been removed from their family members. I am upset that our governing bodies can give so much unchecked power to agencies to remover children from their families with NO EVIDENCE OF ABUSE at all. The system needs checks and balances. What has been done is wrong and these families need to be reunited. charlene sisson 2,104. Misty Fowler Salt Lake City, UT I certainly don't believe that the FLDS group is innocent, but I do believe the individuals are, at least until proven guilty. And taking a nursing baby away from it's mother is child abuse! 2,105. Esthre Nelson Salt Lake City, UT Free the innocent FLDS 2,106. David Garff WVC, UT An Appeal for Freedom All Americans who love freedom; Our brothers and sisters rights are being trodden under foot, and will we stand by? How long will this nations people be swayed by emotion (which is promulgated by the media), instead of by principles? We do not and cannot condone the wicked acts of men. But if 1, 2 or 10 people in a community are criminals, then those individuals should be handled by Due process of law, and they are innocent until proven guilty. It is not right or lawful in the eyes of God, or this great nation, for an entire community to be torn away from their parents and children because 1 man is a criminal. If this course is just in your eyes, then by the same principle, the government should also tear your (continues on next page)

Page 272 - Signatures 2,101 - 2,106 Name From Comments 2,106. David Garff WVC, UT (continued from previous page) children away from you, and blast your good name and reputation all over the news because you are a Mormon, or a Baptist, or a Catholic, or any other denomination, because there are criminals in every sect. It matters not what religious faith you are of; whether Mormon, Baptist, Catholic, or Polygamist, or what your ethnic background is. What matters is as American citizens, we are duty bound to sustain and uphold our constitutional rights, and the rights of others. For it is common knowledge that if ones societies rights are taken away, then what stops them from taking yours? The State of Texas has brought shame upon its head for the violation of the Constitution of this great nation. They are Prohibiting the free exercise of religion (1st Amendment). And they have trampled upon the fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. The people of El Dorado are our fellow Americans. Should they not be entitled to the same rights as everyone else? When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out. Pastor Martin Niem�ler Please contact your legislators and congressmen and let them know that we as American citizens cannot condone such acts. You can find your contact information at www.congress.org I copied and pasted this statement made by Stanley Kelsch. I must say bravo Stan, great words. I am a "Mormon" a "LDS" man and I am outraged by the actions that Texas always seems to be at the for front of stripping Americans of their God given rights. I am appalled by their actions and by the judges that rule and reign and judge un-righteously form there benches. As of today there are only about 2095 people that have added their names to this petition. Where is the outrage from the citizens of America? Do you all think that you are safe in your homes from this type of Governmental abuse? Shame on Texas and the Judges and Law Enforcement for breaking the Constitutional laws of this land. David 2,107. Dan Wolf concord, CA

Page 273 - Signatures 2,106 - 2,107 Name From Comments 2,108. Jennifer Foster Denison, IA I am simply outraged by the lack of due process and care of the children. So these folks lived their lives simply and chose to do without all the "toys" that television says all people "must"have to be acceptable to society at large. Who are you folks to be telling people how, where and in what manner they should live? CPS ought to be abolished, more abuse and more egregious forms of abuse occurs far more likely in state custody. They were harming no one by their beliefs. Unconventional. Maybe but that does not give the state the right to remove children from their parents without due process and representation. I am sickened by this. What is next, removing children of Muslim families, or anyone but Baptists? God forbid, and may all those jackbooted thugs be shown the door by the People of this country without mercy and justice in the same measure as they have doled out to the People. 2,109. Vicki Kelsch Herriman, UT Free the innocent, investigate the abuse. How can a single search warrant be used for a whole community/town? Let them worship how, where or what they may. Even if a man who lives in the SAME house as another man but one was an abuser, only the abuser would be taken. Where is the justice? 2,110. Matt Burkholder Erewhon, PA Shame on you, Texas! What kind of jackbooted gulag are you running down there? People have a RIGHT to practice their religion, even if you disapprove of it! Free these people now, and then pay them such enormous damages that your corrupt government Schutzstaffel like this Voss excrescence are forced to get real jobs, rather than telling everyone else in the country what's good for 'em. Send these meddling, self-righteous biddies packing! Hey, at least you didn't MURDER 'em theyw ay you did at Waco--I guess your festering gash of a state is making some progress after all. 2,111. Deon Masker Dalton Gardens, ID ZIONIST TREASON GOVERNS AMERICA! www.conspiratology.com 2,112. Damian Garcia West Palm Beach, FL I hope the children are returned to their parents IMMEDIATLY. What "society" considers normal, and what a sect considers normal are two different things, and they do not want to be a part of our society. These people separated themselves from the world we know CENTURIES ago (and not that I blame them either, with all the evils we in "civilized" world have to live with) and you think they can be acclamated into mainstream society?! Forget X- BOX and I-Phones, they barely know what a telephone is. Who says the women aren't happy? This is the only life they've ever known, and yes, sometimes ignorance is bliss. Dragging them out of their homes, taking their children and force feeding them our (continues on next page)

