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Mormon Timeline: 2001 to 2009

Timeline of the Mormon Religion - 2001 to 2009
 
2002 On July 12, 2002, Darwin John is sworn in as the new CIO for the FBI. Coincidentally, Johns was previously the CIO for the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City.
2002 Karl Rove becomes George Bush Jr.’s Senior Advisor. Rove who has been referred to as “Bush’s Brain”, is not Mormon, but was born and raised in Salt Lake City and has been involved in Republican Politics his entire adult life. While attending Olympus high school in Salt Lake, he was the school campaign chairman for Mormon Senator Wallace Bennett’s re-election campaign for the U.S. Senate (today, Senator Bob Bennett, Wallace’s son, is one of Rove’s mentors). In 1969, Rove entered the University of Utah and obtained an internship with the Utah Republican Party with help from The Hinckley Institute. Rove began showing his true mettle in 1970 at the age of 19, when he used a false identity to illegally enter Democrat Alan J. Dixon’s campaign office when Dixon was running for Treasurer of the State of Illinois. During the incident, Rove stole 1,000 sheets of Dixon’s campaign letterhead, printed fake campaign rally fliers that promised "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing" and distributed them to rock concerts and homeless shelters in order to disrupt Dixon's campaign (Dixon won anyway). Rove’s role in this incident didn’t become public knowledge until 1973, and Rove later stated in the Dallas Morning News in 1999, "It was a youthful prank at the age of 19 and I regret it".

In 1971, Rove dropped out of college to take a paid position with the College Republican National Committee (CRNC). In 1973, and now back in college at George Mason, Rove ran for the office of Chairmanship of the CRNC during their summer convention in Missouri. The election was very contentious and pitted Rove against Robert Edgeworth, after Terry Dolan, the other main contender, dropped out and began supporting Edgeworth. Because of “procedural differences” in the way Rove and Edgewater interpreted the CRNC constitution, there were ultimately two votes conducted by two convention chairs who each declared Rove and Edgewater the winner. Dolan then anonymously went to the Washington Post with secret tape recordings of Rove giving training seminars to Young Republicans where Rove discussed campaign techniques that included digging through opponents’ garbage cans. So, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, the Post printed an article entitled "Republican Party Probes Official as “Teacher of Tricks". At Nixon's request, an FBI agent questioned Rove as part of the Watergate investigation, and Lee Atwater who was Rove’s Campaign Chairman signed an affidavit stating he heard a, "20 minute anecdote similar to the one described in the Washington Post" in July of 1972, but that, "it was a funny story during a coffee break".

Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean who was implicated in the Watergate break-in, and became the prosecution’s star witness was quoted at the time as saying, "Based on my review of the files, it appears the Watergate prosecutors were interested in Rove’s activities in 1972, but because they had bigger fish to fry they did not aggressively investigate him". Three weeks after he announced his intent to investigate the allegations against Karl Rove, on September 6, 1973, George Bush chose Karl Rove as the new Chairman of the CRNC. After making his choice, Bush sent a letter to Edgeworth stating he had concluded that Rove won the CRNC election fair and square. Edgeworth responded by asking him what the basis of his conclusion had been, and soon thereafter Edgeworth is quoted as saying, "Bush sent me back the angriest letter I have ever received in my life. I had leaked to the Washington Post, and now I was out of the Party forever". A partial list of the many political campaigns that Rove advised and assisted with during his career is shown below:

