A man who burned down his own church to make an anti-Trump point has been convicted of 10 years in prison. The Daily Wire reports:
A Mississippi man who burned down his own church just before the 2016 election has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Andrew McClinton, 47, pleaded guilty to arson in late March, The Daily Wire previously reported. On Thursday, Circuit Judge Margaret Carey-McCray sentenced McClinton to 10 years in prison as well as a 10-year suspended sentence to follow, part of which would be served under state supervision. Washington County District Attorney Dewayne Richardson told the Associated Press that McClinton’s sentence was based in part on his status as a habitual offender due to previous felony convictions. In 1997, McClinton was convicted of attempted armed robbery. In 2004, he was convicted of armed robbery.
McClinton had set fire to Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi just a week before the 2016 election. Hopewell had a predominantly African-American congregation. The words “Vote Trump” were painted on the side of the building when it burned, leading those looking to paint then-candidate Donald Trump as someone who inspires racists to claim it was a hate crime.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) included the arson on its list of hate crimes allegedly inspired by Trump before and after the election. The arson was included before any investigation had been conducted and was used to slam Trump.
This is yet another reason why the SPLC has lost all credibility in the eyes of the public. Not only did McClinton deprive his parishioners of their church and community, but also attempted to blame a whole segment of the American public to stoke hate in the country. This is wrong for so many reasons, and justice has finally been served.
SPLC should have to take back any funds they gav this “fellow” to start the fire (if they gave him anything). Then they should be fined 100 times that… after rebuilding the church.
No they probably didn’t give him any money, and they didn’t burn Notre Dame neither.
The SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center, is a far left wing organization. This so called none profit was proven to have a quarter of a million dollars hidden away in European banks and it’s leaders were involved in liberal causes.
So when is Smollett to get his just desserts?
Apparently Chicago AG Foxx is going to serve Jussie Smollett’s just deserts and be impeached for releasing him as a favor for the Obama’s. I just wish the Obama’s, who instigated this injustice, would have to take some responsibility too, and be punished along with AG Foxx. But it seems that the real guilty perpetrators always get away free from prosecution, using big money or famous status.
Arson in itself is a very serious offense since one never knows if someone is in the building. For example in a church I attended we discovered a homeless had found a way to secretly break in on a nightly bases. It wouldn’t be the first time a murder resulted from arson. Compounding that with exciting to riot and a hate crime, I find a 10 year sentence being hardly just especially a suspended sentence with probation. That is a slap on the hand and leaves him free to commit yet another crime. In a couple of years he could be out on probation.
He’s getting 10 years in Prison PLUS a 10 year probation: bad behavior in prison or probation violations after release result in a continuation of is state sponsored vacation.
They should have made him publicly state on TV (all channels) and pay for front page ads on all major market news publications that he committed this faux hate crime. He should also be forced to identify every single publication and organization that repeated the Hoax, and direct them to publish prominent corrections, and then maintain a public listing of those that have and those that have not
They should have also made him write an apologies to President Trump, the RNC, the NAACP, the ACLU, and others describing the stunt the costs and the harm it has done to the president & republicans; the NAACP & ACLU for promoting a false narrative which intentionally sowed further racial discord.
The latter to point out that false flag operations are really happening (proof by contradiction) ; therefore suspecting something is/was a false flag operation no longer means you are a nut job.
Derp derp derp. Derp.
Many will say to me on that day. Lord, lord……….
Seems like a totally depraved, remorseless, and despicable person.
Now that is a very stupid thing to do.
He wasn’t a liberal hoaxer, he was a criminal trying to cash in on insurance money.
Same thing!
my God, this SPLC is a communist front wearing black skin, underneath is KKK hate. remember the sanger, head of the planned parenthood who wanted to abort black babies back in the ’60? this is why NAACP needs to disband along with this terrorist SPLC group still keep the black shackle to their drumbeat. wake up black folks, you can stand your own ground, nothing to lose but gain when you vote for POTUS Trump in 2020
Why would these perishner allow a non repentant felon to be their pastor.
it seems like True Daily left out ‘fellow’ in their conclusion – he’s not identified as their pastor anywhere else that I’m aware of.
Many felons find religion in prison (some fake it) and many of those have gone on to lead congregations over time. For some people religion provides and external moral compass to supplant the one they didn’t have to begin with — a good thing if it guides them to be positive contributors to society, and not so good if they can use it as cover for subsequent crimes. That said, a “re-habituated” pedophile doesn’t get to be near children EVER again because there’s NO cure for that problem.
If the Democrats continue the way they are they are not setting themselves for the 2020 elections. If President Trump decides to run he will have my vote, and if Pence decides to run in 2024 he will have my vote as well. The democrats want to turn this country in to a communist state.
And we’re ready to remind everyone that we are a republic. I can never live under communist or socialist doctrine.
Robert, I would love to agree with your premise… which I take to read: “we (conservatives) have nothing to worry about because the dems are going to self-destruct… Maybe, but it only takes a vocal & active minority to overrun a timid poorly organized majority. Ref: Nazi Germany in the ’30s. I’m concerned.
So true
Marvelous. Here’s hoping the Feds will do the same for Wussie Smellit.
Huh — typical DemocRAT, commit a violent act and try to blame it on the Right. And the SPLC should have it’s tax exempt status revoked — they’re nothing but another Leftist hate group. Hopefully a few po’d bruthuhs will “thank” him for attacking one of their churches and he’ll never make it to the 2nd 10 years.