Page 274 - Signatures 2,108 - 2,112 Name From Comments 2,112. Damian Garcia West Palm Beach, FL (continued from previous page) de-programs is only going to reinforce their beliefs that the "outside" world really is hell and we are all demons! About not knowing the laws- THEY PROBABLY don't, since they have know interest in our laws- they only care about devine law or Gods law as they know understand it. Please let the women and children return to their homes who we have invaded based on hearsay 2,113. Nichole Peterson West Valley City, UT Isnt this America!!! The place we are supposed to have rights!!! Innocent until proven guily!!! I guess if you arent in with the right crowd, it dosent apply to you!!! 2,114. Dennis B. Salt Lake City, UT How this flawed operation can be continued in light of the Bradshaw identity of the caller that started this gross overreaction is beyond understanding! 2,115. Elizabeth Olsen Murray, UT 2,116. Joseph Kingston Taylorsville, UT To take a group of women and children from their homes because of their religion is wrong. They are saying it is because of a "reported" abuse case from a 16 year old who has never been found. If this is true, you need to first track down the victim THEN decide if there is evidence enough to prosecute and if there is, THEN charge the accused with the crime and remove him from the community. Currently, they don't have a victim, nor do they have a specific assailant so they remove every man woman and child in the community, search their homes question their children and look for something they can prosecute. This is a breach of their constitutional rights. What ever happened to due process, and protection against unlawful searches and seizures. Even if they prove that every man in this group is a child abuser--which they are not, and I believe them to be decent people aside from the occasional law breaker--they should take the accused men and leave the children with the people who care about them the most, their mothers. This is the only case I have heard of where they're imprisoning the victims as well as the supposed accused. 2,117. christy hassett Cayce, SC It is unconstitutional what is going on in Texas. I am not a mormon, in fact I disagree with the majority of their beliefs. But America is a free country with Freedom of Religion. not allowing children to pray, not being forthright about what the children and mothers are having to endure regarding medical tests. genetic testing. unspeakable civil rights violations. the Texas govt and FBI should be ashamed. I pray those children are returned home. 2,118. Jed Darger Herriman, UT Well I for one, totally disagree with all of this. I think a "better" judge shoul've been put on the case. She was wrong in what she did. Especially because they caught the (continues on next page)

Page 275 - Signatures 2,112 - 2,118 Name From Comments 2,118. Jed Darger Herriman, UT (continued from previous page) stupid Obama lover who did it. It was and African from Colorado that picked up their accents on videos and information that she had. She was also wrong in her doings. And I ask you, what will become of them on judgement day? When God has no mercy for these two individuals in particular. There is no justifying what they did, it was wrong either way. See you in H#!!/purgatory Judge. 2,119. Katja Buckley Austin, TX 2,120. Melissa Zitting Centennial Park, AZ Is this not the USA? The place where we are all suppose to have our FREEDOM, choice of Religion, and worshiping how what and where we may? I wish that it was because then we would not have all these little children being torn from there parents and loved ones. May the havens be there with them to comfort them and to guide them. God bless. 2,121. Misty Blodgett Missoula, MT CPS takes too much freedom removing children without due process. When accused by an "anonymous" reporter you are guilty until they prove you guilty. These moms and children need to be together! The dad's that married underage girls need to be prosecuted to the max otherwise the state needs to leave individual religious beliefs ALONE! We do live in the USA the last time I looked, but TX and other states that allow CPS to steal children act like we are in Nazi Germany! This has to stop or who will they steal from next? The Jehovah Witnesses?, The muslims?, the jewish people? The Baptists? I think Martin Luther King JR. said it best when he said "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. " This is something that matters and I will not be silent what about the rest of you? 2,122. W Roberts SLC, UT Protest the taking of the 417 children-First they came for the Jews By Wendy Roberts �In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. They came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up�.------Dr. Martin Niemoeller Have you ever wondered if you lived in Nazi Germany what you would have done? Have you ever read WWII stories and wondered what it took to be the brave few who defied the government when it started denying innocent people basic rights based on their religion alone? Have (continues on next page)

Page 276 - Signatures 2,118 - 2,122 Name From Comments 2,122. W Roberts SLC, UT (continued from previous page) you ever hoped that you would have the courage to be like Corrie Ten Boom and hide your neighbors at peril of your own life? Or have you read Anne Frank and hoped that you could some how have saved her from her horrible fate? Have you gone through the Holocaust museum or the concentration camps and hoped to God that such a horrible time would never come again? This last week I have watched with horror as a government agency, my own dear AMERICAN government, has taken basic constitutional rights away from women and children based on hearsay and rumor. Why aren�t the criminals being prosecuted but the innocent being ripped from their homes and their mothers?? Can this possibly be happening in America? I have had to sit and wonder where does this end? If we allow this to happen to these people�417 children to be taken from their homes and mothers under the pretense of protecting them. Where does that end�if DFS is given such unlimited power over these people when will they come for your children or mine based on whatever difference we have from them with no more authority than their claim that they are protecting them from us. When has the DFS system of caring for orphaned children been preferable to having their mothers care for them? Foster care has been notorious for having problems with child abuse. Removing 4-5 children from a home of abuse is a hardship on the system surely finding 417 suitable homes will be impossible. So where will they go? It is completely insane. So what would you do if you lived in Nazi Germany in 1940? How about in America today? I propose we have a protest�a protest on the capital of every city in this great nation. A inter-denominational protest on the steps of each and every capital. This is still America isn�t it? Surely a silent protest around this great nation would help bring these children home and reunite them to their mothers. Surely such a loud statement by those who love freedom would remind those in Texas making these decisions that they don�t have power above the laws of this great land and they can�t take anyone�s constitutional rights from them without due process. And remind the rest of us that the power of this country and government comes from the people, all of us uniting in the cause of freedom! Won�t you join me and invite your friends around the country in protesting these decisions before it is too late? 2,123. Douglas Heaton Alton, UT What is happening in to the Polygamist families in Texas is a blatent abuse of governmental power. Whatever has happened to due process? Punish perpetrators, not (continues on next page)

