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I know you have more influence the smaller you get, but I really don't see their authority to rule either.
So I do what I can in my own way. BTW, NY will now never get another dime from me for a license to take the king's game. Fucking website wouldn't work when I went to get a license. Went without, got ticket (by officer Richard Head I shit you not), pled guilty with a plea for dismissal. No dice. $25 fine and a $75 court fee.
NY will now never get another dime from me.
So I do what I can, but I will not consent to this system, from the local level on up. The local system is as corrupt as the national one, just in different ways.
pods
Not gonna argue the corruption point at any level.
I will say that based on my recent experience, you can get under their skin and get their attention in a hurry.
Our group stirs up action in the local area via candidate forums, informational postcards in the candidate's backyard and other such shenanigans.
It Works!
I had a legislative aid ask me in a face to face meeting to call off the dogs. What she meant was, we don't like you stirring up the grassroots and blowing up our email box.
To that I say, Tough Shiite! I asked her who her boss worked for, the people or the leadership in Tallahassee, she didn't answer.
I'm telling you setting grassroots fires is very effective in getting your point across and flexing your constitutional muscles.
DaddyO
Hey, DaddyO, I have a website platform that may interest you.
The idea is to have all the candidates answers to various questions, on the site, with simple arrow navigation to go to the next question or next candidate's answer.
The key thing is to pick good questions, like "Will you vote in favor of making ALL city spending public and transparent?" (ie: not just the above 5,000$ items, like they usually do, to hide the graft). Just from that question, it is typically extremely easy for just about anyone to tell who is legit and who isn't, and also to hold them accountable afterwards.
And those candidates who refuse to answer get screwed since everyone sees then that they don't want to answer these questions...
It is also worth noting how journalism is worthless in really helping people decide at election time: not only are the journalists always suspect (all are biased), but there are generally way too many candidates for many posts and hence only the 'favored' ones get covered.
Anyhow, you can check out the demo here: http://betterinfos.com/CandidCompare (note: I only put sample questions and answers for the mayors, not for the other seats). The project is open source and free to use/modify/etc.
Here is our take on your idea.
http://floridacitizensalliance.com/website/wp-content/uploads/6-2-14-con...
DaddyO
But the key difference is that your approach does not make those answers available to voters. What does it matter how many questionnaires you send to candidates, if no one can see their answers?
With the website I designed, voters can choose any question they care about and then compare the answers given by all the candidates...
Oh contraire, mon frere!
We are tabulating the responses and will indeed make them public.
We do also ask these question publically in forums. You wanna see someone squirm, just ask a tough constitutional question in a public forum where 200-300 people can here your answer.
I'm not sure if you are selling your website or services as I didn't click the link.
DaddyO
As I mentioned in the earlier comment, the site is open-source and completely free. It can be hosted by anyone and modified by anyone, for free.
Honestly, I do not think it matters much to have a few hundred people hear candidates squirm for a moment in a debate, but I think it matters to have the squirm-inducing answers on a website for the duration of the election campaign.
Most people do not have time to make it to those public forums (at most 5% show up), but people do have time to browse a website at their leisure. Also, it is easy to baffle with BS when speaking, but it is much harder to achieve this in writing, especially when each answer gets compared to the other candidates'!
If you only ever keep using the same techniques and approaches as before, then don't be surprised if you only ever get the same results as before...
How are you going to 'tabulate' the answers you receive? It seems to me you need something like the website I created, which is a far cry from the static page you linked to, but whatever.
I'm not going to debate the usefulness of your website.
Suffice it to say that having public records of a candidate or elected officials positions is a good thing.
If your trying to sell or promote your website, I would recommend that you not be so antagonistic towards others who may file your site for future perusal.
But that's my .02 as a future consumer.
DaddyO
First you said "Here is our take on your idea.", followed by "I'm not sure if you are selling your website or services as I didn't click the link.", followed by "I'm not going to debate the usefulness of your website.".
LOL. Next you'll tell me your hard drive crashed and you lost your emails... But people are supposed to care about your local elections, 'cos you are really trying to change things, right?
So you weren't happy with the fact that I said I had filed your website for exploration and evaluation at a later date?
You continue to be antagonistic to what end?
Not very forward looking in regards to getting your platform out there for others to evaluate and use, eh?
Now I could care less about looking at your site as a useful tool!
