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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You forgot to mention that Hassan has been drawing the Army's O-4 Major's pay this whole time while flaunting Army regs...
The first thing I got upon arrival at Ft. Leonard, MO as a draftee long ago was an involuntary haircut.
Ft. Leonard Wood
I didn’t even read the responses.
I guess GMTA
“Instead, Mullet made a much stranger offer to prosecutors.
“Sam was willing to cut his beard,” Bryan said. “He’d expressed that several times that he’d be willing to do that even though he didn’t do anything.”
Prosecutors dismissed the offer.
“I was told, ‘We’re not just going to let them apologize and cut their beards and move on,’” Bryan said.”
So, justice may be an eye for an eye, but apparently it is NOT a beard for a beard.
“From memory, he ticked off a list of examples of the kind of thing that alarmed him.”
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He saw the traditional Amish dress code being abused and perverted from all quarters.
“Women were going out on the road on rollerblades or in their nightgowns,” he said... And the kids fluffed up their hats.””
Nooooo!!!!! Not the fluffy hats! That’s how it always starts, I tell you!
The girl's family had filed a complaint with the police but no action had been taken. Her father may have taken matters into his own hands, because the neighbors had also filed a complaint.
The girl's grandmother took the video because the boy's father had been mocking the girl at the bus stop. It wasn't a situation where she was lucky and caught the only time he did it.
She posted it to YouTube and public reaction caused the police to act on the family's complaint against the boy's father.
I have no idea what other actions by the boy's father were detailed in the complaint.
This sounds more up the alley of stalking. Which could also easily result in worse than 30 days in jail, WITHOUT the “hate crime” fillip.
The point seems to be that this “hate crime” business is superfluous at best, egregious at worst.
They can’t get a tractor from the world, but they can get a plow from the world... go figure
Amok is a tropical disturbance of the mind.
We could say gone berserk, but that has Scandinavian connotations (it means “bear shirt” which is what the old Norse warriors donned before they raged fiercely into battle).
The Ohio man who mocked the girl with cerebral palsy was found guilty of aggravated menacing and disorderly conduct, but not a 'hate crime.'
In the case of the Amish . . . as a part of their religion, Amish men don't cut their beards after marriage. More than six years ago, Amish bishop Sam Mullet, Sr., had placed a shunning order on members of his community who left because they objected to his behavior. He was accused of forcing men to live in chicken coops, and coercing women to have sex with him to learn to be better wives, among other things.
A group of over 300 other Amish bishops overturned Mullet's shunning order.
Mullet, Sr. and a group of fifteen of his followers stalked some of the bishops who had been instrumental in overturning his shunning order, ambushing them and cutting off their beards and hair.
It was prosecuted as a hate crime on the grounds that the beard-cuttings were due to the religious significance of the beards in the Amish faith.
Agreed, sounds more like a case of harrassment or as Hi Tech said, stalking. I don’t see a need for a hate crime law here, we have enough laws on the books for this.
OK, I stand corrected.
“Hate crime” is so generic, and if it’s to be a crime then why care about whether Bishop Mullet was motivated by the wish to humiliate other Amish or because he feared cooties? The only thing that ought to matter, Scout, is that he did it on purpose. There’s a separate accusation of harassment to describe the meaning aspect of the crime, if there is one. No wonder bank robbers are viewing him as a relatively benign figure.
I object on the whole to the concept of hate crimes.
In his case, the victim likely suffered more than an average person whose beard may have been cut.
But I see your point.
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