Because a synagogue was targeted, of course:
Competing views heard in court on hate-crime vandalIan Baron clearly has problems other than being an anti-Semite. But, in my view, those problems don't excuse him. The drug abuse merely facilitates Baron's showing what's in his heart in that the drugs remove his inhibitions and, yes, further irrational actions and beliefs.Nazi tattoo on his chest, spray-paint can in hand, Ian Baron approached a Montgomery County [Maryland] synagogue shortly before midnight.
The 22-year-old seemed an unlikely neo-Nazi. Born in Honduras, he was adopted and raised by Conservative Jewish parents who lived four blocks away — at a home in Olney where he still showed up for occasional Friday Shabbat dinners.
“Death2Zionists,” he wrote.
“Arbeit Macht Frei,” Baron added, the German phrase that hung above the entrance to Auschwitz and translates to “Work will make you free.”
He painted swastikas and more anti-Semitic graffiti that night in July and was locked up the next week. A jury quickly convicted him in February of hate-crime vandalism.
The case concluded Friday, when Montgomery County Circuit Judge Thomas Craven decided what punishment to impose.
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“It’s not the court’s role to determine whether you are a good Jew or a bad Jew or no Jew at all. Or to determine whether you’re anti-Semitic or a Nazi,” the judge told him.
The primary goal, Craven said, was to make sure Baron didn’t commit crimes when he returned to society.
Craven fashioned a partially suspended sentence, and the gist of it comes down to this: By this fall, Baron will be released from the county jail. He has about five years of “suspended time” hanging over his head, meaning if fouls up he could face prison. And over time, he must pay B’nai Shalom about $24,000 for repair costs.
The judge imposed probation and another requirement, which was proposed by Baron’s attorney: Complete the addiction treatment program, which averages about nine months, at Jewish Recovery Houses, outside Baltimore. Clients must be Jewish.
For the judge to say that it is not the court's job to decide whether or not Ian Baron committed a hate crime? If not the court's responsibility, then exactly who IS responsible for deciding if someone has committed a hate crime?
7 comments:
Hate crimes are a crime and in reality are the leftie antidote to equal justice for all.
The idea of a hate crime is the same as unequal justice for whoever those in authority decide it is warranted for.
Hey I can triple your sentence on a whim chump.
To hell with that power to the people thought.
Power to the judges!
Power to the lawmakers!
Power to the race pimps!
Power to all political executives!
Cjk,
The idea of a hate crime is the same as unequal justice for whoever those in authority decide it is warranted for.
I agree.
But this judge in Maryland could have said something else -- something truly condemnatory of what Ian Baron did. Hell, Baron got less of a punishment than those who paint graffiti on the school's bathroom wall.
A careful reading tells me that the accused did not engage in ANY antisemitic behavior! He was attacking Zionists, not Jews in general or prticular. This is a political statement against Israeli Jews, formed by a misguided notion that the Land of Israel belongs to Arabs rather than to Jews, despite the fact that Jews have been Palestinian in Zion for 3,000 years. Many American Jews do not like Zionism, either, and thus this was not a hate crime against American Jews.
I'm guessing Ronny must be parched having parsed so much in this hellacious environment.
Ian Baron wrote a lot more than "death2zionists" on the synagogue.
That's right Ronny the guy with nazi tattoos on him is actually expressing anti zionism
AYFKM?
How stupid can you be?
How obtuse in denying reality?
How many anti zionists are MOTIVATED by the status of jews BEFORE ISRAEL?
MONORIFIC !
Thanks, Epa.
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