Re: PLEASE SIGN THE MITT ROMNEY FOR VICE PRESIDENT PETITION!

On Apr 8, 5:44�pm, John <john...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Publius1787 wrote:

> > PLEASE SIGN THE MITT ROMNEY FOR VICE PRESIDENT PETITION!

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> >http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/MittforVP2008

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> > PLEASE REPOST, FORWARD, AND CIRCULATE

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> > Thank you

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> >http://selfishrhino.townhall.com

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> Is this you, Mitt?

PLEASE SIGN THE MITT ROMNEY PETITION! FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.IF

George McCain is elected Chancellor of Empire Wars.

Being a Mormon. he would be a great Secretarty of Defense.

The early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

(the LDS church) was fascinating and sometimes chaotic.

In 1846, most of the Mormons relocated to the Great Salt Lake, UT, and

established a theocracy under Brigham Young. Mormon anger against the

Gentiles (non-Mormons) remained high for many years. The year 1857 was

a time of particularly high tension. The Mormons were expecting an

attack by the U.S. Army. It was in the fall of that year in what is

now southwestern Utah that the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place

What happened?

A group of men -- variously described as Southern Paiute Indians,

Mormons dressed as Natives, or a combination of Natives and Mormons --

deceived and attacked a group of 137 pioneers whose wagon train was

traveling from Arkansas, through Utah, and on to California. There are

allegations that Mormons in the Mountain Meadows area created unrest

among the Native population by spreading a rumor that the the pioneers

were planning go to California and return with an army to attack the

Natives and Mormons.

Apparently, many people on both sides died in the initial conflict.

The pioneers then surrendered. Under a flag of truce, they were

disarmed, and then slaughtered in cold blood. In all, 120 men, women

and children of the wagon train were killed. 17 children under the age

of 7 were considered "too young to tell;" their lives were spared.

Brevet Jamor J.H. Carleton noted in his investigation of the tragedy

"that about one third of the skulls were shot through with bullets and

about one third seem to be broken with stones." 4

There was "a popular and widespread impression that John D. Lee was

the leader and arch criminal of the massacre." 5 He was made the

scapegoat, tried twice, and executed in 1877. There are allegations

that the massacre was perpetrated by an underground Danite group. This

theory appears to be a hoax since no such group existed in Utah at the

time.

Brigham Young led a church cover-up, saying that the Natives were

responsible for the massacre. He wrote that pioneers had earlier

caused the death of Natives by giving them poisoned meat, and by

poisoning some of their wells.