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Va. cabbie pursues charges after anti-Muslim rant
AP/WTOP ^ | 06/19/2013 | MATTHEW BARAKAT

Posted on 06/19/2013 10:29:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: Mrs. Don-o

I don’t press charges if someone is in my face and poking me etc, I just take care of the problem.

I don’t know this whole story, but it’s alarming that so many people these days bring up the “hate crime” terminology. That sure does leave a lot open for interpretation.


21 posted on 06/19/2013 11:46:47 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The woman may be a fool, which would be all the more reason for the America hating Left and their moslem allies to target her. They know people will be hesitant to defend her actions. They’re using it to get a conviction for hate thought. Which is all the more reason liberty loving people should be staunchly defending her right to say whatever names she wants. As for poking fingers, how fast was the cabbie driving? Could she not have felt threatened?


22 posted on 06/19/2013 11:48:52 AM PDT by kreitzer
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To: nikos1121
Yes. In law: "battery: an intentional unpermitted act causing harmful or offensive contact with the "person" of another."

Approach a person in an aggressive manner without even touching them, is assault.

Unwanted intentional touching is battery.

23 posted on 06/19/2013 11:50:47 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
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To: Bulwyf
The "hate crime" terminology is BS. (As in "CBS").

The intentional unwanted touching, however, is battery.

24 posted on 06/19/2013 11:52:00 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
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To: kreitzer
All the more reason for us to clearly and repeatedly distinguish between "hate crime" and "battery."

"Hate crime" involves presuming to screen the thoughts, and is always ideological rubbish. "Crime" rightly understood involves witnessed (seen or heard) or provable actions only.

As for "was he driving too fast?" You just pulled that out of the hat. If he had been, you may be sure it would have been part of the story.

According to this account (which is all we know), he didn't speed up. He pulled over and called 9-1-1. That would involve slowing down to a atop, I would think.

25 posted on 06/19/2013 11:58:17 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

VErbal assault is not a crime assuming there is no other threatening behaviour. I can call you any name under the book. If you hit me, you committed a crime. This person was vulgar, uncouth, impolite etc. Disorderly, committing battery...to the point of committing a crime is a stretch, but then again, what the heck do I know. Everyday it’s something posted on here that makes me think life is upside down.


26 posted on 06/19/2013 12:05:30 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Bulwyf

This person obviously is expressing a lot of the feelings that have been pent up in all of us for years now.


27 posted on 06/19/2013 12:06:07 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

A harmful or offensive touching of one by another. Yep, battery.

But it’s not a crime for her to be a moron.
I just got back from WallyWorld. Some idjit had his cart parked north-south in an east-west lane, and he was blocking the rest of the aisle.
I said “Excuse me!” while thinking, “Why am I asking this guy to excuse me?”
But he said, “I’m sorry,” and we both moved on. Grownups aren’t supposed to hit one another. Not a comment on your question, but I was having a bad day and thought about pushing it out of the way with my cart as he held it.
Thought better of it. People like us may be holding society together.
But can we hold?


28 posted on 06/19/2013 12:28:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

It’s the hate crime that’s the crux of the story. I don’t believe at all we are getting the whole story. Anyone could go on and on about the vagaries; was she poking or tapping him on shoulder? etc. We probably agree on hate crime, but equating poking with battery is one step closer to getting this woman convicted of a hate crime, which would be a real crime in my mind. But just my opinion.


29 posted on 06/19/2013 12:38:36 PM PDT by kreitzer
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To: nikos1121
I love Free Republic. I learn new words and definitions every day.

Legal definition of Assault (Link).

30 posted on 06/19/2013 12:45:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (When I grow up, I'm gonna settle down, chew honeycomb & drive a tractor, grow things in the ground.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

http://clashdaily.com/2013/06/every-mosque-in-america-too-is-a-military-base/


31 posted on 06/19/2013 12:55:02 PM PDT by IChing
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To: Responsibility2nd

Islam is a Hate Crime in itself. This woman was not being irrational at all ...just honest


32 posted on 06/19/2013 12:58:52 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Don't Blame Me For La Raza Rubio....I Voted For Alex Snitker)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So... ...is the guy a muslim?


33 posted on 06/19/2013 1:14:01 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

***...he pulled over to the side of the road and called 911. ***

How do we know he was not setting off a phone detonating devise somewhere?


34 posted on 06/19/2013 1:55:20 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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