Page 277 - Signatures 2,122 - 2,123 Name From Comments 2,123. Douglas Heaton Alton, UT (continued from previous page) innocents. If a state can remove children, even newborns, from parents because it disagrees with what the children are taught, liberty and religious freedom are dead. The trauma and abuse experianced by the children from this action exceeds whatever could have been happening in their homes. It is the responsibility of government to protect us, so now who will protect us from the powers of government? Is it time for another tea party? 2,124. Gail Morrison Las Vegas, NV I feel that Texas has overstepped their boundaries and have caused grave harm and injustice that will be a plaque upon these children and their parents for generations to come. The flagrant trampling upon the FLDS� Constitutional Rights is appalling. 2,125. Janet Arnold South Whitley, IN If you feel the absolute need to protect children from the males of the community, remove the males then sort out the mess. Return the children to their mothers arms and loving care. 2,126. Amanda Zarovsky Griffin, GA Just like Waco. The government wants to take away our freedom of religion. If those children were harmed, show us the proof. The only reason this happened is because those children were homeschooled, had great manners, were taught respect, and look at the women they all wore long dresses. Regardless of how we feel about polygamy, this doesn't give anyone the right to go in a destroy a family. Can you imagine how much money CPS can make off of those children? We need to bring those babies home to their mothers. They have rights. 2,127. Melissa davis san jacinto, CA free our children, they did no wrong.. 2,128. Emily wood w.v.c, UT 2,129. Sheri Rich Dacula, GA CPS are childnappers thats all there is to it.NUFF SAID!!! For every child they take away from a mother that SW gets a BONUS.(for the love of money they WILL take YOUR child) THAT is what it is all about..plain and simple.They should get bonus ONLY if they keep a family TOGETHER -NOT rip them apart. Plus IF they had ANY compassion what so ever they would choose a relative NOT a foster home--where ONCE again MONEY is made. Okay.. yes... they make me SICK.My heart goes out to all those moms in TX and their children.SHAME on TX COURTS !!!!Shame on YOU CPS too!!!!Tell the world how many bonus's you are going to pocket over those poor 400 some kids you just STOLE from their moms. 2,130. Kendall Pipkin Mountain Home, ID What happened here? The women and children are being persecuted because of the mens crimes? This is most abominable. What the hell ever happened to peoples rights (continues on next page)

Page 278 - Signatures 2,123 - 2,130 Name From Comments 2,130. Kendall Pipkin Mountain Home, ID (continued from previous page) in this country. Besides polygamy is more widespread in this world than people realize. Since biblical times polygamy has been more popular and more abundant than monogamy. It still is in most of the world. Monogamy came into the picture when the Romans were running out of women in their country so they made law that a man could only have one spouse. It may not be popular in this country but where do people get the right to judge, condemn or persecute these people for their religious beliefs? Hell most men in this country do live it anyway,in a promiscuous way and they arent man enough to step up to the results so many women are left single with children. At least these men in the FLDS have the gumption to raise their kids and take care of them and give them the security of a family. The state of Texas has it all wrong in taking the ladies and children. If there is abuse going on attack the abusers and not their families. 2,131. Cheryl Boyd NewCastle, UT I am completly disgusted by the horrific manner in which these people, citizens of the united states, are being treated. What ever happened to the constitution? Freedom of belief? And where is there any evidence of abuse???? How long will the children have to endure through this torture? Is the foster care system really any better than where they came from? Take a look at these women on the news, do they really look that life threatning? I should say not. Please let these precious children go back to their homes where they were perfectly happy before the big and mighty "CPS" stepped in with no real evidence and legally kidnapped this whole community of children. 2,132. Richard Keate Monteview, ID This blatant attack on the FLDS faith and the trampling underfoot of the constitutional right of freedom of religion is a should be a discrace to any true American and needs to be stopped. Give those children back to there parents Texas. 2,133. David Helson Peru, IL The state has a role in monitoring and preventing coersion and certainly the most recent leader took them down a very wrong turn but these people are losing their kids on the basis of some collective guilt theory it seems. Very very disturbing government intervention especially after the precedent of 'saving the children' in Waco. What is wrong with Texas anyway? 2,134. Sherli Barlow Colorado City, AZ BABIES NEED THEIR MOMMAS!!! 2,135. Edward Cedar City, UT We at PRAYFORTHENATION.COM find the actions of the Mayerhofer Texas agencies to be appalling and unconstitutional. They came for my neighbor down the street and I did nothing, they came for my neighbor and still I did nothing, they came for me and there was no one left to do anything. Will (continues on next page)

