Mitt Romney's Driving Killed Leola Anderson. His Cover-Up Tale is Proved Dishonest 17JUL12

FOUND this on Daily Kos, very interesting expose from 2012 on the real story of mitt romney's accident in France in 1968. More on the lies, deception and greed that are the real mitt romney at mitt romney & bain capital http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/p/mitt-romney-bain-capital-updated-5okt12.html

This is a complicated diary. If you read it, please expect to take some extra time. There's a ton of evidence: the accident, identifying and finding the other driver, analyzing slanders, a forgery, and then dealing with a cover-up scheme that is reminiscent of the 1970s Watergate scandal.
The story begins in 1968 with Mitt Romney causing a head-on collision at Beaulac, France. He failed to accommodate obstructed vision and drove head-on into a Left Turn lane.
Mrs. Leola Anderson was killed and several others were injured. The next morning Mitt Romney lied to a reporter about who was responsible. A cover-up conspiracy ensued that unfolded with three distinct phases. Mitt Romney has been depicted over the years as a blameless victim in the accident while he and his supporters shift blame to a Catholic priest.
Big time professional media have been spoofed. The authorized biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman titled "The Real Romney" is polluted with intentional disinformation. Serialization of this book in the Boston Globe became a propaganda tool, freeing up Mr. Romney to run for President of the United States.
We have evidence in hand of Internet burglary and phony web pages. Several of these actions involve felonies. Romney's supporters resemble nothing more than Richard Nixon's CREEP, apart from the money laundering, and their Watergate burglars.
In any case, first off, here is the actual driver of the other car: Bishop Jean Vilnet in the Bazas, France hospital:

Romney's slanders depict this man, Bishop Vilnet, as a "drunk priest." Fraudulent representations have depicted him as "Albert Marie." Romney and his crew have stated repeatedly that this Catholic priest was speeding on a "mountain road" at "120 kph" and "swerving" out of his lane to hit Romney and kill Mrs. Anderson.
In fact, the bishop was driving two women home after Sunday Mass.
Romney's story has continued for decades among Mormon missionaries in France as hateful anti-Catholic propaganda.

Mitt Romney believes that he can lie with impunity. He sees himself as "One Mighty and Strong," the hero of Joseph Smith's "White Horse Prophecy," and destined to lie and bully his way to the presidency. As you will be able to see from the evidence, presented below le chignon d'orange, there is not a stitch of truth to what Romney says.

Immediately after the 1968 accident, Mitt Romney recruited a small group of other missionaries to help him put the blame over on the other driver. He was under severe pressure as his father, George Romney, was running for president. Also, the woman who was killed, Leola Anderson, was his boss's wife. Here is a picture of the two of them from 1968:

As you can see, there is little resemblance between this Mr. H. Duane Anderson and Bishop Vilnet. No one would confuse the two men.
Yet when a set of photographs surfaced from Andre Salarnier in Bordeaux, depicting the accident victims and the cars, Romney's current Team Lying crew made sure that Mchael Kranish was led to believe that the Vilnet pic was Duane Anderson. That is how the Vilnet pic is labeled at the boston.com site.
Mr. Salarnier spoke with Bishop Vilnet in the Bazas hospital. Both men recalled that meeting in 2012. And neither man knew that Mitt Romney had set about blaming the bishop for his own bad driving.
(There are also pics of Mitt Romney is his hospital bed. One of the several details of Romney's tale is that he was "in a coma for two days" and then in his biography for "a three day coma" and on his campaign web site "a concussion." But the pics do not depict an Intensive Care Unit or any other medical apparatus that would indicate that Romney was a coma patient or had suffered a serious head injury. Mrs. Leola Anderson's obituary states clearly that he suffered "a minor head injury." We know that Mitt Romney was visited by the American Ambassador, Sargent Shriver, at request from Mitt's father, George Romney. We do not have pics of that meeting.)
Lying and Joseph Smith's "White Horse Prophecy"
Joseph Smith considered the White Horse of his prophecy -- borrowed over from the Book of Revelation, Chapter 6 -- to be an allegorical figure. Yet he gives it power and an existence in the human world. He gives it a magical power, as a spell or a charm.
"White Horse," as re-conjured by Prophet Smith, is a magical protection for lies.
-- Smith identifies lying severally and throughout his works and sermons to be the most powerful weapon for gaining earthly political power.
-- In  practice, Smith's "White Horse" functions as a protection for public lies -- specifically, lies that are constructed to achieve advancement outside of the Church.
-- Smith also calls on his followers to become the followers of this Rider. To become an embodiment of the White Horse.
What should be of concern for Christians, literal-belief Christians all the more, is seeing a politician come along who believes these things. Who sees Smith's misreading of The Revelation as his personal destiny:

