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Tx.Church is Selling Children, polygamy sex slaves; This Church is Sexually Abusing Children
Topic Started: Nov 12 2007, 07:25 AM (3,203 Views)
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yes, well many have been working with cps and the da to be sure this was not another waco-..there are some people that are really decent people who do work for govt..and sometimes it can make a difference to stand up for truth and dignity and oppose wicked liars, whose only goal is to control...

there is a price to be paid when one does stand up against evil, and there are many examples of it in history, scripture etc...but what choice does one have, really?..you are either for evil, or against it, for TRUTH or for LIES..there is no in-between....if there are "grey" areas...that is a fitting "color"..etc.for unrighteous.
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http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14182

**about the house of jup cult above..more info for yaaqov.



*** also, i found on this icke site, they have john carpenter's "they Live", from you tube..they have all parts i think...anyway, i have never seen the whole thing, so i am glad, and robin, i think you had been looking for it also.
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There ARE people within our systems of government and media that do help the people!..:)


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Yaaqovh/message/298


Thank you Shane Deel, Detective Reed, and Paul Meyer!!!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...ws/stories/0511
08dnmetyahweh.3b24022.html


House of Yahweh sect case may test Texas' anti-polygamy laws

12:21 AM CDT on Sunday, May 11, 2008
By PAUL MEYER / The Dallas Morning News
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CALLAHAN COUNTY – In his first sermon after leaving jail,
Yisrayl "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins was in classic form: folksy, paternal
and apocalyptic.

"No, we're not getting ready to kill ourselves," said the prophet of
the House of Yahweh, a barbed wire kingdom of brimstone prophecies
and abject poverty 15 miles southeast of Abilene.

Also Online
Download: Criminal complaints and charges against House of Yahweh
leaders
"We're getting ready to live through the greatest tribulation that
ever will be."

The troubles facing Mr. Hawkins may soon provide Texas' first major
test of strengthened anti-polygamy laws, just 150 miles from the
national spotlight on Eldorado and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The 73-year-old was arrested and indicted in February – less than two
months before raids on the Eldorado compound – charged with four
counts of promoting bigamy, made a felony in 2005 after the unrelated
FLDS group arrived from Utah.

"This will probably be the first case of its kind," said Callahan
County Attorney Shane Deel, who began investigating the House of
Yahweh after taking office in 2005.

Mr. Hawkins also faces a misdemeanor charge of breaking child labor
laws, accused of having up to 40 children working weekdays "in the
fields, in a canning operation, in a cafeteria and in the butter
making process."


DMN File Graphic Another member, elder Yedidiyah Hawkins, is expected
to stand trial this summer on charges of aggravated sexual assault of
his now 14-year-old stepdaughter, a girl who authorities allege he
was planning to make his wife.

Yedidiyah, who like many members changed his last name to that of his
teacher, faces additional charges, including bigamy and engaging in
organized crime. Prosecutors say he has at least four wives.

Both men deny all the accusations. Their attorney, John Young, said
the criminal charges stem largely from accusations by disgruntled
former members and from misconceptions about the group.

"I think anytime there is a lack of understanding or knowledge about
a group of people or a club or a religion, I think there's a natural
tendency on the part of society to be suspect," Mr. Young said,
adding that Mr. Deel is "overreaching" with the charges.

Mr. Young denies that polygamy occurs in the church and says the
charges are for acts alleged to have occurred before the new law went
into effect.

"He teaches against multiple marriages," he said of Mr. Hawkins.


Bare-bones compound

Yisrayl (pronounced "Israel") Hawkins, a former rockabilly band
leader and Abilene policeman, founded his ministry in the early
1980s, moving in 1991 to the stretch of County Road 254 near the
small town of Eula in Callahan County (population 13,491). The
mesquite-studded grassland, with hundreds of acres owned by Mr.
Hawkins and the church, includes a gated sanctuary with mobile homes
and old tractor-trailers in which canned food is said to be
stockpiled.

The criminal charges come after years of suspicion surrounding the
sect, which gained attention in the 1990s for its eclectic, sometimes
vitriolic, Old Testament teachings and prophecies. The group believes
in strict adherence to the 613 laws of Yahweh, a Hebrew name for God.

One current House of Yahweh member, who spoke to The Dallas Morning
News multiple times on the condition of anonymity, described a system
of authoritarian leadership and possible criminal abuses.

The member, who says she has grown progressively disenchanted with
the group's teachings but has not yet decided to leave, said she
believes that the elders keep multiple wives.

She said suspicions are difficult to prove because the elders,
deaconesses and other leaders maintain tight control of information,
part of a system of power and supervision.

"They do watch everything you do. They're always watching," she said.

"You don't know who is married to who, and you're not allowed to
discuss it."

Women, the member said, are required to call their husbands
their "heads" and to wear latex gloves and a veil during and
immediately after menstruation. Dress codes are strictly enforced.
A "breeding program" shields select girls and boys from the world to
become future priests and priestesses of the church, the member said.
And the congregation is asked to pray for nuclear war to fulfill the
prophecies espoused by Yisrayl Hawkins.

In 2006, Mr. Hawkins forecast that a "nuclear baby" would be
unleashed on the world, bringing nuclear war to the Middle East on
Sept. 12 of that year. After doomsday failed to materialize, the
prophet said the 2006 date was the day of conception and that the
metaphorical baby – depicted as a horror-movie-evil infant holding a
baby bottle and missile – would be born in 2007. That too failed to
come to pass.

