Ampu, I must say I am shocked by your support of cold blooded murder.
A cheap pistol that was smuggled into prison to try to make the mob think twice about cold blooded murder does not in any way mitigate the circumstances in which Joseph Smith was indeed murdered.
Joseph knew that if he had been willing to renounce his beliefs, he would have been spared. He was killed for his faith; leaving a grieving family and children behind and to you this is not martyrdom because he had a pistol with six shots and no way to reload against 200 men with rifles and pistols and many charges for their weapons?
The only reason a mob would have killed him before the trial is they believed he would get off the same ruse, and charges having been filed before and never being proved.
The Governor calling away all the regular troops and leaving a militia made up of locals who had been created because some feared the Mormons with their 5,000 Strong Nauvoo Legion was made up of those who were opposed to us to the point of committing atrocities themselves. (The phrase the fox guarding the hen house comes to mind)
Governor Ford saw Joseph who was mayor of the largest city in Illinois at the time as a political threat, and pulled the troops away from his defense to go to a speech! This was announced in advance and the Mob knew exactly when and where Joseph was going to be and that the protectors would be friends of theirs.
Governor Ford may not have “known” but it is only plausible deniability, he should have known. In this day and age, he would be tried for murder himself.
Ampu, do you advocate the murder of those you disagree with on religion? (I can’t help but picture beheadings here) If not your comments here are out of character, and should be amended.
I hope you are well, and my God bless you with charity
“Ampu, do you advocate the murder of those you disagree with on religion? (I can’t help but picture beheadings here) If not your comments here are out of character, and should be amended.”
Since I didn’t advocate that, I’ll just allow my comment
and the Wiki post to stand unamended. Thanks.
“Ampu, I must say I am shocked by your support of cold blooded murder.
A cheap pistol that was smuggled into prison to try to make the mob think twice about cold blooded murder does not in any way mitigate the circumstances in which Joseph Smith was indeed murdered.”
Actually, it was a 6 barrel revolver smuggled to him, no doubt in hope that the Mormon militia General Joseph Smith commanded would come to his rescue. So, it is quite possible the gentile mob merely short circuited the Mormon militia mob from killing the jailers and setting off a seccessionary mini-war.
I must say I am shocked by evidence of ESCALATION in ACCUSATIONS!