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Well, most of the “incidents” seem to me to be jealousy from those around the saints coupled with the arrogance of a few of the saints. Missouri was about stealing the saints’ land, pure and simple and the thieves got away with it. All fine protestants, to be sureLet by good ole Governor Boggs. [OMM]

Gov. Boggs and Gov. Ford. Anti-Mormon’s favorite Democrats. [Rameumptom]

Boy, there seems to be a pattern here. Folks at the state level do something against Mormons. Why, the next thing ya know, the Governor's a target.

Fundie Mormons are targeted in 2008; suddenly the Gov's home is torched.
Missouri has antagonisms & conflict with 19th century Mormons, and then the Gov becomes a target of an assassin's bullet shortly after leaving office.

In May, 1842, ex-Gov. Boggs was shot while sitting alone in a room @ his residence. Boggs almost died. Boggs made an affidavit 2.5 months later, accusing notorious LDS strong-arm thug Orrin Porter Rockwell of Illinois of committing the murder. A second affidavit was made, where Boggs said he had "good reason to believe, from evidence and information now in his ;possession, that Joseph Smith, commonly called 'the Mormon Prophet,' was accessory before the face of the intended murder..."

O.J. Simpson like, only with Rockwell getting further than the visa-in-car Simpson, Rockwell headed out of the area & got clear to New Jersey where he hung out for the rest of 1842.

Rockwell was spotted & arrested after returning to the Midwest. He was jailed for 9 months, become an escapee in the process, but was jailed again & then graciously released by the Missourians as a Christmas present to Rockwell, but mostly because they wanted Rockwell to return to Illinois so he would lure Smith back to Missouri.

(So we see Guv's popularity with the Mormons)

“Boy, there seems to be a pattern here.”

One can read the account of all this from Gov. Ford’s perspective, and if you change the names, and places, the exact same scenario is repeating itself.

The Gov’s comments about the lawyers the ‘mormons’ got, was very enlightening.

A grand jury of non mormons refused to indict Porter Rockwell for the attempted murder of Boggs. He was locked up without trial for a few months and the guards let him go eventually, as you admit they "graciously let him go." Rockwells' comment to the grand jury was that Boggs was still alive, implying that if he had done it Boggs would definitely be dead. Considering that a grand jury of that sort can indict a ham samdwich if they wanted they pretty much knew it wasn't him. There are actually a few people it could be if you read Boggs own diary and the writings of his son, they had many enemies.

BTW, you shouldn't try to slander Orrin Rockwell he was a better gunslinger and law enforcement officer than Wyatt Earp. He was the best in the west no one can hold a candle to him. Its too bad more conservatives don't know the history of this man. Whatis interesting is that you have sided with a Dem. Governor who committed some of the worst consitutional and murderous crimes against US citizens in our history while slandering one of the best, honest and most conservative law enforcement men in history. That's the problem with the majority of your anti Mormons agruments. After a while one has to wonder why you continue to take the liberal tack on a conserative website?