"I used to go to afternoon classes after the services. I started
calling it the brainwashing session," the current member said. "The
women said, 'You're not supposed to ask questions. You just do what
you're told.' "

Shaul Hawkins, an elder who joined the group in 1988, attributes the
allegations to unhappy former members and discrimination from locals.
The church does not observe holidays such as Christmas and Easter and
holds its Sabbath services on Saturdays – traditions that the elder
believes have led to discrimination in the Bible Belt.

He said the church attracts those who wish to live in simple accord
with biblical teachings, removed from a corrupt world saturated with
sexuality. Anyone is free to leave the church, Shaul Hawkins said.

Through the years, the House of Yahweh has attracted thousands of
members from around the world, using satellite broadcasts, radio and
the Internet to spread a message that often weaves news reports of
famine, pestilence and violence with biblical prophecies. Sermons are
posted online.

"When a person tries to live according to what's actually written in
the Bible, they're looked as some kind of antisocial freak," Shaul
Hawkins said, comparing the persecution of the group to what the FLDS
in Eldorado is facing.

Ruby Wilkins, who was a member of the sect in the early 1980s and
whose children were also members, said Yisrayl Hawkins first helped
her escape from a bad marriage. But she later came to see him as
controlling, exploiting those who had nothing.

"Out on the street, they were just nobody, and they didn't have
enough smarts to be anybody. Bill took them in, would give them a
black suit and called them elders. As long as they were there, they
were somebody," Ms. Wilkins said.


Bigamy tough to prove

Shannon Edmonds, director of governmental relations for the Texas
District and County Attorneys Association, believes that the Callahan
County case will be the first prosecution of a polygamy suspect under
the strengthened bigamy statutes.

"They can be very difficult cases to prove because there is no CSI-
type evidence. There's no blood. There's no DNA," Mr. Edmonds said.

And for groups like the House of Yahweh, there are typically no
marriage certificates filed in the courthouse.

What impact the case could have on the Eldorado sect is not clear.
The Texas attorney general's office, now in charge of any criminal
case against the FLDS, has not publicly commented on whether it
intends to pursue bigamy charges.

Mr. Deel, the only attorney in an office that has a single
investigator, said he acted against the group after his office
compiled a number of credible reports of criminality among sect
leadership, most from former members. The criminal complaints list
dozens of confidential sources, and Mr. Deel said other charges may
be filed. The bigamy case against Yisrayl Hawkins could go to trial
in the fall.

"They didn't get Al Capone because of all the people he murdered and
all the organized crime. They got him for tax evasion," the county
attorney said.

"If we thought the worst thing [Mr. Hawkins] had done is to have
however many wives he's got, it might not be such a terribly big
deal. But he's destroyed the lives of hundreds if not thousands of
people, and so that makes the criminal conduct we can prove a bit
more serious."

Lee Reed, an Abilene police detective who has studied the House of
Yahweh since the mid-1980s, said he was told that elders marry
teenage girls as young as 14. Detective Reed said the group probably
won't survive if Mr. Hawkins is convicted.

"If he goes to prison, I think the sect itself will slowly but surely
dissolve," he said.

For now, Detective Reed and others said the group continues to
attract a cross-section of members, some with money who give up
everything to come and others who are down and out.

Mr. Young, the Yahweh attorney, said many people "came to the House
of Yahweh with nothing. They had no job. They had no money. They were
given a place to live. They [the church] tried to teach them a
skill."

One of those is Earl Woolridge, who lives in a single-wide trailer
with his sister, seven dogs and three cats.

"We didn't have no other place to live," he said of why he first
came.

The 60-year-old, who said he doesn't know whether elders keep
multiple wives, said he stopped going to services a few years ago
after disagreeing with a series of changes, including children
working instead of going to school and the erection of a wooden
partition to separate men from women inside the sanctuary.

"They don't go by what Yahweh said to go by," he said of the church
leadership.

Mr. Woolridge said he still believes that the apocalypse is coming.
He just no longer believes that Yisrayl Hawkins knows when.

"When it comes, it comes. Ain't nobody knows when it's going to
come 'cept Yahweh."

A GROWING HOUSE
In 1991, Yisrayl Hawkins moved the House of Yahweh to Callahan
County, steadily buying up land and mobile homes.

Mr. Hawkins has amassed more than $2.2 million in Callahan County
real estate under his name, according to appraisal records. The
church also maintains an office in Abilene and other properties
scattered across the area.

Today, hundreds of members live in the immediate area, observers say,
with thousands more around the world.

Paul Meyer

CPS INVOLVEMENT
Marleigh Meisner, a spokeswoman for Child Protective Services, said
CPS has investigated at least 20 cases involving House of Yahweh
members in recent years.

•Two cases resulted in the removal of children, including four taken
from the home of Yedidiyah Hawkins.

•Officials removed two children from a home after a mother and her
neighbor performed surgery on a 7-year-old girl who later died.

•CPS officials also investigated the death of a 1-year-old child who
died of malnutrition and traumatic asphyxiation. Investigators
found "reason to believe" the death was from medical and physical
neglect. No criminal charges were brought in that case.

•Ms. Meisner declined to talk about any ongoing investigations or
whether she believes abuse and neglect pervades the group.

Paul Meyer








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These are some better pics to analyze.


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Yisrayl Hawkins mug shot from jail.


Posted Image Yisrayl Hawkins during a sermon.


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Yedidiyah Hawkins mug shot from jail.
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okay, i pray someone will see if anything funky in any of these pics...besides their painting of their buffalo god...and their fake ark.


http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yaaqovh/photos/browse/fbc0


http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yaaqovh/p...s/view/fbc0?b=4

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yaaqovh/p...bc0?b=6&m=s&o=0

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yaaqovh/p...bc0?b=2&m=s&o=0

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yaaqovh/p...bc0?b=7&m=s&o=0

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yaaqovh/p...s/view/2af3?b=1
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