DaddyO
It was clear, nearly from the start, that you were and are NOT interested and that you are basically full of BS, so I don't feel any need to hold back from calling you out for your BS.
Other people who are honestly trying to make a difference through local elections may be interested in the project. I have moved on, since I think elections are a waste of time, especially due to all the people like you who always get involved.
YOU are the one who is trying to get people to still believe in elections, only clearly it doesn't seem like you want to change anything significant, you just want people to keep their 'hope' in that BS process.
Give it a rest, your clearly grasping at straws.
I certainly admire your majic ability to discern someones true motives through the internet though, bravo!
DaddyO
Exactly. Trey needs to get the ball moving before I trust him. He can make some bureaucrat uncomfortable for a few minutes all he wants. but until there are real consequences, I don't trust him.
I'm glad someone sees this...It is a farce, theater of the absurd for those with short attention spans. Each side agreeing to allow the other a few small 'wins' to please their bases, but ultimately agreeing not to take it too far. The sheeple get their 'show', and the whole thing keeps rolling on as before.
Yeah right....... Let's just pretend that emails aren't stored on servers as well as the hard drive. The trouble is the average stupid self-absorbed American has no fucking clue, nor do they care about what is going on.
Cue Zoolander to retrieve the files....
the average stupid self-absorbed American has no fucking clue
Actually, they do have clues - they're just trying very hard not to acknowledge the fact.
One doesn't want to appear cowardly, after all.
And Reggie Love plowed the Hershey highway all night long. The end.
CON-gress. Come on, you douche-bags, start indicting people for contempt of Congress. A good place to begin would be with the black Nazi, Eric Holder. Lock the fucker up.
Really, this will not happen. The Repubs are waiting until October to release the Krakken and win every election on the slate, take the Senate by storm and start impeachment hearings early 2015. That would be my game plan, at least, though with Boehner knocking down a quart of bourbon a day, one wonders if there's any plan at all.
We need change or collapse; either will do just fine by me.
But, hurry the fuck up!
I like your next steps but boehner will not do shit, he is not bold & courageous.
Maybe not, but he is orange.
Boehner has a plan. It's to go after the Tea Party groups that are knocking off the establishment Republicans. That's the Boehner plan. This kind of ineptitude in such a target rich environment has to be planned....
What's the difference? The excuses, false flags and coverups keep getting flimsier, the mugs buy them anyway, and the ones who see through the bullshit don't matter.
It's like they don't even bother anymore because they know the fix is in no matter what they do.
Watergate, the Gulf of Tonkin, the Kennedy assassination, they just don't make conspiracies like they used to.
If you have an extra 5 minutes, check this out
http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/06/23/gowdy-obliterates-irs-commissioner
This is the funniest interrogation of the head of the IRS - the stupid old man is so stupid, he keeps repeating his lies after he gets tripped up.
In the end, Holder, head of DOJ, will let him walk. Brutal.
And everyone will obey these lying sacks of shit just the same.
Nothing to see here.....move along.
"These arn't the droids you're looking for....move along"
Have faith in ......what exactly?
Such theater... http://www.sonasoft.com/company/customers/ oh look, the IRS is a client for their EMAIL BACKUP SERVICE...
Shamelessly stolen and reposted elsewhere....Thanks Praeda2!
Would anyone else not be surprised in the least by an American Junta?
Utter lawlessness.
the hack who heads up the IRS now, smug, with his eyes saying, fuck off you can't touch me, I am in the club.
and he's right. might have at least looked like he cared that americans were targets of a very powerful law enforcement branch of government, for trying to change the politics of our nation..remind me again of what a dictatorship would do?
Sounds like Nixon's "accidental" tape erasure by his secretary. The corrupt arrogant narcissistic illegal alien muslim pathological liar in chief is too good for impeachment. Bring out the waterboarding.
Everytome u turn around they t spewong more despicable lies and the sherple just lap it up.
As my good friend would say if he were in the little girls spot....
"shit nigga please!" (i.e. I may have been born yesterday but i stayed up all night).
I speak Jive.
Just hang loose blood. She gonna catch up on the rebound on the medici.
IRS, above all the others on the lengthy list of corrupt government entities, has been a corrupt criminal organization for decades.
Instead of spying on innocent Americans, why not put Snowdens NSA to get use. They'll find the e-mails.
