You may recall the case seven years ago of the horrific rape, murder, and arson case out of Connecticut involving Steven Hayes. He and a friend raped and murdered a mother and two daughters in a savage home invasion. He is now on death row but Hayes is not happy with his meals. He is an Orthodox Jew and insisted that his kosher meals were not being prepared with sufficient attention to religious rules and thereby forcing him to “choose between following God and starving or choosing sin to survive.” A court has rejected the motion for preliminary injunctive relief.
Hayes (left) and Joshua Komisarjevsky (right) were convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, at the family’s home in Cheshire. They tied up the victims and sexually assaulted two of them. They then set the house on fire. Hawke-Petit’s husband, Dr. William Petit, was severely beaten, but survived. Here is a picture of the family before they met Hayes:
It is not clear when Hayes became Orthodox because he says that he has been eating kosher since May 2013. He has challenged the preparation practices for kosher meals in the kitchen of his high-security prison under Jewish dietary laws. However,
U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Thompson ruled that the meals do meet such standards. He noted that the state Department of Corrections has two rabbis who periodically monitor the preparation of kosher foods in the prison system. The judge said both rabbis certified that the food and the food preparation process comply with dietary laws. Hayes was raising a highly technical objection: the “lack of a reliable orthodox certificate or an onsite Jewish overseer.” However, Thompson ruled that there was no evidence suggesting that the absence of the certificate leads to a finding that the meals are not kosher.”
If it is any solace to Hayes, I expect that the Almighty is likely to be more peeved about his brutal assault, arson, rapes and murders as examples of “choosing sin” than his eating Kosher food without a posted certificate.
Notably, the lawsuit will continue. This was just a rejection of the motion for a preliminary injunction. Hayes has previously filed lawsuits over his mental health care, harassment from prison staff and the temperature in his cell.
Source: NH Register
Haz, What’s the source of the racist chant?
DBQ, Absolutely. But, that would be racist.
When surrounded by people on foot trying to do harm to you and your car, remember…..your car weighs far more than they do and you have more horsepower.
Gun the engine and run them over. Small speed bumps in the path of life. Acceptable losses.
The “youths” were screaming “kill the white people” when they hammered Zemir Begic to death.
Give him nothing but ‘Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato sandwiches….. till he’s dead!
Zero mention of Zemir Begic in the New York Times. Zero mention on a few other big-time blogs. Nothing.
Some lives apparently more important than other lives. Or other deaths.
Do you think the narrative foisted on the public by the likes of Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd and Ezra Klein and Whoopie and Rosie and all the rest had anything to do with the sense of entitlement that these youtes possess. That they were entitled to shut down malls and close Walmart and stop people from driving by any means necessary?
trooperyork – I hold the MSM accountable, as well as the Brown family, their lawyer, the accomplice, his lawyer and all the outsiders who came into Ferguson to help burn it down. And let’s not forget the President and AG. And that spread to the other protests throughout the country.
Hayes shouldn’t have forgotten we was Orthodox Jew back in July 2007 when it was the time about remembering the Sixth Commandment.
Karen, Only carpenters, butchers, and judges should be allowed to possess hammers.
My bride makes ground ring bologna sandwiches that are to die for.
Nick – since I know whats in bologna, I refuse to eat it. 😉
Trooper:
How tragic. I wonder if this was connected to the perceived slaying of Michael Brown, if the murderous lynch mob mentality is spreading, or just an unrelated savage murder.
How awful, either way. Clearly the hammers are to blame.
Strange but true. MC Hammer was a clubhouse boy for the Oakland A’s back in their heyday years in the 70’s. Reggie Jackson dubbed him “Hammer” because he looks like Hank Aaron. Hammer was a snitch for Charlie Finley.
It is always Hammer Time somewhere when you are a disaffected youte.
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I await with much anticipation the federal investigation and civil rights charges.
Yeah right.
Kosher food? Why not a kosher hot dog on a bun every day? That would be easy. And it would be better than the daily baloney sandwich Joe Arpaio gives his prisoners for lunch.
Michael Haz – Sheriff Joe is getting a deal on the meat. The hot dogs might be more expensive.
Haz, Bosnians are indeed tough as nails. There was a small community who emigrated to Wi. in the town I taught. Very strict parents.
The Peter, Paul and Mary classic comes to mind in a Clockwork Orange sorta way.
“Don’t hammer”
Hands up! Don’t Shoot!
Because Bosnians aren’t all caught up in white guilt. And they work their asses off.
The youts were going through town beating on cars with hammers. They had done so on a previous evening, just for the fun of it.
Bosnians have refused to burn down other Bosnians’ businesses in protest. Bosnians who have recently arrived in America are tough people. Like Russians, but with better liquor. The Bosnian part of St. Louis might now be a no-go zone for disaffected youts.