I agree with you on all points, however they're irrelevant to my reasoning. What I was trying to do was highlight the main difference, his intention of hurting the statue's owner for his perceived religion, through destruction of his property. Now, it's only hearsay until the evidence is presented, for we all know cops will often interpret an individuals words completely incorrectly. Regarding your and the previous commenter's point about the leftist mob's crimes, they destroyed statues of presidents and war heroes, etc. One can argue George Washington and Robert E. Lee were godlike figures, but the criminal intent was never related to religion. Also, I am pretty sure no individual ever confessed to damaging a statue for religious reasons, as was done in this case.
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Sorry, I did not think you were talking to me, thought you were talking to VC above - yes, I agree with you destruction of private property is destruction - however, to clarify my comments - the main thing is that this is being label as a hate crime is the problem I have - I don't think its a hate crime personally because you are not dealing with a real religion - the Church of Satan are self confessed atheists / activists - so the hate is for the ideology not the person - for instance, would it be a hate crime if you pulled down a SJW sign that was somewhere - that is how I measure it though. Anyway, good points! PS: I believe no crime should be a hate crime etc.., I think everything should be judged on the crime that was inflected and everyone should receive the same punishment. Of course, justice is largely fake, so it does not matter really these days.
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