Sandhya Somashekhar
@sandhyawp
Unlikely National Politics reporter for @WashingtonPost.
Email me at sandhya@washpost.com.
Washington, DC · http://www.washingtonpost.com
Posted on 05/21/2012 7:33:28 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
CARROLLTON, Ark. — On the wildflower-studded slopes of the Ozarks, where memories run long and family ties run thick, a little-known and long-ago chapter of history still simmers.
On Sept. 11, 1857, a wagon train from this part of Arkansas met with a gruesome fate in Utah, where most of the travelers were slaughtered by a Mormon militia in an episode known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Hundreds of the victims’ descendants still populate these hills and commemorate the killings, which they have come to call “the first 9/11.”
Many of the locals grew up hearing denunciations of Mormonism from the pulpit on Sundays, and tales of the massacre from older relatives who considered Mormons “evil.”
“There have been Fancher family reunions for 150 years, and the massacre comes up at every one of them,” said Scott Fancher, 58, who traces his lineage back to 26 members of the wagon train, which was known as the Fancher-Baker party. “The more whiskey we drunk, the more resentful we got.”
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Well stated, Colt.
YYYAAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNNN!
Obama loves a political system and philosophy which resulted in the starvation of nearly 20,000,000 people in the Ukraine.
Romney just needs to claim to “not have listened” for the past 40 years in Church like Obama.
Why is this “trash hit piece”, all it is doing to exposing mormonism and Romney.
Name something that is incorrect about the information.
I don't like Romney either. But I'll be damned if I give this kind of crap any credence or legitimacy by running with it. Because tomorrow the sights of the same weapon will be turned on the likes of Scott Walker or Sarah Palin or some other conservative that the MSM/DNC views as the enemy.
It’s not a trash hit piece. Romney’s cult should be fully exposed for what it is just as Obama’s black liberation cult should be exposed. Shine the light of truth on both.
Actually the article is pro-Mormons...
If one bothers to read it all, one finds that the author thinks that the poor Mormons were the “persecuted” lot..
“The massacre was an anomaly for the church, because it was Mormons who were more likely to be targeted in the early days of their religion, which was founded in the 1830s and 1840s.
Mormons had been attacked by mobs and forcibly ejected from states. They were viewed as a political threat and targeted for their now-abandoned practice of polygamy.”
and
“Their journey took them through Utah, where a skittish Mormon population had sought refuge from persecution”
and other spots...
and Parley Pratt ???
Why he was an innocent Mormon who was “murdered” and for apparantly no reason...
“Parley Pratt, an ancestor of Romney’s and an esteemed figure in the Mormon Church, was murdered in Arkansas shortly before the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Historians have speculated that anger over this killing may have played a part in the massacre.”
No mention there all all that he was a polygamist who was killed by a very upset husband of the woman he had stolen for a 40th or so extra “wife”..
So this is no “trashy hit piece” ...
this is a very nice piece about the nice wee friendly fuzzy misunderstood and persecuted Mormons...
While the descendants of the murdered Fancher wagon train are made to look nasty and vengengeful...
Dingy Harry Reid is a Mormon, but nobody ever brings that up!..............
Sandhya Somashekhar
@sandhyawp
Unlikely National Politics reporter for @WashingtonPost.
Email me at sandhya@washpost.com.
Washington, DC · http://www.washingtonpost.com
Did you really believe that this would not happen? MittBotts were warned daily on this forum, and it really helps that TokyoRove has proclaimed Rev. Wright is off limits. </sarcasm>
Will we be treated to Muslim and Socialist mass murder stories that occurred since the 1840s?
I marvel at how out of touch with reality Romney supporters are. You can find hundreds of posts on this forum telling you exactly how this would play out and yet here you are aghast at to discover they have to audacity to bring this up.
Really, they are supporting Obama?
I am Shocked
This may come as a shock to you, but Harry is not running this time.
Any freeper that is shocked by the slime machine coming after Romney over Mormonism is a little out of touch with reality.
You say crap piece, trash, I am asking you what about the article is wrong.
Lol!
Also expect liberal Democrat mormons to say absolutely nothing in protest and be exempt from the campaign.
I’m saying it is a hatchet job against Romney at the behest of the DNC. If you can’t realize that, you are apparently oblivous to years of the MSM doing just that.
How do you propose to stop it? Maybe if you appeal to WaPo or Newsweak, or Time they will run a picture of Romney with a halo.
Anyone with an IQ above 1 digit knew exactly how this would play out, no after what TokyoRove says.
You have had your bed made for you, now you will have to sleep in it.
If you go back and look when we had nine candidates running, I said then that none of those nine would ever be president, I am sticking with it.
May God have mercy on us.
That was an un-called for ethnic slur worthy of Bill Maher.
I hope you're proud of yourself.
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