Canada finds FLDS guilty - No polygamists allowed

Winston Blackmore, a former bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has been found guilty of practising polygamy after a decades-long legal fight launched by the provincial government.

Blackmore, Canada’s most outspoken, prolific and unapologetic polygamists, was alleged to have married 24 women as part of so-called “celestial” marriages involving residents in the tiny community of Bountiful

In a Cranbrook courtroom on Monday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Ann Donegan says the collective force of evidence against Blackmore proves that he was married to Jane Blackmore and 24 other women at the same time.

Co-accused James Oler, another bishop in the church, is accused of having five wives and is still waiting for his verdict to be announced.




Blackmore’s lawyer, Blair Suffredine, has already told the court that he will launch a constitutional challenge of Canada’s polygamy laws if his client is found guilty.

Suffredine argues Canada’s polygamy laws infringe on Blackmore’s constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of religion.

During the trial, the judge refused to hear Suffredine’s constitutional argument because he failed to properly notify the judge, the other lawyers and the federal Justice Department of a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/former-bishops-found-guilty-in-decades-long-b-c-polygamy-case-1.3516281

BC finally nails the Canadian branch of the FLDS with polygamy charges. What happens after the court challenge is a good question.

 

[Dysnomia]

I'm always a little disturbed and disappointed that polygamy laws seem to be the only consistent way to prosecute child raping death cultists like the LDS.

No matter what "Sister Wives", "Seeking Sister Wives" and whatever other polygamy show that TLC has on shows you everyone knows that it's usually a lot worse than some doofus marrying a bunch of desperate women. You've got girls being forced to marry dirty old men who are perverted pedophile rapists.

Without proof it's hard to do that. A lot of the women would be afraid to testify because the church is quite good at cutting them off from families, and they do practice 'frontier justice' to a degree.

Warren Jeffs was only nailed for CP because the fucker made sex tapes.


They would have to if they want the law to be held in court. The main reason they are going after the FLDS is because Winston was unrepentantly announcing "Yeah, I got 25 wives, what'chu gonna do about it?"

They get brainwashed from a young age. And the ones that want to break free are screwed by the fact that they are poorly educated with no work skills and are tied down with children from a young age. The girls from the Warren Jeffs cult faced a ton of culture shock. They have no idea what outside life is really like.

There was a documentary on some doomsday cult. I can't remember the name but it's fairly famous. This guy is a pedo and people have left their children in his care when they left the cult themselves. You see all these tween and teen girls who think this guy is Jesus and that sex with him is totally normal. It was horrifying.

I believe it's this one.

When you grow up being groomed like that you are going to have serious problems adjusting to normal life.

 

[Goofy Logic]

I don't think Canada would outright legalize polygamy.

What I think we're going to see are a lot of "non-traditional" family setups. They'll be polygamist marriages in every relevant way except for the lack of an actual marriage certificate. Then they'll start petitioning the government for financial benefits that they really don't qualify for (or at least not covering all the unofficial wives). The government will then try to bend the rules to placate the muslims, to avoid being seen as culturally insensitive.

What you describe is pretty much exactly what the FLDS was doing now. They would get a marriage license for the first wife to get the tax benefits, then unofficially marry additional wives through their church.

Winston was trying to push the freedom of religion aspect to publically marry his wives, which is why he got so much national attention.

 

[Goofy Logic]

https://calgaryherald.com/news/loca...ted-polygamist-winston-blackmore-on-the-block

Property owned by convicted polygamist Winston Blackmore on the block

ALANNA SMITH
Updated: March 4, 2019

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Two large properties near Bountiful, B.C., the home of convicted polygamist Winston Blackmore, are on the auction block.

One hundred per cent of the shares of Blackmore Farms Ltd. and Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc., both privately owned by the 62-year-old leader of the religious community in the Creston Valley of southeast B.C., are being auctioned to the highest bidder to repay creditors.
The successful bidder will acquire the title of the company, meaning they obtain everything, including the land, liabilities and existing structures just outside the community centre of Bountiful.
“I’m sure it will impact the community (in Bountiful), hopefully not in an adverse way,” said Michael Sandstorm, court bailiff of North Central Bailiffs Ltd., the company auctioning the shares on behalf of a creditor. He believes some people are still living and working on the properties, and said the biggest question is what happens to them once the sale goes through.

An ad for the sale appeared in Saturday’s Calgary Herald, noting the share price of Blackmore Farms Ltd. is $536,000 and Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc. is $280,000. Both companies own property. One is just under 195 acres and the other over 100 acres, respectively. They can be purchased separately.
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“There’s a lot on the line there,” Sandstorm told Postmedia on Sunday.
Blackmore was sentenced to six months house arrest and 12 months probation for practicing polygamy in June 2018. It is believed he has 27 wives and 149 children.

Hanna Blackmore, one of the religious leader’s daughters, said she was surprised and disgusted after learning about the sale of her father’s property.
She said one of the buildings owned by the church organization is the Bountiful community centre. Hanna added there are more than 100 families living in Bountiful and the sale of the assets will “destroy the community.”
“Blackmore Farms is my father’s business — the only way he supports his family and also supports the school in Bountiful. The school is only partially funded by the government, so my dad’s company makes up the difference so the school is able to employ the teachers working there,” she told Postmedia.

“He has been strapped financially, especially with his house arrest, and has a lot of people relying on him for support.”

Apart from Blackmore’s conviction, he was also being pursued for millions of dollars by the Canada Revenue Agency for unpaid income taxes, penalties and accrued interest. At one point, Blackmore claimed $6 million in assets and owned dozens of businesses that employed his congregants.
In March 2015, Blackmore reportedly owed Canada $2,069,501.59, and shortly after the federal court granted the revenue agency’s request for the B.C. Sheriffs Services to seize and sell some of his assets. It is not clear what was seized and sold. By July 2017, his debt soared to $2,387,766.01, which was four times more than the value of assets seized.
By 2017, Canada Revenue Agency seized the last of his Canadian assets in partial repayment for his more than $2.3 million owed. It appears what was left were the property and assets of Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc. and Blackmore Farms Ltd. — both of which are now on the block.
Blackmore earned a reputation as one’s the country’s most prolific polygamists. He served as bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Mormon community of Bountiful for two decades before being excommunicated in 2002 by Warren Jeffs, president of the fundamentalist Mormon Church.

The religious settlement is made up by two polygamist Mormon fundamentalist groups, one half belonging to Blackmore’s FLDS offshoot Church of Jesus Christ (Original Doctrine) Inc. and the other half devoted to the FLDS church under Bishop James Oler.
Oler was sentenced at the same time as Blackmore to three months of house arrest for practicing polygamy, followed by 12 months probation. The convictions were the first in Canada in more than a decade.
Hanna said her father is off house arrest and visits family when possible.
“I stay in touch with him. He calls his adult children to check up on us and I always look forward to his phone calls and try to visit as often as I can,” she said. “My dad has a lot of friends and has helped a tremendous amount of people.”
She has set up a fundraising campaign to help the family cover her father’s legal fees. As of Sunday, only about $4,500 of the $25,000 goal has been raised

Winston's assets are being sold off. He apparently owes over $2.3 million to the CRA.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

They should just buy up some guns and go down to Mexico if they want to have their polygamy. Mexico won't give a shit.

I think it more the case that Mexico can't do anything, since the countryside in the hands of the Cartels (i.e. groups that even worse than child-raping fundamentalist polygamists).