Comment by rdtsc
17 hours ago
> Bricks & Minifigs CEO Ammon McNeff is a graduate of Brigham Young University. Joshua Johnson and Brandon Best are, by public record and documented account, members of the LDS community. When Reckless Ben's team, following the pattern of obstruction by local law enforcement, looked into the individual officers involved in these incidents, they found that multiple officers were also BYU alumni.
I thought “it has to be some kind of corruption here”. And yup it’s the mormon mafia apparently
Honestly that pattern of actions by law enforcement was the most disturbing thing. There was a moment where they knew this person was present at a private property to serve a warrant in a legitimate lawsuit. Clearly the right and moral action for the police at that moment was to help serve the papers AND then escort the litigant from the property. They chose to behave more like mobsters than defenders of the public trust, like they were taking over responsibility from the courts
when people say that the police are there to enforce laws to protect capital, this is what they mean.
This is the main reason I read comment threads on law enforcement stuff on HN. There's a bunch of people trying to square their opinion of policing ("protect and serve") with the reality of policing ("protect and serve the wealth").
My understanding is that 50% of people in the state of Utah are mormon. I'm not saying there wasn't corruption, but it could very well be pure chance with those odds.
If cops are pulling over another person from Utah probably not a big deal but when dealing with an outsider from out of state the situation is different.
I can personally attest to this, along with many of my friends and family.
I've driven hundreds of extra miles per trip going around that damned state.
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Do you know all these involved parties aren't mormons in some mormon area/mormon company? Eg the old guy, the franchisee?
> multiple officers were also BYU alumni
American Fork, UT is literally 10 miles from Brigham Young University, and BYU represents 1/4th of the state's bachelors degrees.
It's a bit like saying police officers in Italy are Catholic. I'd be more surprised if they weren't tbh.
(Disclaimer: I live near that area and also graduated from BYU.)
Yeah, as a non-Mormon, I agree. I think the Mormon connection is a paranoid distraction. The behavior of the police can be explained by the same kind of corrupt-small-town-police-defending-locals-from-outsiders behavior that happens across the country.
> The behavior of the police can be explained by the same kind of corrupt-small-town-police-defending-locals-from-outsiders behavior that happens across the country.
Mormons aren't implicated, but I fail to see how this can explain the behavior of the Oregon police.
Stereotyping and bigotry are accepted if done against Christians.
Ki Mcallister was also BYU
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Absolutely, if they all belonged to the same atheist society and performed the same rituals together etc.
Do we have evidence these people did fellowship together?
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If their atheist affiliation had a pattern of this exact behaviour, that had been documented even so far as how it had corrupted the FBI.
https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/...
Why yes, 6 day old account, I would say the same in that scenario. Thanks for playing.
Without an account with the journal, all I could read was the abstract, but it didn't hint to me that they corrupted the FBI, whatever that means, but have a high representation within the FBI.
Someone recently told me that when he worked for the BLM, there was a lot of LDS folk, which reinforced my observation that they are overrepresented in federal jobs in general (I have no evidence for this, just several anecdotes). I assumed it is because they usually don't smoke marijuana, so they are more likely to be eligible. That abstract gave more compelling possibilities that I didn't think of, that don't seem conspiratorial, like the higher multilingual likelihood at concentrated places like BYU, making it a great spot for recruiting.
Does the article go into more detail on how they "corrupted" the FBI that is not easily explained by them simply being ideal FBI hires?
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Yes. Wouldn't you?
No.
Depends. Do the atheists of your region have literal physical temples where they hold weekly ceremonies and tithings to a central coordinating organization that goes back almost 200 years?
They all pay taxes, if that’s what you mean. I’m not seeing how the deity is relevant.
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