  • George Bush Jr. – unsuccessful 1978 Congressional campaign
  • George Bush Sr. – unsuccessful 1980 Presidential campaign
  • Ronald Reagan – successful 1984 Presidential campaign
  • George Bush Sr. – successful 1992 Presidential campaign
  • George Bush Jr. – successful 1994 Gubernatorial campaign
  • George Bush Jr. – successful 1998 Gubernatorial campaign
  • George Bush Jr. – successful 2000 Presidential campaign
  • George Bush Jr. – successful 2004 Presidential campaign
During the 2000 Republican primary between George Bush Jr. and John McCain in South Carolina, a South Carolina poll printed material that was intended to undermine support for McCain during the campaign, and included the question, "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child"? In the film Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush Presidential, the authors of the 2003 book and the related movie allege Rove was involved in the incident. And, during the movie John Weaver, the political director for McCain's 2000 campaign bid, stated, "I believe I know where that decision was made; it was at the top of the [Bush] campaign". But, McCain’s campaign manager Richard Davis stated that he, "had no idea who had made those calls, who paid for them, or how many were made", and Rove has always denied any involvement in the incident. On August 13, 2007, Karl Rove resigned from the White House. And, he is comfortable in knowing that he was always an important contact who dutifully forwarded information originating at the highest-levels of the Washington power structure back to the Mormons in Salt Lake who initially gave him his start in politics.
2002 CBS news reports on February 20, 2002 that Ali Mohammed pled guilty to all charges against him and is awaiting sentencing. But, there is no specific news about his sentencing, and the only information on his whereabouts is that he is in Federal custody at an undisclosed location. The Federal Department of Prisons Inmate Locater does not currently show any prisoner by the name of Ali Mohammed, or other variation of his name either. Further, Patrick Briley, an American journalist who writes for NewsWithViews.com, reports that Mohammed is given an early release from prison by direct order of the Bush Administration's Department of Justice, under the leadership of U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales.
2002 The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issues “The Bybee Memo”, which is named after Jay Bybee who is the head of the Office of Legal Counsel. Bybee is Mormon, graduated from the J. Reuben Clark School of Law and is a subordinate of Senator Orrin Hatch, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The memo is largely authored by John Yoo, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of the General Council and provides legal guidance for civilians who engage in interrogating terrorism suspects. Administration officials fear that CIA employees and other nonmilitary personnel could face indictment under U.S. Federal laws, which uphold the United Nation’s Convention Against torture. The memo narrowly defined torture as:
An act equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death"
On December 1, 2008, the “Bybee Memo” was summarily “brushed aside” by Federal Judge Cecelia Altonaga, and an American citizen was convicted on five counts of torture under a law known as the extraterritorial torture statute. Judge Altonaga ultimately relied on a December 2004 Office of Legal counsel opinion that replaced the definition of torture according to the “Bybee Memo” with another definition that defined “torture” as:

 

"An act committed by a person acting under color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical pain and suffering other than pain and suffering incident to lawful sanctions."
Both the courts and bureaucracy have now rejected the “Bybee Memo”, and it has no effective existence.
2003 In May of 2003, Darwin John, ex-CIO of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City retires as CIO of the FBI.
2004 Vice President Dick Cheney, whose wife is Mormon and who has significant ties to the Mormon Church, says "go f_ck yourself" to Senator Patrick Leahy on the floor of the Senate after the Leahy chides Cheney about his connections to Halliburton's war profiteering. Senator Leahy is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Cheney is the ex-CEO of Halliburton.
2004 On May 11, 2004, Harold Fish, a Mormon, kills Grant Kuenzli, an unarmed homeless man and volunteer with the Payson, Arizona Humane Society. The shootings take place while Fish and Kuenzli are hiking in the forests of Northern Arizona and their paths inadvertently cross. During the incident, Fish first shoots one of Kuenzli’s dogs that he claims attacked him, and then he shoots the unarmed Kuenzli after Kuenzli becomes upset and confronts Fish about killing his dog. Fish claims the killing is self-defense, and claims that Kuenzli threatened to kill him for killing his dog. According to Fish, he fires several warning shots for Kuenzli to stop before shooting Kuenzli three times in the chest at close range. Fish is not harmed, and Kuenzli did not have a weapon in his hands at the time he was killed. County prosecutors subsequently file murder charges against Fish, claim that Fish went beyond the circumstances of the moment and needlessly killed an unarmed man when other options were available. Fish claims he is innocent by virtue of the Melchizedek Priesthood, which allows him to circumvent Man’s laws, as he deems necessary, and his legal defense team is made up of Mormons.
2006 D. Kyle Sampson, a Mormon who was born 30-miles from the sight of the September 11, 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in Cedar City, Utah, fires eight U.S. Attorneys and begets the “U.S. Attorney Scandal”. Coincidentally, Cedar City is also where Chevie Kehoe was arrested in 1997. Kehoe is the Mormon white supremacist and polygamist who was involved in the planning of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in Elohim City. Sampson, a BYU graduate and graduate of BYU’s J. Reuben Clark School of Law is U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales’ Chief of Staff in 2006 when he fires the eight U.S. Attorneys. And, from 1999 to 2001 Sampson served as Counsel to Senator Orrin Hatch’s Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Hatch is from Utah and is Mormon.
2006 The mysterious American woman that Al Qaeda spy Ali Mohammed marries in 1986, in order to gain entrance to the U.S., continues visiting Ali Mohammed in Prison. She is said to be very loyal to him and is hopeful that the “feds” will some day set him free. She also allegedly gives an interview for the book, Triple Cross, and makes the following statement:
"He's done a lot for the government…Someday you'll know it all, but I can't discuss it."
Note – The name “Linda Lee Sanchez” is suspicious in and of itself. “Lee” is not a traditional Hispanic name, like the rest of Ms. Sanchez’s name is. Further, “Lee” is the same surname as John D. Lee who is the Mormon who executed Mountain Meadows Massacre on September 11, 1857, and Mormon’s settled Mexico extensively during the time polygamy was being outlawed in the United States in the late 1800’s. But, another possibility is that Ms. Sanchez was previously married and this is her married name. Regardless, imagine the implications if it could be ascertained if this woman is Mormon. Oddly, she doesn’t seem at all upset about the terrorist activities her husband has been involved in.
2007 On March 12, 2007, D. Kyle Sampson, resigns from the Justice Department.
2007 In 2007, Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh’s co-conspirator in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing accuses FBI agent Larry Potts of directing McVeigh to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. But, Nichols testimony is suspect because he is Mormon. Nichols was allegedly in Cebu City, Philippines and met with Ramzi Yousef in November of 1994, 6-months prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. Nichols comments are largely viewed as a vengeful statement made by a Mormon who is angry about the “Ruby Ridge Incident” where FBI agents tragically killed members of Randy Weaver’s family (who were Mormon) in 1992, which is said to have triggered the Oklahoma City bombing.

