“I’ll bypass your ludicrous assertions which have no factual basis whatsoever as delineated by several previous posts.”
Assertions which have no factual basis whatsoever, SAYS WHO??? If you go through my long posting history, you will find I give more links to original Mormon documents than just about anyone on Free Republic, so I conclude you are the one blowing wind.
Here, read these links, then come back to me and tell me I am full of it:
The account of where 1000 at FarWest almost got wiped out until the budding tinpot general Smith surrendered.
http://www.mormoninformation.com/reedpeck.htm
Account of how Smith ran a Ponzi scheme at the Kirtland and Monroe Banks
http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/painerep.htm
Eyewitness accounts of the Danites pillaging Gallatin and the Gentiles, precipitating the Mormon War.
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/findingaids/rg005-01.asp#f41_f01-02
The Nauvoo Expositor Press expose of wife stealing, land speculation, embezzlement, harboring fugitives etc. of Joseph Smith, whose destruction precipitated Smith’s death at the Carthage jail
http://solomonspalding.com/docs/exposit1.htm
When you get through reading every word of those accounts (I have a ton more) then maybe I’ll believe you know what the hell you are talking about. I’ll even send you pro-Mormon accounts later, but since you disbelieve the Mormons could commit any crime whatsoever, I get the first shot. I fully admit there is accountability on the Gentile side, but if you come away from these linked source accounts believing the Mormons are blameless, well heaven help you.
“But do really believe that a governor has the right to take the law into his own hands & completely ignore due process & the constitution in this case?”
Hell yes, in times of war the Governor is Commander In Chief of the State Militia. What happened at Far West and Gallatin in Missouri is called the Mormon War for a reason. What happed at Nauvoo is not known as a war BECAUSE Governor Ford allowed the execution of Smith (who by the way had broken out of jail at Liberty Missouri and had busily had himself ordained king AND Lt. General of the 2000 man Mormon Legion and was coercing people to vote for him for president). So, these were emergency conditions, the State Militia had been called out in Illinois and pitched battles were about to commence along with the immediate destruction of Nauvoo if Ford had not acted. I’d call what happened an executive decision by a Commander in Chief to avert great bloodshed.
“Are you really a republican conservative?”
No, I am a Martian. What do you think? What are you, a member of the Society of the Historically Deaf Dumb and Blind?
“That’s Clintonian type stuff.”
No, Clintonian stuff is screwing a bunch of idiot women on the cheap, sort of the way Joseph Smith did.
“I’m afraid your hatred for mormons has clouded your otherwise conservative principles. A shame really.”
Conservative principle Number One: Follow the Truth. I just provided you with more than a hundred pages and around fifty eye witness accounts. I think the ball is in your court now to provide direct historical info that I am wrong instead of blowing hot air.
I didn’t know Smith was crowned King.
King of what?