Wednesday, February 4, 2009
News Forsyth Obama supporter whose home burned is now suspect
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM
The AJC says Forsyth County police have arrested the President Barack Obama supporter who claims she stopped short a trip to the inauguration after her home was set on fire. Police said "racially-charged graffiti" was also spraypainted on her fence.
Turns out she's now a suspect in the crime.
Investigators arrested the homeowner Pamela Graf and her boyfriend late Tuesday, while executing a search warrant as part of their investigation into the Jan. 18 fire, said Steve Anderson, chief of investigations for the Forsyth County Fire Department.“She is a suspect,” Anderson said today , “I look for something to be coming in the next day or two.”
“We were in search of fruits of the crime of arson,” the chief said. He declined to discuss specifics.
Graf was charged with possession of cocaine, and her boyfriend, identified as Steve Strobel, was charged with obstruction for giving statements “that were not truthful,” Anderson said.
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But Wesley What What assured me that no liberal minded person would do something like this :-)
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no, i said that right wing nutjobs are entirely capable of spray painting a swastika incorrectly. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/26/swastika-defaces-obama-portrait-in-l5p/ but thanks for the shout out! and if it turns out that this couple burned their own house down for whatever reason, then painted racist graffiti to cover their crime and generate sympathy, then i hope they get what they deserve. it should be obvious that such actions don't exactly conform to progressive idealogy.
Allow me to quote you Mr What What; "yeah, i’m SURE that a liberal minded person painted a swastika on the obama painting. makes perfect sense. we all know conservatives/racists/neo-nazis are too smart to do something like this, right?"
again, thanks for the shout out. not sure what one story has to do with the other, however. r u claiming that the obama grafitti in little five points was spray painted by the lady in forsyth, pamela graf?
When I suggested that the desecration of the Obama mural in L5P could have been a false flag "hate" crime, you assured me that no liberal minded person would do such a thing. I am simply pointing out a case of exactly that happening right here in Atlanta.
meh. not exactly what i said, but don't let "quotes" stop u from puting words in my mouth.
Please tell me how that is NOT what you said... This should make for an interesting grammar lesson I am not putting words in your mouth by quoting you directly and completely. They are YOUR words. meh - is that Tagalog for "I will weasel out of my clearly worded statement by being dismissive and condescending"?
Thanks Eugene, but I wouldn't hold my breath. The "that isn't what I said" defense is almost as reliable an indicator the end of reasonable debate as when I get get called a Nazi or some other perjorative.
Dale, you are a douchebag. Sorry I haven't been around much to call you that. Oh and in this case, you couldn't be more correct.
"you assured me that no liberal minded person would do such a thing" i think u may be confusing the 2 cases, chief. i said no such thing about the forsyth case.
again, just so your simple brain isn't confused, i did not say that the forsyth case couldn't have been done by a person with liberal political views. to pretend i did is a poor example of setting up a strawman that doesn't exist in order to knock it down and show how smart u r. ummmm, good work? oh, and for the record - u both sound like pompous, socially mal adjusted douchebags. why? i don't know. u just give off that stench. ur choice of words is telling. and if people aoften tell u "that isn't what i said" right before an argument breaks out, perhaps u shold stop pretending people said things they didn't. look within yourself for the source of your (apparent) problems getting along with other people, not the other people. just a little tip from me to u.
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