Posted on 04/13/2023 1:26:01 PM PDT by Jacquerie
President Biden’s Justice Department is recommending no jail time for an abortion activist who scrawled “F–k Catholics” on a church’s walls, assaulted a church employee and defaced several religious statues in reaction to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last summer, according to a report.
Nota, a transgender man, was charged with a hate crime and assault for vandalizing the church and tossing rocks at and spray-painting an employee of the church, according to the Bellevue Reporter.
“The graffiti painted on church walls and artifacts was anti-Catholic,” the Bellevue Police Department said at the time on Twitter. “[A] hate crime includes acts that ‘Defaces religious real property with words, symbols, or items that are derogatory to persons of the faith associated with the property.’”
In Nota’s case, the Justice Department in March charged him with destruction of religious property, a misdemeanor that can result in a one-year prison sentence and $100,000 in fines, Fox News Digital reported, citing court filings.
Then, a week later, the outlet reported that the Justice Department in the plea agreement with Nota’s lawyers will recommend three years’ probation but no jail time when he is sentenced June 2.
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Biden and 95% of democrats...traitors.
“Nota, a transgender man...”
Wow, what a surprise!
But seriously, these people are insane and are growing more rageful by the day, as we refuse to bow down and worship their self-mutilations and unnatural desires to be the opposite of what their Creator intended them to be.
In Feb 2021 a guy in Colorado was sentenced to 19 years 10 months for “plotting to bomb a synagogue” Of course he just ran his mouth to an FBI informer but didn’t actually do anything.
You can bet that exactly ZERO of the vandals and terrorists involved in attaching Christian churches will ever do time.
RE: no jail time
Disgraceful. The Left really wants war on US soil. We didn’t start this. Any of it.
Hell, it’s open season on us. Lock and Load.
Why are you asking that? Do you think people on here will be ok with this crap because it happened to a Catholic? That’s nonsense.
Just wondering. There’s no shortage of Anti-Catholic bigots at FR.
I’m sorry to have to agree there seems to be a few. I’m not one of them though.
Yep. Through the years I’ve read tons of vicious anti-Catholic insults here at FR, things that would get said posters on most reasonable forums banned. But they’re allowed to spew their bigotry here. Maybe things have improved. I don’t bother anymore arguing with them.
Yeah, an article about the Anglican Church in the religion forum can feature horrid cheap shots against Catholicism. Whether they get pulled depends on the particular Admin Mod.
What did you expect from Lavrenti Garland?
There are anti-everything opinions on FR. (Also, that’s subjective anyway). For the most part, FR is a constitution-loving, freedom-loving, country-loving group of folks.
The way this country is now being run by the inmates of the asylum is way more concerning than which religious groups *on this forum* may be okay with destruction of private property and being able to just skate away. I used to think the “End Times” were decades and decades away. Nowadays, crikey…. I’m not so sure. This repugnant act and subsequent wrist-slap speaks volumes.
This is why vigilantism is not a wrong thing, because government often protects criminals for political purposes.
We no longer have a “justice system.”
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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Based on my limited knowledge of this issue, why do the feds seem to be calling the shots in this incident?
To me, the fact that religious property is involved does not automatically make this a state abridgment of 1st Amendment rights issue, therefore no federal involvement justifiable under the 14th Amendment imo if such is the case.
In other words, this seems to be a purely domestic violence issue that the state should have been able to take care of without needing federal assistance.
"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence [emphases added]."
The significance of Section 4 above is that it requires the feds to STAND DOWN to domestic violence unless a state's popularly elected state government leaders formally request federal assistance to help stop the violence.
Again, I cannot believe believe that state officials would formally request federal assistance to deal with property damage as described.
So did somebody in the church's community call the feds for help, neither the community or the feds understanding constitutional restraints on federal involvement in domestic violence?
If some federal law was broken then that would be another kind of problem since the states have never expressly constitutional given the feds the specific powers to make penal laws outside the scope of 14th Amendment issues.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
What I'm seeing is that people are in prison for breaking federal penal laws that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to make, while unconstitutional federal interference in the affairs of the sovereign states is helping to keep true criminals out of jail.
"Our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union [emphases added]. The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day.” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See bottom half of third column.)
Again, I'm inconclusive about all this stuff because I'm not sure what actually happened.
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