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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
if Hillary gets elected do you think she'll order ATF to go burn them out?
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Did you read the article? There's a lot of local concern about the compound. All of the houses there are log cabin, except for the first floor: the walls are made of concrete. There's a giant furnace there that they say is supposed to be for the concrete, but locals worry about how it could be really handy for cremation, and Mormons don't cremate cuz they think they need their bodies later on down the line.
Their leader, Warren Jeffs, who is called a prophet, is on the FBI's most wanted list, and he sounds like a charismatic nutjob. The local talk is that he travels with armed followers. Someone who got out of the Church (she was forced to marry her cousin when she was 16) says that Jeffs has instructed his followers to prepare for a war with the government. Another guy who has since left the church says that Jeffs wants to be a martyr.
Seems like it could be a fairly volitile situation.
