this was my wedding dress. there was no courtship, no romantic proposal, just a short ceremony to, of all people, the prophet himself. uncle rulon jeff s, rebecca was his 19th wife. in the flds, world, the age does not matter. the standing with the prophet. how pure, of obedient, and honorable he is. in my case, this faithful man was the prophet himself. rebecca s father told us that she wanted to marry the prophet, but it was an honor, but oh no, says rebecca, her father was wrong. it was more of a horror. i did not want to marry rulon jeffs. he s an octogenarian.
a second wife and 2 from his third. did you feel different? they told us that we were different from the rest of the world. your parents did? yes. and they told us that we needed to be more obedient because we had this higher way of life. and so, they just created a tremendous gap between us versus them. and terrified us of the outside world. there was a reason for that primal fear. very deep, and an forgotten in the dna of the flds. the raid. it was july 26th, 1953. the governor of arizona ordered the arrest of this man in short creek. and more than 250 children were carted away. some of those families were not reunited for years. rebecca, like every ethel diaz child, heard the story over and over again. from when she was old enough to listen, from the day that they remembered as their most terrible.
alexander. the word disgrace was used by mr. wells, britney, i m going to come to you first. and the pastor said earlier that the fact that we have seen this unusually quick disclosure of this disgrace was not because the system worked. it was because the activists worked. you are an activist who was prominently involved in the michael brown case, but just sitting down and writing off the top of my head, tamir rice, castile brown, george floyd, i could go on and on, do a whole list. and the thing that a lot of them have in common is that the officers involved felt that if they did not comply with them the way they wanted, immediately, and become completely flaccid and obedient, they deserved to get beaten, they deserved to get shot, they deserved whatever they got. that isn t the way serial
to nbc news today. we want to get their explanation for why they censored their own story. but mostly for being honest. we just wanted to rub their noses in the fact that they re not journalists at all. they re obedient, little thrown sniffing servants to the party in power. predictably, nbc news refused to tell us what was wrong with their own story. but of course, we already knew what was wrong with it. nancy pelosi didn t like it. that was the problem. nancy pelosi did appreciate the story that nbc news ran entitled the gop has paul pelosi s blood on its hands. that story remains on the nbc website tonight. it meets their , quote, standards. so what are we watching here? well, lying, obviously, but not the usual kind of line. normal people lie in a very recognizable way. they re human beings. they have consciences. they feel guilty about lying. so they don t go all the way. they shade the truth. did you eat these cookies? you ask your five year old? i had one , he ll s