The best articles I've seen about raid on the polygamous FLDS compound in TX are by Sara Robinson at Orcinus.
"I've spent the day wrangling with a post (which will probably turn into several posts) about the FLDS raid in Eldorado, TX. Oddly, last week's events occured while I had my nose buried in the best new book on the subject of the FLDS since Jon Krakauer's bestselling Under the Banner of Heaven came out in 2003, so I've got a lot of fresh and deep perspective on the matter -- too much, in fact, to be wrestled down into one coherent post."
"The problem, as it so often is with the mainstream media, is that absolutely everybody involved with reporting or commenting on this story has been airlifted into it in the past few days. (You'd think somebody would have at least taken the time on the plane flight to skim Krakauer's book and get up to speed. You'd be wrong.) And this is just one example of the ways that ignorance of the backstory cheats the rest of us out of a real understanding of what's going on here."
See her posts:
Are FLDS women brainwashed?
The Secret Lives of Saints
What We're Not Talking About, Part I: Other Issues With the FLDS
and a long piece: How Dangerous Is The FLDS?
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