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mk  ·  4665 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Freedom of speech? or hate crime?
Agreed. This is ridiculous. A 19 year-old says something dumb and unpopular in a Facebook feed. That is a crime?

He is not inciting violence.





JakobVirgil  ·  4665 days ago  ·  link  ·  
but he is being angry dumb and unpopular with a Muslim name.

That is the real story. If Nigel Haversham-Smith IV posted this same thing nothing would have happened.

mk  ·  4665 days ago  ·  link  ·  
True enough. Just yesterday when I was moving some old stored items about, I came across a newspaper I saved from 09-12-01. It was the Detroit Free Press, and the headline was something like: "America Savaged, Forever Changed". The Forever Changed part was prescient.

The whole world was changed for the worse that day. Azhar's arrest is because of that day.

alpha0  ·  4665 days ago  ·  link  ·  
| "The Forever Changed part was prescient."

Debatable ...

mk  ·  4665 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ok, well as prescient as a newspaper headline gets... Maybe it was more "telling us what to expect".
JakobVirgil  ·  4665 days ago  ·  link  ·  
that is how the terrorists won.