
White teen girl detailed plan for racist attack on black churchgoers in notebook police say": thats literally the title (with only first word capitalized) of the Washington Post article trumpeting a non-event. Ponder those words. A white girl scribbled some troubled thoughts about murdering congregants at a black church. Essentially this is the content of a story" that made headlines throughout the Southeast and upon which WSB-TV Atlanta lavished at least three minutes on the evening of November 19.
Once you know more details the episode becomes even more... non-eventful.
The white teen girl" was sixteen years old. Not eighteen or nineteen: sixteen. She had apparently amassed a collection of... no not handguns not bombs or grenades not clips for assault rifles: knives. She collected knives. So now we have a sixteen-year-old white girl with knives" in the plural. There was no indication that she had trained with the Mossad or that she possessed a black belt in some ancient Japanese art of firing out blades at a rate of five per second. As far as we know she has only two hands. As far as we know members of the Bethel AME Church in Gainesville Georgia are not exclusively octogenarians or manually challenged female invalids. And of course as anyone can be pretty sure of knowing the Church was a gun-free" zone making it a target even for someone with no more than a kitchen knife (the species of blade involved in this case). Our Gal Gadot wannabe was too respectful of the law it seems to equip herself with deadly weapons illegally. Sometimes the gun-free" idiocy works.
The WaPo article bestows much quote-space upon one Sergeant Kevin Holbrook who was most likely the blond baby-faced young man I saw interviewed on WSB news. That lad is going far. He pressed all the right keys to sound just the right notes. The girls notebook contained manifesto-type" ravings observed the officer with wisdom beyond his years (and training). He continued as WaPo reports faithfully: There were many writings and drawings different depictions and a lot of hateful messages in it.... As far as the details go they were down to very specific information." Turns out that Holbrook is also something of a theologian. Carnage of innocents was averted he concludes by pure grace": had the normal Wednesday night Bible study not been canceled the teen fiend would not have found the compounds buildings empty when she visited them a dagger clutched Bluebeard-like in her teeth.
The churchs pastor interviewed by WSB confirmed Gods intercession in the canceled Bible studyand confirmed further my own inference that no men attend this church and that no women there are capable say of lifting a chair or coming at an assailant from behind. But... might God be whispering to these good people that Bethel AME should host a self-defense class in the near future if not actually persuade a retired soldier to slip a Glock inside his coat during services?
Now the pastor and the sergeant werent quite on the same page as to motivation. The former while admitting that the sixteen-year-old had to be very troubled wanted her tried as an adult (tried for snooping around the sanctuary with a knife in her belt); the latter was convinced as he revealed in his WSB interview that she was radicalized" by white supremacist" websites. Now if our would-be mass murderess were hypnotized by Internet conditioning then she can scarcely be held fully responsible for her acts; but if she is actually to be prosecuted as a full adult then the assumption must be that she had complete possession of herselfmore so than one would expect of an ordinary sixteen-year-old. And in that case the radicalizing white-supremacist websites" are utterly irrelevant.
An aside: I wonder how long Sergeant Holbrook has dreamed of using the word radicalize"? Doesnt it sound cool? But you cant use it to describe say... I dont know: say a jihadist website. Im afraid you cant even use the word jihadist" any more. I didnt write that.
But white supremacist" nowyou can and should drop that phrase early and often at least if you hope for a long and ascending career path in law enforcement. White-supremacist songs... white-supremacist holidays... white-supremacist weather and condiments and ways of pronouncing the word tergiversation": its everywhere! The white-supremacist menace is everywhere!
Just be grateful that white supremacists honor gun-free zones. Can you imagine if....
Meanwhile the city of Atlanta continues to have daily drive-by shootings daily convenience-store robberies at gunpoint daily brawls that go ballistic when someone pulls out a handgunand the crimes are almost always black on black. But the citys African American community shouldnt allow its collective eye to be diverted from the real problem which is...
The KKK is back! White people are coming for youand with knives this time!
WaPo wraps up powerfully The girls arrest comes as black churches and other houses of worship around the country have faced a wave of violence and intimidation." See you hadnt even heard about that! Im afraid its not quite clear to me whether the adjective black" is intended to stretch to other houses of worship" or if the latter is clever MSM code for mosque". (Of course to WaPo all Muslims are dark-skinned so my interpretive confusion is a non-issue.) And you certainly shouldnt be misled into thinking that Christian churches everywhere are under escalating attack from outfits like WaPo to surrender their orthodox views on marriage on gender on the value of hard work... thats not intimidation its the inevitable friction of Neanderthal-meets-Homo Sapiens. The real story here once again is that
whites are out to murder blacks. If you didnt know that... well what are news outlets for?
Sergeant Holbrook and his crack team apparently lost no time analyzing the girls Internet activity and ferreting out the insidious influence of WS propaganda; but they havent yet had the leisure to visit her high school and find out if just maybe she had been routinely beaten up by black girls and decided upon the church attack as her revenge. Wouldnt it have been wonderfully Christian if she had stormed through an open church door knife drawn and then been talked to tears and surrender by the suffering Christs words of peace delivered by a true believer? Maybe an invitation to sit with the group and pray instead of a call to 911? Well never know if that might have happenedif someone other than Pastor Try-Her-As-An-Adult might have stood up and borne Gods message.
And well never know about that high school situation either. Something tells me that the girl would have confessed that part of her motivation right out of the gateand that our ambitious young investigators would instantly have buried it deep in the unusable" file.