The Cherokee comment was a concern because JVM stated, as if it were established fact, that the person he was talking about had attempted witness tampering, extortion, and solicitation of murder.  That's libel if it's not true.  Yet the claim doesn't square with the fact that the person was never charged on such grounds, and the drug charges were eventually dismissed.  I don't think murder-for-hire, extortion, or witness tampering would be treated so lightly by federal and state prosecutors; in one sentence JVM claims that the plot was uncovered during the trial and just a couple of diffs later he claims that he was involved in arranging a deal resulting in only a permanent injunction against selling peyote.  Can you blame me if I find this farfetched?  Aren't such falsehoods disruptive to WP?

Your comment that his edits related to LDS articles are "no more POV than the average LDS editor's contributions" is mind-boggling to me.  Your opinion of LDS people must be very poor indeed if that's the case, and it makes me wonder if I'm not swimming upstream here in trying to raise concerns about JVM.  Do you mistrust my motives because I'm LDS?  Would you be as forgiving of JVM's behavior if he were creating articles on "Anglican teachings about extraterrestrial life" or "Orthodox Jew men in black"?  I've approached you with my concerns because you're just ze guy who unblocked JVM, you know?  But now it seems like you're inclined to assume bad faith on my part, on little more basis than my religion, and granting JVM the benefit of the doubt despite his lengthy history of bad behavior, threats, disruption, and fanciful claims.  I'm absolutely confident your motives are unimpeachable, but do you think you've been consistent in your approach to our conflict?  Maybe you think I'm out to troll JVM or something... is that it?  I am not attacking JVM personally, just trying to combat his disruptive behavior.  Meanwhile, he posts stuff like this.  He immediately deleted it, but really, come on now.  How much more goodwill does he deserve?  /talk/