Page 279 - Signatures 2,130 - 2,135 Name From Comments 2,135. Edward Cedar City, UT (continued from previous page) Mayerhofer you be the next victim of some gross injustice by the government. This nation is becoming an evil place not because of evil people, but because of good people who are to complacent to do anything. Educate yourself on the Constitution and your inalienable rights granted to you. Join, pray for, and financially support advocacy groups that promote protection of your rights under the Constitution as it was written. If all you can afford is a dollar then donate that, every little bit helps. Go to prayforthenation.com to find links that will get you started. Remember get involved by donating your time or finances to help these causes before it is to late. Most important of all, keep praying for the children and parents of this illegal act by Texas agencies, send letters, call, email the Governor of Texas and representatives in their government as well as your own representatives in federal office including the President. In HIS service, eddiealex www.prayforthenation.com 2,136. Angela Barlow Colorado City, AZ 2,137. David Du Bois Kingston, NY 2,138. Michael Pinto Winston Salem, NC 2,139. Kevin S. Van Orem, UT Let's call a spade a spade: The Texas CPS and DPS have Horn engaged in mass kidnapping here. Their actions have been utterly lawless. All who participated in this crime should face the same treatment as any other violent criminal. 2,140. Evey Wayman Salt Lake, UT I think this is pathetic! Where are the Constitutional Rights? 2,141. louis Jenson Grand Junction, CO Those people live in the USA.Read the constitutional Rights of those people, 4th amendment. They cannot just take a whole town on a false phone call. TEXAS wake up!!!!!! 2,142. Rhonda Porter Salt Lake City, UT I FEEL THAT IT IS WRONG TO JUDGE PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE, WE LIVE IN AMERICA, IT IS SUPPOSE TO BE A FREE COUNTRY, JUST LET THEM LIVE THERE LIVES AND YOU CAN LIVE YOURS. 2,143. Melanie Miller Rices Landing, PA There is such a thing as 'Separation of Church and State' if you bother to read the Constitution. These people have done NO WRONG according to thier religious belief. How dare some government funded child snatching service descend on the TRUE innocents of this religious people and ABUSE innocent children by subjecting them to forced separation of thier parents & siblings, FORCING them to interact in a world that they have no knowledge of, subjecting them to a disruption of thier religious instruction (continues on next page)

Page 280 - Signatures 2,135 - 2,143 Name From Comments 2,143. Melanie Miller Rices Landing, PA (continued from previous page) and family interaction. This is STILL AMERICA by God! And shame on those who close thier eyes to the NAZI like actions of CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES and the government who funds these evil doers! 'The eyes of the world are watching now'...... Return these innocent children to thier parents, and leave peace loving, God fearing people alone, and while your returning these children you ask that GOD forgive you for being wrong and meddling in affairs that do not pertain to you! 2,144. Margie Kerhonkson, NY This is an outrage. The state of Texas is holding those Laupheimer children for no reason other than a show of power and intimidation. The state does not own our children. Let them go. 2,145. lena Williams salt lake city, UT 2,146. Rachel Holland Dallas, TX 2,147. Tara Farnsworth Ogden, UT This is absolutley rediculous. It seems as though because they live a different lifestyle as the majority of Americans that they have no rights???? I don't understand how the government has the right to take all there children away based on a phone call that turned up to be false anyways. If the government is concerned for the children, as far as under age marriage and such, then they should investigate those cases individually based on facts. Those children need to go back to there mothers, and the Texas government needs to follow the laws set forth by the federal government to protect the right of ALL citizens!!! 2,148. Bruce Johns Clinton, MT There are thousands of gated communities nationwide where separatism is practiced (by class). Stop calling these people's ranch a "compound". It is insulting and petty. Texas CPS has committed a gross violation of these people's individual rights and the people responsible need to be held accountable. Return these children to their parents and quit acting like a 3rd world country. 2,149. Karla Blackmore Las Vegas, NV The kids for sure need their moms!! 2,150. Milo Tenney South Jordan, UT This gross abuse of government power insults the principles upon which this country was founded. It ignores the most basic rights delineated by the Constitution and held sacred by free people throughout the world. If children are being abused, prosecute the abusers, using the same due process utilized in every other criminal prosecution. Exterminating basic rights for an entire group of people offends those of us who hold freedom dear. These people (continues on next page)

Page 281 - Signatures 2,143 - 2,150 Name From Comments 2,150. Milo Tenney South Jordan, UT (continued from previous page) are strange, they don't communicate well, we disagree with their beliefs, but that doesn't justify ignoring their basic rights. To the extent that they are engaged in criminal activity, prosecute them. But no one even alleges that all of these children are abused, or that all of these parents are abusers. Treat them individually. 2,151. Scott Bellew Charlotte, NC This has purely been perpetrated because these people are White Christians, had this been an African American or Jewish American community we would not know anything about this and an Illegal Unconstitutional raid would have never taken place. It is now believed even by the main stream media that an African American Woman has placed a false call from Co. The Government did an illegal raid on United States citizens on private property. They used Tanks and the BATF was involved it is against the law for Federal troops to act against any US Citizen. They illegally took children from there mothers by lies to the Women as well as holding them at gun point! They held the Women and children in a cattle area. The Government took away the rights of the Women and Children to pray together or in private, there again is a clear violation of the Constitution as well as illegal search and seizure. Most of all there is not any concrete prof that any molestation happened, none what so ever! The ranch is just that a ranch that was bought by the FLDS and then a beautifull church was built on. Oh btw the Media started in on thees people two years ago once again proving that the Media and Government walk together in step lock. Militias should have already defended the FLDS as the Goverment has riser against its own citizens. Just in case your wondering I am not a Christian, this has nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with the Government breaking its own laws the Constitution, and the Constitution gives the American citizens the right to raise up an Army known as the militia and over through any form of corrupt government. The Government is corrupt beyond saving, the time is now for the Modern American Revolutionary's to take a stand, your ancestors died for you to have what you have don't deny your children those same rights, because slowly it will be your children in Governmental concentration camps. That is if there real Americans who live by the Constitution. 2,152. Annette Marie Johnston, RI This case is just an example of the power our rulers have over us. We are under their thumb and at any given moment this could happen to any of us. Imagine how much (continues on next page)

