Here' an ongoing exchange.
Rich Pasco • an hour ago
He didn't "desecrate" (damage) the statue in any way. Actually I think the photo is funny. To prosecute him violates the 1st amendment (freedom of expression, separation of church and state). To give him two years prison also violates the 8th amendment (excessive punishment).
Anthony_McCarthy Rich Pasco • an hour ago
He did desecrate the statue, damage isn't an essential part of desecration - the dictionary is rather a basic reference tool but one that is better than pulling it out of wherever. You don't get to say that this act doesn't desecrate it,There is no first amendment right for a stupid 14-year-old to desecrate private property. The assertion that there is is 1. stupid, 2. would lead to politically intollerable conditions, 3. lead to more Republican-fascists using the outrage that such acts caused to win elections and put judges on courts who would do a lot worse than giving this brat community service.The rote claims of constitutional protections for stupid, unimportant stunts like this have benefited the Republican right a lot more than it has the idiots who mistake themselves for being on the left who hand them that weapon to use against the real left, over and over again. In a country where "free speech" is the excuse that even the friggin' liberals on the Supreme Court use to allow anti-abortion fanatics to get within easy shooting range of abortion clinics that have already had murders of people working in them, it's stupid for that rote claim to continue whenever something really stupid is said or done.
Pummell • 42 minutes ago
If he had not taken pictures, no one would know this "desecration" ever happened, sorry but to claim any desecration from those pictures is laughable. It is even funnier, that by prosecuting this kid those pictures have now seem much further dissemination than they ever would have.This was a performance art by the kid, and art whether tasteless or not is protected by the constitution. This case will go nowhere, he has a stronger case in counter suing that his constitutional protections have been be violated.Saddest part is that this insane persecution of this kid, can actually have negative ramifications on him for the rest of his life. What he did as a silly joke, where no one was harmed or property was damaged, he may now have giant court fees and it could stain his reputation locally making it difficult for him to find employment.He should sue and he will win.
Anthony_McCarthy Pummell • 36 minutes ago
Well, he did, part of his stupidity was in taking pictures of himself desecrating the statue and posting them. It's a really stupid criminal who hands proof of what they did to anyone who either wants to prosecute them or punch them in the mush.While I'll agree that the prosecutor is way, way overcharging the brat who should get to make some kind of arrangement with whoever owns the thing to get the charges dropped, prosecutors in most places are a political position and, in the case of a conservative prosecutor, making sure people who are outraged by what the brat did know about it and see what he did serves his purpose rather well. I doubt he could sue and I doubt he would win. If I were his lawyer I'd advise against it.Anyone who calls this kind of juvenile stunt "art" deserves to be ridiculed for being a disingenuous dolt making an absurd claim that only other disingenuous dolts will pretend to believe. Most people looking at this will see it for what it is, a stupid kid doing something stupid to get attention for himself. It's about as artistic as a kid belching loudly in the back of the bus or telling a fart joke.
Cory Carlson • 33 minutes ago
No criminal act took place, they will have to show that this law has been used before in similar situations.
Anthony_McCarthy Cory Carlson • a few seconds ago
Let's see if that happens. If what he did is legal then any 14-year-old attention seeker can go simulate sex with any statue, anywhere and be protected for his act of "free speech". If that became common the political backlash would be rather enormous and would benefit Republicans. Meanwhile the play leftists would preen in their superior free-speechyness in their affluent abodes while the real agenda of the real left went into the crapper.I'm beginning to see that the biggest problem of the left is the immature, stupid play left. The real left will have to dump them and their antics, leaving them behind. They are the left's equivalent of the Tea Party, only without the ability to shift elections to the left.
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