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Homeowner Jailed for Hosting Bible Study

What did he do that should have resulted in life imprisonment?
 
One of the great tragedies in American history is how much Martin Luther King Jr got away with breaking the law. Why he wasn't quickly imprisoned for life shows how easy it was to be a criminal in the past. Fortunately, local government now knows how to deal with law breaking ministers who harass government and block traffic.

Since he first entered the thread Joko has been trying and trying and trying to make this a Black issue. I don't know if he recently read a MLK book or maybe he saw a movie but the man is stuck on interjecting racial equality into this thread.

That old dog won't hunt here, Joko.
 
This is not the "Prove the movie isn't real" forum. What did Dr. King do that should have resulted in life imprisonment. And it better be something obvious because of "how easy crime was".


Why he wasn't quickly imprisoned for life shows how easy it was to be a criminal in the past.
 
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This is not the "Prove the movie isn't real" forum. What did Dr. King do that should have resulted in life imprisonment. And it better be something obvious because of "how easy crime was".

Ahh you were replying to Joko. He does not feel that MLK should have been imprisoned for life, Joko is just trying to equate MLK to this moron emphasis on trying as they do not equate.
 
Ahh you were replying to Joko. He does not feel that MLK should have been imprisoned for life, Joko is just trying to equate MLK to this moron emphasis on trying as they do not equate.

I think we should pursue the angle that the dude is just like Dr. King. And Rosa Parks. Sigh.
 
One of the great tragedies in American history is how much Martin Luther King Jr got away with breaking the law. Why he wasn't quickly imprisoned for life shows how easy it was to be a criminal in the past. Fortunately, local government now knows how to deal with law breaking ministers who harass government and block traffic.

You're comparing grapes to honeydews.
 
Then don't take part. Nobody owes you a damn thing. It's there if you want it, otherwise, take a hike.

Damn,why does everyone have their panties all in a wad?
 
Damn,why does everyone have their panties all in a wad?

Nobody's panties are in a wad, we're just sick and tired of entitlement-happy asshats who think the world owes them things for waking up in the morning.
 
Nobody's panties are in a wad, we're just sick and tired of entitlement-happy asshats who think the world owes them things for waking up in the morning.

So, who's the asshat in this thread about a homeowner jailed for hosting a bible study?
 
So, who's the asshat in this thread about a homeowner jailed for hosting a bible study?

First off, try to parse that into English.

Secondly, nobody was jailed for hosting a Bible study. He was jailed for repeatedly violating zoning laws. If you can't comprehend the difference between the two, I don't know what to say.
 
First off, try to parse that into English.

Secondly, nobody was jailed for hosting a Bible study. He was jailed for repeatedly violating zoning laws. If you can't comprehend the difference between the two, I don't know what to say.

I know what he was jailed for, and I have stated that he deserved it, and FYI, I was just quoting the OP - in case you didn't notice, that is the name of the Thread. "Homeowner Jailed for Hosting Bible Study"


So get your panties unwadded, you're not offering much to the discussion yourself with all that pent up anger.
 
So get your panties unwadded, you're not offering much to the discussion yourself with all that pent up anger.

Funny how people who can't produce a fact to save their lives think everyone else is so angry.
 
That's all it is, he did it willingly, he deserves to rot in jail for a while.


The source of information has already been presented, you're just being too lazy to go look for it. What's next, you want us to open up your browser and click on the link for you too? :roll:

Then don't take part. Nobody owes you a damn thing. It's there if you want it, otherwise, take a hike.

So, who's the asshat in this thread about a homeowner jailed for hosting a bible study?

First off, try to parse that into English.


Funny how people who can't produce a fact to save their lives think everyone else is so angry.

If you had bothered to read my posts, you would have been able to deduct that I was of the same opinion as you, but instead, whether due to lack of comprehension you lash into a verbal attack. Rotting in jail for a code violation seems a bit extreme to me, but apparently not to you, and some of the language in your posts does suggest that you are angry, and arrogant, or maybe it's not angry but just plain "mad".
 
If you had bothered to read my posts, you would have been able to deduct that I was of the same opinion as you, but instead, whether due to lack of comprehension you lash into a verbal attack. Rotting in jail for a code violation seems a bit extreme to me, but apparently not to you, and some of the language in your posts does suggest that you are angry, and arrogant, or maybe it's not angry but just plain "mad".

Had he stopped the violation after it happened, he wouldn't be in jail. He's in jail, not just because of a single instance of a code violation, but the repeated, weekly violation of said code violation. It's like speeding. If you speed once, they'll pull you over and give you a ticket. If you speed a lot, you'll get a lot of tickets with increasing severity. However, if you speed down the same stretch of road every single week with the mounds of tickets piling up in the passenger seat, they're eventually going to revoke your license, take your car and put your ass behind bars. You'll deserve everything you got because you purposely flaunted the law.

