Mitt Romney's attempt to dispel Christian concerns falls far from the mark.

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ROMNEY'S SELECTIVE IGNORANCE

(OR HE DOESN'T KNOW THE TRUE HISTORY OF HIS OWN CHURCH)

Doug Wallace JD--- A Former Mormon High Priest

The recent attempt by Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney to placate American concerns about his church's Christian view bespeaks his selective ignorance about his own church’s history.

Chief among the past woes of Mormons was the persecution complex. The story went that the church had suffered immeasurable harm from Christian persecution for its beliefs.

While it is true that there were some isolated incidents of unfair actions against members by non-Mormons, the overall scene was one of tolerance with a quiet smirk for the absurd claims of church founder Joseph Smith involving angels, golden plates, Book of Mormon and visions of God. Official Church History distorts most events alleged as persecution.

Between the time of the church organization on April 6, 1830 and the extermination order (infra) of Governor Lilburn Boggs of Missouri in 1838, Smith and his close cohort/conspirator, Sydney Rigdon, had created an unlawful bank in Kirkland, Ohio where they defrauded investors and fled to Missouri when Ohio officials were seeking their arrest. In Missouri, with a large swelling of converts, Smith declared the place at Far West to be the original site of the Garden of Eden and it would be there that the New Zion would be built. He also declared that the church would be the future ruler of Zion and the world both ecclesiastically and civilly.

Meanwhile Rigdon at the 1838 July 4th celebration used the word “exterminate” against locals and some dissidents who dared stand in the way of the church settlement and expansion. When the pressure of the church went against the locals with allegations of theft by church members, hostilities broke out called the Mormon War with Governor Boggs issuing his own “extermination” order against Mormons. In effect, a declaration of a state of war. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_War

Hostilities were ended by surrender of the church insurgents resulting in the arrest of Smith and close advisers to stand trial on treason and murder while the main body agreed in the peace terms to move east out of Missouri. Smith and associates were first tried, convicted and sentenced to death as war criminals by a military tribunal but that was halted and changed to a civil court where they were held prisoners in Liberty Jail awaiting trial. Smith, et al, later escaped and joined the main Mormon body on the east bank of the Mississippi river in Illinois on swampy land the main body had acquired for a city and named it Nauvoo.

Obtaining a special charter from the Illinois Legislature, for the city known as the Nauvoo Charter, Smith set himself up as a Theocratic dictator as (1) the Church leader, (2) the Mayor and (3) the General of a 5,000 man army called the Nauvoo Legion. He considered the charter granted him dictatorial autonomy as a state within the state of Illinois. HE WAS WRONG

At Nauvoo, Smith hired Gun slinger Orin Porter Rockwell to be his body guard and sent him on a mission back to Missouri in 1839 with instructions to kill Boggs. Boggs was seriously wounded in the shooting and not expected to live. Later an order for extradition of escaped felon Smith to be tried in Missouri was issued.

In 1844, Smith while a fugitive from justice in Missouri had declared himself a candidate for President of the US. He organized a semi secret group called the Council of the Fifty to bring about one world government but spelled backwards “YFTIF” in a clumsy attempt to conceal it. That group, which is perpetually organized, crowned Smith “King of the Earth”. The same crowning has occurred to each successive church leader to this day with Gordon B. Hinckley, Mormon president, as Christ's Vice Regent and Earth King. The Council continues to steer the church in that direction with involvement in the Heritage Foundation, the Bush war machine and international economic schemes raising poverty levels three fold in the past thirty years. Romney is a blood oath committed Priesthood subordinate to Hinckley in all matters!

Associated with that event, Smith ordered the destruction of a newspaper, the Nauvoo Expositor that was about to publish information about Smith's plural sexual relationships in particular with 16 year old Fanny Alger who worked in the Smith household as a maid.

Some time prior to this. Smith had obtained a franchise for establishing a Masonic Lodge. Very quickly he elevated himself to a 33rd degree Mason. He also adapted some of the Masonic Initiation rituals into the Mormon Temple ceremonies and had its icons sewn on special underclothing which had to be worn thereafter by all initiates to the temple ceremony every day and night for the rest of their lives. See: http://www.religionfacts.com/about.htm For doing this, the franchise was withdrawn and he angered the Order by his actions in violating its trust and the secrets within it.

Smith was arrested and lodged in the Carthage Jail to await hearings on charges of violation of freedom of the press and the extradition order.

In the evening of June 27th 1844, a mob made up of Masons, some of his own people and antagonists surrounded the jail shooting into it. Having been furnished a hand gun by his close allies, Smith mortally wounded two attackers as they attempted to ascend the staircase. Seeing his brother dead, he leaped out the second story window shouting the Masonic distress cry only to be repeatedly shot at by the mob

This last event chronicled at least four times in the 38 year life of Smith when he ran afoul of the law. The first was a charge and conviction in New York State of the scam of stone gazing for pay (beforehand) for discovering buried treasure. The second was bank fraud in Ohio. The third was an insurrection in Missouri and the last violating freedom of the press in Nauvoo. Ill.

In the legends of Mormonism, Smith died as a “Martyr” sealing his “Testimony” with his own blood when in fact he died in a furious gun battle attempting further deception at the last moment by using the con of a Masonic distress cry. The cause of Smith's death was anger and fear of those within the mob who saw him and his teachings as a threat to peace, the Constitution and separation of church and state.

