Yawgmoft posted:

Anyone know the story behind this?

dingy dimples posted:

I tracked down the top one a few months ago. An organization called Defend Life was arrested and most of them spent the night in jail for protesting abortion near a Maryland highway without a permit. Their signs were of the standard, awful, cherry cobbler late-term abortion variety. It's hard to find any sources that aren't pro-life blogs so it's hard to get any other synopsis of the events, but in all fairness spending the night in jail sucks no matter who you are.

No clue on the bottom one.

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TheBlaze has learned that Queree was booked on a misdemeanor assault charge, sent to King County Jail June 30, and released the same day (bail was set at $1,000), the records office of the King County Prosecuting Attorney confirmed Friday.

some stupid rear end in a top hat posted:

According to reports, two men face misdemeanor assault charges. It seems to me, others could have easily faced additional charges, but I kept asking myself, what would the headlines look like and what would the charges (or at least the potential charges) be if this were a religious gathering and two gay men offering zero resistance were assaulted and harassed this way? What if this had happened at one of Pastor Ken Hutchinson's events? Or at a National Organization for Marriage event and a religious crowd had bullied and assaulted gay men for holding signs saying "gay is good" or "Religion is a fraud" AND the men/women doing the assaulting/harassing made continual references to their sexuality before doing so. Do you think hate crime charges might be warranted?

I could be wrong, but if what I'm reading here is correct, those who participated in the destruction of the sign, threatened these men with harm, or physically assault them should be charged under the hate crime statute.

I had one colleague say that these protestors were jerks for being there and that the signs they had or shirts they wore were "fighting words." That's nonsense, at least from what we see and hear in the video. If those are fighting words, then ANY disagreement could be so construed. I also heard, "well, they're at a pride parade so they're trying to get attention." Again, so what? That's what a protest is. People protest where they can highlight their issue, provide contrast, or simply find cameras and people. These guys weren't disrupting a funeral they were simply expressing their religious beliefs with a sign.

"But a jury in Seattle would agree they deserved it," my colleague observed.

Maybe so, but if so, Seattle is not the tolerant town it claims to be. What good is it to celebrate tolerance or self-control if you can only stop yourself from attacking someone if you agree with them and their beliefs don't offend you?

I should note that while the video shows vile behavior, it is relatively limited. There are thousands of people at the parade and only a handful infringing on the rights of these men or cheering on those who are doing so.

For the record, I am not convinced it's a good idea to categorizing crime by evil intent category. I believe assault is assault. If you're punching my face because you hate my religion, my sexuality, or you're just in a bad mood, the crime and punishment should be for punching my face.

Guilty Spork posted:

Man, whoever does this LL101 thing really, really isn't a fan of citing sources, much less putting them into context.

Scratch Monkey posted:

To these guys yoga is a sort of gateway drug to Hinduism (aka Satanism) and if your kids do the exercises they'll be told to do evil things like "look inward" and "breath" which, I think we'll all agree, is the same thing as denying Christ.

Sir Rolo posted:

The Egyptian constitution has very little to do with why Morsi was tossed out.

miscellaneous14 posted:

It's really ironic the picture for this one is a baby, because you'd have to be a literal child to think the events in Egypt mean you could throw a president out of office through the combined efforts of your 10 other racist friends.

miscellaneous14 posted:

It's really ironic the picture for this one is a baby, because you'd have to be a literal child to think the events in Egypt mean you could throw a president out of office through the combined efforts of your 10 other racist friends.

Sardine Wit posted:

Also isn't the first thing the coup did was to suspend the constitution?

Scratch Monkey posted:

From what I understand right after the revolution both the military and then the MB did their best to position themselves to write the new constitution in a way that provided them maximum political leverage. Morsi effectively won that fight. The rational behind ousting him and suspending the current constitution is to try once more to write one that's a bit more inclusive of all Egyptians. We'll see if that actually happens.

Sir Rolo posted:

The Egyptian constitution has very little to do with why Morsi was tossed out.

Fulchrum posted:

Yes, the reason Mohammed Morsi was removed from power is because he ignored the constitution that is so beloved by the Egyptian people, as it was signed into law by the countries great and noble founding father, Mohammed Morsi, in December.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

You're ignoring the premise that LL101 views the constitution as holy, unchanging script.

myron cope posted:

Welp guys, as this video from 2011 shows us: time to pack it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HqHSkYG-Y It's almost certainly been linked here before (how could it not be) but jesus christ.

The clues were (allegedly) in front of us the whole time. How could we have (allegedly) missed them?

It takes almost 8 whole minutes to even mention Soros

myron cope posted:

Welp guys, as this video from 2011 shows us: time to pack it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HqHSkYG-Y It's almost certainly been linked here before (how could it not be) but jesus christ.

The clues were (allegedly) in front of us the whole time. How could we have (allegedly) missed them?

It takes almost 8 whole minutes to even mention Soros

myron cope posted:

Welp guys, as this video from 2011 shows us: time to pack it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HqHSkYG-Y It's almost certainly been linked here before (how could it not be) but jesus christ.

The clues were (allegedly) in front of us the whole time. How could we have (allegedly) missed them?

It takes almost 8 whole minutes to even mention Soros

Gen. Ripper posted:

Oh man guys, Obama's parents met in a RUSSIAN language class! You know, RUSSIAN!

COMMUNISM!!!



I'm not even halfway in and this is getting awesome. You've struck a vein of hilarious lunacy, my friend.

e: hahaha "Place of Birth: ALLEGEDLY Hawaii...Birth Certificate: Unavailable"

Defenestration posted:

Defenestration posted:

And for good measure: A good macro

VideoTapir posted:

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Good old Sheriff Joe has done it again

They asked for it and they got it

See what Sheriff Joe has done this time

Sheriff Joe is helping the elderly pull themselves up by their bootstraps with his tent city retirement home and sweatshop,

see granny work a 12 hour shift to make license plates for pennies.

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Good old Sheriff Joe has done it again

VideoTapir posted:

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Guilty Spork posted:

Fun Fact: Not all Islamic societies are Saudi Arabia!

Guilty Spork posted:

Fun Fact: Not all Islamic societies are Saudi Arabia!

facebook posted:

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