Page 282 - Signatures 2,150 - 2,152 Name From Comments 2,152. Annette Marie Johnston, RI (continued from previous page) worse this can get for all of us if we do not do something NOW. 2,153. N Jessop Hildale, UT This is religious discrimination by the state of texas. Leave these people alone, and clean up your own closets. There is a Just God in Heaven. 2,154. TooafraidofCPSretaliationNoWayI'dtellyou, NY These women, whom you suspect may be victims of Togivemyname repression and abuse....hey, here's an idea, let's take away the one remaining joy in their lives, their children!! Why don't you educate the women on alternative lifestyles and a better future for their children, and give them the opportunity to choose? Your enforcement of your beliefs upon them makes you no better than those who you say are abusing them! 2,155. Robert Rogers Greentown, IN The government actions taken against the members of the FLDS, amounts to nothing less than an act of Genocide. 2,156. Thomasanna Hail Sidney, IL These people have done nothing wrong - this case against them should be dropped, their children should be returned immediately, and at the *very* least, the state of Texas should apologize. 2,157. Frank Carbone Jr. Newburgh, NY 2,158. Lloyd Wall Hildale, UT The U.S. Constitution is hanging by a thread in Texas. The U.S. Attorney General must step forward and protect the sacred U.S. Constitution NOW! or we go into anarchy. 2,159. Judy Pollock Fredericskburg, VA The phone call to a crisis shelter from a "16 year old" that started this raid was a lie and the children were taken from their mothers under false pretenses. The children should be returned to their mothers and any man or men who is an offender must be arrested, but the children must not be permanently removed from their mothers. A lawsuit should be filed on behalf of the mothers and children for millions of dollars to compensate for what has been done to them. 2,160. Howard Meldrum LaVerkin, UT 2,161. Amanda Carson Auburn, WA I think its sick and power mad to separate a loving mother from her children. The government isn't supposed to get involved with religious matters. I thought Americans had the right to freedom of religion! 2,162. Lorraine Gainesville, FL Please DO NOT separate these mothers and children until Blaisedale or if a mom is convicted of child abuse. Anonymous allegations from a hotline should not be destroying these families. Please support the rights of families and children. This is the U.S. and we have constitutional rights, against seizure of children without a Judge's order is one. 2,163. Melissa Jessop Saratoga Springs, UT

Page 283 - Signatures 2,152 - 2,163 Name From Comments 2,164. David Oliver norman, OK What a pathetic lot. Hitlers SS. State ownership of children? This without a doubt is the most unjust unconstitutional idiotic thing I have seen. what danger do they pose to society? do they have weapons of mass destruction? What is going on in this country? Are they afraid of an ideological takeover? I don't get it! they even said these kids were polite wow maybe thats it we cant have polite kids we cant drug them! 2,165. charles harker beryl, UT 2,166. Timothy Starkey Baldwinsville, NY Dear fellow VICTIMS of AMERICAS own TERRORISTS (dss and cps).I have personally followed this Govermental FARSE from day one and I hope all who care can plainly see that the only concerns this current farse of a government has is the nest egg of money it will mean for them(dss and cps).Starting with fostercare$$$$ Ransom fees(child support)$$$$ Legal fees$$$$ Family court(3 Ring Circus)fees $$$$ Placement fees $$$$ counciling fees $$$$ doctors$$$$medication$$$$ and so much more that I cannot think of at this time. Has anyone tried to figure out how much money this state will make off these wonderful gifts(the stolen children) of GOD before it is all said and done if ever.Something tells me that there is something rotten in the wood pile and it is sure leading to the State govt. Church was targeted,phoney phone call,no papers served,taken by armed forces,instead of putting the guilty men out of the compound and leaving the children with the moms which is so very important for these children they chose to inflict more of their inhumane torture to insure mental distress for the kids.We all know the mind games they are inflicting on these poor innocent children and mothers at this time.They are probably telling the moms that if they cooperate they will get their children back and we all know about those lies.They are turning the women against the men or what is better known in the CPS world of lies(Divide and conquor).The real truth is the govt vermine involved here are only interested in how much money there is to be made and show the rest of the USA what happens to religions organizations and the like that stand up for their GOD given rights against the government that is supposed to be working for us not the other way around.I have heard that even though the govt broke all the rules doing this fiasco the way they did they are showing the USA that they dont care because Who could or would do anything to stop them.Imagine taking the children from the families at gun point Sounds like another WACO to me.I pray for all who live in Texas and the rest of the USA to be protected from these child stealing vermine called our govt.I hope before my last days on GODS green earth that all the affected innocent familys stand up and (continues on next page)

