These guys are jerks and they deserve some severe punishment. But beatings and imprisonment seem a little misdirected.
However, they vandalized a national treasure. They committed a crime against the American people.
So how about we establish a special punitive federal income tax rate. People who are accused of vandalizing national parks or monuments will be arrested and tried. And if they’re convicted, they have a pay a ten percent higher tax rate for the rest of their life.
I suggested this in one of the other threads…I think an appropriate punishment (over and above a hefty fine) would be a mandatory stint at the Park’s visitor center and/or campfire program requiring a confession and apology to park visitors.
Park vandals should have to paint manson1972’s house. Not “repaint it whatever color he wants it to be”–they should have to spend a few weekends painting his house in a variety of random colors–a daub of eggshell here, some shocking pink there, a little lime green over on that part. (No spray paint, though–that would be too easy. Paintbrushes only. Small paintbrushes.)
While they’re at it, they should have to do his car, too.
I like China’s policy on stunts like this: it goes on your credit report, even if you pull the stunt outside of China. You also get banned from traveling outside the country.
or they could just, i don’t know, wait for the lake bed to flood again and fix itself. By then, maybe the initials I carved in a tree once will be the new outrage!