I just can't make this up. Sarah Palin does not only support witchhunts, Cheney 2008 style, she supports witchhunts 1620s style.
The story is about a sick pastor named Thomas Muthee who has engaged in the actual and violent purging of witches from towns in Africa.
Of course it takes a British newspaper to report on what ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post and every newspaper in America should have reported on already but apparently haven't. What will we learn next?
A couple of diarists here, First Amendment and kyeo wrote diaries on this yesterday morning but in the flurry of diaries they fell off the page unnoticed. This should be played up more.
Palin just can't claim that Muthee was some speaker she did not know. As reported by the timesonline,
At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.
There is video of Sarah Palin claiming that Muthee helped "pray" her way into becoming Governor.
As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying "Lord make a way, Lord make a way."
Muthee was not a 1 time visitor to Palin's church.
An African evangelist, Pastor Muthee has given guest sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God on at least 10 occasions in his role as the founder of the Word of Faith Church, also known as the Prayer Cave.
Pastor Muthee describes his breaking of the spirits.
We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place," Pastor Muthee says. After the spirit was broken, the crime rate dropped to almost zero and there was "explosive church growth" while almost every bar in the town closed down, the video says.
The times online tells the story of how Muthee forced a "witch" to leave town because her alleged "witchcraft" was causing car accidents.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, six months of fervent prayer and research identified the source of the witchcraft as a local woman called Mama Jane, who ran a "divination" centre called the Emmanuel Clinic.
Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.
Muthee's encouragement of violence forced this woman from her Kenyan home.
According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned. Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.
After Mama Jane was questioned by police – and released – she decided it was time to leave town, the account says.
Had Mama Jane not left town, she would have been stoned to death thanks to Muthee.
But despite this knowledge, Palin still welcomed Muthee with open arms to Wasilla just 3 months ago claiming that Muthee's intercession was "awesome."
Perhaps Sarah Palin should read Arthur Miler's book, "The Crucible" assuming she hasn't already tried to have it banned. Then again, reading "The Crucible" may not be an educational experience for Governor Palin. She'll probably have a difficult time determining who the protagonists are and who the bad guys are.