Right Hand Quotes
Commenting on the lack of coordination of information and intelligence between and among the different law enforcement agencies in the Parkland, Florida school shooting case.
This is one of the broadest views of American statehood that has been advocated. Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took direct action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway but politically he had no chance to affect the race anywa.
