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Mass Murderer Dylann Roof Assaulted; Assailant's Bond Posted Quickly

posted by n1 on Tuesday August 09 2016, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-wrongs-does-it-take-to-make-a-right dept.

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Common Dreams reports

In a much-hailed, if modestly problematic, act of righteous revenge, [on Thursday August 4,] an African-American inmate allegedly sucker-punched [...] Dylann Roof--an act that sparked much online praise for the "vigilante hero", a fundraiser for donations to his commissary account, and, finally, the posting of his $100,000 bond by a supporter.

Roof is in protective custody at the Charleston County Detention Center for killing nine African-American churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015. He was in the shower when Dwayne Stafford, a 26-year-old inmate reportedly doing time for either weed violations or strong arm burglary, allegedly got out of his cell, reached Roof, and landed a couple of punches to his face. The sheriff said Roof was attacked "for no reason", which many would argue was less than accurate.

Roof suffered only minor injuries, and his lawyer declined to press charges.

[...] The next day, 18 months after he'd originally been arrested, an anonymous supporter posted [Stafford's] bond, and on Friday he was reportedly freed.

I find that heavy.com typically has the facts quickly on violent crimes.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @05:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @05:23AM (#386517)

    I simply know an evil spirit when I see one, and if this Yahweh fellow is real, that is what he is: a raging, genocidal, blaspheming demon arrogating the properties of God to itself, things it can never have and will never be.

    The Gnostic branch of Christianity came to the same conclusion, that Yahweh was an evil god that was literally imprisoning us in the material plane to keep us from being able to know the real God. Gnostic Christianity is about the only branch of Christianity I can stomach, namely because it isn't built of the blasphemous foundation of violating the first and second commandments.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 11 2016, @07:23PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday August 11 2016, @07:23PM (#386755) Journal

    Gnosticism is bullshit too; the Gnostic conception of God has precisely the same problems Yahweh does, and perhaps more. Gnostic-God has TWO adversaries to deal with, Satan AND Yahweh, while Abrahamic theism only has the one. And Gnostic-God has an even WORSE record of dealing with the Argument from Divine Hiddenness than Yahweh does.

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