originally posted by pale rider
They want an open society where anything goes, including legalized drugs, any kind of abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage and explicit images and speech on the public airwaves.
agreed!
As for the dog. I would certainly consider such an act depraved. But the guy really thought it was a religious practice. Our first amendment gives him that right. Also, how many times have you eaten pork in your life. Dogs and pigs have near similar intelligence.
You are mistaken! You cannot kill a dog in the state of California. The dog belonged to someone else. The law in California states:
597. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c) of this section or
Section 599c, every person who maliciously and intentionally maims,
mutilates, tortures, or wounds a living animal, or maliciously and
intentionally kills an animal, is guilty of an offense punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison, or by a fine of not more than
twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), or by both the fine and
imprisonment, or, alternatively, by imprisonment in a county jail for
not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than twenty
thousand dollars ($20,000), or by both the fine and imprisonment.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (a) or (c), every
person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks,
tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, drink, or
shelter, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills any animal, or
causes or procures any animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven
when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of
necessary sustenance, drink, shelter, or to be cruelly beaten,
mutilated, or cruelly killed; and whoever, having the charge or
custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, subjects any
animal to needless suffering, or inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon
the animal, or in any manner abuses any animal, or fails to provide
the animal with proper food, drink, or shelter or protection from the
weather, or who drives, rides, or otherwise uses the animal when
unfit for labor, is, for every such offense, guilty of a crime
punishable as a misdemeanor or as a felony or alternatively
punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony and by a fine of not more
than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).
And what about the two guys who ate the dog? You can't do that either! The dog belonged to someone else! Ignorance of the law is NEVER NEVER NEVER justified. In many court cases this has been said. Gatwood vs. Railroad Retirement Bd. is one example. Ignorance of the law is not a factor that can warrant equitable tolling, or a privilege from common or statute law. Sorry. It doesn't work. The First Amendment therefore does NOT apply. Regarding pigs; I don't go around and kill other people's pigs, thank you very much.
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