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From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:11
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Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Catholic priests/child
abuse victims
> Blaine wrote:
> > JS was issued over 40 arrest warrents in his lifetime,
> > and beat them all--except the last one when they murdered
> > him and his brother Hyrum.
>
> That's not true, Blaine. Joe was convicted on that first charge of
> fraud which happened before he authored the book of Mormon. I use the
> word "authored" because that is how Joe himself described it when he
> first published the Book of Mormon. Do you need me to look up the
> reference for that conviction for you?
> > JS was issued over 40 arrest warrents in his lifetime,
> > and beat them all--except the last one when they murdered
> > him and his brother Hyrum.
>
> That's not true, Blaine. Joe was convicted on that first charge of
> fraud which happened before he authored the book of Mormon. I use the
> word "authored" because that is how Joe himself described it when he
> first published the Book of Mormon. Do you need me to look up the
> reference for that conviction for you?
Blaine: see previous
post . . . .
>
> By the way, Joe's habit of beating arrest warrants was by running away,
> which is what he was doing when his wife urged him to come back or face
> losing everything.
>
> By the way, Joe's habit of beating arrest warrants was by running away,
> which is what he was doing when his wife urged him to come back or face
> losing everything.
Blaine: His wife, Emma, apparently did not
understand the situation, as evidenced by later
events. But as to running away, Jesus did the same a
number of times. He did not always stick around to let the boys do
whatever Satan inspired them to do. Jesus also often avoided going into
Jerusalem and Nazareth, for the simple reason he knew they were laying for
him. There are actually many parallels between the life of Joseph Smith
and that of Jesus the Christ. The main advantage Joseph Smith had over
Jesus was that he lived in a country where supposedly church and state were
separated. This was not the case with Jesus. The death penalty only
required Roman sanctions--all else was legal for Jews, and as shown during his
final trials, even the Jews' own laws were violated in dealing with
him. Most of Joseph Smith's brushes with the law stemmed from attempts by
religious nuts to bring him up on religiously oriented charges, and when that
failed, other charges were trumped up. But the main problem was usually
based on opposition to his religious views. When this was brought out
during his trials, he was found innocent. In at least one case, however,
he was not allowed his constitutional right of a speedy trial--he remained in
Liberty Jail, for example, for some time, and trial was deliberately
delayed. Apparently they knew to bring him to trial would mean they woud
eventually have to let him go.
The same thing happened to Porter Rockwell.
He was in jail for 9 months, still no trial. He finally was given $100.00,
by his wife, I think, which he used to hire a lawyer, and his trial was then
scheduled for two weeks later. He was found innocent, and they then had to
release him. But even then, his lawyer told him not to leave during the
daytime. He had to sneak out of town, under cover of darkness, and had to
travel barefooted. When he arrived in Nauvoo, his feet were a bloody
mess--on the trip, he had paid people several times to carry him
piggyback
What do you think of the charge of treason
against
> him, which came about because as Mayor of the largest city in Illinois,
> he ordered the printing presses destroyed that published an article that
> exposed his polygamy. Don't you think that was a breach of the public
> trust on his part?
>
> Peace be with you.
> David Miller, Beverly Hills, Florida.
>
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> him, which came about because as Mayor of the largest city in Illinois,
> he ordered the printing presses destroyed that published an article that
> exposed his polygamy. Don't you think that was a breach of the public
> trust on his part?
>
> Peace be with you.
> David Miller, Beverly Hills, Florida.
>
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