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30. Next time use a real missile fired from a UAV

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:26 PM

Feb 2012

They'll pin a medal on your chest for that. Just be sure to say afterwards that the decedent was some kind of "militant" or "terrorist," which is as good as "He's comin' right at us!" for conferring legal immunity.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 OP

nobody ever throw a snowball ever again eShirl Feb 2012 #1

People have been convicted of throwing deadly missiles at cars, which were snowballs jberryhill Feb 2012 #22

I can't believe people think thrown snowballs deserve prison time Occulus Feb 2012 #29

So, if you hit someone's windshield with a snowball.. jberryhill Feb 2012 #32

Thanks to the new NDAA and the Government's ability to define things. Confetti would be consider Justice wanted Feb 2012 #2

Oh, that's not a problem! stillwaiting Feb 2012 #7

Your right. Perfectly same to call something that when it is thrown FLOATS and not slams into Justice wanted Feb 2012 #9

Better reconsider throwing that rice at your next wedding... hlthe2b Feb 2012 #3

Hmmmm.... call me crazy soc7 Feb 2012 #4

I didn't say he shouldn't be punished. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #5

"faces" six months. Broderick Feb 2012 #6

Glitter being equated with a missile won't stand up to court scrutiny. no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #8

Try reading the statute and a dictionary jberryhill Feb 2012 #13

On its face, the definition may in fact be applicable, but no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #15

It is ancient, and from common law battery jberryhill Feb 2012 #18

A missile is not synonymous with an object. The purpose of the object makes it a missile. no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #24

A burrito is a "deadly missile" jberryhill Feb 2012 #25

Understood and appreciated. no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #27

One consents to the throwing of confetti at parties and rice at weddings jberryhill Feb 2012 #28

"education is limited"???? So right to the personal insults. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #16

Throwing things at people is juvenile jberryhill Feb 2012 #17

Hope you enjoy the low road! Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #19

Oooohhh... I have "fellow travelers" jberryhill Feb 2012 #23

Never said that. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2012 #26

You have a right to think that, and that's OK by me... Capitalocracy Feb 2012 #20

Just popped into my head: IF we had this happening when Bush was President...I wonder what they Justice wanted Feb 2012 #10

The guy who threw the shoe got three years jberryhill Feb 2012 #14

In an Iraqi prison! Hawkowl Feb 2012 #31

You understand that the point of "civil disobedience" is to get arrested, right? jberryhill Feb 2012 #33

Sort of... Hawkowl Feb 2012 #34

Romney laughed if off afterward. Obviously, this was a real act of terror. n/t Ian David Feb 2012 #11

I think his punishment should be to face a firing squad... of GLITTER! n/t Ian David Feb 2012 #12

He and Romney should settle it mano a mano in the Glitterdome. Capitalocracy Feb 2012 #21

Next time use a real missile fired from a UAV gratuitous Feb 2012 #30

"If a commoner called the cops on me for throwing glitter at them, the pigs would laugh Jon Ace Feb 2012 #35