Iowa Man gets 15 years for burning LGBTQ Flag

same here with the conservatives, they have done nothing to repeal the 'thought' crime laws here either

We will free them when we turn America around into the right direction!

It is actually okay to hate gays, though.
It is okay to like gays, of course. But trying to force people to respect something they did not like in the first place is only going to cause more tension and anger.

Actually, I have much, much less respect for the 'pride' movement ever since they made a cult out of it and tried to shove their dildos down everybody's throats. And I started out as 'tolerant' and 'open minded' to the idea that people just 'wanted to be.' It turns out, groups hardly ever 'want to be.' Not groups who rely on needing to shock and to make proving points constantly, anyway. "look at me! look at me!"
People getting in your way of your own life so constantly to say 'look at me! Respect me! worship me!--- Why aren't you looking at me, respecting me and worshipping me! Bigot, sexist!" Yeah, you start to loathe them and question their intelligence after a while.

forgive us our tresspasses, as we forgive those who tresspass against us.

hell in Europe for centuries there was no such thing as 'tresspassing', everyman's right. people are allowed to walk across your property you know if they need to , you cannot use property lines to encumber a person's right to move about or go somewhere, that's in the constitution

One day all this nonsense will be history.

Amazing how everything adds up to "20/20 is hindsight."

The only rainbow flag that is equally respected in Israel, Lebanon,Jordan, and Syria. The flag of the Druze.

if your right to property does not take precedence, over anothers right to get to the store or wherever he needs to go, then it surely does not take precedence over more important needs, like food, medical care, sleep, shelter

in other words, if a homeless person is dying in the cold, he has a right to enter your home and take shelter, you have no right to deny him food or shelter.

People just need to be honest about their political motivations and biases.

I admit I'm of the right and would have been way more disgusted if the guy had grabbed a church's US flag and burned it. But even I'd say that punishment of 15 years was bullshit. In that case, I'd have to admit such a sentence would be rightwing bullshit.

Then again, since people of the right tend to be motivated by common sense and ethics way more than what influences people of the left, I doubt if such a conservative overreach will ever occur.

By contrast, I'm fully aware of the mini-Stalins, mini-Maos and mini-Castros/Maduros of a society.

I'm fairly sure any judge or jury giving 15 years for burning a flag that often is used in sex-freak parades (otherwise known as Gay Pride events) is getting their mini-Stalin, mini-Mao, mini-Maduro freak on.

By the way, speaking of leftism and leftists, Adolph Hitler was a homosexual and originally into art and painting. Animal rights too.

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Counter attack! Sue the judge personally. 15 years for trespassing and vandalism means the judge HATES YOU! Charge the judge with a Hate Crime. Does the judge have a name? What if he burned a pedophile flag?

Not in Illinois. You can be arrested for that, but I think it's free speech too.

Petty theft and/or simple vandalism -at best.
Jail the filthy judge and prosecutors.

What would Jesus had done if he were to witness a sodomite celebration flag on his holy house?

Sodom and Gomorrah is a clue. Look it up.

You're dealing with a cess pool of GMO Masons and bread bags from Iowa.... And who did Trump appoint for the ambassador to China...That's right another MASON former governor of Iowa... EMBARRASSING!

The Grand Cross is the highest honor for a 33rd degree Mason. Brother Harshbarger joins Senator Charles Grassley as the only Iowa Masons to currently hold this honor.





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A church of Christ with an LGBTQ flag flying at it?

Holy. Blasphemy.

Dont they even read the bible? Haha

Clown world. They allow drug addicts to shoot up in the street. Allow them to steal to keep their habit going. Then give 15 years for this BS.

You can't seriously defend 15 f'ing years for that, can you? I've seen child molesters and the like get less time.

It's pure f'ing stupidty!

It's for scissoring too!

True, he should be in trouble for destroying someone else's property, but 15 years is pure bullshit.

You can kill someone and get less time.

he should have gotten the chair !

15 years? how is that possible?
I hope he appeals

He should appeal.

Iowa is ran by real idiots.

They actually reached out to get more diversity in their state.

Their crime stats prove it.

moe rons.

I know a man who murdered his wife and only served 10 years.

One of these days someone with funds will pay for these peoples attorneys to fight the BS - injustice at it's worst.

REALLY!!! Is that the best you got?!?! Of course we don't have the right to take a flag owned by someone else on their property and destroy it. That is NOT the point! 15 YEARS! That's the point! I can absolutely promise and guarantee you that if a member of the LGBTQ community tore down a flag with a cross on it that was sitting on a Baptist church and burnt it, he would NOT get 15 years. This same court would probably even protect him under "free speech".

15 years? What? AYY? How pathetic and embarrassing.

Not surprising. Ames just elected a 20 year old city counselor who's only platform is climate fascism. Write it off.

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Hate crime laws are bullshit. Crimes already have laws and penalties. Racking up more years because someone dislikes something is dumbassery.

Hell, the sentence would have been less!