And what exactly can the mainline LDS church do to "squash" them. They are not members of the mainline LDS church and any of them that were have been excommunicated.
Maybe he was thinking along the lines of how the Catholic church "squashed" those upstart Protestants.
There is a certain level of sympathy or a kind of understanding that a lot of people in Utah have with these people. Lots of their ancestors were polygamists too.
I think now that the eyes of the Utah AG have been opened. Thats a good sign. In fact Willie Jessop was calling the AG of Utah ‘Boggs’, after the former gov. of Missouri. LOL Willie was mad!