A few years later, with Brigham Young at the helm, Mormons left Illinois and traveled west to the Utah Territory where Young set up a colony he called Deseret establishing a theocratic government. Any dissidents attempting to leave the territory were murdered or “disappeared” in the “Back lotting” operation led by Orin Porter Rockwell. No message against the church was allowed to get out of the territory.

Unfortunately for Young, the territory came under the control of the US government as a result of the 1846-47 hostilities with Mexico. The area was then labeled the Utah Territory. Nonetheless, Young ruled with an Iron Fist first as the territorial governor and later in a shadow government as the head of the church.

Nothing was done in the territory without his approval. This included the September 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in which in excess of 120 people age four years and older of the Fancher Party emigrant train en route to California were laid siege to and slaughtered by deception about 20 miles west of Cedar City, Utah. It was supposed this train had persons among it that were responsible for the death of founder Smith and this was an exercise of the Blood Atonement doctrine of the church.

That doctrine says that the blood of Christ can't atone for all sins and that some persons need to have their own blood shed by others for forgiveness. Hence the oft heard phrase about dissidents “He/She should be shot”. This past September, the church after 150 years finally admitted its' complicity in the affair but blamed it on long dead local leaders of the church. This doctrine does not square with Christianity!

From its inception Mormonism has been all about controlling people both spiritually and civilly. It is theocratic and has designs on controlling the United States first and then the world under New World Order concepts.

When Romney speaks of the LDS (Mormon) church being not a lot different from other Christian organizations he is blushingly far off the mark. He is typical of all brainwashed Mormons who never dared check out the real story of the rise of “Church”

Romney has taken a blood oath in a temple to consecrate his life to the church with total submission to the authorities of the church. Therefore under that oath he is and will always be subservient to church leaders in any capacity he might otherwise fill unless he repudiates that oath. What Christian church requires that oath of its members?

He doesn't confess that he has taken these oaths and that the church has the goal of world conquest. He should be made to admit or deny these facts before he can be a viable candidate. What present day Christian church has designs of theocracy?

The sinister side of the Mormon Church through its influence in the Congress, the CIA, the FBI and NGOs such as the Heritage Foundation has been implicated with middle east entities in acts leading up to the terrorism of 9-11 together with the war on terrorism as a ploy to inflict damage upon the Constitution of the United States so that it can be “saved” by having one of its own becoming President and “Earth King” all pursuant to a “prophecy” of founder Smith. It is false flag operation on a false flag operation! What Christian church engages in that kind of conduct?

Mitt Romney also needs to admit that his church with dirty tricks disrupted and destroyed the Equal Rights Amendment in the late 70's when it was winning nationally by a 66 percent poll before that interference. What Christian church politically interfered with the ERA?

Mitt Romney also needs to admit or deny that the church working with its missionaries, the CIA and the nut heads from the Chicago University Friedman School of Economics participated in the coup that overthrew democratically elected President Allende in Chile in 1973 ultimately resulting in the deaths of thousands murdered and tortured there and throughout the cone of South America during the 70's and 80's at the same time it operated the church and missions there. What present day Christian church engages in political coups?

Mitt Romney needs to admit or deny that the main reason behind that coup in Chile was due to the nationalization of the copper industry owned by entities of the Mormon Church aka the Utah Corporation. What Christian church would participate in killing and torturing thousands and establishing a dictatorship to recover a resource belonging to the people? And what Christian church would furnish Israel with uranium to make atom bombs? (Norman Mailer: A Harlot High and Low, New York Magazine August 16, 1976)

When I was facing my own dilemma in the early 1970's about matters which concerned my faith in the Mormon Church, I was in correspondence with Mitt's father, George after he had been a presidential candidate in 1968. He had been a young Mormon missionary in the UK in the 1920s and a friend of my parents. Mitt's father advised me to follow my own conscience which I did resulting in a two year struggle to persuade the church to accept black men in the priesthood. I did that in 1976 and the church oligarchs relented two years later however it was not without the deaths of two innocent men, David Olson and John Ragan orchestrated by the Council of the YTFIF!

At the time I was a dedicated Mormon to all teachings except racism and I suppose theocracy. Thanks to excommunication for insubordination in doing what I did, I discovered little of my learning about the church was true. I am grateful to Mitt's father George for his advice. George Romney was the first and last presidential candidate in US history to have admitted he had been brainwashed! He meant it for Vietnam of course. But the fact he discovered he was susceptible to brainwashing at all (As most of us are) was notable and should have made him take a critical look at Mormonism as well. It's time his son took a good look and saved us all the bother of another sojourn of Bushwhacked insanity!

Americans need personal honesty of their presidential candidates based on a thorough self examination with a lot of introspection! That is called true integrity! If Mitt is not capable of that he is unworthy of his presidential ambitions.

I got out Mitt, you can too!

Authors Bio:

Retired Designer-Builder formerly practicing Attorney at Law.

Credentials include ordaining a Black man to priesthood in the LDS Church leading to a public struggle with the church yielding and ordaining Black men about 2 years later. Doug had completed a mission for the British Mission in 1951 with the title of Mission Architect. He consulted with church prophet David O' McKay for approval for construction of the London Temple and was responsible for the preliminary design.>

later in life Doug became disenchanted with the closed nature of the church leadership and sought meetings with them concerning issue which they refused to discuss. That refusal led to his open struggle to force change where and when needed.

He has written his biography and is currently published as "Under the Mormon Tree" available on CreateSpace E Store and soon on Amazon.com To order on E Store click or copy and paste
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He has also just published 'No Mormon For President' Available at Amazon Books. The book answers the reasons why
Mitt Romney should not be elected president.