Below is the result of an Arsenio Hall moment I had, you know, things that make you go huummm.
First, some background:
Associated Press
Feb. 14, 2005 06:39 AM
ATLANTA - For hours, Ashley Smith gently talked to the armed suspect in Atlanta's courthouse slayings, turning from hostage to confidant as they discussed God, family, pancakes and the massive manhunt going on outside her apartment.
"I believe God brought him to my door," Smith said Sunday, only hours after her 911 call ended a manhunt for Brian Nichols, who is accused of shooting four people since Friday.
Over the course of the night, Nichols untied Smith, and some of the fear lessened as they talked. Nichols told Smith he felt like "he was already dead," but Smith urged him to consider the fact that he was still alive a "miracle."
"You're here in my apartment for some reason," she told him, saying he might be destined to be caught and to spread the word of God to fellow prisoners. She told him his escape from authorities had been a "miracle." . . .
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that a courthouse surveillance camera recorded Nichols' initial surprise attack on Deputy Cynthia Hall but that no one in the control center noticed the assault.
"It's not just horrible, it was preventable," Senior Superior Court Judge Philip Etheridge told the newspaper.
A video camera, which is supposed to be monitored by two guards in a command post, shows Nichols and the deputy arriving in the holding area between two courtrooms, according to a law enforcement official who saw the tape. The video shows Hall guiding Nichols, whose hands are still handcuffed behind his back, into one of two open cells.
Hall releases one cuff and turns Nichols around to unhook the remaining cuff. But the muscular, 33-year-old Nichols then lunges at Hall, knocking the petite, 51-year-old grandmother backward into another cell. Both disappear from camera view. Two to three minutes later, Nichols emerges from the cell, holding Hall's gun belt and police radio. He picks up her keys from the floor and locks her in the cell.
A few minutes later, he emerges in civilian clothes. He locks the door behind him and calmly walks out of the holding area, carrying the gun belt, according to the official who saw the tape.
Judge Etheridge said Hall should not have been alone with Nichols, a former college linebacker who had been found with two sharpened door hinges in his socks earlier in the week.
The above is a quote from: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0314CourthouseShooting14-ON.html
So let me get this straight, God arranged it for deputy Hall, and deputy Hall alone, to escort Nichols. God arranged for the two deputies that were supposed be monitoring the surveillance camera not to be there doing job their job. Then God arranged for Nichols, a man that brutally, repeatedly raped and sodomized a woman over a three-day period, to kill three people in the process of making his divinely arranged miraculous escape. Then God led Nichols to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent David Wilhelm to kill him before He led him on to Ashley Smith. Have I got it straight?
Im sorry but I dont get it. Maybe you can help me to understand.
What god is it that operates in that fashion and that also leads his people to believe and to claim that it is OK that he operates in such a fashion? Can you tell me? I want to know so I can avoid that God.
That is not the God I worship!
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First, some background:
Associated Press
Feb. 14, 2005 06:39 AM
ATLANTA - For hours, Ashley Smith gently talked to the armed suspect in Atlanta's courthouse slayings, turning from hostage to confidant as they discussed God, family, pancakes and the massive manhunt going on outside her apartment.
"I believe God brought him to my door," Smith said Sunday, only hours after her 911 call ended a manhunt for Brian Nichols, who is accused of shooting four people since Friday.
Over the course of the night, Nichols untied Smith, and some of the fear lessened as they talked. Nichols told Smith he felt like "he was already dead," but Smith urged him to consider the fact that he was still alive a "miracle."
"You're here in my apartment for some reason," she told him, saying he might be destined to be caught and to spread the word of God to fellow prisoners. She told him his escape from authorities had been a "miracle." . . .
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that a courthouse surveillance camera recorded Nichols' initial surprise attack on Deputy Cynthia Hall but that no one in the control center noticed the assault.
"It's not just horrible, it was preventable," Senior Superior Court Judge Philip Etheridge told the newspaper.
A video camera, which is supposed to be monitored by two guards in a command post, shows Nichols and the deputy arriving in the holding area between two courtrooms, according to a law enforcement official who saw the tape. The video shows Hall guiding Nichols, whose hands are still handcuffed behind his back, into one of two open cells.
Hall releases one cuff and turns Nichols around to unhook the remaining cuff. But the muscular, 33-year-old Nichols then lunges at Hall, knocking the petite, 51-year-old grandmother backward into another cell. Both disappear from camera view. Two to three minutes later, Nichols emerges from the cell, holding Hall's gun belt and police radio. He picks up her keys from the floor and locks her in the cell.
A few minutes later, he emerges in civilian clothes. He locks the door behind him and calmly walks out of the holding area, carrying the gun belt, according to the official who saw the tape.
Judge Etheridge said Hall should not have been alone with Nichols, a former college linebacker who had been found with two sharpened door hinges in his socks earlier in the week.
The above is a quote from: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0314CourthouseShooting14-ON.html
So let me get this straight, God arranged it for deputy Hall, and deputy Hall alone, to escort Nichols. God arranged for the two deputies that were supposed be monitoring the surveillance camera not to be there doing job their job. Then God arranged for Nichols, a man that brutally, repeatedly raped and sodomized a woman over a three-day period, to kill three people in the process of making his divinely arranged miraculous escape. Then God led Nichols to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent David Wilhelm to kill him before He led him on to Ashley Smith. Have I got it straight?
Im sorry but I dont get it. Maybe you can help me to understand.
What god is it that operates in that fashion and that also leads his people to believe and to claim that it is OK that he operates in such a fashion? Can you tell me? I want to know so I can avoid that God.
That is not the God I worship!
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