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[____madly_i_do]

Ok...so im very concerned with this who church burning ordeal. From what I gather from the little bit of news i watch and from what my parents have been saying, these three 19 year old boys are being tried in a federal court for burning what was it...9 churches? And because its a federal court they could get 20+ years in prison (and possibly 20

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[brooks_]

no honey, it definately isnt just you

[____madly_i_do]

good good
im glad i got to see you for a split second tonight!

[this_fairytale_]

jade... it's alabama
burning church = burning god
haha
and i'm in love w/ that little kid...
let's learn arabic ok? :)

[____madly_i_do]

yes! that kid is adorable.
i want him to start eating lunch with us
that would be awesome

[one_last_day]

well for starters, none of them will end up serving more than 11 or so years before they get paroled (nonviolent crime, no previous records)

but i dont know, burning 9 churches just for the hell of it is pretty bad. their whole defense was 'a prank gone wrong'. thats a pretty aweful prank and they were definitely old enough to know better, so i have trouble feeling too bad for them, i mean it is their own fault

[____madly_i_do]

yea i know...it absolutely horrible what they did. I probably didnt make it clear that i understand how awful it is...i just think its bad if they get locked away forever (or until their 40s or 50s). But yea i mean you're totally right. I just feel bad for them i guess.

[not_that_iloved]

eh, 'fraid i'm gonna have to disagree. i mean, think of it this way: would you be too pleased if someone came and, "as a joke," burned down your house with everything in it? maybe no one lived in the churches, but it still held a lot of peoples' lives. for a lot of people, those churches were their lives. saying no one got hurt is all relative... physically, no, nobody got hurt, but this has done a great deal of damage, especially in an area as religious as this. and besides, by doing this, they were endangering people. it's like saying someone fired a gun into a crowd but it didn't hit anybody, so it doesn't matter. it'd be an entirely different story if it were one church and one church only. but nine? there's something terribly wrong with these kids. i'm not saying i necesarrily agree with putting them away till their of retirement age, but in no way do they deserve to be let off easy, and i can't say i feel that sorry for them; after the third or fourth church... they were just being plain dumbasses. i mean, besides that, this

[____madly_i_do]

yea no thats a really good point. I didnt think of it that way. I definately think they should be locked away for a good bit...i just dont know if it should be forever. I dunno i just hate the idea of peoples lives being taken away cause of a stupid druken mistake. plus alabama would think of burning churches alot more differently than most other states...meaning they'll get an even worse punishment.

but i totally get what your saying. oh its cool...ill just talk to you tomorrow.

[one_last_day]

oh, i was wrong, nonviolent crimes only have to serve 1/3 of their sentence, so they'll probably be out in less than 7 years.
i gotta say though, the first church , sure drunken mistake, but 9 churches takes some planning

[candyeyes]

Well, to agree with a few others,

they committed a terrorist attack and they deserve to be punished.

[end of story] in my book.