You’d think God would have protected the monument better.
Just for that, I’m having a gross custom printed!
You’re cracking me up, Darren. Was just going to quote one post, but you have too many good one-liners today.
Creating and displaying the monument violates my personal religious belief. I have to power to remove it. Just like the guy who put it up, because he was motivated by a religious belief to do so. It’s a simple, old-fashioned standoff, to see which individual’s religious belief is to hold sway, and both exercised the power they are in possession of.
The only reason there is a law against one of them and not the other just reflects which one has predecessors who had the power to enact laws to support their own religious principles.
Some of the comments below the article are highly amusing; most notably
The most interesting part of the story lies with the construction of the monument itself. The designer and creator took the trouble to make it exactly 2,721 kilograms, which comes within one pound of being exactly 6,000 pounds. That by itself would be a more interesting feature, than the ultimate drama that surrounded the fateful day of its display. The way he whittled it down to meet those exacting specs.
The guy has the right to get it removed. He doesn’t have the right to destroy someone else’s property. As you indicate, it could have been placed somewhere else, where people can admire its construction without the state endorsing a religion.
The installer and the remover were both wielding the only power available to them in order to enforce their spiritual convictions. The fact that the two forms of exerting power were not mechanically analogous doesn’t diminish the fact that both were exercising power.
I think we’ve all broken a commandment or two in our time. Although 10 at once seems rather extreme.
Nah, this guy.
Y’know…
That sounds like a Purity Test challenge…
–G!
How easily you excuse terror tactics. You do not have the right to use violence to destroy public edifices unless you own them. We have a legal system you may take advantage of in these situations.
Reed was arraigned today. One crazy mf. Talking over his attorney. Talking to the judge
He pulled the same crap in OK.
Are these really terror tactics? I mean, if a guy wants to destroy stuff for the sake of destroying stuff, that seems different from destroying stuff to terrify folks.
I define terror as the use of violence in the pursuit of a political or religious cause. He had plenty of other ways to express his displeasure at the statue short of destroying it. Its really low level terror but terror nonetheless imo.
I define terror as the use of violence in the pursuit of a political or religious cause. He had plenty of other ways to express his displeasure at the statue short of destroying it. Its really low level terror but terror nonetheless imo.
Well good for him, the crazy bastard, that it was his one brief flash of lucidity that brought him fame.
Pretty sure he is playing Baphomet’s Attorney.
I’m surprised a Dodge Dart could knock over that much stone.
Probably got 'em from Design Toscano.
Most likely, he doesn’t have insurance.