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Thread: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
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07-10-2020, 05:06 PM #37Legendary RSR Poster
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07-10-2020, 05:08 PM #38Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
Do you see a problem with assuming motives were none are present?
All I'm saying is that one group had a permit (making it legal), and the other didn't (making it illegal). I agree with Greg that they would have a better shot if they wanted their own message elsewhere. I also don't really think that political messages should be posted on public streets, but that was not the point of contention
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07-10-2020, 05:14 PM #39Veteran Poster
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Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
OK... I was hoping not to have to do it.. but let's try a specific example.
CASE A.
White man (A) kills a black man while yelling a racial epithet.
White man (A) should be charged with murder.
CASE B.
White man (B) kills white man (B) while yelling nothing.
White man (B) should be charged with murder
How is white man (A) any more a criminal than white man (B)?
How is the black murder vitcim's life worthy of greater protection under the law than the white murder victim?
If it is not, then how can we justify "hate crime" laws which offer greater criminal penalties to criminals, and greater defensive protections to victims, based on the criminal's motivation?
I'd like an honest answer.
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Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
Maybe the couple should have requested a permit to paint next or near to it; BLM = Marxism or All Lives Matter and if they were denied, take them to court.
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07-10-2020, 06:25 PM #41
Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
I grasp fine.
You posted this:
Guilt is not determined by the motivations of the actor.
You seem to not be getting the idea that the city is government by choosing to allow ANYONE to deface public property by painting the street is incurring a taxpayer burden (the ultimate removal of the painted message which will cost money). I effect it is forcing taxpayers to pay for the promotion of a political message.
I am not approving of the BLM message but you just don't start painting over stuff on public property without permission. It is akin to tearing down a statue you don't like without permission.
Note I am NOT APPROVING of the BLM message. Perhaps I should have clarified and said "I don't approve of the city allowing the BLM message."
That said, this is akin to a statue which when erected sends a message. It is in a sense endorsing or at minimum noting a person's contribution too our society. Naming the DC airport after Reagan or a school after Obama is also the same kind of thing and that is always political. I don't know if it is a wise thing to do.
However, once done and the message or acknowledgement of the person is there on public property a citizen doesn't have the right to just go ahead and deface or dismantle it.
What these people did painting over the approved message on public property is the same thing as tearing down a statue you don't like.
To be clear, I generally do not take issue with statues being put up and have a severe issue with that BLM message on the street, especially in this climate, but you just can't go defacing it on your own no more than you can tear down statues on your own.
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07-10-2020, 06:27 PM #42
Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
It isn't, but hate crimes are stupid and anti-American and unconstitutional. Basically they are a violation of the first amendment. People are allowed to believe and state what they want and that should NEVER be criminalized. Actions should be criminalized, not beliefs.
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07-10-2020, 06:30 PM #43
Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
That's not quite right. It isn't motive that is the difference between first and second degree murder, but premeditation. Did you do it with forethought or as an emotional reaction not planned ahead of time.
That some motives might spur you on to an emotional reaction or premeditation is true, but it isn't the motive that is the difference but the forethought.
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07-11-2020, 04:03 PM #44Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
Okay. So we're limiting the scope of the discussion on motive to hate crimes? I do not have any particular defense for those specifically. I was more just making the point that motive is considered in what crime is being committed... And is a prime cause of people being overcharged and then acquitted.
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07-11-2020, 04:07 PM #45Veteran Poster
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07-11-2020, 06:54 PM #46Legendary RSR Poster
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07-14-2020, 04:55 PM #47Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: California Couple charged with a Hate Crime, for painting over Black Lives Matter street letters
It was bound to come to this, and I've been waiting to see how the hypocritical react. You can not support (whether overtly or implicitly) the tearing down or desecration of statues and monuments of those you disagree with (Columbus, Confederates, etc) and then express outrage when someone does the same to the view you support (BLM). Or any other statue/monument. If it's a valid expression of protest for some, it is a valid form of protest for all.
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