Koskinen claimed the IRS limits it's 90K employees to 6,000 e-mail messages because it can't afford the storage costs out of it's $1.8B budget for IT...
Google Apps for Government gives every user 30GB of storage with redundant distributed backup for $50/user/year. This service could be implemented across the IRS in a matter of days/weeks and would cost a total of $4.5M/year which amounts to .0025% of its budget.
nice to post things that someone who is not a criminal, could or should of done as far as saving emails, but we are dealing with criminals, as if those of us on ZH are not aware of the likes of paulson, corzine, mary joe white, gs, jpm, sec ad nausem. we are at the treasure of the sierra modre moment: emails? we don't need no stinkin emails. these vermin will only be held accountable at the end of a gun, nothing short of revolution will touch them..and I ain't leadin it so here we are, eat your peas.
Supposedly they contracted a service but then surprisingly cancelled the contract a few months after the 'crash'.
Someone did a very nice job cleaning up.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/06/23/irs-reportedly-cancelled-contract...
Not passing the smell test
The "circuses" just keep getting more idiotic. Someone change the channel.
I want to say she used gmail, her phone, whatever for the really juicy email she sent out but, looking at her pic I think she's not that smart. I hope there is some underling somewhere that she farmed out email tasks to, some admin that sticks up his/her hand and says "You know, I have copies of her emails - she always wanted me to go back and look stuff up for her". I'd write him/her a check for a grand, if that person existed.
You would be wasting a grand. We all know that there is systemic corruption and we all know that squashing one of the underlings will change nothing.
I'm thinking about starting a pool, you know, like a football game pool. My pool would require participants to correctly pick the date, that Lois Lerner becomes "the late Lois Lerner".
Now, if they would have used a cloud for storage....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/18/code_spaces_destroyed/
"Hey you, stay outta the cloud!"
I watched the video and goudy wouldn't shut up long enough for the commissioner to say anything.
Just more grandstanding for the cameras by the republispew machine running for president.
How sad you slugs are.....why not go and get a job or something as opposed to beating off in your mother's basement!
garcam is it? and what prey tell would you like the slug criminal to say? please inform us of what lies he needs to speak next..idiot troll douche never come near me if you value your health.
He only has a limited amount of time to speak. I'd rather he use it than watch the IRS terd stare blankly.
He only has a limited amount of time to speak....
Who makes up these "rules"? I can understand the need for order but contempt for the truth is contempt for the truth.
I agree with the cartoon, justice is sound bite, twitter brevity, sugar high immune and anyone wishing to reduce and discount it in order to fit it into tablet form for easy swallowing is far more guilty than the criminals being protected.
jmo.
The IRS and this admin accomplished exactly what thee wanted him to do - create news clips spewing grossly inaccurate talking points. And of course Cumming's was right there, too, doing the exact same thing.
ok, who has lost their job, lost their pension, gone to trial, gone to jail:
Obamacare bribes and lies
FAST and FURIOUS
GSA
IRS 501
IRS targets obama enemies 2012
VA
Benghazi
Solyndra
Rosengate
Holder perjury
Clapper perjury
Pigford
Sebellius demanding payments
Obama Libya bombing without congress approval
Obama freeing TRAITOR and releasing 5 al queda leaders
Sestak bribe probe
Spying on AP
NSA
OK to Drone Americans
EPA
Harry Reid's BLM land deals
Pelosi / Congress insider trading
Use of government funds to promote Obamacare via Axelrod's firm crony payoff
Dream Act
Inviting Guatemalans and hondurans to come on up via Vallery Jarrett secret white house meetings
White House meetings with Muslim Brotherhood (terrorists) representatives in the white house
Funding the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS/ISIL both terrorist organizations
Mass firing of Generals and cleansing military of those not willing to kill Americans
Purchaing of billions of rounds of hollow point ammo for use against USSA citizens
TO SUM IT UP....... CONGRESS IS A COAGULATION OF USELESS PIECES OF SHIT WHO DO NOTHING EXCEPT ENRICH THEMSELVES AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE......THE CONSTITUTION MEANS SHIT.......VALERIE JARRETT rus the country...... AND FUCK YOU CITIZENS OF THE USSA becasue you are so fucking stupid not to get what is happening and even if you did you are too fat and lazy and government dependent to do anyting about it .... so eat shit, pay taxes (those who do) and die so we can take your wealth that "you didn't earn"...
...and this is the short list.