Verse 2:  And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

This man will change any position. He lies with no moral distress. He will say almost anything. He is emulating the Christian Anti-Christ, the one who gets 42 months to lay waste to the earth, and he does not know it. Mitt Romney has never read the Christian Bible.
Catholic.com
A few days back a summary of Occupy Security MMOG's research on the Romney's 1968 accident was made available at the catholic.com web site. The scheme protected Mitt Romney by deploying a dishonest, thoroughly anti-Catholic slandered of Catholic clergy and claiming that the Roman Catholic Church had protected this priest from prosecution.
The posting at catholic.com worked like a "honey pot" in database and web site systems, attracting criminal "bees" to show what they were up to at the web site.
Yes, criminal. As illegal in their acts as Nixon's CREEP thugs and the Segretti dirty Tricks crews and the Watergate burglars.
First off, the "bees" got in and all trace of the posting was deleted from catholic.com. Even the "vilnet" tag was deleted.
Then, shortly after, a fake web page appeared at a Shanghai web server and it's hit-count was bumped up to give the fake page a high Google-search display priority. The interesting part of the content on this page is a rebuttal section from "Dale_M Forum Elder" that focuses on supporting elements of the Team Lying dysinformation stream:

"Forum Elder" is not a Catholic title. That has been added to the web site.
This section of text never appeared at catholic.com. The page forges a misrepresentation of catholic.com content.
So... what we have is Internet burglary at the catholic.com web site, followed by forgery that copies the logos and look-and-feel of catholic.com.
Welcome to the Watergate mentality.
Romney's lie about the car wreck in France are protected by criminal conspiracy. We're forty-four years out from the accident and it's still desperate craziness. All this is done by paid Dirty Tricksters, similar to the Watergate burglars, paid to support the Mittster's slander conspiracy. The crimes bridge wide mail frauds, France, England in their press, the United States, and China.
Occupy Security was able to ask around and find out where the cars collided. Mrs. Anderson is remembered despite that no one knew her. She had come to rural France from so very far away. Bishop Jean Vilnet became rather famous, for a quiet priest, serving as president of the French Council of Bishops. He did many good things. The crash site is in the middle of the three lanes of N524 Le Grande Route, right in front of the Beaulac post office:

Here is a surface image with the new (post-1968) traffic separators:

Imagine the truck back 100 meters, blocking the 21-year old Mr. Romney's vision. With the southbound Left Turn lane wide open, he steered for what he thought was his own lane.
Caution in any measure would have saved Mrs. Anderson's life.
There were no concrete traffic separators in 1968 so slowing down just a little bit would have allowed Mr. Romney to pull back to the right and avoid the Mercedes. He ignored white painted lines and went ahead.
The collision, itself, was not a high-speed car-smashing catastrophe. If she had had a seat belt available for use, Mrs. Anderson would have survived. Unfortunately, she was the sixth person in that five-passenger capacity Citroen DS.

