In the investigation it appeared evident to the council that the proprietors were a set of unprincipled men, lawless, debouchees, counterfeiters, Bogus Makers, gamblers, peace disturbers, and that the grand object of said proprietors was to destroy our constitutional rights and chartered privileges; to overthrow all good and wholesome regulations in society; to strengthen themselves against the municipality; to fortify themselves against the church of which I am a member, and destroy all our religious rights and privileges, by libels, slanders, falsehoods, perjury & sticking at no corruption to accomplish their hellish purposes. and that said paper of itself was libelous of the deepest dye, and very injurious as a vehicle of defamation,—tending to corrupt the morals, and disturb the peace, tranquillity and happiness of the whole community, and especially that of Nauvoo.[20]
Well before they started their Expositor to expose him, Joseph Smith had removed William Law from the First Presidency, excommunicated him, his wife, his brother, and all others who agreed with any criticism of Smith. He destroyed all their cred within the Mormon community when they wouldn't stop being critical of whatever he wanted to do. After he had tried to destroy their reputations, and after they had exposed him in print for what he really was, he destroyed their press.
Here we have a situation that seems similar to me. Rosebud seems to have come across something unsavory in her association with MS/John Dehlin at Open Stories Foundation and administration of other sites, which was likely a better place to see the true behind-the-scenes workings that most people are not privy to. She has already shared some of the ways in which she has been made to pay JUST FOR KNOWING SOMETHING CRITICAL of MS/John Dehlin. MS/John Dehlin responded by basically suggesting to us all that she is histrionic, unstable, and needs professional help. He said this "feels like Mayan Elephant and Rosebud crazy town conspiratorial allegations with zero substance." He has also responded to others who dared point out discrepancies in his stories that they are slandering him, obsessing over him, and revealing their Napoleon Complexes, are tearing down, having "no work of their own to speak of" and are "leaches," and are leading "sad and pathetic" ways of life. He accused multiple people of having a "creepy, stalker-like obsession" in him. And that's just THIS WEEK on this board alone. He also claimed Mayan Elephant had "a pretty well-known reputation as a person not worthy of respect/good faith." He said that his critics were making fools of themselves. All this before she actually printed her own exposé.
It seems to me she is not actually interested in printing her own exposé on MS/John Dehlin. It seems she is doing perhaps what William Law *should* have done: she is letting MS/John Dehlin know (in the only venue she knows of that she can actually get the message out without being shut down beforehand) that she is prepared to go to print with what she knows, but if he'll just quit his smear campaign and stop with all the excommunication and blackball tactics among their peer group and let her proceed with her work just as he is able to do, she will not have to go that route. Rosebud herself has stated that if she had nothing on MS/John Dehlin, or if he had not done something he might be ashamed of, he would have no cause for alarm. But clearly we see his alarm, no?
