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Episode 262: The Raid on Short Creek, Part II: The Raids Before the Raid
The polygamy of the fundamentalists living at Short Creek was always going to ensure that they were going to run afoul of the law. In the 1930s and 1940s first the state of Arizona, then the U.S. government decided they simply could not abide these scofflaws any longer. Unfortunately, the way they went about it had very mixed results.
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If I may remind you of exactly how big of a nerd I am for a second, there's a line from an episode of Star Trek the next generation that I absolutely love. The episode itself revolves around a religious figure appearing among the Klingons who begins to upend the status quo, much to the frustration of the current regime. I won't bore you with
all the details, but the Enterprise gets pulled into this whole affair. And there's a great scene where Captain Picard is discussing the situation with Galron, the Klingon High Chancellor. And Galron says, have you ever fought an idea of Picard? It has no weapon to destroy, nobody to kill.
And I like that line so much because it's so true. Fighting against an idea is practically impossible because at what point can you say you've won? Even if you steamroll armies, ferret out dissidents, and hang every last person you can find who believes in an idea that you hate. Chances are that idea is going to outlast you
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