Posted on 03/08/2006 6:54:36 AM PST by commish
NO story yet, just a blurb on website and TV.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I probaby should take the time to confirm that. Some rural churches don't even have phone #'s listed. You may be correct. BRB
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Nope. I'm guessing they're the sorts of kids who hang around in the downtown parks, among their goth/skateboarding pals, bitching about "the establishment," or whatever today's punks call it. They dislike churches because they're "oppressive," or some such rot.
They're the same sorts of punks who, back in our day, used to throw eggs at churches on Halloween.
Brokeback 'Bama?
I'm seriously looking! Know of anyone who needs an experienced MEMS/semiconductor engineer?
Whoaaaaa. Jaba the hut's long lost brother.
Almost nuttin' but Baptist Churches....
I'm back. You are correct to a degree. I got on the Southern Baptist Convention website and searched Brent, Alabama. You can find churches list and access the directions through Yahoo. HOWEVER, some churches only list PO Boxes or RR. I did not remember the names of the burned churches, but I thought one was Pine Grove. That church listed a RR address and the map only led to downtown Brent.
Oh, I didn't try that. I am more familiar with Shelby and know of some churches there. That explains alot.
Two Students Arrested in Ala. Church Fires
Mar 08 12:52 PM US/Eastern
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By JAY REEVES
Associated Press Writer
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
Two college students were arrested Wednesday and a third was being sought in a string of nine rural Alabama church arsons that allegedly were set first as "a joke" and later as a diversion, federal agents said.
Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee Debusk Jr., both students at Birmingham-Southern College, appeared in federal court Wednesday and were ordered held on church arson charges pending a hearing Friday.
Matthew Lee Cloyd, described as a student at another Birmingham school, was being sought.
The arrests came in a probe of arsons at five Baptist churches in Bibb County south of Birmingham on Feb. 3 and four Baptist churches in west Alabama on Feb. 7. The federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency had made the arsons its top priority, with scores of federal agents joining state and local officers.
An ATF affidavit said Moseley told agents on Wednesday that he, Cloyd and Debusk went to Bibb County in Cloyd's Toyota sport utility vehicle on Feb. 2 and set fire to five churches. A witness quoted Cloyd as saying Moseley did it "as a joke and it got out of hand," according to the affidavit.
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.
Arson investigators scheduled an afternoon news conference at the Tuscaloosa airport to discuss the arrests.
A 10th rural Baptist church fire, in Lamar County, has been ruled arson but is not believed to be connected to the others. It was discovered on Feb. 11.
Investigators had said earlier that they were looking for two men seen in a dark SUV near a few of the church fires. Agents have said they didn't know a motive, but there is no racial pattern. Five of the churches had white congregations and five black.
The two students arrested Wednesday are white and their college is a Methodist-affiliated liberal arts college.
Five of the churches were destroyed and four were damaged, including one in which congregants, alerted during the night that churches were afire, arrived just as the apparent arsonists were leaving. That fire, quickly put out, had been set in the sanctuary near the altar _ a pattern in the other church arsons in Bibb County and west Alabama.
I'd be interested in seeing where the ACLU said it was OK to burn churches. Never heard that one.
Didn't he steal it from Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny?
The possibility they're gay still isn't out of the question so there's still hope they're one of the hoped-for FR trifecta of perps anytime something bad happens of Muslims, illegal Mexican Immigrants, or homosexuals.
Assuming you're right about Pine Grove Baptist Church in Brent, AL, I was able to get driving directions to it in 3 clicks.
See this. Pine Grove Baptist Church is the one just above and to the right of the red star, denoting the center of Brent. Click on the icon, and you'll get driving directions, address, and so on. It's all there.
Yep.
There was also a gold medal winner in skiing for the US. Johnny Mosely If I recall correctly.
Probably mad because the church wouldn't let him marry his sister.
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