Posted on 06/24/2006 11:52:35 AM PDT by catholicfreeper
When the terrorist attacks flashed across the Rev. Narcisse Batiste’s television set five years ago, he quickly shut it off.
The images of innocent people suffering and dying were too much for the Bunkie Baptist pastor to bear. “I hope to God anybody who ever attempts to do this thing,” he remembers thinking at the time, “gets caught.”
On Friday, the gentle-spoken 72-year-old Batiste again turned on the television only to discover his own son — who mysteriously left the family farm shortly after 9-11 — may have hatched a similar plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and a federal building in Miami.
Batiste is the father of Narseal Batiste — one of five Americans and two others arrested by federal agents and accused of conspiring with al-Qaida to commit terrorist acts.
“I’m so upset over this,” said Narcisse Batiste, who was first interviewed in Bunkie on Friday evening by WBRZ, Channel 2. “I feel if I could reach I would give all of them a whoopin’. But I can’t reach.”
In a Washington, D.C., news conference Friday, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dubbed Narseal Batiste the “ringleader of this group, (who) intended to recruit and supervise individuals to organize and train for a mission of war against the United States.”
According to a four-count indictment made public Friday, Narseal Batiste met several times in Dec.....
I hope somebody consoles him . . . he did the best he could. Sometimes you raise them as right as you know how, and they still run off the rails.
Note: "Bunkie" seems to be a town in Louisiana, not a previously-unknown-to-me subsect of Baptists.
"Note: "Bunkie" seems to be a town in Louisiana, not a previously-unknown-to-me subsect of Baptists."
I was wondering if that was something like a "Hard-Shell" Baptist.
Yes, Bunkie is a town in Louisiana, named after the daughter of the founder, who would pronounce monkey as "Bunkie", or so the story goes.
"My baby ain't never hurt nobody."
"Bunkie Baptists - so hard-shell we're underground!"
Thanks for the info - I guess they had to call the place *something*.
The king was shaken, and went up to the room over the city gate to weep. He said as he wept, "My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!" 2 Samuel 19,1
Bunkie is included in the area known as Acadiana, which is the area populated by the decendants of French exiled families from the mid 1700s.
I agree: I feel deeply for the poor man. I admire him for speaking out when it is probably the most painful thing he's had to do. He could sit back and hide; but he takes the hard task.
Too bad it isn't "Like father, like son."
I am curious if anyone in Marksville thought to call the authorties after this convert to Islam just disappered after 9/11. I am sure in a small town like that it would have been talked about. There are not many moslems there. Your right though it looked like this guy tried to raise him right.
Is that a yes or a no?
Maybe if he would have faced his enemies and made an effort to defeat them, he would not be on TV today.
Perfect example of good men doing nothing. He could not even bring himself to face evil.
Yeah, sure thing... Racism starts at home.
I guess to be fair to people of Bunkie lol it appears that he was living just up the road in Marksville. Thats still strange.
once again, we find (if we read through to the buried hard data) that the perp is a muslim.
islam is a corrosive and a cancer.
I would say..
Yes
Bunkie is "included" in Acadiana, i.e., the Cajun French portion of Louisiana on many maps, although some Cajuns deep in the territory such as Lafayette, where I was born, may dispute this, because Avoyelles parish lies on the border region.
Perhaps someone from that part of Acadiana can chime in, but I'm sure there are French speaking people living "up" there.
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