There is not all that much damage to these cars. The Citroen DS would have been going approximately 60 kph. The Mercedes less than 30 kph, maybe even stopped.
We have photos of these Citroen DSes after highway speed crashes. There is not much left.
If the Mercedes had been going "120 kph" or anything close to it, we would not be discussing Mr. Romney in 2012.
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The earlier posting has images for the WHOIS registration data for catholic.com and the web page with the fakery.
Romney Dirty Tricks unit google-spoofs catholic.com. CREEP revived !
Several comments recommended rewriting for clarification. That diary spends time and space on the spoofing evidence. Obviously the catholic.com web site in El Cajon, CA is not a spoofing operation in Shanghai, China.
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Similarly, we do not have to accept criminal acts. Internet burglary is a felony and setting up fake web pages gets out to illegal campaigning if there is a connection to Romney or to his campaign staff.
Deal with Democrats and you're dealing with politicians. Deal with Republicans and it's crooks.
Let's try a simple Thought Experiment using a mark-up for a Mitt Romney tax return:

Look at the "Label" section. It has an address. Mitt and Ann Romney's address.
Under penalty of perjury they declare the following:
-- Their address on the date for which this Form 1040 is filed.
You can move during a year. You can move several times. But for the date of the Form 1040, you can only use one state.
That restricts use of local tax exemptions. And you are only allowed to have one state driver's license at a time.
-- But Mitt and Ann Romney took $54,000 a year in local tax exemptions in Utah and similar advantages in Massachusetts. He said recently that the Utah house was in Ann's name -- which fails completely if she listed Massachusetts on her Form 1040.
-- But Mitt voted in Massachusetts. Which fails as a violation of election law if he declared Utah on his Form 1040.
-- But Mitt ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. Which fails the Massachusetts Constitution residence requirement if he filed in Utah in 1999 or 2000 or 2001 on his Form 1040. (Plus his several perjuries in that case before the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission.)
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Mitt Romney killed Leola Anderson. Not Bishop Jean Vilnet. Not the imaginary and much reported "Albert Marie."
Mitt Romney has supported his lie for decades. Possibly the tale has been useful as a motivation for missionaries in wine-drinking Catholic France. He was retelling the tale as recently as 2007 in multiple interviews and in 2009 with attenuation of the wilder claims.
That complex lie is the single longest-running project of Mitt Romney's life. He cannot stop it.
Along with hiding his tax returns, keeping Catholics from thinking too much about Leola Anderson and Bishop Vilnet is a tough problem.
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Rachel Maddow has picked up on Mitt Romney and Ann Romney's problems with their legal addresses for the period 1999 through 2002. Several diaries appeared here at dailykos. She and her crew at MSNBC have more and higher qulaity research resources than the Poor OccSec (mostly retiree) MMOG hands who dug out what these address declarations imply legally. Also, several more web pages have disappeared from their original servers, magically to reappear elsewhere out of legal range of U.S. DoJ and with large hit-counts to up their statuses with the search engines. Republicans are professional criminals, mostly, at the top.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Revelation of St. John the Divine, Chapter 6 is Joseph Smith's departure point for his "White Horse Prophecy."
You can read The Revelation in a half-hour max. It's poetry.
There is the inevitable The Book of Revelation App.
And the paperback: http://www.amazon.com/...
Smith goes wack-job and makes the Anti-Christ into his conquering hero. Officially and uniquely for Smith's words, LDS rejects "White Horse Prophecy" from its doctrine. Snippets do appear in "Doctrine and Covenants."
Mitt Romney was nicknamed "One Mighty and Strong" at BYU after coming back from France. He had survive the automobile accident. He was rich. His father had made as strong run for the presidency. He was also one helluva liar.
If you want to see where this White Horse Prophecy operates as cult  magic, you can research it in connection with television personality Glenn Beck. We're not going to do that for you. It's too crazy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110907/-Mitt-Romney-s-Driving-Killed-Leola-Anderson-His-Cover-Up-Tale-is-Proved-Dishonest

THE WHITE HORSE PROPHECY, MITT ROMNEY & THE LDS / MORMON CHURCH

IT is interesting to note that mitt romney doesn't state the white horse prophecy is false. There are many in the mormon community who see romney's nomination for and possible election as president as the beginning of the fulfillment of this prophecy because they see Pres Obama and the Democratic party destroying the nation and our Constitution. They see a president romney as the mormon who will save America and our Constitution by invoking his power to restore the "true" constitution and establish a lds / mormon theocracy. Dana Millbank of the Washington Post may view this as a nonviolent, benign event, but anyone who knows anything about the history of the mormon church in America knows it is full of violence against non-believers. And one must take the "official" lds church position on the white horse prophecy with a grain of salt. After all, they also "reject" polygamy, but consider the number of polygamist communities and families in areas governed by mormons. If you want to know about the real lds / mormon church, read Under The Banner Of Heaven, and consider what you have read when you vote on 6 NOV 12. 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joseph Smith, Jr., first leader of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and purported source of the White Horse Prophecy.

