Meth, Not Jesus, Saves

Remember Ashley Smith, the Georgia woman who last March disarmed the crazed killer who had taken her hostage with pancakes and quotations from the New Agey tome The Purpose-Driven Life? Smith's action made her a meda darling.

Now, as Rogier van Bakel points out at his great blog Nobody's Business, it turns out that Smith used more than biblical wisdom to mollify her attacker. From a new AP story:

Ashley Smith, the woman who says she persuaded suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to release her by talking about her faith, discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal. … [S]mith says Nichols had her bound on her bed with masking tape and an extension cord. She says he asked for marijuana, but she did not have any, and she dug into her illegal stash of crystal meth instead.

More here.