Authorities: Fantasy turned into reality:
Another article about the alleged Gulf Shores High plot in Alabama which makes the local D.A.’s office sound even more clueless…
“We believe, that in this particular case, the evidence indicates that fantasy moved into reality,” Baldwin County District Attorney Judy Newcomb told about 300 parents and students gathered in the school’s gym Thursday night. “I can’t tell you whether, when the day came, they would have carried it out. They probably can’t tell you whether they would have carried it out. We have too many adults, who, even after they’ve killed somebody, can’t figure out, ‘Well how did that happen, how did I do that? I didn’t really mean to do that when I pulled the gun on him.’
“But what we decided as law enforcement as we looked at those facts was that we couldn’t wait for that determination.”
The Gulf Shores attack, prosecutors have claimed, was to be carried out April 20 this year, the same day that Meredith originally planned to release “Grisly Underground 2,” according to Web sites he uses to promote and show his short films.
But there is a simple explanation for the movies release date…
Marty Majors, 31, a Foley man whose stepdaughters are friends with Meredith, has come to the teens’ defense. In an e-mail to the Press-Register, he recounted a version of events told to him by a Gulf Shores student he works with.
“The whole story started very innocently,” Majors wrote.
He said the 15-year-old was talking with another student in a morning class about the upcoming release of Meredith’s new horror film. The teen, according to Majors, explained the significance of April 20, the release date, being the Columbine anniversary.
“So the other student then sarcastically asked, ‘So what are you going to do? Shoot up the school?’ The 15-year-old of course said ‘no,’” Majors wrote. All the while, Majors wrote, another student was listening and “went crying home to her mom and said some kids were going to attack the school.” The mother, according to Majors, called police.
Majors’ stepdaughter, Erica Brown, 16, agreed in an interview that Meredith intentionally released his movies with particular dates in mind. “Grisly Underground” debuted Jan. 13, a Friday. Besides choosing April 20, a date shared by the Columbine anniversary and Hitler’s birthday, for the initial showings of “Grisly Underground 2,” he wanted to issue another movie on June 6, 2006, which, in numerology, translates to 666, a number that readers of Bible prophecy know as the “Mark of the Beast.”
How is that any different from big budget horror movies being released on a Friday the 13th or Halloween?
And again the D.A. hasn’t been very forthcoming with details…
“In this particular case, without going into facts, I will tell you there were statements made, there were threats made and there have been overt, documented acts both through the computer, paper and witnessed actions that this was more than just two students making idle threats.”
Yet none of that information has yet to be made public.
This sounds like nothing more than small town mentality run amok. If this had happened in New York or Atlanta this wouldn’t even be an issue. But since it happened in a small town where Joe Meredith doesn’t fit into their preconceived concepts of “normal” he’s being made a scapegoat of a plot that more than likely was made up in the minds of local busybodies and clueless law enforcement.
The longer the D.A.’s office doesn’t release details the more I believe that they have no case.
