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You forget, in the U.S.A. it has always been open season on Mormons

Hmm Hmm <tsk> Hmm.

How could it happen that people you think are wee poor lambs could be hated and reviled.

Let's think about it a minute.

Joey the founder/prophet/leader was a liar, a cheat, a diviner, a con man, a murderer, a polygamist... have I left anything out?
He and his wee lambs took over towns and set up phony banks.
He assembled his own army.

Help me out here, we were wondering what?

How could it happen that people you think are wee poor lambs...Let's think about it a minute. 1.Joey the founder/prophet/leader was a liar, a cheat, a diviner, a con man, a murderer, a polygamist... have I left anything out? 2.He and his wee lambs took over towns and set up phony banks. 3.He assembled his own army. Help me out here, we were wondering what?

The extended consideration related to what you just mentioned, delacoert ("He assembled his own army") is how could Joey Smith be such a poor defenseless lamb WHEN -- in addition to be commander of a militia, he was...
(a) ...a candidate for the Prez of the U.S.? (1844)
(b) ...a mayor with the power to destroy an opposing press? (1844)
(c) was courtin', marryin', and "attendin' to" a dozen NEW wives over a 9-month period from December, 1841 thru August, 1842? (And by "thru" I don't mean he suddenly had much additional free time September to Dec 1842 just because he didn't take on any new wives for those 4 months 'cause believe me, if you've had time to build up a 17-wife roster -- including 12 new ones over an 18-month period -- then I'd think you hardly had a bunch of free time frettin' about persecutors. Obviously, Smith didn't seem to feel so insecure. (Otherwise, why would he either want to place his new wives in harm's way of an assassin's bullet or leave them widowed???)

Bottom line: Wow! If Smith could accumulate a dozen new wives over 9 mos. during supposedly Mormon-described hostile, unpeaceful times, just think how many he would have added in a peaceful year...oh, yeah, we have that on record, too -- why he added another 17 new wives during what even Lds historians describe as a peaceful year (1843)...what? only a 42% increase of new wives when peace broke out???