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Students say church arsons meant as ‘a joke’
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| March 8, 2006
Posted on 03/08/2006 11:03:17 AM PST by presidio9
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To: A knight without armor
Their parents are probably rushing to the defense of their little misunderstood "mere pranksters".
They are good kids who can't possibly be guilty. Juvie will tear them several new ones - if they're lucky enough to go to juvie. Every time they go to the bathroom they'll be reminded of the burning.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:23:05 PM PST
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: presidio9
Can't you just imagine these critters placed into the general prisoner population in Attica? Or Florence? For burning down nine churches used by blacks????
As Bruce Willis' character said in "Die Hard", "Adios, ....
Well...you know the rest!
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:26:09 PM PST
by
LilDarlin
(Being very feminine got me this far; it will take me the rest of the way, too!)
To: moondoggie
I bet the fact that nothing but Baptist Churches were burned is easily explained, too? Two were attending a Methodist College. Sectarian violence?
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:32:02 PM PST
by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: Dante3
I would say it was no accident that all those churches just happened to be Baptist. The claim that it was a "joke" sounds so absurd as to make me wonder about their IQs unless they merely want to make sure they won't get the extra "hate" crime charge. Maybe the Feds could change the label to "humor crime"...
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:35:44 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
(Colossians 4:5)
To: presidio9
"Saint Peter, come on, it was just a joke."
"Ok, I'll let you in. Wait, just joking, down you go."
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:37:39 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: presidio9
Funny joke....real funny. These boys are going to get to know the meaning of BOHICA after they're convicted, I'm betting. Now....that'll be funny as the dickens.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:45:11 PM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: presidio9
Moseley also told agents the four church fires in west Alabama were set as a diversion to throw investigators off, an attempt that obviously did not work, the affidavit said.Not just moral idiots, but stupid too. Burn churches as a joke and then burn a few more to leave extra clues to help get you caught.
In my day, bad kids were smarter and morons didn't play with matches.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:47:02 PM PST
by
Graymatter
(J31-F28-M31...why not J30-F30-M30?)
To: Dante3
"I would say it was no accident that all those churches just happened to be Baptist."
Well, you'd actually have a hard time finding a rural church in Alabama that didn't have Baptist as part of its name. In town, you can find others, but if it's out in the country, it's almost certainly some form of Baptist church.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:49:12 PM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: presidio9
I think more will come out.
My guess is that as theater majors (gay) at a more liberal college, they went after the most anti-gay religion they could find (God Hates Fags are a splinter baptist group). They couldn't go after catholic churches, because of all the gay priests.
They don't want to be charged with a hate crime, so they said it was a joke.
See if I'm wrong.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:49:50 PM PST
by
MonroeDNA
(Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
To: AD from SpringBay
The youngest of them is 19. They aren't going to juvie. It's the big house for this terrible trio.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:50:26 PM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: presidio9
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:50:48 PM PST
by
TankerKC
(Pull your head out.)
To: MonroeDNA
They couldn't go after catholic churches, because of all the gay priests. Only an idiot would think that way. Homosexuals, and the left in general, hate the the Catholic Church above all others.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:54:41 PM PST
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: MineralMan
The old joke is you can't swing a cat without hitting a Baptist church.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:56:28 PM PST
by
najida
(Somedays you're the mud, other days the pig. Either way, you can sit in the sunshine and dry out ;))
To: presidio9
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:56:41 PM PST
by
MonroeDNA
(Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
To: polecat pete
It's probably an unusually tire which narrows the suspects. The FBI probably figured out it was someone local to the initial fires and probably a teenager or young adult.
If they could tell from the tracks how old the tires were, they could probably narrow it down fairly quickly.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:57:26 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: MonroeDNA
The truth is that there are just relatively few rural Catholic Churches in the Deep South.
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:58:06 PM PST
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: najida
"The old joke is you can't swing a cat without hitting a Baptist church."
I tried that once, in Mississippi, but the cat got loose and I had to have a lot of stitches in my arm. [grin]
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posted on
03/08/2006 12:59:06 PM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: presidio9
If it had been mosques that were burned, it would had been deemed a terrorist act by the authorties.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:01:10 PM PST
by
sport
To: MineralMan; najida
Which is why the term is actually "You can't swing a dead cat without..."
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:02:29 PM PST
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Local news reports are blaming the Methodists.......gosh now I belong to the new ROP and I don't even have to put my butt in the air 5 times a day!
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:03:14 PM PST
by
newcthem
(Use Allah urinal cakes!)
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