Page 284 - Signatures 2,164 - 2,166 Name From Comments 2,166. Timothy Starkey Baldwinsville, NY (continued from previous page) take back what is rightfully theirs and the guilty child stealing organizations are done away with as we all know they serve no useful purpose.I also pray for all these families affected by this phoney raid to stand strong and show the world how wrongfully they have been done.OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU ALL God Bless ^j^ ^j^ Another INNOCENT family of AMERICAS own TERRORISTS(dss and cps)And lets not forget the FAMILY COURT 3 RING CIRCUS 2,167. Brig J Beryl, UT Absolutly disgusting treatment of American citizens. Abominable thing to do to children. Where are the morals of this country goig. (or gone) 2,168. A Broadbent Henderson, NV 2,169. Fernando Austin, TX I feel the agony of the mothers separated from their Labastida children, and the children separated from their mothers. As there have been no proven abuse, the government is committing a heinous crime in kidnapping these children from their mothers. 2,170. John Rumble Oakmont, PA Obey the Constitution. All I'v heard so far has been opinion or hearsay. 2,171. John Zitting salt lake city, UT What Texas has done by ripping these families apart with no provocation is monumentally wrong. It is hard to believe that this could be happening in America. 2,172. A Jeffs Hildale, UT When the wicked rule the people morn. It amazes me that this can even happen. I just can't imagine how I would feel, though I have tried to, if my little girl was taken from me like that. Maybe my turn is coming. I just pray continually for those children. To imagine what they are going to experience out in the world, away from their clean sheltered lives makes me cringe. I just hope it is not long before they can go back to their loving parents. 2,173. David Morgan Bristol, VA 2,174. Michelle Kelsch Herriman, UT I don't get why a man can go and sleep around with a bunch of girls and have tons of kids he doesn't take care of, but when he tries to do it honorably he gets thrown into jail. These are good people trying to do what is right. Send the children back!!! 2,175. melissa barlow herriman, UT 2,176. Shanna Shapiro cedar city, UT These people need help. They are now double victims. Especially the children do not deserve to be taken away from their mothers, and what gives anybody the right to tell a mother how long she is allowed to nurse her baby?

Page 285 - Signatures 2,166 - 2,176 Name From Comments 2,177. Bruce Jones Ann Arbor, MI Where was the investigation? Did all of these parents abuse their children? Where is the due process, the presumption of innocence? This is a case of attacking the different. This is a gross violation of the right to religious freedom! 2,178. D Barlow N. Las Vegas, NV 2,179. Ron Jessop Hildale, UT If the Legal system can trample on one persons rights it can just as easily trample anothers. Patriotism is not to just blindly follow the lead of whom ever is in the office at the time but to stand up for right and justice when the government oversteps its bounds. 2,180. Samuel C. Washington, UT When I heard everythings bigger in Texas, I didn't know Fischer Jr they were talking of their lies! This is a travesty and a giant ink stain on our constitution. Judge each case as seperate just as you would any other case! Common sense would tell anyone that. 2,181. David Lucas douglasville, GA I agree that this is a travesty of the our great country and our forefathers would be ashamed that such power and corruption would exist as it does today. Set these people free!! 2,182. lehi dutson hildale, UT I think it's time to mess with Texas.Who wants a government that supports kidnapping. Reunite those families. 2,183. John Kingston Salt Lake City, UT It is easy to see how Hitler was able to turn the entire German country against the Jews. This is right out of his play book, the only thing missing is the gas chambers.(Gas chambers would be more humane than taking children from there parents because the pain wouldn't last as long) People of America stand up for your rights there should be millions of signatures on this petition. The state of Texas has broken the constitution that protects us all. All American citizens have been damaged by this act. If this kind of Ethnic cleansing was going on in Kosovo our soldiers would be right there fighting and dieing to stop it and guarantee the freedom of those people. Where is the united nations and why have they allowed this to go on for this long. The Governor of Texas is no better than a Nazi and there should be a Swastica placed on the Flag of Texas to clearly display the views of the Texas Government. 2,184. Frank B. Salisbury Salt Lake City, UT Yes, these actions just don't sound like the land of the free and the home of the brave! It is time to follow the constitution! 2,185. Therese Reid Lena, IL This is an outrage! Children should not be separated from their parents without due process and without reasonable cause. These children were healthy and happy - what do you think your actions have done to them? Return them to their families at once!!!

