Hey, if Joseph Smith, Lds founding dictator, could dictate in a busybody manner whether or not church member Newel Whitney was to retain his store in 1831 (Lds Doctrine & Covenants 63:42)-- and then for Whitney + church member Sidney Gilbert not to sell the store (D&C 64:26)...& for church member Josh Billings to dispose of land (D&C 63:39)...
...then ya better believe that the Lds dictatorial hierarchy will pinpoint when Lds grassroots members cannot exercise their citizenship rights...
...as well as dictate away to Romney were he ever to get into the White House.
If these so-called "revelations" can utterly control the commercial dealings of grassroots members, like Smith did, and probably like Lds "prophets" have done ever since just less noticeably -- then how can people like Lds scholar Richard Bushman claim that the Lds hierarchy won't weigh in on White House decisions?
They really can't.
What with the Warren Jeffs trial and this, Romney is prolly tearing at that beautiful hair.
Don’t forget the Islamic type response to persecution :
Oration Delivered by First Counselor Sidney Rigdon On the 4th of July, 1838, which Smith made into a pamphlet. (excerpts):
We take God and all the holy angels to witness this day, that we warn all men in the name of Jesus Christ, to come on us no more forever, for from this hour, we will bear it no more, our rights shall no more be trampled on with impunity. The man or the set of men, who attempts it, does it at the expense of their lives. And that mob that comes on us to disturb us; it shall be between us and them a war of extermination, for we will follow them, till the last drop of their blood is spilled, or else they will have to exterminate us: for we will carry the seal of war to their own houses, and their own families, and one party or the other shall be utterly destroyed. —Remember it then all MEN.
No man shall be at liberty to come into our streets, to threaten us with mobs, for if he does, he shall atone for it before he leaves the place, neither shall he be at liberty, to villify and slander any of us, for suffer it we will not in this place.
Neither will we indulge any man, or set of men, in instituting vexatious law suits against us, to cheat us out of our just rights, if they attempt it we say we be unto them. http://www.mrm.org/topics/documents-speeches/sidney-rigdons-4th-july-oration
Moreover, when Smith became the target in a newspaper known as the Nauvoo Expositor, he ordered the destruction of the press. http://www.mrm.org/violence-in-early-mormonism