Posted on 12/05/2012 7:24:11 AM PST by WackySam
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Sam Mullet, the renegade Amish bishop convicted on federal hate crime charges for his role in a series of beard-cutting attacks last year, has earned an unlikely nickname in prison.
Among his fellow inmates at Northern Ohio Correctional Center, the towering 67-year-old with wire-rimmed glasses, pudding-bowl haircut and retro facial hair is known simply as “O.G.”
While the term — street shorthand for “original gangster” — was unfamiliar to Mullet, he could sense that it was a compliment bestowed from across cultural lines.
“They’re calling me O.G.,” he said, smiling. “I don’t know what it means, but I guess it means something good.”
Unexpected honorific aside, he didn’t pretend to be comfortable in his new home. “I’m a stranger here. Plus Amish to boot,” he told The Daily last month in the first in-depth interview he has ever given. “How would you feel coming to Amish country and being locked up? You see guys in here with all kinds of dress and all kinds of hairstyles, but I’m the one that’s weird and sticking out.”
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Perhaps from an over-literal application of laws about mayhem? Clipping people’s beards, hair, etc. without permission is wrong and ought to make him civilly liable for a lot, but it’s not the kind of wrong that, say, cutting somebody’s finger off would be.
Hiya, Slings!
IIRC you didn’t ping the list when news of the great Amish fracas broke, so here’s a follow-up to the tale if’n yer inner-ested.
how about the equivalent of sharia law for the Amish.
had a muzzy cut a beard for whatever reason he would have been acquitted.
Hate crime of doing “what” though. Clearly hate tomato throwings should not be counted as serious as hate hair cuttings, which in turn should not be counted as serious as hate stabbings, etc. This is “hate criminalization” run amok.
And I always wonder what happened to those pesky love crimes.
Something’s seriously outta kilter with this. No wonder the “gangster” is getting a friendly, even kidding reception in jail. Bank robbers and rapists can see this is B.S.
Ridiculous abuse of prosecutorial powers. Besides, isn’t there something funny about a guy named Mullet who gives people involuntary haircuts?
Idiotic law that lent itself to something of this kind. So, maybe he has taken his faith to such a nutty slant that he belongs in a rubber room weaving baskets lest he hurt an innocent person. By all means do that, but don’t trump up a crime to such an extent that even bank robbers can see the baloney in it.
Yeah, Ohio does have a hate crime law. There was a case where a grown man was tossed into jail for 30 days for imitating and mocking a young girl with cerebral palsy’s walk. I admit the guy is a jerk and needs a dang good talking to, but throw him in jail, that’s beyond the pale.
And I suppose Rev. Beard was the one who ran around cutting mullets?
Almost every aspect of government and justice in America has been perverted by left wingers.
This 66 year old Amish guy is already sitting in prison for “beard-cutting attacks” in 2011 (GASP and OMG! The horror of it!).
The prosecution recommends a minimum of 17½ years for him and his 15 co-defendants, and there is even talk about possible life sentences.
But muslim terrorist, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 29 others more than 3 years ago at Ft. Hood has yet to come to trial. And there is great debate about his right to keep a beard in violation of Army regulations.
What’s more asinine, the man who mocked the disabled child or the law that declared it a serious enough crime for that.
So give the Amish guy a pair of scissors and put him in the same jail as Hasan. Problem solved.
They're wasting time and money on THIS when there's illegals roaming this country at will?
Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here.
Did you just use the word "amok", without checking whether it had racial connotations? That sounds like Hate Speech, which is one step worse than Hate Murder on the PC scale - approaching Hate Disrespect to Barack Obama.
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