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.
Ridiculous abuse of prosecutorial powers. Besides, isn’t there something funny about a guy named Mullet who gives people involuntary haircuts?
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.
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.
“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!