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I remember back in the 80s, you'll remember when certain terrorists got the idea of like

hijacking planes to try and force the government into seeding to their demands about, let's

just say, the Arab is really conflict or whatever. And it became a policy for the US government

where they just said we don't negotiate with terrorists because they realized that if they negotiated

with terrorists, that's actually rewarding or reinforcing the terrorism because then basically

the terrorists get control of the government because all they have to do is stage a terrorist event

and they get, they get listened to and they get their demands met. I can very much imagine

the PR department, the whatever strategy, tacticians that help guide the quorum of the 12, the first

presidency whoever advises them, the Garrett Gongs passed in prison. I imagine them basically

deciding that if we have every Yahoo progressive or post Mormon activist, the K-kelies, the Jeremy

Rennels, the John D'Alins, the same youngs, whoever they are, if we have to a seed to their

demands and give them attention every time they want to throw a tantrum or public protest, it's

basically going to be giving the members the idea that they should do this and that we're

not led by God, but that we're just reacting to the demands of terrorist members, activist

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