The White Horse Prophecy is a statement purported to have been made in 1843 by Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, regarding the future of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and the United States of America. The Latter Day Saints, according to the prophecy, would "go to the Rocky Mountains and ... be a great and mighty people", identified figuratively with the White Horse described in the Revelation of John. The prophecy further predicts that the United States Constitution will one day "hang like a thread" and will be saved "by the efforts of the White Horse".^[1]
Some have speculated, on the basis of the White Horse Prophecy, that Mormons expect the United States to eventually become a theocracy dominated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).^[2][3] The authenticity of the prophecy as a whole, which was not made public until long after Smith's death, is debated, and the leadership of the LDS Church has stated that "the so-called 'White Horse Prophecy' ... is not embraced as Church doctrine."^[4] However, the belief that members of the LDS Church will one day need to take action to save the imperiled US Constitution has been attributed to Smith in several sources and has been discussed in an approving fashion by Brigham Young and other LDS leaders.
Several famous Mormons have made statements related to the White Horse Prophecy. For instance, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said he considers the White Horse Prophecy to be a matter of "speculation and discussion by [LDS] church members" and "not official [LDS] church doctrine."^[5]

Origins

Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith went to Washington D.C. in November 1839 in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain help for his persecuted followers.^[6] Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune writes that from then on, Smith and his followers "considered themselves the last Real Americans" and "the legitimate heirs of the pilgrims and Founding Fathers", who would be called upon one day to save the US Constitution.^[7] Smith is believed to have then said, in 1840, that when the Constitution hung by a thread, Latter Day Saint elders would step in on the proverbial white horse to save the country.^[7]
According to a diary entry made by John Roberts of Paradise, Utah in 1902, Joseph Smith gave the White Horse Prophecy in early May 1843, during the period in which the Latter Day Saints were headquartered in Nauvoo, Illinois. Smith is recorded as saying that the Mormons "will go to the Rocky Mountains and will be a great and mighty people established there, which I will call the White Horse of peace and safety." Adding that "I shall never go there" and predicting continued persecution by enemies of the church, Smith reportedly said that "You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber.... I love the Constitution; it was made by the inspiration of God; and it will be preserved and saved by the efforts of the White Horse, and by the Red Horse^[8] who will combine in its defense." Smith additionally said, according to the diary, that the Mormons would send missionaries to "gather the honest in heart from among the Pale Horse, or people of the United States, to stand by the Constitution of the United States as it was given by the inspiration of God." Roberts' account quotes Smith as predicting numerous wars involving Great Britain, France, Russia, China, and other countries, and saying that the European nobility "knows that [Mormonism] is true, but it has not pomp enough, and grandeur and influence for them to yet embrace it." He is also reported to have said that a temple which the Latter Day Saints had planned to build in Jackson County, Missouri "will be built in this generation."^[1][9]
In 1844, Joseph Smith rejected the platforms of the major candidates for President of the United States and decided to conduct his own third-party campaign for the Presidency^[3][10]—an effort which was cut short by his death on June 27 of that year. Following a succession crisis in which Brigham Young was accepted as Smith's successor by the majority of the Latter Day Saints, the Mormon migration to the Intermountain West began under Young's direction in February 1846.^[11]