;-D
The Everything-Gate scandal.
Where is Jon Corzine?
Just like the engineers say the 9-11 story is impossibility....the IT experts say this story is impossible.
Yet we all listen to the politicians and not the experts. All it takes for bad people to take control, is for good people to do nothing.
Good people don't pretend to be good. Evil people always pretend to be good. The trick is sorting them out.
I couldn't take my eyes off Koskinen. I kept waiting for horns to pop out of his head...like those videos you watch closely and at the end something happens and you start screaming.
Agreed... at many points I wanted someone to tell him to shut up, while at other points I wanted someone to knock that shit-eating grin off his face, and at other times I wanted him to be asked how he was prep'd for the hearing and what is his renumeration for covering Lois', Obama's and everyone else's backside that he was so obviously doing.
Good people live honest lives and accept what comes their way good and bad. This equals morality.
Bad people live dishonest lives and legitimize stealing to themselves easily because they have no moral values.
The Obama administration is the most transparently deceitful one in US living memory. The Zionists must have selected a mulatto puppet to heap shame on the dark skinned race and it also was the fashionably convenient thing to do at the time. Timing is everything when you have large world wrecking projects to execute.
I can't believe the same thing happened to me!! My tax returns for the last 3 years were on my hard drive and the thing crashed when I accidentally dropped my computer into my fireplace. Oh well I guess I can't file now.
But the cops are scanning g phones if WalMart workers to see if they stole a toothbrush. Yet Lois walks away after robbing the whole country WITH police protection.
Hahaha, love the cartoon! This administration does think we're stupid. And based on the lack of outrage in the country as a whole on this matter, sadly, I guess they are correct. Can you imagine if this was a Republican administration? The dumb-ass MSM is leading the charge to kill our country, and they don't even realize it.
math the MSM knows exactly what they are doing- with out them shouting 24/7, you think the country lacks outrage? we got plenty of outrage, but few public means to show our numbers, people are waking up, the next step however is what to do about it...risk all our wealth our lives takes guts and a bit of crazy.
You are either willing to give everything up or you are part of the problem. It's sad but it really is that simple.
Trey Gowdy...let's see how far they let him go
Agreed... it's going to be interesting to see how this pans out for Trey. IMO they could not have picked a better candidate for this and I think there are very high expectations of him. To say he has his work cut out for him is an understatement, but what if he 'fails to produce what we are wanting him to produce'? It's obvious that the admin and their crony friends are doing everything humanly possible to hide, coverup, etc., what seems to be the truth about this whole thing, but what if Trey can not crack any of these and ends up just telling us the same thing that this admin and the MSM has been saying?
With as adamant that Trey has been regarding the corruption and scandalous nature of this IRS, what if he ends up being 'forced' (either through findings, or other means) to admit that there really is not a smigeon of corruption...? Will that spell the end of Trey? Is he a fall guy? We already know that Boehner has not been real fond of Trey...
Are you kidding me? Trey Gowdy is some kind of anti-establishment hero, who will come to the hearing ready to take heads? Yeah right...and all politicians suck except MY guy...
News Flash: They ALL suck. And there is only ONE party, and that is the party that is always in power, because they have convinced us they are different. So when we get pissed, we have the illusion of 'voting out' one and putting in another. But all we are doing is sending the same party back again and again...some under the "R", and some under the "D".
Ok, just out of curiosity, was my down voter Republican or Democrat?
I promise you, Mr. Gowdy has already been told how far he will be allowed to go. And he will perform exactly as he is told to, complete with emotional outbursts at all the appropriate times. He'll be permitted to score a point or two, and he'll be told exactly where, and how far, he will be allowed to go with everything else.
I'm sure he's been in rehearsals to prepare.
Net tax receivers, down to low level bureaucrats and lumpenproletariat, are the master class. Everyone knows it, so why all the fuss.
Time to subpoena the IT guys at the IRS. If it travels over a network, it is captured somewhere.
This is all bullshit - send someone to jail for life and then you'll have my attention....
Congress keeps saying he is a liar, but then Congress still has not ordered an IT forensic team in to investigate. It is oh so easy to go in with some portable hard drives and grab copies of everything before it gets scrubbed further.
Yeah, and why do I get the feeling that they will never order that team?
