Dad's a freak.. no doubt about it!
Like father, like son.
Glen Beck said it best--we cannot build our lives on a foundation created by someone else. If our foundation is rocky we need to tear it down and build our own...this guy had the choice to do so and didn't. The old excuse "I was abused as a child" just doesn't cut it in this day in age.
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03/16/2003 6:06:09 PM PST by
Sunshine55
(Except for ending slavery, facism, nazism, and communism, war has never solved anything...)
Wow, the dad's loco.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
"I'm A Minister For The Lord"
Last month, Mitchell told judge he lived with "wife and daughter"
MARCH 14--Claiming that he was a "minister for the Lord" living with his "wife and daughter," the man suspected of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart last month told a California judge that his February 12 arrest for vandalizing a San Diego church "was the worst night and the worst week of my whole life." Brian David Mitchell, the 49-year-old drifter who allegedly held the Utah teenager captive for nine months, claimed that, "for the first time in 22 years I got drunk that night and...the whole night was just a nightmare." Mitchell compared his one-week incarceration to "like, uh, Jonah getting swallowed by the whale."
According to the official Superior Court audio recording of the February 18 sentencing--obtained exclusively by The Smoking Gun--Mitchell told Judge Charles Ervin that his bust "turned me right around and, and I know I need to do what the Lord wants me to do with my life...I am deeply sorry and...nothing like that's going to happen again."
Originally charged with burglary in the San Diego case, Mitchell pleaded to a reduced misdemeanor charge of vandalizing Lakeside Presbyterian Church. The February bust, amazingly, was not the first time the drifter was arrested during the period Smart was missing. Mitchell was nabbed by Salt Lake City cops in late-September on a shoplifting charge, nearly four months after the girl was snatched from her bed last June.
Along with links to the audiotape itself, below you'll find a transcript of the sentencing hearing, which TSG has prepared. In addition to Mitchell--who was arrested and charged under the alias Michael Jenson--and Judge Ervin, an unidentified court clerk, Deputy District Attorney Leon Schorr, and Mitchell's lawyer, David Lamb, can be also heard on the tape. Where we've been unable to understand portions of the tape, we marked those segments with the symbol UI, for unintelligible
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