Authenticity

Edwin Rushton, who recorded the White Horse Prophecy after Joseph Smith's death

The authenticity of the White Horse Prophecy is debated. It was never made public during Smith's lifetime, but was recorded many years after his death by one of his associates, Edwin Rushton.^[1] Although some elements of the statement were confirmed by contemporary LDS Church leaders as having been taught by Smith, the prophecy as a whole has never been officially acknowledged or accepted, and it has been repudiated by the LDS Church since 1918.^[12] The prophecy's authenticity, on the other hand, has been defended by LDS scholar Duane Crowther,^[13] Mormon fundamentalist Ogden Kraut,^[14] and anti-Mormon writer Sandra Tanner.^[15]
In his 1966 book Mormon Doctrine, LDS theologian (and, later, apostle) Bruce R. McConkie wrote that "From time to time, accounts of various supposed visions, revelations, and prophecies are spread forth by and among the Latter-day Saints, who should know better than to believe or spread such false information. One of these false and deceptive documents that has cropped up again and again for over a century is the so-called White Horse Prophecy."^[16]
In early 2010, the LDS Church issued a statement saying that "the so-called 'White Horse Prophecy' is based on accounts that have not been substantiated by historical research and is not embraced as Church doctrine."^[4] Also in 2010, LDS historian Don L. Penrod examined significant differences in two early handwritten accounts of the prophecy, noted some words and phrases which were not characteristic of Joseph Smith's speaking style or current in his time, and speculated that Rushton had "in his elderly years recorded some things that [Smith] actually said, mixing in words of his own creation"—commenting additionally that "memories of words and events, especially many years later, are often faulty."^[12]

United States Constitution

Brigham Young, who assumed the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after the death of Joseph Smith.

Though there are doubts about the authenticity of the White Horse Prophecy as a whole, several sources attribute to Smith the idea that the United States Constitution would one day hang by the thread, and LDS Church leaders have issued similar warnings with regard to the Constitution.^[7][17]
In 1855, Brigham Young reportedly wrote that "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."^[7][18]
In 1858, Orson Hyde (another contemporary of Smith) wrote that Smith believed "the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and ... if the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the elders of [the LDS] Church".^[7][19]
In 1922, the LDS Church's fifth presiding bishop, Charles W. Nibley, stated that "the day would come when there would be so much of disorder, of secret combinations taking the law into their own hands, tramping [sic] upon Constitutional rights and the liberties of the people, that the Constitution would hang as by a thread. Yes, but it will still hang, and there will be enough of good people, many who may not belong to our Church at all, people who have respect for law and for order, and for Constitutional rights, who will rally around with us and save the Constitution."^[15][20]
In 1928, the LDS apostle Melvin J. Ballard remarked that "the prophet Joseph Smith said the time will come when, through secret organizations taking the law into their own hands ... the Constitution of the United States would be so torn and rent asunder, and life and property and peace and security would be held of so little value, that the Constitution would, as it were, hang by a thread. This Constitution will be preserved, but it will be preserved very largely in consequence of what the Lord has revealed and what [the Mormons], through listening to the Lord and being obedient, will help to bring about, to stabilize and give permanency and effect to the Constitution itself. That also is our mission."^[20]

Interpretation

LDS conservative commentator Glenn Beck, speaking at the Restoring Honor rally in 2010.

Questions regarding LDS attitudes towards the United States government—whether considered on their own or as component parts of the White Horse Prophecy—have arisen from time to time as prominent members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have become involved in American politics. The White Horse Prophecy has been characterized as "effectively plac[ing] believers on perpetual Red Alert for the Constitution's possible demise"^[21] and as admonishing Mormons to "come to the rescue and restore the true Constitution by any means necessary".^[22]
Writers such as Richard Abanes and Elaine Wolff have speculated, on the basis of the prophecy, that Mormons expect the US to eventually become a "Mormon-ruled theocracy divinely ordained to 'not only direct the political affairs of the Mormon community, but eventually those of the United States and ultimately the world'",^[2] and that "a Mormon, if he were elected president, would take his orders from Salt Lake City."^[3] In addition to many LDS members of the Republican Party, some LDS Democrats have also been inspired to run for office by the White Horse Prophecy.^[17]

George Romney

In 1967, US presidential candidate George W. Romney said the following regarding the White Horse Prophecy: "I have always felt that they meant that sometime the question of whether we are going to proceed on the basis of the Constitution would arise and at this point government leaders who were Mormons would be involved in answering that question."^[5]

