The Springville murders were another example of criminally sanctioned atrocities by the church against dissidents attempting to leave the Utah territory.
The so-called Morrisite war in Ogden Canyon, Utah, where dissident Mormons were laid siege against by men under authority of Brigham Young. Cannons were used to blow apart their fortification and all the men and boys were killed. Women were saved for polygamous adventures.
The Gunnison survey party was massacred near Delta Utah as they surveyed the route for the transcontinental railroad. An historical marker was made and is likely (as it was when I took a picture in 1993) in a state of vandalized desecration.
The church pretty much dominates the Salt Lake Police Department and any number of actions in defense of the "pristine" image of the church is carried on by undercover operatives of the PD. U.S. Representative Allen Howe was set up for an arrest and conviction for soliciting by female officers of the police because he voted against the will of the church. Humiliation was so great for Howe afterwards, that he was buried in a secret grave for fear that it would be desecrated by the criminally insane order of the church.
The kidnapping of Howard Hughes by the so-called Mormon Mafia led by recently deceased Bill Gay is another story of intrigue which I outlined in the March-April 1978 issue of the Millennial Messenger* leading to capitulation on the part of the church to the cause of black priesthood ordination.
John Meier was an aide to Howard Hughes and he had been set up by Bill Gay under the guise of Summa Corporation as a defendant in a lawsuit filed in Salt Lake City. An attempt was made to extradite John from Vancouver, Canada. In an effort to obtain John's presence in Utah, the sinister entity of Mormonism attacked and discredited John's Vancouver attorney in a shameful way as reported to me by the Member of Parliament [MP] for Delta, BC. Read more in Under the Mormon Tree
Two men were involved with me at the time of the ordination of a black man to priesthood in a pool at a motel in downtown Portland, Oregon April 2nd, 1976. One man - Darrell Lee - was an associate attorney and was a non participant but we had shared the same office letterhead. The other, John Evans, was an aviator and flight instructor and he did participate with me at a Conference in Salt Lake City on April 6, 1976. When Evans refused to identify himself outside Temple Square to the media, the church named him as Darrell Lee.
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