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[–] FildoDaggins 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Burning and looting? Old West Mormoniggers.
[–] J_Dahl 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Fucking white jews
[–] Obbop [S] ago
From the comment section below the article:
"Here is some "poetic justice", for all who love to put Brigham Young up on that pedestal that he has never come off of:
Less than 6 months after John D. Lee was executed, Brigham Young was himself "executed" (by slow poisoning) within the one place he never thought an enemy could get to him: his own walled compound! The 'beloved prophet', so-called, had so many enemies, in Salt Lake City, that he lived a lavish lifestyle behind a high stone (or brick) wall, in his own compound, replete with armed body guards, et al.
And, yet, Young was "done in": not by a stealthy assassin, from outside, but by a small cadre of malcontent multiple wives (viz., some of his wives), who lived in that compound fortress with Brig, himself.
The story goes-- and it is a true one-- that Brig Young loved "white sugar": even though, with his huge number of beehives pollinating his many fruit trees, he was never in lack of honey, to sweeten things up and satisfy his 'sweet tooth'. Instead, though, he wanted what chemists call "sucrose" (table sugar).
Apparently, those "sugar beet farms", which later made Utah famous, were-- as yet-- some years off in the future; as, Brigham Young had to pay a premium to get the white stuff.
But, as the story goes (and the surviving journals of some of the participants share, with us, the agony they felt, in wrestling with and coming to the decision they ultimately made), a 16-year-old girl was to become Brigham Young's "last multiple wife": Brig Young being 76 (60 years older than the girl), in late spring, of 1877.
But, the plan that was hatched to do away with Old Briggy must have taken awhile, to come together: killing a big, fat, old fart of a polygamous husband (and the President of the Church, at that!) was no easy decision. I don't believe the details of the private thoughts of those involved will ever be known; but one can imagine their self-recriminations and their agonizing over having to take that huge step. What would their 'fate' be, in the Hereafter, they probably wondered. Would the Mormon God ever forgive them, afterwards? Would they be found out? Would they be executed (as John D. Lee had been, in March of that same year), for murder? Would it really be 'murder'? Or, could they somehow justify helping a young, innocent girl retain her innocence from a monster with a huge sexual appetite? Would that be enough reason for "using him up"? (i.e., words that he, Brig Young, was heard to say, on occasion, in those times).
And, so, they quietly (and secretly) plotted and planned. A trusted household member (and research can probably inform the reader as to which one that was) administered some "white powder resembling sugar", onto Brigham's food. And, this was repeated, perhaps daily, until Brigham became ill. Maybe, they continued to give him small doses of arsenic, until he was "past the point of recovery". He certainly DID end up beyond the point of recovery!
Brigham died in August, 1877: five months after his "adopted son", John D. Lee. How John Lee ever achieved the "status" of "adopted son", I will never know. He was only 11 years younger than Brigham. (But, 'the Lord works in mysterious ways' [I guess]. Especially if you think in terms of Lord Brigham.)
The whole ordeal of Brigham Young getting "sicker and sicker" is described in various sources. I, here, am relying on my memory, only, at this point. Having a medical background, I could easily see that the symptoms that Young suffered--especially the neurological ones--most conspicuously point to poisoning. (These neurological symptoms were the first ones that Young suffered.) Later, as the poisoning began to cause gangrene in the peritoneal cavity-- which is that body 'cavity' where all of one's "guts" are located-- other symptoms began also to manifest themselves.
Brigham Young "survived" (and dodged) the Grand Jury inquiry into his involvement in MMM [viz., The Mountain Meadows Massacre].
Brigham Young "survived" (and dodged) EVER being questioned about the mysterious disappearances of 'gentiles' that he ordered Bill Hickman to go out and "use up".
Brigham Young got all of the so-called 'saints' to eat out of his hand (by requiring them to 'sustain' King Briggy, every six months, at conference time); but...
Brigham Young could not build a wall high enough to ward off the dissenters who were part of his own family: who saw him as a pitiful monster (i.e., pitiful but not to be pitied).
It was also "poetic justice" that Brigham's greatest plans-- those that had to do with Brigham appointing two of his sons to the highest office of the priesthood (which is to say 'the apostleship')-- were frustrated and came to naught. Brig Young died less than 6 weeks before the 1877 October General Conference of the Church. And, thus, Young had no such opportunity to "promote his sons": unlike the late Gordon B. Hinckley, who handily promoted HIS two sons (in the gesture of "keeping 'ol Hinckley's name and legacy alive").
Hinckley and Young: two self-serving, self-aggrandizing men, who cloaked the fierceness of their arrogance with the 'cloak of piety'.
And, John D. Lee represents the MOST dangerous element of the LDS Church, altogether: the willingness to be pusillanimous and obsequious, all in the same breath (and at one-and-the-same time)!
John D. Lee's name 'lives on', though: "redeemed' (not by The Redeemer) and "rehabilitated" by later LDS Church presidencies (having all of his 'blessings' restored, to him, posthumously), and by the wondrous people of Paragonah? Utah... erecting a statue to that murderous fool: a native 'son' of theirs whom they are proud to call their own!
Such "weird and wondrous stuff" still lives on... and on... and on, in the Mormon Corporation of the President (aka, LDS Church).