It was Friday December 12th.
Someone set fire to the Wasilla Bible Church with women and children inside. They were making arts and crafts for Christmas.
Luckily everyone inside before flames and smoke caused over a million dollars in damage to the structure.
The congregation is still holding service in the middle school. Repairs will take some time. But a church is not made of bricks and mortar, it is made of faith and love. So the Wasilla Bible Church is still going strong.
But a dangerous person or people are still out there. It matters not if there was political motivation for the arson. It was a hate crime, according to the Alaskan Statutes, because a religious institution was targeted. It was attempted murder because there were people inside. It was reckless endangerment and most definitely arson.
But 40 days and nothing.
No arrests, no news conferences and no reports by the media.
It's as if it never happened.
Now imagine for a moment if the Trinity United Church of Christ has been torched. That is the Church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The Church that Barack Obama used to attend.
Do you think they would have caught someone by now? And if they didn't, do you think the media would remain silent?
This is an ugly case of media bias again directed at Sarah Palin and the church is quite literally collateral damage. It was the media attacks and attention on this church that may have made it a target and, if that is true, the media fanned the flames of hate. To follow up that irresponsibility by remaining silent after the crime is all but despicable.
Even if you don't like Sarah Palin, have some decency. As I stated before, the motivation really doesn't matter. Arson is arson. And the fact that people were inside should make it a social and moral imperative that the arsonists be caught and put away for a long time.
Politics is not the issue here. Public safety is!
7 comments:
It was the media attacks and attention on this church
Oh please, this old canard again. They made a public spectacle of themselves by being reactionaries, that was THEIR OWN DOING, not "the media".
If TUCC had been torched, conservatives would all be pointing and laughing proclaiming to the world it was god's punishment or whatever other Schadenfreude b.s. There would be NO concern for "public safety" there, also, and such as.
You are using stupid "Rev Wright" as a red herring; he is irrelevant to Wasilla Bible Church. Let the investigation continue.
BTW, if it were indeed Teh Gay who did it, like the conservoblogs tried to rush everyone into judgment, we would DEFINITELY have heard about it by now on every news station in every newspaper on every blog...
Excuse me for a second here, but isn't Sarah Palin herself the one who, as governor of the state, is ultimately responsible for this investigation? Passing the buck the way you do to the media is a simple reality inversion.
First OCIHACOSP, if you are going to quote the blog please do so accurately. The quote you used went on to say - "...that may have made it a target"
We have to wait until the police catch a suspect to find out if that is indeed true...or if it is a canard.
How did the church make a public spectacle of itself. It existed long before Sarah Palin's candidacy and was never in the news. Videotapes were never leaked out before. And most of the allegations made against the church were found to be false.
The Rev. Wright comparison is certainly not a Red Herring. That case would be solved by now or there would be a media outcry.
There is no proof whatsoever that this was done by a Gay person. I am suprised you brought that up. I would never make that allegation or even comment on it without proof.
I am commenting solely on the lack of progress in the investigation and the lack of media coverage. Both are baffling to me.
And Bill, no Sarah Palin is not the person responsible for this inbestigation. She can ask for updates, but cannot impose herself.
There is no proof whatsoever that this was done by a Gay person. I am suprised you brought that up. I would never make that allegation or even comment on it without proof.
You shouldn't be.
There is a person in your comments on another thread, making exactly that allegation.
Hopefully, you'll set her straight, because she's quite upset about it.
First OCIHACOSP, if you are going to quote the blog please do so accurately. The quote you used went on to say - "...that may have made it a target"
Well again, that is indeed a canard, which is just parroting something Sarah said in a press release after the incident. I'm not sure why she released any statement at all on it, trying to cast aspersions on people who DARE criticize a church for doing antigay work, the noive...
As for videotapes, they were up on WBC's own site as well as a couple of her other churches. It was Sarah herself who very recently made the connection again to WBC's Fuxus Up the Family insert in one of their church bulletins, in the interview with John Ziegler.
I, too, have brought up something similar on my own blog, the fact that this story dropped out of the news, completely.
I am not willing, however, to cry media bias about it; in fact, churches burn down all the time. The ONLY reason WBC made national news is because Sarah Palin went there, at one time.
As I said before, Reverend Wright or TUCC has nothing whatsoever to do with this story.
In fact, the so-called librul media famously REFUSES advertising dollars from the United Church of Christ denomination, because of its inclusive stance on...you guessed it, the gays.
Let's just see what the next few weeks brings as far as the investigation goes. I wish there were more news on it, but one cannot rush an arson investigation.
BTW, for anyone interested, this is what the officiall news blog of the UCC had to say about the WBC incident.
http://unitedchurchofchrist.blogspot.com/2008/12/pray-for-wasilla-bible-church.html
"The churches of the United Church of Christ might seem separated by much from the independent Wasilla Bible Church in Alaska. After all, our theology is generally different and so is our way of worshiping. But we are all one in Jesus Christ and so the news today that Governor Sarah Palin’s church was set on fire apparently by an arsonist pains us all. Those of us in the UCC know what it is like to be targeted in such a fashion. It is particularly sad this happened so close to Christmas. So let our prayers be with the people of Wasilla Bible Church as they rebuild. If this crime was politically motivated it was indeed a hate crime."
So please, no more "Reverend Wright" card, ok?
It is certainly interesting for me to read that blog. Thanks for it. I like such themes and everything that is connected to this matter. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon.
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