Mitt Romney

In 2007, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney told the Salt Lake Tribune that "I haven't heard my name associated with [the White Horse Prophecy] or anything of that nature. That's not official church doctrine.... I don't put that at the heart of my religious belief."^[5][23]

Glenn Beck

Conservative personality Glenn Beck (who joined the LDS Church in 1999) has alleged that President Barack Obama "is going to bring us to the verge of shredding the Constitution, of massive socialism."^[7] On November 14, 2008—following Obama's election—Beck appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show The O'Reilly Factor and said that "we are at the place where the Constitution hangs in the balance, I feel the Constitution is hanging in the balance right now, hanging by a thread unless the good Americans wake up."^[7] Earlier in November, while interviewing US Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah (also a Mormon), Beck remarked: "I heard Barack Obama talk about the Constitution and I thought, we are at the point or we are very near the point where our Constitution is hanging by a thread."^[7][24][25] Hatch appeared on Beck's Fox News show in January 2009, and Beck prompted him by declaring "I believe our Constitution hangs by a thread."^[7]
LDS blogger and religious commentator Joanna Brooks has said that "it is likely that Beck owes his brand of Founding Father–worship to Mormonism.... Many Mormons also believe that Joseph Smith prophesied in 1843 that the US Constitution would one day 'hang by a thread' and be saved by faithful Mormons".^[26] Washington Post journalist Dana Milbank has described Beck's views as essentially "White Horse Prophecy meets horsemen of the apocalypse"^[7]—though Milbank has also observed that the White Horse Prophecy is "actually a fairly benign prophecy. They're talking about restoring law and order and peace and tranquility. It doesn't sound like a violent thing."^[27]

Rex Rammell

In 2009, Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell announced plans to hold a series of meetings with believing Mormon men, which were to include discussion of the White Horse Prophecy.^[28][29] In response, LDS Church officials issued a statement saying the church is "politically neutral" and hoping that "the campaign practices of political candidates would not suggest that their candidacy is supported by or connected to the church."^[30][31] Rammell later retracted his original plan to limit his meetings only to LDS men, apologizing to "all those citizens who are not members of the LDS faith, who have expressed a sincere interest in attending my meetings and discussing this prophecy and how we can step forward and save the United States Constitution".^[32]

