I know it's been used before....but why not?What are you supposed to do with the darn things?
Can anyone in their wildest dreams imagine someone getting arrested and prosecuted for defacing a Bible?
Islam is political. 1st Amendment rights.
Yet another case of a prosecutor going way way way over the top!
I know it's been used before....but why not?I posted a reply to an earlier thread this morning, while all in the US were asleep. It was being treated as a hate crime.. What the H is that? I throw a paperback in the toilet and I am guilty of a crime?
This is so over the top and why I am happy not to be in the US now. PC will destroy the US.
First question: Who owned the book?
Second: Was there lasting damage to the plumbing?
Listening to the way liberals are defending Ward Churchill, I figure they’ll be all over this. /s
“Fourth, his name and photograph were published in several newspapers in New York.”
Rotten thing to do. Now he’s potentially in danger.
Why’d he take their Koran and throw it in a toilet?
And if a Muslim had taken a Bible and done same, I don’t think they’d be facing felony charges.
“Do we still live in a country that values free speech?”
Actually, no.
Since we Americans are apparently subject now to sharia law for disrespecting this book- will sentencing options include beheading or merely 100 lashes and an amputated limb?
Ping
Action : letters to governor, judges and school administration. You just need some stamps and few minutes.
http://halal-pig.blogspot.com/2007/07/surrealism-near-ground-zero-man.html
How is what he did either aggravated harassment or criminal mischeif? Not only is such prosecution unconstitutional, it is not even supported by law. This guy should seriously threaten New York with a major civil suit.
Section 240.30 Aggravated harassment in the second degree.
A person is guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree when, with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, he or she:
1. Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise by telephone, or by telegraph, mail or any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; or (b) causes a communication to be initiated by mechanical or electronic means or otherwise, with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, or by telegraph, mail or any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm; or
2. Makes a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate communication; or
3. Strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise subjects another person to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same because of a belief or perception regarding such person’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct; or
4. Commits the crime of harassment in the first degree and has previously been convicted of the crime of harassment in the first degree as defined by section 240.25 of this article within the preceding ten years.
Or Criminal Mischeif?
Section 145.00 Criminal mischief in the fourth degree
A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the fourth degree when, having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, he:
1. Intentionally damages property of another person; or
2. Intentionally participates in the destruction of an abandoned building as defined in section one thousand nine hundred seventy-one-a of the real property actions and proceedings law; or
3. Recklessly damages property of another person in an amount exceeding two hundred fifty dollars.
Criminal mischief in the fourth degree is a class A misdemeanor.
Section 145.05 Criminal mischief in the third degree
A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the third degree when, with intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, hr or she:
1. damages the motor vehicle of another person, by breaking into such vehicle when it is locked with the intent of stealing property, and within the previous ten year period, has been convicted three or more times, in separate criminal transactions for which sentence was imposed on separate occasions, of criminal mischief in the fourth degree as defined in section 145.00, criminal mischief in the third degree as defined in this section, criminal mischief in the second degree as defined in section 145.10, or criminal mischief in the first degree as defined in section 145.12 of this article; or
2. damages property of another person in an amount exceeding two hundred fifty dollars.
Criminal mischief in the third degree is a class E felony.
Section 145.10 Criminal mischief in the second degree
A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, he damages property of another person in an amount exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars.
Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony.
Section 145.12 Criminal mischief in the first degree
A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the first degree when with intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he has such right, he damages property of another person by means of an explosive.
Criminal mischief in the first degree is a class B felony.
Im sure Spencer Abraham will defend this prosecution.
I would make the counter-argument that the publishing of the koran is in and of itself a hate crime.