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Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: Red Tail 444 on March 09, 2006, 11:42:39 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187305,00.html

The minimum mandatory is five years.

I hope they get a lot more than that. I'm sure they'll be the "butt" of many jokes in lockdown :mad:

Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: Maverick on March 09, 2006, 12:03:34 PM

Oh yeah, those arsons were a real knee slapper!!!! I imagine the antics of Bubba and company inside the pen should be equally amusing to those pranksters as well.

Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: tedrbr on March 09, 2006, 01:38:40 PM

Whatever hapened to panty-raids?

Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: Red Tail 444 on March 09, 2006, 03:18:45 PM

Quote

Originally posted by tedrbr
Whatever hapened to panty-raids?

Scroll to my initial post.

Those dolts are gonna be the ultimate Prags

Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: lazs2 on March 10, 2006, 08:32:28 AM

weren't they liberal socialist "actors"?

lazs

Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: Red Tail 444 on March 10, 2006, 10:18:22 AM

:noid

yeah...whatever.

Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: Seagoon on March 10, 2006, 10:47:29 AM

Hi Laz,

The students, the school, and most importantly their lawyers are currently doing everything they can to disuade anyone from thinking there was some reason they targeted multiple churches and not say, coffee shops. There is good reason for that, seeing that that would make it a "hate crime" covered by hate crimes law, which includes minimum sentencing requirements and would ensure that they received a hefty chunk of jail time. It would also be very bad P.R. for the college. The interesting thing is that federal involvement in solving the crimes was largely predicated on the assumption that these were religiously motivated (not racially motivated as they burned down the church buildings of both Black and White congregations).  

It would be interesting to see how the story might have been spun a little differently in the media had it been a bunch of Christian students from a Christian college burning down Mosques or Synagogues. Had that been the case, the idea of it being a "prank" might not have been so readily accepted.

- SEAGOON

Title: Church Burnings a College Prank
Post by: Maverick on March 10, 2006, 10:51:40 AM

Actually Seagoon. I haven't gotten the impression that the "prank" explanation has been accepted at all. It's arson, not vandalism. The "explanation" rendered by the defensing atty is just smoke as an attempt to mitigate the circumstances in their clients favor. LIke many things out of a lawyers mouth it's pure unadulteraed BS.