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Man Charged with Hate Crime for Burning Gay Pride Flags in Harlem
PJ Media ^ | 07/11/2019 | John Ellis

Posted on 07/11/2019 9:09:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: i_robot73
Exactly HOW does the State quantify ‘hate’ in a trial?

The accused is white or straight or male; the "victim" is nonwhite, homosexual or female, or any combinations of the above.

61 posted on 07/11/2019 11:12:56 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well.. the supteme court has gone full lib in their last set of rulings.. Not equal protection, special protection.


62 posted on 07/11/2019 11:18:51 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged cash, a medicare card control.)
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To: gibsonguy

Here in Canada we are about to lose our free speech on this issue. Government is seeking to make it criminal to engage in conversion therapy. The “doctor” they quote says he wants cities to regulate what goes on in churches and basements where conversion therapy is practiced. Canada = 30 million little fascists.


63 posted on 07/11/2019 11:41:04 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: C19fan

The smarter ones will eventually figure out that they are rungs below the moslems and queers on the liberal social ladder.


64 posted on 07/11/2019 11:43:55 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: SeekAndFind

“Hate Crimes” represent the penalty looking for the offense.


65 posted on 07/11/2019 11:55:41 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems that the US flag being burned is okay since it’s free speech but burning a GAYSTAPO flag is hate speech. Got it.


66 posted on 07/11/2019 12:12:47 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

Burning someone else’s flag is not free speech.
And, oddly, neither is burning your own cross on your own property.


67 posted on 07/11/2019 12:17:24 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Burning the American flag = Constitutionally protected rights for commies.
Burning the Constitution = ditto.
Burning gay flag = hate crime.
Waving American flag = hate crime.

Yeah, like nobody saw THAT coming.

Next, we’ll be told that burning crosses is “protected speech” as long it’s done in front of Christian churches
by “anti”fascists wearing black masks.


68 posted on 07/11/2019 1:19:32 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: SeekAndFind

It is ok to hate gays and everything the deviants stnd for.

It is not a crime. It is cultural awareness

Desicrating the queer flag is an acto of Pro Americanism


69 posted on 07/11/2019 1:22:33 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: sparklite2

But burning the American flag is? Why would you want to burn a cross on your own property? What protest would that be?


70 posted on 07/11/2019 1:28:07 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SeekAndFind

You can be charged with burning a Gay Pride flag but not a United States flag? This country has gone completely bonkers!


71 posted on 07/11/2019 2:54:15 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: Kickass Conservative

Yes. As are all the so-called civil rights laws which are illicit special privileges amounting to communistic redistribution of rights.


72 posted on 07/11/2019 4:20:27 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Can’t have it both ways.”

Wow! I guess I had it all wrong! I thought they have had it both ways for about 40 or 50 years now......


73 posted on 07/11/2019 4:31:44 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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To: discostu

Check this flag burning hate crime.


74 posted on 07/11/2019 5:04:35 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Sacajaweau
Can’t have it both ways.

But yet we do. Very interesting.

75 posted on 07/11/2019 5:07:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
How do you prove it was done out of hate?

Don't need proof, just need a statement and it becomes the truth because gays say so.

76 posted on 07/11/2019 5:09:11 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: unixfox

I second the motion.


77 posted on 07/11/2019 5:10:46 PM PDT by sport
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To: Little Ray
Well, I think there was something about it being someone else's flag...

And if it was someone else American Flag? Crickets. After all the guy couldn't afford to buy an American flag to burn.

78 posted on 07/11/2019 5:16:01 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: glorgau; All
For burning a piece of cloth?

He burned someone else's piece of cloth.

79 posted on 07/11/2019 6:21:51 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: itsahoot

Burning other people’s American flags is apparently “free speech.”
/sarc

In any case, it wasn’t a hate crime, just vandalism.


80 posted on 07/12/2019 4:50:29 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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