From Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs:
I’ve received an email from Stanislav Shmulevich, who has been arrested in New York for putting a Koran in a toilet at Pace University. And his case is even more outrageous than we first reported.
First, Shmulevich was arrested and jailed for 24 hours. Second, he’s not facing misdemeanor charges—he’s being charged with two felonies, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment.
Felonies. For putting a book in a toilet.
Third, his income is on a borderline that disqualifies him for a public defender, so he stands to suffer incredible financial hardship as well.
Fourth, his name and photograph were published in several newspapers in New York, and he and his mother were ambushed outside the court by reporters. In a case like this, clearly with the potential to enrage radical Muslims, this is so irresponsible of the media that it borders on criminal.
Do we still live in a country that values free speech? This case is pretty good evidence that we do not. Mr. Shmulevich is caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare right out of the Soviet Union, and it’s all happening at the demand of the Muslim Student Association and the Council on American Islamic Relations.
If that isn't bad enough, some more:
Muslim activists had called on Pace University to crack down on hate crimes after the incidents. As a result, the university said it would offer sensitivity training to its students.
The school was accused by Muslim students of not taking the incident seriously enough at first. Pace classified the first desecration of the holy book as an act of vandalism, but university officials later reversed themselves and referred the incident to the New York Police Department’s hate crimes unit.
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For more on the charges, Allah Pundit outlines the NYS Penal Code of the charges.
These people are demanding, and receiving special rights above and beyond those given to other people. This type of thing about special rights and privileges is going on across this country, so watch out for a form of Sharia Law to come to a neighborhood near you!
There is a local brouhaha over an idiot Ron Paul supporter who scuffled with, and assaulted, law enforcement over a misdemeanor citation, committing a felony to avoid a misdemeanor. If that isn't the very definition of idiot, I don't know what is.
Here are a couple of the blogs covering the local incident:
If a member of law enforcement is alerted to an American flag flying upside down at a residence, I think it would be perfectly reasonable for them to pay a courtesy visit to see if the residents are truly in distress rather than violently barge in to someone’s private home and manhandle them into submission and captivity. That would be the American thing to do.
The arrogance of government and police power is staggering.
It saddens me to hear responses on the AC-T bulletin board calling for greater uses of force and violence against peaceful protests, greater restrictions on the speech of authentic patriots, greater losses of individual liberties to the reach and powers of an authoritarian state, and a greater inversion of the sovereignty of the individual in favor of the brute force of government control.
Tim Peck: Another Thug With A Badge
What is becoming of our democracy these days: No fly lists, indefinite detentions, torture facilities, and police state tactics?
And now here in our beloved, Asheville?
Uptown Ruler: Police State In Our Own Backyard
Since this area is eat up with Lefty Progressive Blogs, I guess I'll be the only one pointing out the common sense approach to this whole thing:
Had Mr. Kuhn accepted his citation, the thing would not have spun out of control. He very likely would have gotten the charges dropped before court.
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This whole narcissistic society of "ME First!" "MY Rights Trump Everyone else's" and "I'M Offended" are some of the worst things to come from the Baby Boomers and the Hippies of the 60s.
At least these idiots and most of their supporters are in Asheville, and out of my community. My neighbors all fly the flag, and show It proper respect.
One of them summed it up pretty well for me, and I'll share it with you:
"Don't forget, Bob. These people DO live in Asheville, where pragmatic reality does not apply." --John W July 28, 2007
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Don't know if you noticed what Screwy recalled in the comment thread in the aforementioned Scrutiny Hooligans post:
"Deborah Kuhn once called me a traitor to my country for not believing that 9/11 was an inside job."
This answered any questions I had about this incident.
"Had Mr. Kuhn accepted his citation..."
Citation for what?
He was not there to issue a citation; he was there to make an aggressive arrest.
The deputy was not acting in his professional capacity. He was there on a personal agenda inflamed by his National Guard cronie and violently attacked the peaceful and innocent Kuhn's in their home "under the color of authority."
The only report claiming that the deputy was assaulted came from the deputy. All other eyewitnesses corroborate the Kuhn's account.
I hope to have the Kuhn's on my tv show soon to explain this once again.
Tim Peck said: The deputy was not acting in his professional capacity. He was there on a personal agenda inflamed by his National Guard cronie and violently attacked the peaceful and innocent Kuhn's in their home "under the color of authority."
Hmm... we got a comment on that same thread from an IP address belonging to the Army National Guard. That particular person has not been back, at least since I "outed" him. I wonder if it's the same person...
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Despite his nickname, Screwy does have some sense.
tim:
I was not aware that Mr and/or Mrs. Kuhn were judge and jury in this case.
A complaint was made. The deputy was investigating.
Should Sheriff Van Duncan not go wobbly on us, the facts will be laid out in a court of law, where they should have been in the first place.
If the deputy was in the wrong, then major points could have been won in court later...now, these retards have muddied the water with their infantile behavior.
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