Whitlock: ‘The Tennessee Three’ and ‘The Memphis Three’ used children to elevate themselves and destroy the American paradise

The political theater happening inside the Tennessee House of Representatives is the reality show version of the HBO documentary series “Paradise Lost.”

In three separate documentaries, starting in 1996, HBO desperately tried to exonerate three Satan-worshiping teenagers from West Memphis, Arkansas, of the murder of three 8-year-old boys. The docs turned convicted murderers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley into cult heroes nicknamed “The Memphis Three.” Hollywood celebrities fell in love with Echols, the occult ringleader of the group. Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder and actor Johnny Depp enthusiastically fought for the release of the Memphis Three.

The public pressure worked. After 18 years behind bars, the Arkansas courts negotiated an Alford plea in 2011 with Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley, releasing them from prison with time served. Echols had been on death row.

Years ago, I was completely fascinated by the case. I watched all three HBO documentaries. Each doc recklessly pointed a finger at a new suspect. I read a handful of books about the case. At one point, I even tracked down and talked with a lawyer involved in the trial work. At times, I was convinced the police had rushed to judgment. Eventually I realized Echols was a devil worshiper who led his two friends to participate in a ritual killing of three children.

I thought of “Paradise Lost” yesterday when three Tennessee politicians stepped on the dead bodies of three 9-year-olds to elevate themselves as political cult heroes. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson, three members of the Tennessee House, have made themselves the faces and victims of the Nashville Covenant School massacre.

Late last week, Jones, Pearson, and Johnson organized an anti-Second Amendment protest at the House that disrupted work on the floor. Using megaphones, Jones and Pearson, with Johnson alongside, took over the House well while protesters shouted from the gallery and outside the House doors. It was a miniature, harmless version of January 6. In these hyper-partisan times, no one can be all that surprised that the provocative actions of the three Democrats sparked a strong rebuke by Republicans.

Yesterday, Republicans voted to expel Jones and Pearson and came up one vote short of expelling Johnson. It’s all symbolic. Jones and Pearson are expected to be reinstated within a few days.

But that reality hasn’t stopped corporate media and political actors from framing Thursday’s expulsion as the latest example of "Mississippi Burning." Jones and Pearson are black. Johnson is white.

“What is happening here today is a farce of democracy,” Jones said from the House floor. “What is happening here today is a situation in which the jury has already publicly announced the verdict. What we see today is just a spectacle. What we see today is a lynch mob assembled to not lynch me, but our democratic process.”

Jones later told MSNBC’s Joy Reid that he was voted out for being an “uppity negro.”

When Pearson spoke from the House floor, he changed his voice tone and cadence to mimic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s all cosplay intended to distract from focusing on what caused a transgender woman to snap and kill Christians.

Nashville police have yet to release the Nashville shooter’s manifesto. Yesterday in Colorado, law enforcement arrested a transgender person who was allegedly plotting a mass shooting at schools and churches. The suspect had written a manifesto expressing communist beliefs.

There might be a pattern here. Corporate and social media and educators seem to be promoting gender dysphoria among young people and radicalizing those young people to view Christians and Christianity as their mortal enemy. The message seems clear: If Christians would just accept a wide spectrum of genders, America would be a better, more inclusive place. So-called transgender people are justified in turning violent toward Christians.

But let’s not have that discussion. Let’s talk about racism and the need to throw out the Second Amendment. The people pulling the strings realize they don’t want to have the transgender discussion in public. Matt Walsh’s documentary “What Is a Woman?” exposed the dangers of defending transgenderism in public. Leftists look insane.

The way to stay on the offensive is to mask the real agenda with race. Bring in the Useful Idiots – the so-called Tennessee Three.

Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are the stars of this version of “Paradise Lost.” They’re Damien Echols, the devil-worshiping media darling who overshadowed Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers, the three 8-year-olds killed in West Memphis, Arkansas, 30 years ago.

Anybody know the names of the three 9-year-olds killed at Covenant School? Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs.

Is it a coincidence that leftists always seem to use dead children to advance their agenda?

The Memphis Three were used to shake confidence in our criminal justice system. Let me repeat: HBO paid for three different documentaries trying to prove the Memphis Three were innocent. Each doc irresponsibly accused someone else of the crime. Thirty years later, we now have a group of citizens who believe it’s justifiable to turn violent any time the courts render a criminal verdict the mainstream media say is wrong and racist.

School shootings are being used to undermine the Second Amendment. We can protect kids and schools without disarming the American public. If we spent the money we funneled to Ukraine on school safety, we could eliminate mass shootings at schools.

Children are being sacrificed to empower the government and undermine the rights of citizens. We’ve lost the American paradise.