Hey vandals, lawbreakers and other scofflaws,
come on down to Florida. Not only can you hone and perfect your craft, the
state will actively support it.
Let’s say you discover you don’t
like the color of your neighbor’s house, or any house for that matter…splash it
with your choice of paint. Or use spray cans to create artistic graffiti to
give it a ‘pop’ feel. You’ll get off the hook by claiming religious freedom. Maybe
a store has something you want, but you can’t afford it. No problem. Pick it up
and walk out with it. As long as you tell law enforcement ahead of time, there
will be little difficulty. And the best part again is you can say it is your religious
right. Or, let’s say you don’t like someone else’s belief or spiritual
presentation. Here in the Sunshine State you have carte blanche to trash it and
pay no penalty.
What's the difference between the thug on the left and the thug on the right? The thug on the right only trashed himself.
On December 24, 2014, Susan
Hemeryck, wearing a t-shirt with ‘Catholic Warrior’ on it, entered the capitol
building in Tallahassee, pre-apologized to the two Florida Capitol Police
officers near the door, walked to the Christmas exhibition area and vandalized
the display erected by the Satanic Temple (which featured an angel figure falling into hell-fire, per the bible), then attempted
to walk out of the building with what was left of the display.
It seems that, like many bigoted
conservative Christians, Ms. Hemeryck couldn't tolerate the biblically-correct
scene so she took it upon herself to destroy it. Amazingly, even though she was
filmed by capitol surveillance cameras, was caught red-handed by law
enforcement officers as she tried to remove it from the building, and freely
admitted to the press that she “yanked that little devil off the fishing line”
and “should have just done a better job and finished it off for good,” state
prosecutors decided not to pursue the case.
Why?
Hemeryck’s attorney said doing so
is “basically putting an attack on Christians.” (Note: An attack on something non-Christian is okay though.) State prosecutors agreed and
dropped charges because of a lack of evidence. In a statement issued by state
prosecutors, they claimed “The defendant is simply carrying the display. No
damages are apparent. It is simply disassembled.” There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Hmmm, must have fallen off the table and gotten torn up by itself.
See, you aren't held accountable for criminal
activity in Florida. Desecrating some other religious display is a perpetual “Get Out of
Jail Free” card. If an atheist had vandalized a Christian display, prosecutors
would have sought the maximum punishment, but because Hemeryck is a “Christian”
who destroyed a non-Christian display, she gets to walk without facing
any consequences at all.
Strange as it seems, Susan
Hemeryck’s religion wouldn’t have any reason to exist were it not for Satan,
Lucifer, the devil, or whatever you want to call the ’Prince of Darkness’ in their
holy book. Her religion NEEDS Satan to justify its existence. But vandalizing the
Satanic display is like destroying water fountains wherever found because water was used to drown everyone in Noah’s flood...even though
water was necessary to the story.
Remember, the almighty is impotent
and can’t do anything in this world, so it is up to you to do the interpreting
for it. But whatever you choose to do, do it with the confidence that it is
what god wants. Besides, why would it come here to do
anything anymore? That's what all the believers are for. All religions claim that at some point in the past, god left
a book of instructions behind and that’s what we have to guide us. Yes, for some
reason, one group calls the book the Qur’an, others say it is the Bhagavad Gita,
another group claims it is the Book of Mormon, others assert that it is the Sutras, while millions of others say it’s the Bible…and on and on and on. But take heart that god
certainly works in mysterious ways, and in mysterious guises, allows people
to do whatever they like and then claim they did it for god.
The mystery is, why do people still
believe it?