See also

• List of prophecies of Joseph Smith
• Mormon folklore
• Theodemocracy

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "The White Horse Prophecy", George Cobabe, Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (2004). Retrieved August 25, 2011.
2. ^ ^{a b} One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church, Richard Abanes, Basic Books (2003), p. xvii.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Wolff, Elaine (October 17, 2007). "An American president". San Antonio Current: p. 8.
4. ^ ^{a b} "Church Statement on 'White Horse Prophecy' and Political Neutrality", Public Affairs Department, LDS Church, January 6, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
5. ^ ^{a b c} "Romney candidacy has resurrected last days prophecy of Mormon saving the Constitution". Salt Lake Tribune. June 4, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
6. ^ Bushman, Richard L. (2005). Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. New York: Knopf. pp. 392–394. ISBN 1-4000-4270-4.
7. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Mormon Prophecy Behind Glenn Beck's Message by Dana Milbank, The Huffington Post, October 5, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
8. ^ The identity of the "Red Horse" is not stated in the prophecy.
9. ^ Anderson, Wing (1946). Prophetic Years 1947–1953. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 33–37. ISBN 978-1-4286-3588-3.
10. ^ Smith, Joseph, Jr. (1844). "General Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States". Retrieved August 25, 2011.
11. ^ Bennett, Richard E. (1997). We'll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848. Deseret Book Company. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8061-3838-1.
12. ^ ^{a b} Don L. Penrod (2010). "Edwin Rushton as the Source of the White Horse Prophecy". BYU Studies 49 (3): 75–131. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
13. ^ Crowther, Duane S. (1962). Prophecy, Key to the Future. Horizon Publishers. pp. 301–322. ISBN 0-88290-781-6.
14. ^ Kraut, Ogden (1993). The White Horse Prophecy. Pioneer Publishing. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
15. ^ ^{a b} Tanner, Sandra. "Joseph Smith's 'White Horse' Prophecy". Utah Lighthouse Ministry. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
16. ^ McConkie, Bruce R. (1966). Mormon Doctrine (2nd ed.). Bookcraft. p. 835.
17. ^ ^{a b} Sheffield, Carrie (November 3, 2006). "Houses of Worship: White Horse in the White House". Wall Street Journal: p. 13. "Still, the prophecy continues to inspire Mormons to run for office, on both sides of the aisle."
18. ^ A discourse by President Brigham Young, delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, February 18, 1855. Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 182.
19. ^ A sermon by Elder Orson Hyde, delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, January 3, 1858. Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p. 152.
20. ^ ^{a b} Milbank, Dana (2010). Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America. Doubleday. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-385-53388-1.
21. ^ Reilly, Adam (October 14, 2009). "Latterday Taint". Boise Weekly.
22. ^ Wurth, Michael (January 19, 2011). "Teabooking 101: Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America". San Antonio Current: p. 11.
23. ^ "Is Glenn Beck Attempting to Fulfill the Mormon 'White Horse Prophecy'?". AOL News. October 5, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
24. ^ Reilly, Adam (December 3, 2009). "Latter-Day Taint". Salt Lake City Weekly: pp. 20–22.
25. ^ Glenn Beck with Sen. Hatch: 'Constitution is hanging by a thread', GlennBeck.com, November 4, 2008. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
26. ^ Brooks, Joanna (October 7, 2009). "How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
27. ^ "Glenn Beck: Reading between the Coded Lines". National Public Radio. October 10, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
28. ^ "Rammell unapologetic about meeting with LDS elders". Rexburg Standard Journal (Rexburg, Idaho). December 23, 2009. Retrieved December 3, 2011.
29. ^ "Idaho candidate Rammell holding LDS meetings". Deseret News. December 22, 2009. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
30. ^ "LDS Church responds to Idaho candidate's 'elders only' meetings". Deseret News. December 26, 2009. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
31. ^ "LDS Church issues statement on Rex Rammell". Rexburg Standard Journal. December 24, 2009. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
32. ^ "Rammell apologizes for LDS elders only meetings". Rexburg Standard Journal. January 9, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
33. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Prophecy 

Mormon Prophecy Behind Glenn Beck's Message by DANA MILBANK 5OKT10

IF the Constitution is hanging by a thread I'll take my chances with how things will shake out rather than look to the likes of glenn beck and orrin hatch to save the nation. Where were they when the Constitution was really being threatened by george w bush? Mormons riding to the rescue??? NO THANK YOU....we are a republic, not a theocracy, and we certainly aren't going to live under the racist, prejudiced, anti-semitic rule of the Mormon church, especially the church that reflects the mind blowing ignorance of glenn beck! As long as the leadership of the Mormon church doesn't condemn glenn beck for the hate, lies, deception and perversion he spews daily one can only conclude they approve of his opinions  and attitudes. Rescue us? HA! I don't think so....but thanks for the warning Mr. Milbank. From HuffPost....
 
In one of his first appearances on Fox News, Glenn Beck sent a coded message to the nation's six million Mormons -- or at least those Mormons who believe in what the Latter-day Saints call "the White Horse Prophecy."
"We are at the place where the Constitution hangs in the balance," Beck told Bill O'Reilly on November 14, 2008, just after President Obama's election. "I feel the Constitution is hanging in the balance right now, hanging by a thread unless the good Americans wake up."
The Constitution is hanging by a thread.

Most Americans would have heard this as just another bit of overblown commentary and thought nothing more of it. But to those familiar with the White Horse Prophecy, it was an unmistakable signal.

The phrase is often attributed to the Prophet Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon Church. Smith is believed to have said in 1840 that when the Constitution hangs by a thread, elders of the Mormon Church will step in -- on the proverbial white horse -- to save the country.

"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," Brigham Young, Smith's successor as head of the church, wrote in 1855.

