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Iowa man who tore down, burned LGBTQ flag is imprisoned
AP ^ | 12-19-2019 | AP

Posted on 12/20/2019 4:06:31 PM PST by HogsBreath

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To: SkyDancer

Sounds like he had a lousy lawyer.
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Better Call Saul for the appeal process

Maybe Denny Crane will assist him all the way to the SC.

Ridiculous...


41 posted on 12/20/2019 5:25:18 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: HogsBreath

Excessive punishment is not unconstitutional in Iowa? Not when you violate political correctness I guess.


42 posted on 12/20/2019 5:26:52 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Dr. Sivana

“”My wife told me a woman who ignored a school bus stop sign plowed into three children (from the same family), killing them, and got four years.””

That was a couple of years ago and I’ve often wondered what happened to the story. I can’t even remember the state where it happened - Ohio maybe? There were pictures of the road, an intersection, curves in the road, the bus stop - horrible story. I guess I can google it to get up to date.

Can’t get anymore up to date than this with today’s date:
https://www.ibtimes.com/woman-sentenced-after-plowing-3-students-boarding-school-bus-2889299


43 posted on 12/20/2019 5:28:52 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

He broke laws on theft of property and vandalism, didn’t he?


44 posted on 12/20/2019 5:31:55 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: coaster123

Join what side? What are you talking about?


45 posted on 12/20/2019 5:34:12 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SkyDancer

More like a queer judge.


46 posted on 12/20/2019 5:41:12 PM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They should put the judge in jail for twice as long.


47 posted on 12/20/2019 5:42:15 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: HogsBreath

Yeah. I was going to say that he should have stuck to burning American flags and effigies of Trump.


48 posted on 12/20/2019 5:49:52 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: HogsBreath

The Stalinists are sending a message to flyover country.

We will be punished severely if we don’t approve of homosexuality.

Since when are our beliefs a crime.

OK. Make the guy pay for damages but 15/18 years.

That’s real hate!!!


49 posted on 12/20/2019 5:55:35 PM PST by Chuck N
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To: HogsBreath
15 years for the hate crime of arson

Since when does burning a bit of cloth justify a charge of arson, let alone a hate crime of arson?

If only the flag was damaged, then apparently he was not trying to burn down the church.

It sounds like this guy was guilty of a minor crime -- he did damage someone else's piece of cloth -- but the sentence is so far over the top that I thought it had to be fake news. Apparently it really happened.

I hope he can afford to appeal, or that he is pardoned by the state governor.

50 posted on 12/20/2019 6:00:16 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: HogsBreath

Let’s stop pretending that there is freedom in this country. It’s going down the toilet.


51 posted on 12/20/2019 6:20:56 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: HogsBreath; All

Anyone caught burning our Flag on American soil should be shot on sight.


52 posted on 12/20/2019 6:29:26 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Chuck N

“The Stalinists are sending a message to flyover country.”

Exactly how I see it. If the roles were reversed, ACLU lawyers would be lined up down the block to defend the guy.


53 posted on 12/20/2019 6:42:34 PM PST by HogsBreath
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To: LucyT
Burning an American flag is considered free speech, but burning a rainbow flag is considered a hate crime and you can spend the rest of your life in prison!

The left has gone bonkers.


54 posted on 12/20/2019 7:44:09 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: HogsBreath

Meanwhile in my city a deranged woman attacks our giant Trump 2020 banner at an impeachment rally and nothing but crickets.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfzjMmxpWHM


55 posted on 12/20/2019 7:45:33 PM PST by ThE_RiPpEr. (The Obamanation is over - Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last)
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To: HogsBreath

In the gulag?


56 posted on 12/20/2019 8:18:19 PM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of high intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: HogsBreath

In the gulag?


57 posted on 12/20/2019 8:18:28 PM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of high intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything that obviously won't work.)
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To: coaster123

Hey, hey, I don’t support her.

She is my cousin.


58 posted on 12/20/2019 9:41:35 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: HogsBreath

It should be an ordinance violation that you pay a fine for.


59 posted on 12/21/2019 4:46:41 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: HogsBreath

Doesn’t sound like a free country to me.


60 posted on 12/21/2019 5:49:24 AM PST by Crucial
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