PoultRon <
roki...@cox.net> wrote in news:md6tcl$u3b$
1...@dont-email.me:
> On 3/3/2015 10:36 PM,
jspa...@linuxquestions.net wrote:
>> From the article:
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Hovind doesn't have the look of a fighter. He was calm and detached
>> Monday, leaning back in his chair as he watched the court proceedings
>> through the thick-rimmed glasses on graying his temples. However, to
>> a certain subset of the populace, Hovind has become a folk hero of
>> sorts for his willingness to rail against the establishment. A young
>> Earth creationist, Hovind's claim to fame has been attempting to poke
>> holes in popularly-accepted notions such as evolution and an "old
>> Earth."
>>
>> It came as no surprise that he has been trying to poke holes in the
>> legal process, though his success has been questionable. The grounds
>> for many of Hovind's legal actions reportedly came from a cellmate in
>> a New Hampshire prison camp whom allegedly Hovind described as a
>> "legal genius." -----------------------------------------
>>
>> Read it at
>>
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2015/03/03/day-hovind-trial/243411
>> 07/
>>
> I realize that Hovind has brought this onto himself, but isn't 10
> years enough?
This from a guy who routinely refers to people who aren't breaking any
laws as 'perps'? Never would've pegged you as being soft on crime.
If Hovind committed mail fraud, then he deserves to spend more time in
prison. If he didn't, he still needs to finish serving the rest of his
earlier sentence.
> There should be some type of system to protect the incompetent from
> themselves.
Yeah, why should someone be prosecuted for committing a crime just
because they weren't competent enough to get away with it?
> Hovind isn't killing anyone. He is a flake and likely wouldn't know a
> valid argument if it hit him in the face two or three times, but
> should someone be punished for being willfully incompetent?
Committing crimes incompetently doesn't make you less of a criminal.
Hovind raked in millions of dollars by exploiting the United States's
laissez-faire attitude towards bogus religious claims. The fact that he
made his money legally is appalling. The fact that he was ruined when he
tried to cheat the same government that had enabled him to become
wealthy is a pleasant irony: if he'd been willing to share the proceeds
of his perfectly legal scam with the government that turned a blind eye
to it, he'd be a free and very wealthy man today.
> What kind of loser would consistently fail and think that his cellmate
> was a legal genius?
A criminal one.
> Because of his legal antics in jail he could face more charges, and he
> was almost out.
Look! Between these two arrows! -> <- Can you see it? It's the violin
playing for Kent Hovind.
> Is there some precedent where an organization like the ACLU could step
> in and help the guy in spite of himself?
Yeah, no. The ACLU is trying to help people who actually need help, like
the people who are currently serving life sentences because they bought
marijuana for their personal use. They don't waste their time on people
who got rich by abusing their First Amendment rights and then ran their
yachts aground on the rocky shores of the Federal Tax Code.
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