[Rick Lee]

I don't think Jeffs's little fiefdom attracts any newbies looking for a new religion. It's a factory for producing women who know nothing about the outside world and their rights, so they can be married off to older men as rewards for their loyalty to Jeffs. Colorado City is the welfare fraud capital of the US because of all the kids whose moms are not recognized by the state as married and who thus get welfare as "single" moms. This despite the fact that the FDLS Church has a billion dollars to their name. Their own police enforce a Taliban-like moral code; no tv, no video games, no unsanctioned music, no dancing. Jeffs exiles teenage boy offenders because they compete with the older men for wives. These exiled boys have become a subculture in surrounding areas like Hurricane and St. George, UT, living in squalor, addicted to drugs, stealing to live. This is the stuff the state turns a blind eye toward, despite plenty of evidence. Jeffs is a monster and his little fiefdom needs to be broken up, if not by AZ authorities, then by the feds.