Page 286 - Signatures 2,177 - 2,185 Name From Comments 2,186. Michelle Lozano Houston, TX I unequivocally oppose the removal of these children from their mothers'care. While I disagree with polygamist practices and underage marriage, the INDIVIDUALS within the system who are acting to doubly victimize these children by tearing them away from the mothers, as well as the mothers', who were never truly free to choose to remove their children from this environment. In addition, due process has not been observed. A warrant was issued on flimsy evidence, and now the initial call appears to be from a woman in Colorado who has repeatedly called shelters pretending to be an abused teenage girl. The children were not given the customary, LEGALLY REQUIRED individual 14-day hearing. Instead the hearing was held as a mass event, where their lawyers were able to see it take place only from another area on closed-circuit television. Their lawyers were not allowed to speak to the childrens' parents or conduct any investigation, and they were not allowed to see CPS's evidence, even in court. THIS IS NOT DUE PROCESS. No matter how noble the end might be--and I do not believe taking children from mothers who are themselves victims is noble--the means is atrocious and makes a mockery of our justice system. Restore these children to their mothers immediately! 2,187. Penelope Witter CV, AR Free the children and reunite these families!! The State of Texas has corrupted the innocence and purity of these children, has bereaved the parents and the community, and has denied these families their right to freedom of religion and the free practice of their faith. Shame on all who conspired in such wanton destruction! 2,188. Belinda Wire Kanab, UT In a country of Freedom of religon I am appalled at the lack of regard for humans in our counrty. We will defend the rights of an animal but the is no regard to human family rights I am serving on a mission is Africa and I'm ashamed of the things going on at home. Someone needs to stop this mess before we have another goverment slaughter as we've seen in the past that ended in another government error of judgement 2,189. Kimberly Morris Bluefield, WV 2,190. Steve In Texas Temple, TX Once again another black mark on the people of Texas. I am totally outraged at what the state is doing to them. No doubt after state mandated DNA testing I'm sure they will start tatooing numbers on the hands of these inocent children to identify them. My state is turning into the Nazi state! 2,191. Keith Collins Schenectady, NY 2,192. Ray Anderson Petrolia, CA Senf the children back to thier parents

Page 287 - Signatures 2,186 - 2,192 Name From Comments 2,193. Debra Clifton Park, NY The men are the criminals, not the children. What CRUEL VanSchaick AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, to separate mothers and children! 2,194. James Moore Houston, TX Where has the United States of American gone wrong. This country was created to put an end to these type of govenment strong arm tactics by the state. All of this came about by a prank telephone call. Are any of us safe from govenment Nazi style tactics? 2,195. Jeff Graham salt lake city, UT It makes em sick to see how our legal system has turned into one of "punish first then have trial" rather then actually give these people the same rights as everyone else. I am getting ready to enter the service and fight for the rights that these poor people are not even getting. Makes me sad to see a state turn nazi like this 2,196. Heidi Stewart Aberdeen, ID Are there really no worse criminals in Texas? While I may not agree with their lifestyle there are other lifestyles I that I feel are much more damaging to children. These people care for their own and are trying to live their life according to their religion. I can't imagine the foster care these children will be exposed to is an improvement. Do we really want a government that is flexing their big muscles at this group just because this time it is not us. 2,197. Aaron Stewart Logan, UT I find it hard to believe that kidnapping children and separating families is the most productive thing Texas officials could be doing. 2,198. Andrew Buczarski Raleigh, NC This flagrant abuse of our Constitutional rights, not to mention God-given rights is appalling, disgusting...but not surprising. We are entering into a repeat of Nazi, Germany right here in America. These people should be free and the rogue government that did this should be overturned. Our freedom is gone if we do nothing. 2,199. Roger Dean Key West, FL In a perverse way, it is good see that the government no longer feels compelled to honor due process of its citizens (and non-citizens). It resolves all questions about your and my personal status, and the status of my children. "'There but for the grace of God, goes (I) John Bradford."...the man who spoke that was later executed for trivialities... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradford It is my duty to consider alternative citizenships, in lands where people are more free, even if they are less rich, or have different styles of dress, or speak differently than I, or {gasp} have different family structures. What has become of us? 2,200. Daniel Nuffer Lindon, UT

Page 288 - Signatures 2,193 - 2,200 Name From Comments 2,201. OLGA Avondale, PA This is religious persecution!! I am not a Mormon, nor do I TANTAROS agree with FLDS marital practices. But the lives of 400+ existing children are at stake. To remove them from an old world environment where basics are valued and expect them to thrive in a society where kids are victimized by TV and fast food is absurd! They are no doubt traumatized by separation from their families and environment. How cruel - and for what? Will our culture be better off for it? I have not yet read documented evidence of physical or sexual abuse to the children - apart from the underage marriages. Also, the caller who triggered this fiasco has not been positively identified. It seems to me that this group was targeted following the imprisonment of Warren Jeffs as an example to other polygamist communities. Finally, what are they doing to harm the rest of us? They live quietly, separately on a ranch far from mainstream America. They're not interfering with our government and have done no harm to their neighbors. They're simply people who want to be left alone to peacefully follow their religious beliefs - like the Puritans, the Amish, the Jews and every other religious sect in this nation. For God's sake, leave them alone!!. 2,202. Windy Robertson Washington, DC Some of these children are infants. These babies were in no immediate danger. How can potential, future danger justify the trauma of separating babies from their mothers? We should protect the immediate best interests of these children (whose parents may, or may not, be guilty of a crime) by reuniting them with their mothers. 2,203. TC Jefferson Houston, TX Look at the blown apart safe on captive flds children's site. I guess the girl wasn't in there was she. As of yet they have no evidence that such a girl even exists. If George Washington was alive he'd turn over in his grave. This is worse than disgusting. You don't take nursing children away from their mothers. That is absolutely abusive. The government of Texas and those instigating this thing are responsible for life long damages. The children will never be the same. Try to imagine yourself being one of the children. Let them go home. They were hurting no one and only making a desolate waste place beautiful. FLDS people are the best thing that has ever happened to Texas. LET THEM GO HOME AND ENJOY THEIR FREEDOM LIKE WE ALL WANT TOO!! 2,204. Tina Yeagley Springville, UT Even if evidence of abuse is or was found with those children, due process was ignored. It is not right to suddenly yank more than 400 children out of their homes. The Texas CPS made many gross errors in this raid.

