Man Charged with Hate Crime for Burning Gay Pride Flags in Harlem

PJ Media ^ | 07/11/2019 | John Ellis

[Gene Eric]

While “piss christ” is heralded as art???

I have no problem with burning the symbol of sodomy.

[SunkenCiv]

...arsonist Tyresse Singleton...

Racial profiling, that's all that it is. :^)

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[ExTexasRedhead]

What about the Marxist Left who burn the American flag? What were they charged with?

[Amberdawn]

Exactly. We need to use Alinsky’s rules for radicals against the Left by insisting that burning Old Glory is a hate crime.

[i_robot73]

Exactly HOW does the State quantify ‘hate’ in a trial? What calibration is used to ensure said quantity?

Was it ‘dislike’? or full on ‘odium’??

[bgill]

Why? People burn the US flag every day of the week. What’s so special about a gay flag?

[JerseyDvl]

Typical racist Dems.

[Little Ray]

Burning an American flag: Don’t worry. Take it easy. That’s protected free speech.

Burning gay flag: “Reading the charges against you will take all morning. Just duck your head down as you get into the back seat of the patrol car and you’ll be on your way to jail.”

Well, I think there was something about it being someone else's flag...

[frank ballenger]

Okay.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Theft. He stole it.

[MichaelCorleone]

This is John Ellis’ way of subtly kissing the lgbtq ring.

How many have torched Old Glory and walked away without incident?

Have not the courts already ruled burning the American flag is ‘free speech’?

Yet Ellis calls this a form of terrorism and gives the police an ‘atta boy!’?

Johnny’s not fooling everyone.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: This is John Ellis’ way of subtly kissing the lgbtq ring. How many have torched Old Glory and walked away without incident?

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This really should be a PROPERTY RIGHTS issue as John Ellis said.

If the flag (gay pride or American) is OWNED by someone, you do not have the right to grab it and burn it.

What the author objects to is the topping on of “Hate crimes” against the flag burner.

And as most FReepers on this thread pointed out, why is burning an American Flag not a hate crime ( against the country )?

[Durbin]

I thought flags were “Just a piece of cloth”. Or does that only apply when someone burns the American flag?

[foreverfree]

bump

[MichaelCorleone]

“This really should be a PROPERTY RIGHTS issue as John Ellis said.”

Yes. You are absolutely right on.

But I still say that Ellis’ motivation for this op-ed is to bow to the gay mafia. I doubt he would have taken the time to write this if the flag had been the Stars and Stripes.

[jughandle]

Looks like a colored fellow, isn’t it racist to arrest him? The victimhood sympathy status list has become confusing lately.

[glorgau]

> Theft. He stole it.

Well, if it wasn’t his, then of course it is a crime.

[JimRed]

That flag is a symbol of HATE STRAIGHT, and needs burning.

[JimRed]

Although I don’t associate with “haters,” I believe they have a Constitutional right to hate. What say ye??

Agree. But like homosexuals, they should keep it to themselves and out of our faces.

[dead]

Buy any flag, burn it at your discretion.

Burn somebody else's flag, get arrested.