Palin Church Fire: "Hired Assassin" Claim

[meegbear]

WorldNetDaily returns to the subject of the suspicious fire the occured at Sarah Palin’s church in December. There have been bitter complaints that the fire has not been the subject of greater media attention or official investigation, but now WND highlights some new allegations:

(Blogger Kevin) Collins said he discussed the situation with a church elder, Tom Ryan, who confirmed the case isn’t a simple arson, but an attempted murder situation.

"There were five adult women and a 17-year-old girl in the church during the arson," Collins wrote.

He also reported the telephone wires and those controlling the fire alarm and water sprinkler were cut before the fire was set from within the building, because footprints were found inside the control room.

"Clearly the arson(ist) knew the victims were present," he wrote.

"The facts speak clearly. This attempted murder was perpetrated by someone from outside of the Wasilla area, a hired assassin who went there to kill people because of what they believe," Collins reported.

The cutting of the wires is surely newsworthy, but why is this coming to light only now? It’s not even mentioned on the church’s website. Collins blames "slovenly old media", and claims the media is fearful the perpetrators will turn out to be left-wing. However, I’m sure Ryan or Pastor Larry Kroon could have got a hearing from many media sources with this information, both secular and Christian.

Instead, and curiously, Ryan has chosen to go to a Freeper-style right-wing blogger who chest-thumps at length on the usual subjects - a typical screed is entitled "Face it: Obama declared war on us. It’s time to choose up sides and fight back to Save America"; Collins also has a book to sell (co-authored with Paul Vallely of "Stand Up America"). From a summary:

Operation Sucker Punch (Blood for our Future) is a thriller where the stakes portrayed could not be higher. President Harlan Andrews of the U.S. prepares to launch a joint preemptive first strike with Israel against the world’s radical Islamic terror states. The strike must be pre-emptive and carried out with overwhelming lethal force. A top secret intelligence report proves that there are just months remaining before Mohammed Waleed, the Iranian Islamic leader, completes the building of deliverable atomic weapons. The tension builds as time runs out. The plan is to trick and set a ruse for the radical Islamist to attack Israel. Then, they will fight a war based on America and Israel’s timetable. Only this pre-emptive offensive can save the free world from the global caliphate. If the plan works, Waleed and his allies will be annihilated in this winner-take-all war. If the plan fails, America’s President and Israel’s Prime Minister will be tried as war criminals.

Is this really the only person that Ryan could get the word out to?

http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/palin-church-fire-hired-assassin-claim/

[underpants]

1. In a year or so they are going to warp this into Waco revisited

burning church...I think we all know where it goes from here

[siligut]

2. Paranoid much?

A hired assassin for arson? Sounds more like one of their disgruntled members. Those Alaskan survival skills aren’t just for survival anymore. I agree, why not the MSM? And why wait till now?

[Canuckistanian]

3. And where are the police on this?

Assuming that this is Alaska, I'm guessing that the police forces there (not to mention the District Attorneys and other state officials) are all solidly conservative "law 'n order" types.

If there was ANY credibility to this hypothesis, I think it would have been exhaustively investigated.

[atommom]

4. The cutting of the wires and water sprinkler would be noteworthy, but

I'm skeptical about that detail given that no one else has corroborated it. We all know that WND does not do fact checks. They subscribe to the "make shit up and piss people off" school of journalism. :)

Seriously, how deep an investigation do most church fires in small towns get? He will be dissatisfied with any investigation that doesn't conclude out of town liberals did it.

[siligut]

5. Liberals are now the terrorists.

Trying to get the RW religious extremists riled up.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. Off subject but anyone notice Palin Lick her lips in that interview

about her meeting the president at that function this weekend?

She does it right at the end........... yuck

On the arson, I think it was an inside job to bring attention to
their church just like Palin does with herself.

[Blue_Tires]

7. parlock