Note – It appears quite possible that there may have been political infighting within the FBI, and that a Mormon contingent inside the Bureau was angry at a non-Mormon contingent for what happened at Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City may have been the revenge. Additionally, it appears that Mormon FBI agents in the Bureau have been less than forthcoming about all of the Mormon connections to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11.

2007 On December 9, 2007, Mathew Murray, a Mormon, attacks a Christian Mega-Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, kills 4 and injures 3-more. Prior to his rampage, Murray posts hate-filled messages on the Internet, including the following comment about Christians:
"I'm coming for everyone soon and I will be armed to the @#%$ teeth and I will shoot to kill. ...God, I can't wait till I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame, I don't care if I live or die in the shoot-out. All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you ... as I can especially Christians who are to blame for most of the problems in the world”.
2008 Today, the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia references the 1857 “Utah War” as “Buchanan’s blunder”, and discusses how it pitted approximately one-third of the U.S. Military against, “...what was arguably the nation’s largest and most experienced militia.” The “militia” being referred to is the Mormon’s own “Nauvoo Legion” that is in Utah, but was originally formed by Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois to militarily overthrow the Government of the Untied States in 1843. Wikipedia also refers to “danites” as a “fraternal organization”, and other Mormon apologetic sites dispute that “danites” even ever existed.
2008 Mormons begin publically embracing Islam. On April 2, 2008, an article in the Los Angeles Times discusses the bond between Mormonism and Islam and states, “U.S. Muslims and Mormons share deepening ties”. BYU professor Noel Reynolds also states:
“…there are many important elements of Mormon thought in which we feel closer to the followers of Muhammad than to the contemporary Christian culture in which we have been located since our beginning”
In order to cement the bond of their religions, Mormon women begin organizing “quilting bees” with Muslim women, and when Gordon Hinckley died, Seid Diglisic, the President of the Islamic Society of Bosniaks in Utah states, “He was a great man, one of the leaders who wanted to connect all the religions. Everything we know from him is good". But, what most people today may not realize is that Joseph Smith integrated much of Islam into early Mormonism, and History of the Church records the following passage that was made during the height of the Missouri War in 1838:
“…The Prophet inculcates the notion, and it is believed by every true Mormon, that Smith's prophecies are superior to the laws of the land. I have heard the Prophet say that he would yet tread down his enemies, and walk over their dead bodies; and if he was not let alone, he would be a second Mohammed to this generation, and that he would make it one gore of blood from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic ocean; that like Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was, 'the Alcoran or the Sword.' So should it be eventually with us, Joseph Smith or the Sword.' These last statements were made during the last summer. The number of armed men at Adam-ondi-Ahman was between three and four hundred"
Today, Moslems believe in polygamy, “Sharia Law”, the principle that Islam is the law of the land and believe that Moslem women are subservient to men. Interestingly enough, “mainstream” Mormons used to believe in polygamy, the concept of a “Mormon Sharia law”, which taught that Mormonism was the law of the land and believed that a woman’s place was in the home, without an education. And, on April 2, 2008, Steve Young, a direct descendant of Brigham Young who had over 70-wives and many children stated, “A Mormon living in an Islamic society would be very comfortable”. The entire text of the article is shown below:
U.S. Muslims share friendship, similar values with Mormons

