3 Nephi 3

 Again, as we likened the scriptures unto us and our day, we read the epistle of Giddianhi - 

"...I write unto you, desiring that ye would yield up unto this my people, your cities, your lands, and your possessions, rather than that they should visit you with the sword and that destruction should come upon you."  (3 Nephi 3:6)

Why?

"...that this my people may recover their rights and government, who have dissented away from you because of your wickedness in retaining from them their rights of government, and except ye do this, I will avenge their wrongs..."  (3 Nephi 3:10)

Obviously, Lachoneus knew that - 

"...avenging the wrongs of those that had received no wrong, save it were they had wronged themselves by dissenting away unto those wicked and abominable robbers."  (3 Nephi 3:11)

There is much of that going on today with many protesters and rioters.