Page 289 - Signatures 2,201 - 2,204 Name From Comments 2,205. John H Timpson Washington, UT Does the constitution of the US and dew process of law mean nothing to the state of Texas? There was no search warrant for each residence....only one for the community. That is like someone coming into a gated community and serving one house with a warrant and then going into every other house in the community. This is appalling that this would happen in a so called "free" country. These people love this country and their freedom. They love there religion and should have the right to worship God the way they want. They are doing society no harm. And as a kid that grew up in Polygamy....I would say these 400+ kids lifestyle is better then any life style that these foster homes will have to offer. These kids are loved, cared for, and are in a safe environment. When they get older they will have the chance to be a polygamist or not....just like all of us plyg kids. I say give the kids back to their mothers....And I would like to see a law suit filed against the state of Texas for not giving these people dew process of law. 2,206. Clark Edmunds Provo, UT 2,207. Steve Watts Provo, UT Waco, FLDS, and Bush ------Texas should be proud ---- Free the innocent! 2,208. Kristy Wall Orem, UT This is a case of pure violation of civil rights. Texas state needs to be sued over this whole case. I do not agree with the FLDS religion, but, you do not take young children miles from home especially when they have never seen the outside world. You do not take these young children to aggressive, very different Christian denominations where they are most likely going to see a new kind of brain washing. The state is abusing these children probably more so than their parents ever would. Shame on you Texas. 2,209. Michael Lee Austin, TX 2,210. charlotte Swapp fairview, UT It makes my heart ache knowing that such a horrendous act could accrue in this grand country. We boast to the world so loudly of our wonderful "freedoms", and this is happening in our back yard? What dastardly hypocrisy. Those children will be marred for life, the phycological dammage will be a ripple effect for generations to come. 2,211. Jami Ohran Orem, UT I cannot imagine having my own child taken away from me because people disagree with my beliefs. If we allow this to happen now-- there may come a time when it may be my child next. 2,212. Emily Judd Mesquite, NV 2,213. Denise Phillips Huntsville, AL This is Short Creek, Arizona in the summer of 1953 all over again!! What the State of Texas has allowed to happen is a terrible thing. I do not condone the beliefs of these people, but the constitution rights of the people in this matter has (continues on next page)

Page 290 - Signatures 2,205 - 2,213 Name From Comments 2,213. Denise Phillips Huntsville, AL (continued from previous page) been trampled upon. Many things about this upset me, but something reported in the news brings up red flags. It reported CPC informed the mothers "If you are underage you can remain with your baby, if not, you will be separated". What would YOU do if you were 19 and had a baby? Tell the truth and be separated or lie and say you were 16 so you could stay with your child???? This is manipulation by the State. Child Services and the Texas Courts should be ashamed. 2,214. Mohammed Durham, NC A sad day in America. Surely, we must think what is in the ElMallah best interests of these children. I disagree that separating them from their parents is in their best interests. I do not know why infants and toddlers are being removed. I thought the issue was with marital practices involving teenage girls. Arrest those who are suspects of committing a crime. Remove those who you feel are in immediate danger; this does not mean every single child. 2,215. Patricia Du Bois Kingston, NY 2,216. A. M. Broadbent Colorado City, AZ God is at the helm, judgement is His and He will repay. 2,217. AMANDA Chewelah, WA CARLSON 2,218. Laurel Loveland Adelanto, CA What is being done to these families is no better than what was done to the Jews. Let those mothers have their children back! 2,219. Dara Wilson Preston, ID I cannot imagine that the government has come to this. Where do you actually receive the power? Our Constitution that you pledge to uphold honors us with freedom until proven guilty-separating innocent mothers and children, breaking up families without proof is an outrage to our constitutional society. Please return these families that are innocent. 2,220. Denis Michael Nuremberg, Germany I'm a Texas expatriate living in Germany. For years I had Senter to tolerate the German system of denying people their due rights. I always upheld the USA and especially TX as a place where we as a people are free and can enjoy their God-given rights. No matter what a persons people, people oughta be free to worship whom, how and what they may. This right is denied the people of the FLDS. Because of their believes the glorious state of TX is denying them their constitutional rights. This is an outrage. Return the children to their mothers. NO CHILDREN should be taken from their parents without proper cause. In OUR CONSTITUTION, a person is innocent as long as the courts are unable to prove otherwise. We need to investigate this case with all our might so we can determine where wrong has been done. Then punish this (continues on next page)

Page 291 - Signatures 2,213 - 2,220 Name From Comments 2,220. Denis Michael Nuremberg, Germany (continued from previous page) Senter person. But not all of them. This is not legal, and is indeed like unto tyranny. We cannot have this. WE HAVE RIGHTS! EVERYBODY in this country has the SAME GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS!!! 2,221. Joshua Roundy Colorado City, AZ PLEASE LEAVE MY FAMILY ALONE!

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