(The connection is based not on theology but on shared values and a sense of isolation from mainstream America) - By David Haldane, April 02, 2008

The Mormon Church has to be among the most outgoing on Earth; in recent years its leaders have reached out to, among others, Latinos, Koreans, Catholics and Jews. One of the most enthusiastic responses, however, has come from what some might consider a surprising source: U.S. Muslims. “We are very aware of the history of Mormons as a group that was chastised in America,” says Maher Hathout, a senior advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles. “They can be a good model for any group that feels alienated.” Which perhaps explains an open-mosque day held last fall at the Islamic Center of Irvine. More than half the guests were Mormons.

“A Mormon living in an Islamic society would be very comfortable,” said Steve Young, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attending the event. The sentiment is echoed by Muslims. “When I go to a Mormon church I feel at ease,” said Haitham Bundakji, former chairman of the Islamic Society of Orange County. “When I heard the president [of LDS] speak a few years ago, if I’d closed my eyes I’d have thought he was an imam.” Though the relationship has raised eyebrows and provided ammunition for critics of both religions, Mormons and Muslims have deepening ties in the United States. What binds them has little to do with theology: Mormons venerate Jesus as interpreted by founder Joseph Smith, while Muslims view Muhammad as God’s prophet. Based on shared values and a sense of isolation from mainstream America, the connection was intensified by 9/11 and cemented by the Southeast Asia tsunami. It is especially evident in Southern California, with large Mormon and Muslim populations.

The Mormon Church has become the biggest contributor to Buena Park-based Islamic Relief, touted by its administrators as the West’s largest Muslim-based charity. Relief officials say the church has donated $20 million in goods and services since the 2004 tsunami, equal to about 20% of the charity’s annual budget. Brigham Young University in Utah, the church’s major institution of higher learning, features what is thought to be one of the world’s best programs for translating classic Islamic works from Arabic to English. Though created primarily for academic purposes, the results have impressed Muslims flattered by the close attention. “It shows they have a keen interest in the Muslim world,” said Levent Akbarut, a member of the Islamic Congregation of La Cañada Flintridge. And Mormons and Muslims say they often are co-hosts of educational and social programs at which, though some may be angling for long-term doctrinal influence, very little open proselytizing of each other seems to take place. “We have a very close and friendly relationship,” said Keith Atkinson, West Coast LDS spokesman.

Mormons “explain our faith to anyone who will listen” and “treat Muslims like anybody else,” said Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles, one of the church’s top governing bodies in Salt Lake City. But Oaks added that “we don’t preach to people who would be disenfranchised” or likely offended. Arnold H. Green, a history professor at BYU, has traced how early Mormons in the 19th century were hounded by accusations that church founder Smith was the American Muhammad. The first Mormons angrily denied any connection to the Muslim prophet but gradually accepted some comparisons, particularly that both religions were founded by post-Christian prophets with strong sectarian views. “As the church grew into a global faith,” Green wrote in a 2001 essay, “its posture toward Islam became … more positive” until, today, “the two faiths have become associated in several ways, including Mormonism’s being called the Islam of America.”

