THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: benjipwns on June 28, 2018, 04:18:45 AM
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So my mom was watching this show Escaping Polygamy on Lifetime, it's a crappy reality show that purports to show these sisters who help others escape from polygamy. (I think that's where they got the name of the show.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pnfP7tW494
Everything involving the show is actually kinda boring and reality show same shots 50 times and 20 minutes of content stretched to an hour, obvious restaging stuff, etc. But! Learning about the polygamist sects and then researching them was way more interesting. They're a bit more interesting than the Warren Jeffs sect (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxiiN-aZb1E) since they're more "hiding in plain sight" making big dollars and not dressed old timey traditional or what have you.
This was the girl from the episode anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DupmqN5k9Gc
This is the denomination, they formed for complicated reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Church_of_Christ
In 1926, Charles W. Kingston became disenchanted with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) because of its abandonment of plural marriage.
Rolling Stone article on it: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/inside-the-order-one-mormon-cults-secret-empire-20110615
The clan, known privately as the Order, runs what prosecutors believe is one of the largest organized-crime operations in Utah, overseeing its far-flung empire from a string of secret locations and backrooms. On the surface, the operation is legit: From Salt Lake, the Order controls some 100 businesses spread out over the Western states, from a casino in California to a cattle ranch in Nevada to a factory that makes lifelike dolls in Utah. Over 75 years, the Kingstons have amassed a fortune worth an estimated $300 million, but the operation skirts the edges of the law. According to people who have left the Order, the cult exploits its 2,000 members as virtual slave labor and hides profits from tax collectors. Children born into the clan make up much of the labor force. Girls, many of them teen brides, answer phones at the Order's law office, bag groceries at its supermarket or tend to the clan's many children. Boys work its coal mine and stack boxes at Standard Restaurant Supply, a massive discount store. They are paid not in cash but in scrip, an arcane form of credit used by the Mormon pioneers that can only be redeemed at company stores. "If the Order doesn't have it," the clan teaches, "we don't need it."
When Elden died in 1948, leadership of the Order fell to Stephen's grandfather, J.O., a short, miserly man with bony shoulders and thinning hair. J.O. was just as frugal as his brother — he lived in a dilapidated shack with planks missing from the porch — but he had a better head for business. He trained the women how to rip off the government, a scheme the Order called Bleeding the Beast. They would trek into state welfare offices, their kids in tow, claiming that they had no idea who the father of their children was, or that he was a truck driver who had left them destitute. The grift was exposed decades later, in the 1980s, when the clan paid a $350,000 settlement for swindling the government through welfare fraud.
In the kitchen, he opened a closet and popped a hatch in the floor that led down to a dark, musty basement. There, stacked on the concrete floor, were crates filled with bars of silver. He snapped the padlock on the first crate and began stuffing the silver ingots into duffel bags, lugging them back out to the waiting Honda. By the time the teenagers sped away, they had made off with more than $80,000 in silver.
Later that afternoon, in another house across town belonging to the Order, a woman named Patty Kingston opened her closet to discover that a chest of gold coins worth as much as $5 million had vanished. In its place, someone had left a note. "Thanks," it read. "This didn't belong to you anyway."
As big as the heist was, it attracted almost no attention in Salt Lake. The Kingstons operate in a self-contained universe, completely cut off from the outside world. "When you're three years old, they start training you what to say if people talk to you," recalls Jeremy Tucker, a 32-year-old former member of the cult, who now works in construction. "We were taught to be polite, but to never make friends with outsiders." The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. They steer clear of banks, fearing they'll steal their money. And they avoid the police, opting to handle any disputes in their own brutal manner.
It's not all crime related, we also get a preview of the end times, warning about BLM:
Kingston taught his followers that they are the literal descendants of Jesus and one of his wives, who had come down to Earth to found a race of chosen people. He also preached a bizarre extrapolation of the Book of Mormon called the White Horse Prophecy, a dreaded prediction of a cataclysmic time when the "black race" will rise up and attempt to destroy the white man, only to be thwarted by Native Americans riding to the rescue. Those in the Order, Kingston preached, are responsible for building a master race, which is why all marriages are arranged within the original four families that started the cult.
They also enjoy good ol fashion racism: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/blood-cult
first a reminder that once you go black...
her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring.
The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread.
“The teacher was like, ‘You can never get that out, that is always there now,’”
Control of The Order then passed to Ortell’s well-educated son Paul Kingston, one of several lawyers in a cult whose members dress normally and try not to draw attention to themselves.
Known variously as “Brother Paul,” “the leader,” and “the man on the watchtower” by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. One is a first cousin. Two are nieces.
In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. Due to the Kingstons’ convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt.
Another of Ortell’s teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didn’t have the Lord’s help, so he failed.
In one, Ortell warns that there is a movement afoot that wants to “homogenize the people” and “make one race,” by mixing all the races up.
Another of the cult’s teachings was that soy can make you gay
Interview with a gay ex-member who had to leave or not be so gay, he's also mentioned in another article I think I've linked here: https://www.ladybud.com/2013/06/20/the-kingston-group-inside-salt-lake-citys-assimilated-flds-cult/
Article related to the show: https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a15116/i-escaped-a-polygamist-cult/
"You don't make minimum wage, you make whatever your dad says you're going to make," Andrea says. "And this is for everybody, not just the eight-year-olds. The money that you make working at the businesses does not come to you in the form of a paycheck. It comes to you each month in the form of a bank statement that says you have certain units. So it's not even U.S. dollars." If you wanted to spend that money, you better give a reason. "You have to explain why you need to take this money out of the group. You can use units for any of their business and they have a gas station, a grocery store, a clothing store—they have the basic things you would need, and one of their teachings is, 'If the Order doesn't have it, we don't need it.'" She adds, "I did not realize how abusive and controlling it was until I escaped and opened up my own bank account. When I go get money from my bank, I don't have to say, 'I would really like to buy lunch today.'"
"They love their blood. They think they're direct descendants of Christ," Jessica says of the Kingston family. "And they think their blood is pure. It's almost like they want to have purebred Kingstons. They're trying to get that, so they're having Kingstons marry Kingstons." One of her relatives is currently training to become a geneticist, she says, to test for recessive genes and avoid the birth defects that occur in the group.
Their goal is to repopulate the earth, the sisters say. "They think they're going to have so many kids that eventually, they're going to take over the world,"
They got raided in 2016:
http://kutv.com/news/local/police-raiding-well-known-kingston-clan-properties-in-utah
http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3523346&itype=CMSID
Utah couldn't find any welfare fraud or such:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/polygamy/2018/02/06/utah-investigated-the-polygamous-kingston-group-for-welfare-fraud-2-years-ago-it-didnt-find-any/
VICE covered it, with a guy kicked out for wanting to be...A MAGICIAN (bad example being so appropriate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwoO7Nekmpw
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No, I don't have any idea if they have anything to do with this Call of Duty clan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTErckI6FU
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I am so triggered
:rkelly