Was it just a coincidence in wording, or was Beck, a 1999 Mormon convert, speaking in coded language about the need to fulfill the Mormon prophecy? A conversation on Beck's radio show ten days earlier would seem to rule out coincidence. Beck was interviewing Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, also a Mormon, when he said: "I heard Barack Obama talk about the Constitution and I thought, we are at the point or we are very near the point where our Constitution is hanging by a thread."

"Well, let me tell you something," Hatch responded. "I believe the Constitution is hanging by a thread."

Days after Beck's Fox show started in January 2009, he had Hatch on, and again prompted him: "I believe our Constitution hangs by a thread."

Large numbers of Mormons watch Beck, but likely an even larger number of his viewers and radio listeners are evangelical Protestants who have no idea that Beck is preaching to them an obscure prophecy of the Latter-day Saints -- a faith many conservative Christians malign as a cult. In addition to the coded allusions to the White Horse Prophecy, he often brings Mormon theology into his broadcasts (he touts the thinking of late church president Ezra Taft Benson and he frequently promotes the work Mormon conspiracy theorist Cleon Skousen) but without identifying them with the LDS church.
Before the Mormons went west, Smith traveled to Washington seeking help for his oppressed followers and received nothing but frustration. Rather than turning on the government, however, "They considered themselves the last Real Americans, the legitimate heirs of the pilgrims and Founding Fathers," Pat Bagley wrote in the Salt Lake Tribune. "And, they believed, the very survival of the Constitution depended on the Saints. From Smith on, LDS leaders prophesied the Constitution would one day hang by a thread, only to be saved by Mormons."

A compilation of church leaders' statements over the years by the journal BYU Studies shows this strain of thinking. Though there are doubts about whether Smith actually wrote the phrase "hang by a thread," his successors left no doubt about the theology behind it. Orson Hyde, a Smith contemporary, wrote that Smith believed that "the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and said [Smith]: 'If the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the elders of this Church.'"
The church's fifth presiding bishop, Charles Nibley, believed that "the day would come when there would be so much of disorder, of secret combinations taking the law into their own hands, tramping upon Constitutional rights and the liberties of the people, that the Constitution would hang as by a thread. Yes, but it will still hang, and there will be enough of good people, many who may not belong to our Church at all, people who have respect for law and for order, and for Constitutional rights, who will rally around with us and save the Constitution."
The prophecy was renewed with each generation of church leadership. "The prophet Joseph Smith said the time will come when, through secret organizations taking the law into their own hands . . . the Constitution of the United States would be so torn and rent asunder, and life and property and peace and security would be held of so little value, that the Constitution would, as it were, hang by a thread," church apostle Melvin Ballard said in 1928. "This Constitution will be preserved, but it will be preserved very largely in consequence of what the Lord has revealed and what this people, through listening to the Lord and being obedient, will help to bring about, to stabilize and give permanency and effect to the Constitution itself. That also is our mission."
And now it is Beck's mission. Secret organizations? Tramping on liberties? Breakdown of law and order? Shredding the Constitution? Betraying the Founders? This is the core of Beck's message, in his own words: "Some people in the government seem to have a problem, you know, shredding the Constitution." And: "You're trying to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, friends. It's in trouble." And: "He" -- that would be Obama -- "is going to bring us to the verge of shredding the Constitution, of massive socialism."
But there is a Beckian twist in his version of the prophecy. Unlike the church leaders' versions, Beck's vision carries the possibility of a bloody end. On the night of Feb. 24, 2009, Beck outlined this prospect for his viewers. People who "don't trust the government," he said, would "see the government as violating the Constitution, and they will see themselves as defenders of the Constitution. Not a good mix. Then they take matters into their own hands."
It was Glenn Beck in a nutshell: White Horse Prophecy meets horsemen of the apocalypse.
Adapted from Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America, released October 5, 2010 by Doubleday.
Ed Note: This blog post originally stated that Charles Nibley was the Mormon Church's fifth leader. He is actually the church's fifth presiding bishop, and the text has been changed to reflect this.