Both religions strongly emphasize family. They tend toward patriarchy, believing in feminine modesty, chastity and virtue. And although Islam discourages dancing involving both sexes, Mormons report that church-sponsored “modesty proms” commonly draw Islamic youths. Both faiths adhere to religion-based health codes, including prohibitions against alcohol, but Mormons and Muslims share something more: membership in quickly growing minority religions that many other Americans have sometimes viewed with suspicion and scorn. “We both come from traditions where there has been persecution in the past and continues to be prejudice,” said Steve Gilliland, LDS director of Muslim relations for Southern California. “That helps us Mormons identify with Muslims.” A recent national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that although a thin majority of those polled expressed positive opinions of Muslims and Mormons, the number was significantly less than those favoring Roman Catholics or Jews.

More than half the respondents said they had little or no awareness of the precepts and practices of either faith. But 45% saw Islam as more likely than other religions to encourage violence, and 31% said that Mormons weren’t Christian. Armand L. Mauss, a Mormon and professor emeritus of sociology at Washington State University specializing in religious movements, said that unlike mainstream Christians and Jews, Muslims and Mormons “tend to make fairly stringent demands for religious conformity on their members.” These practices, he said, include discouraging marriage outside the religion and observing dietary laws, such as the Mormon prohibition against tobacco, alcohol and caffeine. But the clincher, according to Mauss, is that both communities “have been stung in recent years by the recurrence of scandals over which they have no control.” For Muslims, the obvious example is 9/11.

For Mormons, Mauss says, the problem is polygamy, which, though rejected by the mainstream church more than a century ago, is still the first thing that occurs to many Americans when they think about the religion. The relationship between the two religions has sometimes drawn ire. Scattered throughout the Internet are numerous tracts, many by evangelical Christians, comparing the two religions in less-than-complimentary terms. “Modern Mohammedanism has its Mecca in Salt Lake,” reads one. “Clearly the Koran was Joseph Smith’s model, so closely followed as to exclude even the poor pretension of originality in his foul ‘revelations.’ ” In Southern California, the relationship between the two religions became closer after the Los Angeles riots in 1992, when the Mormon Church, hoping to promote diversity, invited several ethnic and religious groups to attend the opening of its new temple in San Diego. Muslims responded in higher numbers and with greater enthusiasm than most others. The church later feted prominent Muslims in Salt Lake City.

“We were treated as dignitaries,” said Shabbir Mansuri, founding director of the Muslim-based Institute on Religion and Civic Values in Fountain Valley, which encourages tolerance through research and education. “I met with the president of LDS and the governor of Utah. We were sitting in the front row of the Tabernacle. Mormons would give their right arms to be there.” The relationship deepened on Sept. 11, 2001. The first call Mansuri received that day came from Elder Oaks. “He was concerned and wanted to send us a very clear message that we were in their prayers,” Mansuri recalls. “It was like having someone who loves and cares for you; not so much a Mormon reaching out to me as a fellow believer reaching out.” Oaks said he was primarily motivated by friendship. “I consider Shabbir Mansuri a brother,” he said. “He’s a good man who’s doing good work. We try to be friendly to all people, and in the days after 9/11, lots of Muslims felt rejected.”
In the months that followed, Mormons nationwide opened their churches to Islamic worshipers fearful of reprisals in their mosques. When Muslims needed a cannery to process the Bosnia-bound beef slaughtered for the annual Eid al-Adha observance, the Mormons offered theirs in Utah. Following the tsunami that devastated many Islamic communities, the Mormon church, which has a history of contributing to a wide range of charities, began working closely with Islamic Relief. Though LDS had helped Muslims before – providing 195 tons of powdered milk, hygiene kits, medical supplies and other provisions – it had never previously worked with this major Islamic agency, or on such a scale. And though the church continues to aid non-Muslim causes, only two of the six major disaster assistance efforts listed on its website since 2004 – Hurricane Katrina and Africa measles vaccination campaigns – did not primarily affect Islamic nations.

