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What's in a name? What should we call the gigantic mess emanating from Eldorado?

By Gritsforbreakfast

Salt Lake City Tribune reporter Brooke Adams rightly declares this picture of a FLDS child waving goodbye to her mother is "worth a thousand words." Just heartwrenching. Can what's happening really be in the best interests of this little girl? Is this really the only option the state has to protect her from possible abuse ten years from now?Adams has rightly suggested recently that the Texas raid on the YFZ polygamist ranch in Eldorado needs a name. She proposed "the 2008 YFZ raid," which seems a little tame. "The Great Texas Polygamist Roundup" might be apropos ... even more so "The Great Texas Polygamist Clusterf#*k." With all the religious folks involved in this discussion, though, I doubt the latter suggestion will catch on. ;)The missus thinks that, just like with Tulia, "This thing already has a name, and it's name is 'Eldorado...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 26, 2008 (boomark / email).