“Why hadn’t [Moroni] heard from them long before? [Pahoran] immediately explains why. There’s a state of complete crisis—not only complete insecurity, but everything was totally disrupted, the communications and everything else. … They have taken over the government. ‘And it is those who have sought to take away the judgment-seat from me that have been the cause of this great iniquity. … They have withheld our provisions, and have daunted our freemen that they have not come unto you.’ They have blocked the way so that they couldn’t come to you. It’s not only intimidation, but they have taken over everything” (Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, 3:188).