Locally, LDS helped the Islamic Society of Orange County’s Al-Rahman Mosque in Garden Grove develop its library with a $15,000 donation. “Their beliefs are similar to ours,” Robert Bremmer, a Mormon bishop, said at that facility’s open-mosque day in 2005. “They have modest dress, and so do we. They believe in all the [Old Testament] prophets, as do we.” During Al-Rahman’s most recent open house in August, attended by many Mormon elders and dignitaries, a tribute was paid to a deceased LDS official supportive of the mosque. The effects of Muslim-Mormon interaction are showing in subtle ways too. Spending time with Mormons, Bundakji says, has inspired him to stop drinking coffee. “I thought they had a good idea,” he says. “Now I don’t drink caffeine and I don’t have headaches anymore.david.haldane@latimes.com

2008 On April 9, 2008, Federal and State officials in Texas conduct an anti-Poligamy raid at the Texas-based “Yearn for Zion Ranch”, which was founded by polygamous Mormon leader Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS Church based in Colorado City, Arizona.
2008 On September 4, 2008, Ex-Massachusett’s Governor Mitt Romney concedes the Republican Presidential nomination for President of the United States to Senator John McCain of Arizona.
2008 On October 2, 2008, during a debate with Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sara Palin, Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden calls Dick Cheney, “The most dangerous Vice President we’ve had”. During his reign as Vice President, Cheney creates a long list of abuses of authority that violate the Principals of the Constitution and the checks and balances of the three branches of the Unites States Government. Specific instances of Cheney’s abuse of the office of the Vice President of the United States are documented below:
  • Cheney claims to wield executive privilege independent of the President of the United States, and makes extravagantly petty claims of secrecy. For example, he orders the Secret Service to destroy logs of visitors to his residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington despite the 1978 Presidential Records Act that is contrary to his demand.
  • In 2003 President Bush signed an Executive Order 12958, which requires agencies and "any other entity" within the executive branch to report to a division of the National Archives on their classification and declassification activities. But, since 2003, Cheney's office points to his position as the President of the Senate to justify his refusal to comply.
  • During one of his refusals to comply with classified documents, Cheney deems the Office of the Vice President to be a hybrid branch of government, which is both executive and legislative, which becomes his reason for non-compliance.
  • The lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney claims that Congress lacks any authority to examine Cheney’s behavior on the job. This is claimed specifically in response to requests from by Congressional Democrats for David Addington, the Vice-President's chief of staff, to testify about his involvement in the approval of interrogation tactics used at Guantanamo Bay. Coincidentally, Jay Bybee, a Mormon who graduated from the J. Reuben Clark School of Law at BYU, drafted the “Bush Torture Policy”.
  • Cheney’s Lawyer states that Cheney's conduct is "not within the [Congressional] Committee's power of inquiry", and "Congress lacks the constitutional power to regulate by law what a vice-president communicates in the performance of the vice president's official duties, or what a vice president recommends that a president communicate”.
2008 In February of 2008, William R. Stringham, a Mormon bishop in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC states, “…Trying to understand Mormon doctrine through anti-Mormon activists who parade as historians would be like trying to understand Judaism through the writings of Adolf Hitler”.
2008 On January 8, 2009, Canadian authorities from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest polygamous leader Winston Blackmore in the polygamous community of Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada. Bountiful, BC is a “sister city” to Warren Jeff’s polygamous communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Yearn for Zion Ranch, Texas. Jeffs had previously excommunicated Blackmore during a shake-up designed to consolidate his power-base after the death of his father, Rulon Jeffs, the polygamous group’s previous prophet.
2009 On February 4, 2009, former Vice President Dick Cheney warns that there is a "high probability" that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years. Cheney also states that he fears that President Obama’s administrative policies will make it more likely for this attempt to succeed.

Summary

There appears to be a preponderance of evidence, which suggests that Mormons have been attempting to overthrow the Government of the United State since 1830. Further, it also appears that Mormons spent the last 100-years cleaning-up their image, and aspiring to the highest levels of the United States Government and its institutions for the purpose of better understanding the dynamics and inner-workings of the United States Government. There is another preponderance of evidence that suggests that Mormon members of the United States Justice Department learned as early at 1920 that the President could possibly circumvent the checks and balances of the Constitution of the United States by invoking Presidential emergency war legislation, which appears to create a “loophole” in the system of checks and balances of the U.S. Government. Further, it appears that Mormons within the United States Government may have been involved in employing this loophole in an effort to seize control of the United States Government in a time of national emergency.

