Joseph wrote:With any luck at all they will all be prosecuted for making illegal incindiary devices. Not only are these kids criminals... they are stupid criminals.
Some Prison time or a year in the County Jail would be appropriate.
iii) any incendiary bomb, grenade, fire bomb, chemical bomb, or similar device, including any device, except kerosene lamps, if criminal intent has not been established, which consists of or includes a breakable container including a flammable liquid or compound and a wick composed of any material which, when ignited, is capable of igniting the flammable liquid or compound or any breakable container which consists of, or includes a chemical mixture that explodes with fire or force and can be carried, thrown, or placed.
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Except if it were your kids. You would be humming a different tune.
In america if a perdon farts in public they are given jail time. The prisons are overflowing with people who stole a pizza slice.
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why me wrote:Except if it were your kids. You would be humming a different tune.
Might also be true if one's child committed armed robbery. Good thing the justice system generally ignores parental desires to save their children from the consequences of illegal acts.
why me wrote:In america if a perdon farts in public they are given jail time. The prisons are overflowing with people who stole a pizza slice.
Clearly hyperbole - but really kind of dumb hyperbole.
"I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. ... Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I." - Joseph Smith, 1844
why me wrote: The prisons are overflowing with people who stole a pizza slice.
Would you feel the same, if it had started out as your pizza slice?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.