Mormon Taliban

By Lag B'Omer

Mormon Taliban explores the Mormon Taliban paradigm of Utah. It unabashedly exposes the legal, political and religious influence of Utah's oligarchy. Its pages are rife with controversy, corruption, and the undercurrent of hidden agenda that has become the bread and butter of Utah's governing policies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lag B'Omer
• Release date: Dec 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465901064

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Mormon Taliban

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Copyright 2011 Lag B’Omer

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This book is a commentary. It concerns legal/political/religious views that concern the governing bodies of the State of Utah.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1- Introduction

About the Mormon Taliban

Misunderstandings

Clarifying a Latter-day Saint Position

Meanings are Not Constant

Chapter 2- Some Pertinent Latter-day Saint Perspectives and Beliefs

Secret Combinations

Chapter 3- Question of Church and State

According to Law or Above the Law?

Political Justice versus the Constitution

Constitutional Issues Regarding Indigent Criminal Defense

Chapter 4- Examples of Corruption

The Illegal Legal System

The District Attorney’s Office

More Cases

Media Justice and What It Means for the Constitution

Coloring the Evidence for a Guilty Verdict

The Board of Pardons and Parole

Chapter 5- Governing Bodies

Problems with Legislation

Advisory Commission to Reduce Tax Dollars

Mark Shurtleff: The Great and Powerful Oz

Chapter 6- What Does It All Mean?

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Mormon Taliban is a book that highlights a paradigm. It is important to keep that in mind as we reveal the various levels of corruption in Utah. Such revelations are intended to demonstrate the undercurrent in actions rather than the actual actors.

For the most part, the actors themselves seem to be unwitting threads within the fabric of corruption that makes up the paradigm. They seem to suffer the intoxicating effects of self righteousness involved with power. Their glass is filled with the energies that flow from an oligarchic position and in their mockery over those whom they hold rule.

There are distinctive reasons why an enlightened society tends to move from Old Testament rigidity to New Testament correction. Those reasons are not religious in nature, at all. They do not suggest a permissive society. Rather, they sponsor a responsible society which does not favor contagion within its structure or ranks.

Mormon Taliban is a book that describes a paradigm based upon the concept of what has come to be called a Gadianton society, secret combinations, and private meetings with an agenda to be presented to the unwashed in a seductive format.

There is a momentum to the agenda. It is not new. History has demonstrated its repeated rise with an unfortunate conclusion of a self destruction of the society of its infection. Its course runs head long toward powerlessness of the society it purports to uphold.

This Gadianton order is the same power that generates the Taliban of the East as well as the West. The methods may vary but the purpose is ever the same. These Talibanic paradigms have infected the State of Utah; and its ripple effect is felt throughout the United States, itself.

Society has become detached. We are starved for reality and all we are offered is a reality show, carefully choreographed facsimiles of reality to placate the viewer. We only want to feel emotions vicariously. We have become a soap opera society.

It is not that we are an insensitive society. To the contrary, our emotions are keen but furtive. What we want is to be able to control our emotions. We want life to be as remote as a video game, as intense as virtual reality, and then we want to be able to turn it off at will or at least press the reset button.

In order to illustrate the Mormon Taliban paradigm, this book is required to call up real situations, real names, and real drama. It must of necessity touch upon the areas of the legal, the religious, and the political. It does all these things and in the process, hopefully, shows how we have abandoned our individual authority as citizens of a great nation and a righteous cause.

No, our society does not fear emotion, itself. It fears emotion that cannot be controlled. We choose our emotions in the same way we choose which movie we will go and see. At the end of our two hour endorphin run, we want to sigh in ecstatic relief and extricate ourselves from the vicarious experience as we leave the theater.

Our society has been producing these life dramas. Producers of our film industry simply react to the votes we cast in terms of theater dollars. We want to feel the emotions that we can control in the ebb and flow of a life that we cannot control.

It’s an illusion, of course. It is granted to us by the choreographed network news to which we respond like trained monkeys. The greater the emotional roller coaster ride of hyperbole provided to us; the more we tune in, cheering or hissing and booing on all the right cues.

It is this addiction to vicarious life that has spawned the undercurrent of our flawed governing systems created by the votes we cast in tax dollars. Reality court and reality TV for your viewing pleasure carefully choreographed in order to best represent the Taliban of the West.

We are caught up in the current of an extremely fast moving water, and in the end if we do not paddle for the shore, we must go over the falls. No degree of denial will keep us from that course. That is the one certainty which history has repeatedly proven to us.

This book is about paradigms, even though it seems to focus upon one particular group. It is the pattern that is being demonstrated; it has permeated virtually every level of Utah government. We might wish to debate the chicken or the egg theory, whether the paradigm engendered the group or the group produced the paradigm. In the end, it is all the same species.

The shame is that Utah’s oligarchy has turned its government and judicial/legal system into an industry. The book is packed with one episode (backed by documentation) after another. Corruption, fraud and several surprising elements are laid out in fairly plain terms for the reader. This is no conspiracy theory.

If you enjoyed the John Grisham novel The Pelican Brief, made into a movie with Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts, you will find this book intriguing. It is not fiction. This is not a novel. As the contents are unfolded, we find that we become the investigators. We are the ones that sift the facts in order to determine for ourselves the condition of the current state of Utah. We may discover things that have been kept from us or presented to us in a hope to numb our senses in the placating aria of false security. It is an ongoing story of legitimized corruption in the State of Utah.

It is multi-leveled involving numerous arenas of judicial and governing offices. To anyone who is interested in real life criminal mysteries and drama, this book may prove of interest. It is documented and supported by facts. To reduce the dry aspect of the presentation, however, such documentation is referred to in References and in the Appendix’ for further study so that the reader may choose for themselves. For the most part, it is a cursory but intense overview.

This book is written in the exercise of the First Amendment (if it still exists) which provides for freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The opinions and beliefs expressed are solely my own. The sources used in support of such views and opinions are not intended to be included in this writing for any purpose other than to provide concrete evidence for those beliefs and opinions that I hold. In other words, such sources are not responsible in and of themselves for the opinions and beliefs I hold, although they provide validity to those views.

I do not represent any group, persons or community in this writing. I represent only my own beliefs as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

ABOUT THE MORMON TALIBAN

There is a political group of litigators operating within the governing structure of the State of Utah. This group has established its enterprise within the complexity of law over which they hold full administrative authority. A review of the protocols and operations of this group clearly demonstrates an alignment with the characteristics common to the paradigm of secret combinations known as Gadiantons.

Control is the chief characteristic. The methods of such groups are surprisingly variegated and can apply to almost any circumstance, religious or political. Rigid obedience to their protocols and proceedings is non-negotiable. Failure to follow the protocols and procedures, even if they are illegal is met with dramatic consequences. Control is maintained by the broad use of fear. Intimidation and accusation are a common practice. Accusations need not be accurate or true. The momentum of propaganda is the turning point of such accusations. Media