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2019-12-20 -Land of the Free
Iowa man sentenced to 16 years for setting LGBTQ flag on fire
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-20 05:45|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Wonder what the sentence would be if he had burned the First National Flag of the Confederacy.
Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-12-20 06:00||   2019-12-20 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Who's the judge what handed down this sentence?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-20 06:09||   2019-12-20 06:09|| Front Page Top

#3 and some murderers get 5-10
Posted by Mercutio 2019-12-20 06:26||   2019-12-20 06:26|| Front Page Top

#4 It's OK to burn an American flag according to SCOTUS. Those public burnings aren't done in love. This ain't going to fly well.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-20 07:07||   2019-12-20 07:07|| Front Page Top

#5 This won't stand
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-20 07:21||   2019-12-20 07:21|| Front Page Top

#6 And they did it to a guy named Adolfo Martinez.

And a One, and a two, and a three....

"THAT'S RACISS!"
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-12-20 08:05||   2019-12-20 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 The President should just keep pardoning anybody the crazy Leftist judges imprison or fine or trifles like this. This and self defense cases like that trafficked girl. Gain some traction with the delinquent and fringe crowd too. You need loyal delinquents right now.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-20 08:16||   2019-12-20 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Headline worthy of the Bee!
Posted by Warthog 2019-12-20 10:15||   2019-12-20 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 SS, Flag-Burning Edition.

Apparently Britain's Labour Party at its conferences has adopted the habit of banning displays of the Union Jack and singing of "Rule Britannia" - but encourages display of Palestinian patriotism. Coming soon to a neighborhood Shitshow Thester near you.

We are ruled by morons.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-20 10:16||   2019-12-20 10:16|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree with all of you about the freedom of speech argument but if you look at the list of charges, Habitual offender of reckless use of fire is more than likely why the sentence is so hard. This isn't someone protesting he's a firebug.
Posted by chris 2019-12-20 11:18||   2019-12-20 11:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Perhaps, but this is being presented as a chilling display to curb public protest of the gay agenda of superior rights and special privilege that makes any anti-gay act a hate crime, of free speech. For the left the new tool to limit speech is to assert that “hate” negates protected freedom of expression. And they get to define what is “hate”.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-12-20 12:10||   2019-12-20 12:10|| Front Page Top

#12 that ship has already sailed.
Posted by chris 2019-12-20 12:31||   2019-12-20 12:31|| Front Page Top

#13 The judge should be impeached. Clearly the judge in question doesn't understand the highest law of the land.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-12-20 14:45||   2019-12-20 14:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Or.
People at the strip club keep hanging that flag up at the church to be belligerent and he was returning it, again, slightly used.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-20 15:53||   2019-12-20 15:53|| Front Page Top

#15 15 years for hate crime. 1 year for being a fire bug.
Posted by bbrewer126  2019-12-20 16:22||   2019-12-20 16:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Not to worry - it will turn out that he's an illegal, so they'll have to set him free.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-20 16:46||   2019-12-20 16:46|| Front Page Top

#17 not if you're considered a habitual violator. I'm not saying the judge was right about the hate crime but I've been through the system and know what a habitual violator status brings.
Posted by chris 2019-12-20 18:21||   2019-12-20 18:21|| Front Page Top

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