Dang, that’s funny, but I’m embarassed for laughing.
This won’t stop right wing demagouges from exploiting the issue into the “War on Christianity” seminars though.
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/03/exploiting_the_alabama_fires.php#more
How long before these dickwiches end up as part of Brickers unorganized but commonly directed anti-Christian conspiracy?
Guess what. All the burned churches were Baptist, and the boys’ college is Methodist-affiliated.
You think?
[1]: They repeatedly burn down churches, and they "don’t deserve to be where thye are. Correct: they deserve to be in a worse place.
[2]: “Good” people don’t run around burning churches. unless of course “good people” has somehow come to mean future felony arsonists.
[3]: They didn’t mean to do it?! The mechanics of burning a fucking building down aren’t attributable to an accident. Assembling fuel, placing it, lighting it: all deliberate acts.
[4]: Ah, the “Boys will be Boys, Especially When They’re Drunk” defense. Since when has being drunk and maliciously careless become a basis for extunation in a criminal proceeding?
Might I add that the critical thinking skills of these 16-year-olds frightens me?
Comon, lighten up. It was obviously a joke.
Just like the bombings of Dresden and Tokyo. Those bomber crews didn’t mean anything by it, they were just playing.
And it was fucking hilarious, just like this was. :rolleyes:
If it had been a single chuch, it might conceivably be an accident.
There’s no way 10 torched buildings could be construed as an accident, unless you’re a member of the fantastic 4.
cerberus, I think you’re getting your stories mixed. The quotes are from a separate story nanoda posted about 4 teens in Edmonton who ganged up on a stranger and beat him to death.
Just replace “burning down churches” with “murdering a random person you’d never met before.” Makes the excuses even scarier, don’t it?
Apparently, it was a “nice kid’s crime” that one of them had already committed. After all, he was on probation and “he’s a good kid.”
Mandatory sentence: 45 years w/ parole.
45 years before parole.
Mea Culpa on that.
The arguments work even better when someone is “accidentally killed.”
I can see not wanting to see the evil in people, but at some point, there it is, to be recognised or ignored.