Coincidentally, during this same period of time, there have been a number of serious national emergencies, in the form of acts of terrorism, which also appear to have been planned and executed with the aid of an inordinate number of Mormons. It also appears that if Dick Cheney were to have been elevated to the office of President of the United States during such an emergency, he may have been able to invoke the President’s “emergency war powers legislation”, which would make him the "paramount unitary executive" of an "enduring Constitutional government" under the (CO-OP). Further, if Mitt Romney had been able to be elected the President in 2008 or appointed Vice President, the same cadre of individuals involved in all of these machinations may have actually gotten a second chance to implement such a plot. Further, if all of this did indeed come to pass, it could be viewed as an embodiment of the of the Mormon prophesies of, “The Doctrine of the Constitution Hanging by a Thread” and “Daniel’s Prophecy of the Rise of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days”.

There is only one version of “Daniel’s Prophecy of the Rise of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days”. However, it is top secret and is never referenced publicly by the Mormon Church other than with the word “Daniel”. Consequently, no one outside of the Mormon hierarchy is really familiar with this Mormon prophecy. However, there are many references to ”The Doctrine of the Constitution hanging by a Thread”, and the Mormon Church continues to propagate the lore that surrounds this prophecy. Six of the versions of this prophesy and the years it was references are shown below:

1884: Church President John Taylor references the prophesy when he prophesies, "When the people shall have torn to shreds the Constitution of the United States the Elders of Israel will be found holding it up to the nations of the earth and proclaiming liberty and equal rights to all men" – Journal of Discourses 21:8.

1912: Joseph F. Smith...predicted that the time would come, “when the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread, and that the Latter-day Saints above all other people in the world would come to the rescue” – LDS President, Joseph F Smith. Conference Report, October 1912.

1946: “[Joseph Smith] said if the Constitution of the United States were saved at all it must be done by this people. It will not be many years before these words come to pass. When the Constitution of the United States hangs, as it were, upon a single thread, they will have to call for the “Mormon Elders to save it from utter destruction; and they will step forth and do it” – Mark E. Peterson, LDS apostle. Conference Report, April 1946.

1952: “Joseph Smith...[said] the time would come when the Constitution would hang as by a thread and at that time when it was thus in jeopardy, the elders of this Church would step forth and save it from destruction. Why the elders of this Church? “We alone know by revelation as to how the Constitution came into being, and we, alone, know by revelation the destiny of this nation”” – Harold B. Lee, LDS apostle and future Mormon President. Conference Report, October 1952.

1966: “I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment” – Ernest L Wilkinson, BYU President [1951-1971. BYU Speeches, April 21, 1966.

1988: ”Joseph Smith predicted that the time would come when the Constitution would hang, as it were, by a thread, and at that time “this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction”” – Ezra Taft Benson, LDS President. Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988), 619. (Benson also quoted the White Horse Prophecy in numerous lectures and publications that he gave).

A people that despises America, and the Judeo Christian Principles upon which America was founded, has sought America’s downfall for the past 178-years; and, their animosity and hatred of America has been root cause of many of America’s internal crises in the recent past. Further, these crises have been orchestrated in a manner, which make them appear to fulfill their own religious prophecies and serves as a secret beacon to their own people who are the only people who can recognize this symbolism. Fortunately, many of their recent machinations did not result in the conclusion they desired. While they may have failed in their short-term goal of hijacking the American Government, they continue to spread slanderous rumors, which blame the United States Government for the recent terrorist events, which they themselves orchestrated. Further, this strategy is confusing “the masses”, who are not cognizant about what is actually going on, and many people are becoming deluded into believing the false propaganda being propagated by the very people who orchestrated these events in the first place. Coincidentally, the organization that is doing this would be the nation’s 14th largest media company if it were a real corporation today, and had to pay taxes.

It is paramount for the people to understand that it was not “The Government” that orchestrated these horrific events, as has been rumored. Rather, it was the Mormons and their lackeys who were able to infiltrated the United States Government under the auspices of being loyal and patriotic Americans who actually orchestrated these events. As insidious as the recent terrorist events were, the strategy of blaming the “United States Government” for their dastardly acts is even more insidious, and is designed solely to break the confidence of the people in their own Government, and have them “tear the constitution to shreds” as their Mormon prophesy states:

"When the people shall have torn to shreds the Constitution of the United States the Elders of Israel will be found holding it up to the nations of the earth and proclaiming liberty and equal rights to all men"
– Journal of Discourses 21:8.

The people need to know the truth

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