Nauvoo City Council’s minutes of 1840s provide chaos, contention and lies [Lds' Smith Shenanigans]

Ogden Standard-Examiner ^ | Jan. 4, 2012 | Doug Gibson

[Godzilla]

To those who think this was not murder: It was most definitely homicide. So if it wasn’t murder, it should presumably be be considered justifiable under the law.

I never said that, so please be careful in your reading. Yes, Smith was murdered by the mob - that much is true. Smith also went down by shooting at his attackers - not as lds like to depict as a sheep led to slaughter.

The fact that he gave the order for the legion to come and get him out displays his arrogance of the law in that he was willing to start a war to justify his illegal actions as Nauvoo mayor.

Did that justify the action by the mob? No, but it does show that smith had finally hit the bee hive one too many times and that those who he had persecuted and attacked (using is danites) weren't taking it any more.

smith's arrogance is only exceeded by 0bama

[Elsie]

Glad to know a freeper approves of lynching as a method of justice.

Glad to know that you can make up stuff outta thin air.

Did I miss the ROPE at the GUNFIGHT?

[Elsie]

True but irrelevant.

It is so EASY for you to state IRRELEVANT and then launch onto something else; isn't it.

Or those of the jailers who conspired in the murder of the men in their charge.

CONSPIRACY???

Got EVIDENCE?

[Elsie]

You’ve suprised me with this reply!

[Godzilla]

so because smith was murdered, it was justifable to murder 120+ men, women and children in cold blood and to this day deny their surviving family members from erecting a memorial to their lives and death.

[af_vet_rr]

I knew there was some crazy stuff being perpetuated by the LDS founders, but sheesh, some of this is...it makes me wonder how a religion/cult/sect/whatever came out of such a group of men like Joseph Smith and his contemporaries. They were out of control.

Now I understand the comparisons to L. Ron Hubbard a lot better, but Hubbard seemed a lot more disciplined.

[Elsie]

Now I understand the comparisons to L. Ron Hubbard a lot better, but Hubbard seemed a lot more disciplined.

And he just LOVED the printing press!

[af_vet_rr]

In this day and age, an “Joseph Smith” type would never get away with some of the stuff he and his early followers did. They would never brainwash enough people to buy into it either.

[Elsie]

OH?

http://articles.cnn.com/2007-02-16/us/miami.preacher_1_cult-leader-followers-tattoo?_s=PM:US

[af_vet_rr]

You’ll always have nuts, but they won’t reach the size and scale that Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard did. More like the Branch Davidians or Heaven’s Gate.

[Elsie]

And whipped cream with a cherry on top.

Oh!

And sprinkles, too!

[BlueMoose]

Hay you messed one.

http://www.adn.com/2012/01/14/2264456/inquiry-targets-church-tax-exemptions.html

[BlueMoose]

Hay you messed one.

http://www.adn.com/2012/01/14/2264456/inquiry-targets-church-tax-exemptions.html