Posted on 07/07/2020 4:52:31 PM PDT by TigerClaws
You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride.
“Hate crime” is thought crime.
But they can pull down on all the statues they want. Bronze statues that cost thousands of dollars.
More criminal government.
JoMa
They also should have done it at night dressed in all black with a mask as you say.
Painting those words on a street is the same as burning a cross in someone’s front yard. It is designed to intimidate.
JoMa
Just wait until Biden wins.
I recently watched A twilight zone episode called
Its a Good thing
I kept thinking about how BLM and Antifa were the monster who doesnt allow anything and you are cancelled if you dare do something he doesnt like
as you see everyone walking on eggshells trying to keep the monster happy I felt like I am in that episode
You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride.
Maybe 10-15 years ago when I’d visit my mom in San Diego, we’d drive down I-5 and there was a section where cans of paint must have fallen off of a truck. More than one can and more than one color.
Someone could commit a hate crime by having paint fall off of the open tail gate of his truck while passing through.
The Equal Protection Clause: If it’s OK to burn a US flag it’s OK to “deface” any identity symbol.IIRC SCOTUS cited “free speech”.
Hate is a motive, it isn’t a crime.
Hate Crime Laws are 100% unconstitutional.
but maybe they wanted to be arrested to make a point....
This country has gone off the rails.
Had the DA simply charged them with painting the street without a permit (whatever the relevant ordinance would be for that), then she might have been in the clear, but that’s not what she’s done. The lack of a permit, and the fact that the BLM painters apparently did have a permit, is the only legal difference here. Anything beyond that has only to do with the specific message that each group sought to express, and while I am far from an attorney I believe that the courts have uniformly frowned upon government discriminating between groups on free speech grounds, based only upon their message.
The only way I think the couple might be in trouble is if a court or jury interprets their action as only seeking to obliterate someone else’s message, rather than adding their own. They probably should have painted their own message next to the BLM “mural”, or at the very least altered the lettering to create a different message.
21 May: The Federalist: Californa Democrats Try To Legalize Racial Discrimination During Pandemic
Majorities of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans disapprove of racial preferences, yet the California State Assembly is advancing just such a measure in the middle of a pandemic.
By Kenny Xu
(Kenny Xu, who works for Young America’s Foundation)
It was instantly clear that Weber had been preparing during the pandemic to push this bill through as quickly as possible, as the hearing in the Labor Committee was accompanied by nearly 100 on-script leftist California organizations calling in to say how “strongly” they supported ACA-5, despite the legislature having not even debated the measure yet...
Why would liberal Democrats try to pass this bill now, in the middle of a pandemic? Perhaps they hoped no one would notice, but people are noticing...
It really does appear that after 25 years, voters of all backgrounds are wise to Democrats’ race game...
Besides leftists, who exactly does that leave in support of race or sex preferences? The answer is almost no one. The California Democrats who try to advance this ridiculous bill in the middle of a pandemic are shooting themselves in the foot...
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/21/californa-democrats-try-to-legalize-racial-discrimination-during-pandemic/
petition keeps disappearing within seconds when I open it. maybe it will open ok for others.
Petition: Change.org: Vote No On Proposition 16 (ACA-5)!
136,189 have signed so far
https://www.change.org/p/california-state-assembly-members-vote-no-to-aca-5
12 Jun: OC Register Op-ed: ACA 5 threatens a civil rights setback for California
by Shawn Steel
(Shawn Steel serves as California’s committeeman on the Republican National Committee)
“ACA 5 is ill-conceived and will inflict great harm upon many Californians,” warns Ward Connerly, a former regent of the University of California and the founder of the American Civil Rights Institute. “Of equal importance is the inherent link between equality and freedom. Without equality, we leave our pursuit of opportunity in the hands of an ever-growing government to make decisions about our lives on the basis of our identities.”
Connerly, who authored the California Civil Rights Initiative in 1996, mobilized a diverse coalition of Californians who see race based discrimination as a setback for racial equality...
If the Legislature sends the measure to the ballot, it is likely to face strident opposition from Asian Americans. The organized and fierce opposition of the 15 percent of the electorate, of AP voters in California could shift several congressional and legislative political races into the Republican column. “Asian-Americans will take the lead in opposing ACA-5,” observes John Fund, National Review’s national-affairs reporter. “Among Asian Americans, the opposition is 2 to 1 against.”
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/06/12/aca-5-threatens-a-civil-rights-setback-for-california/
OTOH, can you believe this sh*t?! Rioters and looters and just plain vandals destroy millions of dollars of private property and public monuments with nary a slap on the wrist. And the DA wants to prosecute these citizens for a hate crime?!
Martinez, obviously a couple of white hispanics.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Hate crime is definitely thought crime and unconstitutional. If they commit an actual, then prosecute based on what they actually did! . But you can never determine what a person is thinking.
“Thought Crime comes to America”
As a transplanted Iowan, I was shocked a few years back when a man climbed a flag pole in Nevada, IA and took down a rainbow flag and burned it.
He was charged with a hate crime and was sentenced to 16 YEARS in prison: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/19/hate-crime-iowa-man-sentenced-prison-burning-lgbtq-flag/2705226001/
Nobody hurt, no menacing or impeding the public, no terroristic threats. Simply removing and burning a flag.
Yet BLM is free to terrorize, loot, riot, burn, menace, impeded and destroy national monuments with no consequence.
Disgusting!
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