Because those emails most likely contain information damaging to BOTH sides. And both sides know it, so those emails will never be permitted to be 'found'. The Republicans will shriek about this, and the Democrats will let them...the show WILL go on for the cameras. Each side will be permitted their few minutes before the cameras to stake their position and collect the 'brownie points' from their side for saying all the right things, knowing that no inconvenient evidence will arise that makes them look foolish.
The Dems will allow the Repubs to make an issue of the emails, in return the Repubs will work with the Dems to make sure those emails STAY lost. Each side will be allowed to make their appeals to their respective bases, but at the end both sides will 'reluctantly' agree that there may have been something there, but we just couldn't prove it.
Afterward's, in Boehner's office, the Democrat and Republican leadership will relax, share a couple of bottles from Boehner's private stash, and congratulate each other for playing their respective roles so well.
Like the Warner Bros. cartoon where the sheepdog and the wolf do their day-jobs of being on opposite sides, then clock out on friendly terms, and say, "See you tomorrow."
Makes Nixon look like a rank Nimrod amateur...he had the "plumbers" while the current administration is using the IRS.
I think there was something like two million emails lost during "Plamegate". What goes around comes around.
Is that supposed to make someone happy?
What exactly is "Plamegate"? Is that the reporting of Valerie Plame as an employee of the CIA? A position that was under her picture in Washington's "Who's Who", an annual publication? Or is that the "scandal" regarding a woman whose husband used to routinely brag at PARTIES that his wife worked for the CIA? Or is that the woman, sitting at a desk in Langley, whose "identity was reported by Robert Novak?
All things Bush = Bad.
Seriously? The other guys did it, and now my team did it, so I'm ok with it?
Corruption is corruption in spite of the team jersey. Go work for MSNBC. They need a new daytime political activist.
Investigate the Investigators that will investigate...uh what are going to do again?
Ed Snowden knows...
They should have dragged Werfel in front of the committee and hung the little fucker who did absolutely NOTHING.
Exactly. I have 6 email accts (work and personal) that I can sign into from any computer. The email does NOT need to be on any hard drive.
Are these people so stupidly computer illiterate? (/ sarc --I know the answer to my question.)
OT but equities are tanking, probably on GoBombEm's drone attack on ISIS at the Syrian border - or have I missed the news:
http://www.investing.com/indices/us-30-futures-advanced-chart
congress has the right by law, to place anyone in contempt of congress into jail for 12 months. that law is on the books since 1857 and is rarely used.
do you know why a crooked piece of shit legislator(s) will rarely hold anyone in 'contempt' and almost never place anyone in jail ?
because crooks don't want to actually place other crooks in jail lest the same tactics be used upon themselves. -----thieves code of honor.
US Chief Archavist says that the IRS has broken the law if these things were lost. http://www.caintv.com/u.s.archivist-testifies-irs-di
They need to check the IT departments ticketing system and see if she ever reported a problem with her computer in the first place. If so, what was the problem and the fix.
The problem was she couldn't delete her emails. The fix was they loaned her a screwdriver and a hammer.
pinch me! Fox actually printed this... I guess it's a GOP thing....
sonasoft backed up emails... even if all of them weren't 100% backed up, be interesting to sift through what was backed up.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/22/irs-says-lerner-emails-lost-f...
The Commish's bio prior to IRS...
Koskinen served as President of the U.S. Soccer Foundation from 2004-2008. He previously served as the Deputy Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, and then later President Clinton's Chair of the President's Council on Y2K, 2000 Conversion, the Year 2000 problem. He presently also serves on the boards of AES and American Capital, Ltd. On March 11, 2009, he was announced as the interim CEO at Freddie Mac. On April 23, 2009, he became the Principal Financial Officer after the death of Freddie Mac's acting CFO. In August, 2009, with the hiring of a new CEO, he returned to his position as non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Freddie Mac.
...and he is another dirt bag attorney from the Ivy League. So when Hillary wins in 2016 they will just move this douch bag to some other Department.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_spot/2014/06/24/isis_supporters_congratul...
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/iran-at-saban/posts/headlines-2014/06/23-...
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/481157118142476288/photo/1
What the IRS scandal is all about is the ability to remain anonymous. The ability to do what they want to accomplish is easily doable under other laws, ….. without remaining anonymous. The key here is the destruction of laws which govern the ability to track the movement of campaign funds.
