Say Anything Blog

16 September 2008
Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter
The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.

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.

In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: “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.”

“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”

She then adds: “So, again, very very powerful, coming from this church,” before the presiding pastor comments on the “prophetic power” of the event.

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 founded the Prayer Cave in 1989 in Kiambu, Kenya after “God spoke” to him and his late wife Margaret and called him to the country, according to the church’s website.

The pastor speaks of his offensive against a demonic presence in the town in a trailer for the evangelical video “Transformations”, made by Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency.

“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 full Transformations video featuring Pastor Muthee’s story has recently been removed from YouTube but the rest of the story is detailed in a 1999 article in the Christian Science Monitor, as well as on numerous evangelical websites.

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.

Says the Monitor, “Muthee held a crusade that “brought about 200 people to Christ”.” They set up round-the-clock prayer intercession in the basement of a grocery store and eventually, says the pastor “the demonic influence – the ‘principality’ over Kiambu –was broken”, and Mama Jane fled the town.

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.

Pastor Muthee has frequently referred to this witchhunt in his sermons as an example of the power of “spiritual warfare”. In October 2005, he delivered ten sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the audio of which was available on the church’s website until it was removed around the time Mrs Palin’s candidacy was announced. The blog Irregular Times has listings and screen grabs of the sermons.

It was during that these sermons that Mrs Palin, who was then preparing for her gubernatorial run, was anointed by Pastor Muthee. His intercession, she says, was “awesome”.

Her June 8 speech was to mark the graduation of students from the Wasilla Assembly of God’s Masters’ Commission, which, as Pastor Ed Kalins explains, believes Alaska will be the refuge for American evangelicals upon the coming “End of Days”. After her speech, Mrs Palin was presented with an honorary Masters’ Commission diploma.

Posted at 12:15 PM in Sarah Palin | Permalink

She should have just shot him.  It would have been easier.

tongue firmly in cheek

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Sounds to me that some influence was just pedaled.

If nothing was done wrong, why can’t there be testimony?

There can be testimony,

He also says the employees will not appear before the investigator unless either the full state Senate or the entire Alaska Legislature votes to compel their testimony

I wan’t to hear some testimony from Obama on the charge that he asked the Iraqi’s to delay the negotiations of troop removal. This guy can’t even get respect from the Iraqi government

Monegan himself says he wasn’t fired for refusing to fire Wooten, and now we know that Monegan was fired for insubordination. We also know that a governor can fire a political appointee without cause. So anyway you look at it there never should have been an investigation at all.

The reason to quash the investigation is because no matter what they found, they were going to lie and say Palin committed an illegal act and then move to begin impeachment hearings. The head of this group French is an Obama donator who decided before hand that he would find Palin guilty. To let them continue on ion this travesty is unethical and bad for the whole country.

If Palin is innocent, like she claims, then why the overwhelming push to silence the investigation?  2 months ago, she essentially said “Bring it on, I have nothing to hide” from the bipartisan (majority republican) committe.  Now that she’s in the national spotlight, everyone wants to clam up.  Not to misuse a contentious statement, but if it looks like a pig, and smells like a pig ... then it sure must be a pig. 

At this point, regardless of her innocence or guilt, she LOOKS guilt, and that is what the folks in the lower 48 think of her.

Question: Monegan was an “at will” employee. What difference does it make why Palin fired him?

At will employees can be fired because you don’t like the color of their tie. This is such a non-issue.

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Sounds to me that some influence was just pedaled.

Pedaled? Like your tricycle, Lestat? Perhaps you should peddle your theories someplace else?

Excuse me, you were saying?

If Palin is innocent, like she claims, then why the overwhelming push to silence the investigation?

She’s not “claiming” to be innocent, she’s already been proven to be innocent. Even Monegan says Palin is innocent. The reason to stop this sham of an investigation is that the head of the investigation is an Obama supporter and donator who has said that he already knows how the investigation is going to turn out even though it hasn’t been completed, and that he is planning on releasing the results of the investigation a few days before the election.

It is obvious that this panel has already decided to say that Palin did something illegal, and to time the release of their report to have the maximum influence on the election. It would be absurd for the state Attorney General, the head of law enforcement for the state, to allow such a ridiculous charade of a procedure to continue. He has a responsibility to make sure that justice is served, and there’s no justice being served here.

The investigation and subpoenas about troopergate have nothing to do with finding out the truth! It is all about how badly Palin’s name can be drug through the mud before the November election. That is not justice in action. That is simple politics in the courts. I agree with the delay. Guilty or Innocent, the facts are not going to change in two months. If it really is about justice and not party politics then Sen. French (D) should have no problem with waiting for the election to be held.

John, sometimes an investigation takes on a life of its own, and needs to be stopped.  A great example is the one that netted a “lying to investigators” conviction of Scooter Libby; Fitzgerald (?) knew from day one that there was no crime committed, but he kept snooping around and taking affidavits until he found two that contradicted one another.  Another one is the “lying to investigators” conviction of Martha Stewart.  Prosecutors knew on day one that she couldn’t be implicated in insider trading, but kept on going.

So given that no crime was committed by firing Mr. Monaghan, the investigation needs to stop before people now innocent get dragged into court.

It still baffles me, FWIW, that Democrats would object to the idea that Mr. Wooten ought not be a trooper.  If if weren’t for the fact that a Republican could be strung up, they’d ordinarily be all over the fact that a guy who tased his son, poached a moose, drank in his black and white, threatened to kill his father-in-law, and more really isn’t the guy you want wearing a badge and a Glock issued by the state.

Unless you admit the possibility that all they care about is politics.  Sigh.

What Democrats are doing here is the same thing the did with Scooter Libby.  There is no “there” there on the original allegation, but they hope to trip someone up under oath and get them on perjury.  They call it a “process” crime.

I am sure that’s what the AG saw here and decided to stop it before it started.