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BeardOfKnowledge

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I don't really know what changes in a man between year 1 and 5, 7 and 9, 10 and 16, to say nothing of years 20 and 30. In my view, some people definitely need to be taken out of society, but I'm not convinced length of time is anything but arbitrary.
I very much agree on the last sentence of your post, but it kind of undermines your previously quoted post.
 

Leigh

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1) "protected classes" are an afront to 'equality before the law'
2) he doesn't get 16 years
3) the act (setting a tire and a flag on fire) is protected speech with a different flag at a different location. Obviously stealing things and starting fires in the street are illegal as fuck. But it doesn't warrant twice the length of sentence as killing someone.
1) Whether we agree or not on this point, it's the law. Your problem is with the US legal system, not the people who enforce it.
2) That's right, because being racist is not a protected class. See point 1.
3) I completely agree with you.
 

Filthy

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1) Whether we agree or not on this point, it's the law. Your problem is with the US legal system, not the people who enforce it.
2) That's right, because being racist is not a protected class. See point 1.
3) I completely agree with you.
it's the Justice system. It should dispense Justice, and if it doesn't, it should be modified. This sentence is not Justice.
and the protected class has nothing do with being a racist. If a white guy burned a stolen Confederate flag in front of a KKK rally and said it was because they are white oppressors, it would be a crime against a protected class. 'Straight White' people are a protected class, but crimes against them that are motivated by their race are not prosecuted as 'hate crimes'.

My issue is with the Justice system dispensing unequal Justice. And there will never be Justice as long as we elevate people to 'extra special citizens'.

Think about it.
If a black man burned a stolen US Flag in front of the New Orleans PD, and sang "Cop Killer" by Body Count, would he be guilty of a Hate Crime? If he had previous convictions for driving without a license and marijuana possession, is 16 years in the State Pen a just sentence?
 

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Imagine hating gay people so much you let it define who you are to the point you are willing to be incarcerated for years on end

Dude is definitely a closet gay
 

SongExotic2

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Imagine hating gay people so much you let it define who you are to the point you are willing to be incarcerated for years on end

Dude is definitely a closet gay
Well he's got 16 years in peckertown to explore his options
 

silentsinger

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Imagine hating gay people so much you let it define who you are to the point you are willing to be incarcerated for years on end

Dude is definitely a closet gay
Yeah. I still find it weird that people find it icky seeing two guys making out but going to such lengths to show your disapproval is fucking mental.

My mother went a bit spastic at me for sleeping in the same bed as a bi friend of mine, I had to explain to her that just because said friend liked it both ways didn't mean I was going to be felt up in my sleep... and then she took offence to why not??

My step dad thinks his son's "queer" as he calls it. I'm pretty sure he's just asexual and not interested.
 

RaginCajun

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Yeah. I still find it weird that people find it icky seeing two guys making out but going to such lengths to show your disapproval is fucking mental.

My mother went a bit spastic at me for sleeping in the same bed as a bi friend of mine, I had to explain to her that just because said friend liked it both ways didn't mean I was going to be felt up in my sleep... and then she took offence to why not??

My step dad thinks his son's "queer" as he calls it. I'm pretty sure he's just asexual and not interested.
Give your step dad's son 5 minutes in a locked room with Sex Chicken @Sex Chicken and he will be fixed right up...one way or the other.
 

SongExotic2

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At about 4.8 currently. Gonna head into town as I need some new aftershave.
 

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OP doing God's work as always. This thread is 5+ pages and on it's way to 1,000 views pretty damn quick for a non-live thread...