Once you allow “religious organizations” to funnel funds from point A to point B without accountability, one exposes the system to “offshore” funds having financial influence in American political elections. I can think of a few countries when given the possibility to elect the President Of Their Choice; what little independence remains within our political system will be wiped out.
With the Citizens United decision recently made, it became desirable to hide funds (hiding who was buying favor actually) by use of the 501(c) nonprofit organizations, 501(c)(3) educational , 501(c)(4) social welfare, 501(c)(5) unions, 501(c)(6) trade associations. These are all tax free under proper circumstances.
The tax free certification only allows you to advertise same and perhaps would interest more donors to contribute.
This is a tempest in a tea pot and is a distraction from the real problems, current and past, foisted upon us by Congress et al.
New York Times reported at the time:
Almost all of the biggest players among third-party groups, in terms of buying television time in House and Senate races since August, have been 501(c) organizations, and their purchases have heavily favored Republicans....
They include 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organizations, like Crossroads, which has been the top spender on Senate races, and Americans for Prosperity, another pro-Republican group that has been the leader on the House side; 501(c)(5) labor unions, which have been supporting Democrats; and 501(c)(6) trade associations, like the United States Chamber of Commerce, which has been spending heavily in support of Republicans.
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If you ask me, this is about Netanyahu being able to funnel Sovereign State Funds into his friends (Mitt Romney) campaign. Romney would be great for Israel and very bad for the US. Worse than “W” if you can imagine that.
This is not judgmental, but informational. A religion(s) specific to a specific country which is not specific to the specific election; is non-sequitur.
From Wikipedia:
Judaism is foundational to the history and doctrine of Mormonism. Jews and Mormons both agree that keeping commandments is essential to their religion. Jews and Mormons both agree that Moses was a prophet. Jews and Mormons both diverge from a literal interpretation of the Tanach (Biblical commandments). But as they diverge: Jews and Mormons disagree about the specifics of what is commanded and how commandments are received. Mormons regularly receive commandments anew through personal revelation according to the authority, dominion, and worthiness of the individual. Jews inherit a scholarly tradition of commandments and eschew any contemporary revelation as presumptively false.
The Latter Day Saint movement teaches that its adherents are either direct descendants of the House of Israel or adopted into it. As such, Mormonism regards Jews as a covenant people of God, held in high esteem and respected in the Mormon faith system. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) refers to itself as philo-Semitic in its doctrine.
Studies have shown that Jews generally view Mormons more positively than any other religious group,[1][2] despite often voting on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Explanations for Jews' high regard for Mormons is speculated to come both from their solidarity with other historically abused religious minorities and the philo-semitism of Mormon theology.
Snippet from Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/how-kabbala-shaped-mormon-faith-1.4...
Smith had one purpose, to renew the Israelite nation of yore. For this purpose, prophecy was renewed, priestly orders were established, and temples (not churches) were built. Even the polygamy of the Patriarchs was renewed. Smith wanted to build "Zion" on American soil. Smith spoke of a new society, where people would share their property, and were faithful to the true Bible coming from the lips of their leader. The same leader, Smith, pretended to rule this utopia as a “prophet, priest and king” entrusted by God to be responsible for the fate of his subjects.
In 1844, after they were chased out and expelled from Missouri, tens of thousands of Mormons moved on to Illinois. There, Smith established the city of Nauvoo, which grew rapidly and soon numbered more than 10,000 inhabitants, approximately the size of Chicago at the time. Smith himself was the city's mayor, and when the harassment of the Mormons began again he announced his candidacy for the U.S.presidency. in elections scheduled that year. His secret plan was to annul the separation of church and state after his election and to establish a kingdom of priests, with himself at its head. Several months later, he was killed in a lynching.
In his book, Harold Bloom writes that “If there is already in place any authentic version of the American Religion then, as Tolstoy surmised, it must be Mormonism, whose future as yet may prove decisive for the nation and for more than this nation alone.”
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Religions have a right to be whatever they want to be. We have a right to be free from what they want.
This is the uniting of two religions which are severely undemocratic in nature, complaining about the abuse of democracy. It is not about emails! It is about religious governance.
If you want to overthrow a nation, first democratize it.
The real reason why these so-called pro-democracy critics and activists are now hammering against Putin is because they want to go back to the Robber Baron era of Yeltsin so that they can steal again, and steal even more today from Russia.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of the state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ~Baron de Montesquieu
Bambi Meets Godzilla