No, really:
Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine church fires across Alabama.
Federal agents said the defendants claimed the first few fires were set as “a joke” and the others were started to throw investigators off the track.
Future headline: "Alabama residents hang college students as "a goof," didn't intend for youths to die.
Maybe it's because I'm so close to Alabama (I live in Georgia, and have lived in Alabama and Mississippi), that it's amazing that this even happened, or that this had become a non-story so quickly. This is another instance of the persecution of Christians, and yet...nothing. Front page news, stuck on F-3, 2 inch copy; but at least it's still in the papers.
Look for this story to disappear, because, you know, the church-burners were liberals. It's okay when liberals torch things. I'm just wondering...where any of these churches predominantly black? Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Posted by Macabee at March 8, 2006 07:25 PM | TrackBackThat was my feeling as well. This story will disappear because liberals don't see a problem with church fires so long as they don't target certain people. A shame.
Posted by: Washington at March 9, 2006 04:37 AMWonder what would be front page had those been mosques instead.
Posted by: Dee at March 9, 2006 07:55 AMThe press may forget about these college students, but Southerns won't. Shit their still pissed about Sherman* getting happy with the matchbook.
*A side note the always makes me laugh was the fact theat Sherman was the first superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, (a position offered to him by P.G.T. Beauregard and Braxton Bragg) which later became Louisiana State University.
Posted by: the Pirate at March 9, 2006 07:55 AM
