A Texas man faces a federal charge for allegedly intentionally setting fire to an Austin synagogue on Halloween. He allegedly wrote down details of the attack in his diary.
A Texas man faces a federal charge for allegedly intentionally setting fire to an Austin synagogue on Halloween. He allegedly wrote down details of the attack in his diary.
“Scout out a target,” Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, allegedly wrote in a journal on Oct. 28. And three days later: “I set a synagogue on fire.”
Other entries include “piss myself,” and “pay cash for [redacted],” according to photos of the journal included in an FBI agent’s affidavit supporting a federal arson charge against Sechriest, who’s also a private in the Texas National Guard and student at Texas State University
I’ve heard that journaling can be encouraged for some forms of therapy and I’m having a hard time figuring just why he would feel compelled to write these down…though there I go again seeking rational decision-making from someone who clearly is lacking in certain je ne sais quoi.
WTF does it mean when someone actually writes the word “redacted” in their own diary? Seriously, is anyone but me interested in what he thinks that word means, if he understands it, and why on earth he wrote it in his notes to himself?