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Old 06-28-2014, 08:01 PM
Rupert Pupkin Rupert Pupkin is offline
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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk View Post
No, it's not, because it's not relevant (and because Buddhists don't prothelytize). The law they were charged under was impeding an open business. Again, they were acquitted due to insufficient evidence.

That said, I watched the video put out by the organization that defended them, and it's pretty blatantly obvious that getting arrested was their intent from the start. Their speech is too rehearsed, and they're too quick to cut off the security guard who asks them (politely) to go somewhere else. They got exactly what they wanted; to get arrested (largely for being a**sholes, yes, but there are times as a citizen I sure wished subway preachers could be arrested just so they'd SHUT THE EFF UP), and then they could claim victimization. When in fact, the only people being victimized were the poor souls they were shouting Bible verses at. But that's not their problem, because Jesus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FruQO8qaw9c
They were arrested for preaching, not for impeding an open business. You heard the police officer. He clearly wanted to know which ones from the group were preaching and that those would be arrested. Why do you think they ended up getting off? It was because they had the video that showed that the only reason they got arrested was because they were preaching.

That being said, I'm kind of on the fence about whether they should be allowed to preach there. I think it is kind of obnoxious to loudly preach to people who are stuck in line. I don't agree with those kind of tactics. On a street corner where people can walk away is one thing. A line at the DMV is another thing. On the other hand, the DMV is a public place. I guess it is really a matter of what the policy is there. What was the policy? Is it "no preaching"? Is it "no loitering"? Is it "no soliciting"?

Anyway, I do admit that the original article was misleading. The original article made it seem like they were simply reading the bible aloud to each other, when in fact they were reading aloud (preaching) to anyone within earshot. I don't condone any website (whether conservative or liberal) trying to mislead people through half-truths. I will be the first person to call out a source for a half-truth regardless of the political leanings of the source. The way I look at it, if you think you're right about something and that you have a winning argument, why would you need to mislead people with just one half of the story?

So I do admit that conservative sites will sometimes mislead people with half-truths. Do you admit that liberal sites will try to mislead people with half-truths?

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