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Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol
AP via Yahoo ^ | 6/28 | Jill Bleed

Posted on 06/28/2017 10:41:35 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

A man yelled "Freedom!" as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma's monument at its state Capitol, authorities said.

The privately funded Arkansas monument had been in place outside the state Capitol in Little Rock for less than 24 hours before it was knocked from its plinth and smashed to pieces.

Michael Tate Reed, 32, of Van Buren, Arkansas, was booked in the Pulaski County jail shortly after 7:30 a.m. on preliminary charges of defacing objects of public interest, criminal trespass and first-degree criminal mischief. An arrest report lists his occupation as "unemployed/disabled."

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To: C210N

Love that movie, been a LONG time since I saw it...


21 posted on 06/28/2017 10:53:50 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: AppyPappy

Not only a hate crime(although all crimes are a form of “hate”) but an act of terrorism. (an attempt to silence Christian voices and Ideology through violence.)

Also I heard on radio 11:00 news that he had crashed a car into an other Ten Commandments display. (that part not repeated at noon or 1:00)


22 posted on 06/28/2017 10:54:05 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

You might be a redneck if...


23 posted on 06/28/2017 10:54:41 AM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: AbolishCSEU
guy looks like Rob Reiner!!!

"Thinks" like him, too.

24 posted on 06/28/2017 10:54:41 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Satan’s little helper should be charged with the serial commission of hate crimes. First Oklahoma, now Arkansas?

He’s gross.


25 posted on 06/28/2017 10:55:23 AM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Closer to Robin Williams.


26 posted on 06/28/2017 10:55:26 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

He’s an under medicated former mental patient with schizophrenia who has done this before in Oklahoma.


27 posted on 06/28/2017 10:56:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Ohhhh, now I see. Trump called Putin and told Putin he needed a distraction to get rid of all this Russia talk. So Putin had a KGB mole pay off this nut job in Arkansas to do this and get everyone talking about it.

It’s clear now.


28 posted on 06/28/2017 10:57:31 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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Just heard on local (Oklahoma City) radio that the vandal is the same guy that leveled the monument in Oklahoma.

Perhaps Arkansas can deal with him more sternly.

Gwjack


29 posted on 06/28/2017 10:58:27 AM PDT by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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Michael Tate Reed’s letter on his Oklahoma smashing..

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/ginniegraham/letter-from-man-who-destroyed-ten-commandments-monument-gives-insight/article_889af960-1d27-5fb2-9332-7057f6947f25.html


30 posted on 06/28/2017 10:58:30 AM PDT by deport
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Looks like Silent Bob (Kevin Smith)...


31 posted on 06/28/2017 10:59:22 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
Doesn't matter>
Put him in PRISON until either he or his relatives pay the cost for REPLACING the statue with an EXACT REPLICA,
and PAY ALL ADDITIONAL FINES he has placed against him !
32 posted on 06/28/2017 10:59:53 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Eventually, the state of Arkansas will be ready to replace this statue. This time, I hope they learn by experience to put it in more protective setting. Either put it on top of a building, or behind a few heavy slabs of rock and fencing.
Or create a moat around it. A rather unlikely solution.

Too many wing nuts now react like a dog to certain sights.
This also happens with the Confederate Flag. People think they are within their rights to tear that flag off of your truck and burn it in front of you. Thanks, Obama and Holder.
Your progressive hysteria persists even today.


33 posted on 06/28/2017 11:02:47 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: C210N

34 posted on 06/28/2017 11:04:02 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Newbomb Turk

I don’t understand why we, after all of the legal wrangling and frivolous lawfare fails and the monument is erected, allow these psycho sons of bitches to destroy it in less than 24 hours, without taking the fight to their doorstep.


35 posted on 06/28/2017 11:06:09 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: deport

Considering Neil DeGrasse Tyson has speculated that the universe might be a simulation created by some alien, this dude may not be too far off from having a PBS show on the origins of mankind.


36 posted on 06/28/2017 11:06:26 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: C210N

Omigosh, that is absolutely HILARIOUS!


37 posted on 06/28/2017 11:07:42 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: wyowolf
You might be a redneck if...

You beat the sh*t out of this guy for being a moron.

38 posted on 06/28/2017 11:08:28 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: AppyPappy

Hate crime - make him do the time!


39 posted on 06/28/2017 11:11:01 AM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
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To: SecAmndmt

If he doesn’t repent, he WILL have his wish: freedom from God FOREVER.

He doesn’t know what he’s asking for.


40 posted on 06/28/2017 11:13:31 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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