Two Missouri University students have been arrested for throwing cotton balls in front of a black culture center in an act that is being investigated as a hate crime.
The students were initially charged with “Tampering in the second degree”, a class D Felony. This is a curious criminal provision that covers a wide array of possible conduct:
Tampering in the second degree.
569.090. 1. A person commits the crime of tampering in the second degree if he or she:(1) Tampers with property of another for the purpose of causing substantial inconvenience to that person or to another; or
(2) Unlawfully rides in or upon another’s automobile, airplane, motorcycle, motorboat or other motor-propelled vehicle; or
(3) Tampers or makes connection with property of a utility; or
(4) Tampers with, or causes to be tampered with, any meter or other property of an electric, gas, steam or water utility, the effect of which tampering is either:
(a) To prevent the proper measuring of electric, gas, steam or water service; or
(b) To permit the diversion of any electric, gas, steam or water service.
The question is whether leaving cotton balls constitutes a substantial interference. The university paper said that the matter was being investigated as a hate crime, here.
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Byron off topic but interesting read.
http://www.uic.edu/depts/pols/ChicagoPolitics/Anti-corruptionReportNumber3.pdf
The report details the nearly 150 county officials that have gone to jail for corruption in Barack Obama’s home county of Cook. It’s the Chicago way.
Ay quit it. The professor said, so stop.
Byron,
There is some truth I am sure to the argument that gerty has resurrected. Especially since the GA has not been around before but seems to attack some regulars.
It is Byron, trust me.
Bdaman:
you think so? I dont know, Gerty is pretty erudite and I dont think he would be able to write like this. Although you might be right. I guess you are going on the multiple posts and this would be a story that Gerty would keep going on about.
Also Georgia hasnt really gone after Mespo, he is going after everyone. Calling Mike A Mike dude, and Duh whitebread and others whitey. You know what the funny part is, we dont know what color we are, as far as I know Buddha is green and Mespo is sort of yellowish red. Georgia numb-nut is making an assumption that we are all white. I guess it hasnt sunk into his cranial cavity that all blacks may not think in lockstep with Minister Farrakhan or Rev. Wright.
Georgia Allstar/30%er/Gerty/Jacob Marley
It’s apparent, Buddah taught me well.
Georgia Allstar:
only problem with what you said is that most of these lawyers would defend you in a heartbeat if you were unfairly targeted by the cops. And they would relish tearing the cops a new one on your behalf.
Georgia_Allstar:
I suspect my Schnauzer could outrun me or out-quick me too. I don’t look to her for advice on race relations. I also suspect that you don’t have the foggiest notion of what it takes to fight for real racial justice as I have done many times in an arena where your 40 speed is irrelevant. By and large you are afflicted with the same malady as these two miscreants who through the snow balls. You’re an ungrateful punk who refuses to learn anything from those of your race who worked hard to make ours a color-blind society.
GA Racist,
Nice to see you want your cake and to eat it too.
We know a racist when we see one though. No matter what his or her skin color may be. Racist is as racist does, racist. But let me guess. You’re one of those half-wits who think blacks can’t be racist. Which is in itself a racial stereotype. We all get it. You hate Whitey.
Now peddle your infantile horse shit elsewhere.
All you’re doing here is making yourself look like a racist buffoon. Just like the nitwits in this story. You and the cotton ballers should go bowling together. If you can find a fourth racist buffoon, you can play bridge.
Grow up.
Oh wait a sec! You might think I’m calling you “boy” if I say grow up.
Well.
Act like a child, get treated like one.
So come on back and throw another tantrum. By all means. Keep showing us how superior you are from racists by acting like a racist yourself.
It’s funnier than Hell.
No its you who are ugly and ignorant fool because first of all they beat him because they were white and because they didn’t like his color. Thats a fact. And its a common fact specially in certain areas of the south that you just are too ignorant to know about. And second you make fancy speeches all of you like your some big shots or somethign and I’m just a child or something well not everyone studies law in college and some of us are gifted in areas you could never compete in pal. I sit on a mattress once a month and I bet I could whoop your butt in anything on the field anytime any day. making fancy speeches and acting like a big shot doesn’t make you any smarter and a fine education can make you sound smart obviously but it doesn’t mean you are smart. If you were you’d know that these two racists were spreading hate speech. But fancy lawyers make speeches and say “oh its just a little prank” or “whats a few cotton balls” and pretty soon theyre let off with a pat and a smile and next thing you know theyre dragging someone behind a truck with a chain and its because your sort are too busy making speeches to stand up to this sort of racism. Probably caus your too scared. Or maybe your just too ignorant or both. This stuff always starts out with “its just a prank” and then when anther beautiful brother or sister is murdered you wring your hands and say “oh how could we have known” and make more speeches. You people dont know anything.
“… when 4 white boys took my baby brother out in the woods one night and beat him so bad my mother cried for a week.”
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I find it interesting that you think that the most important feature of your baby brother’s assailants is that they were white. Not that they were cruel, or unjustified, or cowardly, or just plain mean, no, not a word about that, but simply that they were white. Now wasn’t that you calling me the racist? Your words betray you my foolish, young friend –and prove to everyone reading here just who is the real racist.
So sad. Arrogance and racism is all you got.
Yo, mike dude? You can kiss my butt goodbye too cuz I wouldnt waste my precious time on rude punk like you.
Georgia Allstar: The name is Mike Appleton, not Mike dude. I don’t use pseudonyms and I’m easy to find. And when I present an opinion in a respectful manner to another individual, I expect a respectful response. If that is beyond your capability for any reason, you are probably correct in your professed belief that you would feel more comfortable on a KKK blog where invective pass for reason and hatred for wisdom.
Oh wow sure is fancy you insulting me like that. Oh yea and I bet they flock to see you speak about Coretta Scott oh yea. I bet you really bring them in but you know as about my thin skin maybe it got a little thinner about 3 years ago when 4 white boys took my baby brother out in the woods one night and beat him so bad my mother cried for a week. Maybe you think you know so much mr inner city wonder man but maybe you dont know all you think you know because everythings not learned in a book. Maybe real people who live not in your pc inner city with the programs and all maybe they know something too and you couldnt walk a mile in one of their shoes ever think abotu that mr know it all? Bet you dont cuz your too busy telling everyone how smart you are.
Georgei_Allstar:
“Why dont you kiss my butt?”
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Because,by your previous comments, you make distinguishing that area of your anatomy from the rest of you impossible.
Georgia_Allstar:
“Either way you can come down these parts some time and try quoting Coretta Scott to the people and see how that works out mr know it all.”
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I speak to African-American grade school and high school students in the inner city all the time, and I always quote Dr. & Mrs. King. The kids who haven’t been poisoned with hate, love to hear the success stories about people like themselves. These young people haven’t decided, as you obviously have, to wrap themselves in the mantle of victimhood, and decry everyone around them who refuses to pity them.
Why dont you kiss my butt?
“And someone here who knows a little law …”
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That, my young friend, is the truest words you’ve spoken. I might arrange it differently though: “And someone here who knows little law….” Why don’t you read more, talk less, and leave us in at least some doubt about who is the real racist here. Look, I didn’t even have to resort to calling you “ugly” to prove my point. The only prejudice I have against your skin is its thinness.
I hate you no more than Id hate a insect or a dumb animal cuz it is what it is. I just got no time for your sort of know it all white bred rich man thinks hes got all the answers well some people know something too man and if you ever lived in these parts or really knew something you’d see. Your the hater. You hate with your fancy words but you hate and hate deep.