You can't post that passage without this photo ! ;-)
Posted on 12/27/2006 6:16:04 PM PST by walkerk
A 38-year-old man read aloud from the Bible and fired a handgun twice at the base of a flagpole in Golden Gate National Cemetery to honor soldiers on Christmas Eve, according to prosecutors who charged him with six felonies.
Maurito Alviar, 38, of Oakland, told authorities after his arrest he was very upset with how the country treats members of the military and hoped to pay tribute to them by conducting his own version of a 21-gun salute, said Chief Deputy District Attorney.
San Bruno police arrested Alviar after a person at the cemetery reported seeing him stand by the police at 12:49 p.m. and pull a Bible from a duffel bag. Alviar read aloud for several minutes — he later told police the chapter was Ezekiel 7 — before drinking water and pulling out a black handgun which he fired west and south.
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I think he was doing Ezekiel 25:17:
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
You can't post that passage without this photo ! ;-)
Still makes my white boy hair stand on end.
Ummm... yeah, sure, you can keep and bear arms. But you cannot shoot in the direction of the highway. Your rights end where the rights of another begin.
What he did was dangerous, and as such, a reprimand is in order. Anarchism only works so well.
He can be reprimanded when he gets out of jail, or the psychiatric hospital. The guy's a nut. He's making up quasi-military rituals and shooting stolen firearms in a cemetery. The fact that the object of his mania is a noble institution does not lessen the fact that he's crazy and dangerous.
From the linked article:
>>>A search later showed the gun as stolen.<<<
I think he is either a nut or an activist pushing a gun ban agenda.
You can't be serious.
Gee, do you think amber-colored fluids were involved in this incident?
It is the S.F. Bay Area, so amber could be a little hasty to assume and a kidney infection would change that as well...
that said, I'd rather Freaky Fred Phelps get an butt rammin' in jail than this guy.
Phelps may enjoy that though.
Exactly the point I was going for. For him to walk free, the police et al. would have to experience a serious lapse in judgement, one for which I would dismiss them from their posts.
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