The laws in question stipulate unlimited punitive damages, therefore the fine is consistent with that. Nothing tyrannical there.
They allow unlimited punitive damages, not require it. That was to help fight back against the mass murdering KKK, as you pointed out.
Slamming someone with a 2 million dollar fine for destroying a banner, is not just, it is simply using the poiwer of the state against your political enemies.
The fine reflects the gravity of the crime not the market price of the destroyed sign.
No, it doesn't. The destruction of the banner, the gavity of that, the crime should have been a few hundred dollars, or maybe at most, some community service. That would have been just. Assuming that the case is as one sided as it has been presented.
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Finally I also do not care, I have no sympathy for bigoted grown men who terrorize black people inside a church and vandalize the church, none, they are scum, racist filth and nobody should be defending them.
Which is really just you agreeing with me. YOu have a negative opinion of them, based on political issues, and thus you support them being punished unjustly and massively for a minor crime of vandalism.
If you don't support civil rights for everyone, then you don't support civil rights.
It is easy to support the rights of people you like. The test is supporting the civil rights of people you hate.
Americans used to know that. Liberals used to shout that from the barricades. Now those libs are dead of old age, and their children are supporting oppression of their political enemies.