What makes me angry are all the idiots who can't get the fact that this moron is repeatedly and flagrantly ignoring the law for years on end and when he gets thrown into jail, they can't accept that he got thrown into jail for being a moron, they have to pretend his religion had anything to do with it. It's like my example above, the guy sitting in his cell, pissed off that he's in jail, thinking he's there because he's black. It ain't so, dumbass, you're there because you're stupid.
 
Had he stopped the violation after it happened, he wouldn't be in jail. He's in jail, not just because of a single instance of a code violation, but the repeated, weekly violation of said code violation. It's like speeding. If you speed once, they'll pull you over and give you a ticket. If you speed a lot, you'll get a lot of tickets with increasing severity. However, if you speed down the same stretch of road every single week with the mounds of tickets piling up in the passenger seat, they're eventually going to revoke your license, take your car and put your ass behind bars. You'll deserve everything you got because you purposely flaunted the law.
That's true, but rotting in jail for code violations is a bit much when some people are able to get away with murder. I know you were just venting.

What makes me angry are all the idiots who can't get the fact that this moron is repeatedly and flagrantly ignoring the law for years on end and when he gets thrown into jail, they can't accept that he got thrown into jail for being a moron, they have to pretend his religion had anything to do with it. It's like my example above, the guy sitting in his cell, pissed off that he's in jail, thinking he's there because he's black. It ain't so, dumbass, you're there because you're stupid.

Religion is something that conservatives try and use the Constitution on, as their defense, that is why they deflect to that. You can try and make them aware that he was violating the law, but they continue to insist that it was because of his religion, and you're not going to change their mind. They're doing the same thing with Obamacare. Some company, because its owners are Catholic claim that they are being forced against their religion to provide contraceptives to their employees, when some of their employees may not even be Catholic and nobody is forcing them to "use" contraceptives.
 
That's true, but rotting in jail for code violations is a bit much when some people are able to get away with murder. I know you were just venting.

No, it's not a bit much, it's the law. What happened to this idiot is his own fault, I feel absolutely no sympathy for him. Hopefully, this will stop him from violating the law in the future, knowing what the potential consequences are. I somehow doubt it, I figure the week he gets out of jail, he'll do it again.

Religion is something that conservatives try and use the Constitution on, as their defense, that is why they deflect to that. You can try and make them aware that he was violating the law, but they continue to insist that it was because of his religion, and you're not going to change their mind. They're doing the same thing with Obamacare. Some company, because its owners are Catholic claim that they are being forced against their religion to provide contraceptives to their employees, when some of their employees may not even be Catholic and nobody is forcing them to "use" contraceptives.

It would be one thing if this was actually a case of religious discrimination but it's not. The religious tend to try to play the religion card willy-nilly whenever things aren't going there way, just like some people use the race-card any time anyone involved happens to be non-white. However, when you point out that they're wrong, produce definitive evidence that they're wrong, and they keep doing it over and over and over, being pissed off is a wholly warranted response to what amounts to religious stupidity.
 
No, it's not a bit much, it's the law. What happened to this idiot is his own fault, I feel absolutely no sympathy for him. Hopefully, this will stop him from violating the law in the future, knowing what the potential consequences are. I somehow doubt it, I figure the week he gets out of jail, he'll do it again.
I think stiff fines will dry up his coffers pretty quick, and if he can't pay he should go to jail.



It would be one thing if this was actually a case of religious discrimination but it's not. The religious tend to try to play the religion card willy-nilly whenever things aren't going there way, just like some people use the race-card any time anyone involved happens to be non-white. However, when you point out that they're wrong, produce definitive evidence that they're wrong, and they keep doing it over and over and over, being pissed off is a wholly warranted response to what amounts to religious stupidity.
Unfortunately some Federal judge has already ruled on the side of the company, so it will probably end up going to the Supreme Court, and we don't know if any of the Republican Justices will apply the law or just vote party-line. Once they rule in favor of the supposed victims, others will use the same tactics and a new pattern will be set.
 
He wasn't doing it in his house.

But thanks for posting more fiction. This thread needs more fiction

Do you hate this man or something? It was on his property, damn!
 
Hmm, I'd say it's okay because it's the local government doing it. If he doesn't like it he can just move!

Ah, so religious persecution is ok if it is sporadic?
 
Ah, so religious persecution is ok if it is sporadic?

So people are allowed to break the law as long as they are practicing religion?
 
So people are allowed to break the law as long as they are practicing religion?

More like, the law can't violate their right to practice.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

The code prohibited the home owner from exercising his First Amendment rights on his own property.
 
More like, the law can't violate their right to practice.



The code prohibited the home owner from exercising his First Amendment rights on his own property.

No it didnt. His refusal to comply with the codes was the problem not his practising his religion. This is not about religion. He could have been running an underwear factory or been having moose lodge meetings and he would have had the same problems with the building code violations. Proclaiming you are doing something religous does not ever ever ever allow you to break the law.
If they had passed a law specifically targeting religion you could have case but this is not about religion no matter how much you want it to be.
 
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