Text 3421, 64 rader
Skriven 2009-03-19 00:38:58 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 3410 av Chinacat (1:124/311)
Ärende: Brazilian rape victim...
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Chinacat -> ED HULETT wrote:
 C> On 3/18/2009 8:15 PM, Ed Hulett wrote to Chinacat:
 C>>> Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831...assault and battery, performing marriages
 C> without
 C>>> a valid license, attempted murder, and involuntary servitude without
 C>>> compensation during the Zion's Camp military crusade to Missouri.

 C>>> There's a lot more. That's just 2 years worth.

 ->> None of those charges are based on any illegal activity. They were all
 C> based on
 ->> anti-Mormon sentiment.


 C> Some of them I'll give you. But I don't see how you can say fraud, assault
 C> and battery, and attempted murder are not illegal activity? And in 1831,
 C> defrauding people of money by telling them that he could find treasure on
 C> their property by looking into his hat at some 'seer' stones WAS illegal.
 C> It was classified in the same category as palm reading, or claiming to be
 C> psychic in order to obtain money...much as it is in a lot of places today.
 C> He was convicted, btw.

Again it was all due to anti-Mormon sentiment. Governor Boggs of Missouri even
issued an extermination order To drive Mormons out of Missouri.

The charges against Smith were trumped up in an attempt to stop the LDS Church
from growing.

The mob who killed him and his brother thought that would effectively cause the
Church to cease existence.

 C> Printing your own money is also illegal...which Smith did with the Kirtland
 C> Bank. Today they call it counterfeiting.

It wasn't illegal back then for banks to print their own money. There was no
official US currency at the time. I wasn't uncommon for banks to issue their
own currency in those days.

 C> A few of the things that Smith was taken to court for are no longer illegal
 C> but WERE at the time of his arrests.

No they weren't.

 C> So can it with 'anti-mormon' sentiment being behind his troubles with the
 C> law. He was a crook and a conman and deserved a lot more time behind bars
 C> than he got.

You don't know what you are talking about.

Ed

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