Category Archives: crime
Lied and Died
Federal judge Gladys Kessler last week ordered tobacco companies to admit, on every pack of cigarettes, that they deceived the public and caused death with their product.
Making a List
Mitt Romney dropped by the White House for lunch last week. Later the president hit the campaign trail to promote tax hikes on the rich. During a rally at the Rodon Group plant in Hatfield Pennsylvania, Obama announced he was keeping a list of naughty and nice congressmen. The Naughty or Nice List isn’t to be confused with the his Enemies List of Republican campaign donors, or his Kill List.
Hillary Took a Great Fall
In the vice presidential debate, Biden said “we weren’t told” that diplomats in Libya had requested increased security before the Benghazi attack. On Tuesday Hillary blamed the failure on “the fog of war” but accepted responsibility. Meanwhile, Bill is campaigning for Obama. Is he hoping that by 2016, he can put Hillary back together again?
Benghazi Big Bird
Obama has been claiming that since he killed Bin Laden he has “al Qaeda on its heels”. CBS News” Lara Logan says otherwise. When Ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered in a military style terror attack on 9/11, Obama blamed it on a movie. What really has him sputtering mad are Romney’s “lies” and attacks on public broadcasting.
Amish Beard Trimming
I get no kick from the Campaign. Islamic jihad doesn’t thrill me at all. I get a kick out of Amish beard cutting.
Especially when the cutter’s name is Samuel Mullet.
Men normally allow their beards to grow as a symbol of faith in the Amish religion. The Amish pride themselves on being plain. Actually they hate pride, but they do like plain. Anyway, Mr. Mullet appointed himself police of plainness and ordered his followers to cut off the beards of those not deemed by him to be sufficiently plain.
This was too much for a federal court, which said Mullet was guilty of hate crimes because the beard cutting was motivated by a religious dispute.
That’s an interesting take. American courts now settle religious disputes. If someone drags you out of your house and cuts off your beard, without an appointment, I might think of it as an aggravated hair assault. Or a Mitt Romney high school high jinx. But a hate crime? That would mean you are guilty of a state of mind – hate – religious hate to be specific. It would be a thought crime, or a faith crime. Do we really want to go down that road?
What other religious practices could be determined to be hate crimes? – Beheadings, blowing up embassies, crashing airplanes into buildings?
Seems awfully intolerant.
