15-year-old Elizabeth Smart returned to her parents in Utah in March 2003, after what the press called an "abduction" since the age of 14 on June 5, 2002. The media showed pictures and film clippings of the blonde-haired youth all over the television the day of the announced return. Then the media followed with pictures of Elizabeth hugging her family.
Of course the media makes the most money selling papers, magazines and tv news with the story that this was a "kidnapping." The truth is that the united $tates is so twisted that most child abductions are not child abductions but property disputes politely referred to as "custody battles" or other more mundane occurrences, as we reported in MIM Notes 268.(1)
The Elizabeth Smart case was not a custody battle, but it has all the markings of being a normal occurrence in a twisted society. If the polygamist drifter-preacher who was with Smart when police found her has to go to prison, then most of Utah does too. Rather than arrest the preacher and his wife who were with Elizabeth Smart, the dictatorship of the proletariat would put the Utah religious hierarchy in prison and any police who failed to enforce the laws regarding polygamy and child abuse in Utah. It is the religious hierarchy that has failed in educating the public. We Marxists believe that religion will gradually disappear, but there must be immediate repression of any religions that do not respect the non-negotiable rights of all people.
TV viewers gradually received the picture from CNN. First it was the uncle who said that the return of Elizabeth Smart was proof of "miracles." Then the father thanked God, instead of criticizing God for allowing this or the Mormon church for teaching that polygamy begins with uneducated 14-year-olds. Yes, the Smart family is Mormon. The supposed abductor was also a Mormon, just too radical and thus ex-communicated.
For those unfamiliar with the original Mormon teachings, they are polygamist and permit abuses of wimmin and children. Whenever there is a conflict on these points, the true-believers take their ex-communication as proof of their devoutness, but the ones more "moderate" and doing the ex-communication are also frauds for not denouncing the founders of their own religion. They often do the same things just without flaunting it in public. This guarantees that what happens in Utah with the Elizabeth Smart case and more violent cases will continue to occur.
"The Seattle Times, citing a police source in Salt Lake City, said Brian David 'Emmanuel' Mitchell told investigators that he wanted Elizabeth to become his wife after first laying eyes on her while he did a one-day stint as a handyman at the Smart's suburban home in 2001.
"'It was a religious thing,' the source told the Times. "This guy just wanted another wife, and God told him this was the one.'"(2) Even if the media got this story wrong, or the police source lied, the fact remains that the description is typical of Mormon practice.
Smart did not try to get away
Then we learn that Smart herself told police that her case was one of running away: "'I know'" you "'think I'm that Elizabeth Smart girl who ran away.'"(3)
Smart heard her uncle calling for her, but she did not respond to him during his outdoor search.(3) She stayed one block from the police station for a week and freely walked about; her captor was even in jail for six days and she did not escape; 100 people saw her at a party, but she did not leave or contact anyone about escaping.(4) Smart was also a regular at a grocery store where she spent hours freely to herself without trying to "escape."(5) Witnesses living near her say she was not restrained and could have escaped anytime.(6)
When the police found her, she spoke in Biblical verse, adopted medieval poses and wore a veil.
Conservatives got what they wanted
"You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. . . Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved." (Mark:13:9, 12, 13)
"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! . . . Do you think I cam to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daugther against mother." (Luke 12:49, 51, 52)
It is difficult for the foreigner to understand, but the united $tates, as modern as it is, has a solid 30% living in utter religious stupor. The conservative political movement is based on that 30%.
Elizabeth Smart grew up Mormon in a Mormon state. Her "captor" was a preacher with a little more dedication than average. That's why when police found her, she used Biblical phrases to try to escape.
The conservatives will try hard to weasel out of taking responsibility for the whole Elizabeth Smart case from beginning to end, starting with Elizabeth Smart's education. To cover for himself and his state's religion, the father said merely that his daughter was "brainwashed." At MIM we would agree, but we would say it started a lot earlier than June 5, 2002. In the United $tates thanks to conservatives and the liberals who tolerate them, we cannot be sure what basic education Elizabeth Smart received, including her sex education in a Mormon community that regularly marries off teenage girls before they've had an appropriate education.
Liberals kow-tow to conservatives & mushy middle
There is of course a secular and Western liberal segment of society as well. As MIM pointed out in its MIM Notes 272 article on Mormons, these same liberals who love the former slave-holoder Dalai Lama so much naturally protect the religions abusing wimmin and children as well. It's not so much that liberals are going to practice Mormonism, but they will elect Mormons such as Mitt Romney to be governor of the most liberal state--Massachusetts.
For the foreigner the image of Amerikkka is all Hollywood and pornography and thus all open sex; even though, such a stereotype applies more to Western Europe than the United $tates. The Elizabeth Smart case is not so much about that as it is about good 'ole conservative religious conversion.
Again on education of 14-year-olds
There is no reason a 13 or 14-year-old cannot be an adult except for his or her lack of education prior to that date. The Mormons believe both in early teen marriages to much older men and lack of education for children and the result is abuse of children.
The Elizabeth Smart case underlines why MIM is in favor of moving up children's education, accelerating it across-the-board to make children more self-reliant. Of special concern is that Elizabeth Smart grew up in an environment tolerating multiple wives including "child" wives. Thanks to that education, Elizabeth Smart truly was a child when she left home. At her age, she should not have been a child, mentally. That's why under the dictatorship of the proletariat, a bracing education will be required and anyone standing in the way--parents or preachers--will go to prison. In the event that a child dies in a kidnapping or from a disease like AIDS thanks to ignorance, those causing the ignorance will be executed. That's the only way to ensure that adults do not abuse children.
Notes:
1. "Child abuctions fill the U.$. headlines," p. 3, MIM Notes 268.
2. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/13/163308.shtml
3. USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-03-13-smart-cover-usat_x.htm
4. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23106-2003Mar13.html
5. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/03/13/smart.supermarket.witness/
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/national/14UTAH.html?pagewanted=2