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People often ask me why, if I hate California so much, why don't I go back home? Well, "home" is where my family is and that is California. Yes, I was born in Maryland and it's a wonderful place to be "from". Don't get me wrong. The Maryland that I grew up in and the one today are of two different worlds. And, to be fair, racism rears its ugly head everywhere, even here in La La Land. That being said, this is beyond words, beneath contempt, and over the top.
A Lynching on the University of Maryland Campus
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It was a murder, not a lynching. It was a cold blooded, premeditated murder by a guy looking to do harm. Was he a racist? Probably, all accounts seem to indicate that he was. Using the word lynching is heated rhetoric intended to provide heat, not light.
Lynching's (of almost every type) were done be a semi-organized and sometimes highly organized group of people as an extra-judicial act of vengeance against another person. Sometimes in our history it was a black person for some crime real or imagined, sometimes it was a horse thief or a murderer or some other heinous criminal and that person could be of any color or persuasion.
Urbanski deserves the full measure of the law leveed against him for his cowardly act of stabbing someone and ending his life. There is not a death penalty in Maryland to apply to this crime. You can thank the democrats and progressives for that. Governor O'Malley, democrat, signed a law outlawing the death penalty in 2013. Congratulations democrats for ensuring this loser will never see the death chamber for his cowardly act.
Lynching's (of almost every type) were done be a semi-organized and sometimes highly organized group of people as an extra-judicial act of vengeance against another person. Sometimes in our history it was a black person for some crime real or imagined, sometimes it was a horse thief or a murderer or some other heinous criminal and that person could be of any color or persuasion.
Urbanski deserves the full measure of the law leveed against him for his cowardly act of stabbing someone and ending his life. There is not a death penalty in Maryland to apply to this crime. You can thank the democrats and progressives for that. Governor O'Malley, democrat, signed a law outlawing the death penalty in 2013. Congratulations democrats for ensuring this loser will never see the death chamber for his cowardly act.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lynch
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/249
CPT Jack Durish It was one useless sack of broken dicks, so it is not a lynching, but that is semantics. Semantics does not take away from the fact that it was a racially motivated, cowardly act. It was a hate crime. This useless sack of flesh can't even pay the sentence he deserves for his act of cowardice because Maryland does not have the death penalty, and federal law only allows for a life sentence. This is a tragedy that didn't need to happen. There are so many good reasons to dislike people, the color of their skin is not among them. I hate supremacists. They do nothing but serve to widen the divide that keeps this country from being what it could be. I really hope this assburger gets shanked in the shower, to a point he has a closed casket funeral.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/249
CPT Jack Durish It was one useless sack of broken dicks, so it is not a lynching, but that is semantics. Semantics does not take away from the fact that it was a racially motivated, cowardly act. It was a hate crime. This useless sack of flesh can't even pay the sentence he deserves for his act of cowardice because Maryland does not have the death penalty, and federal law only allows for a life sentence. This is a tragedy that didn't need to happen. There are so many good reasons to dislike people, the color of their skin is not among them. I hate supremacists. They do nothing but serve to widen the divide that keeps this country from being what it could be. I really hope this assburger gets shanked in the shower, to a point he has a closed casket funeral.
to kill (someone) illegally as punishment for a crime See the full definition…
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CPT Jack Durish
The American language (anyone who thinks we speak English should watch the BBC) cannot be constrained by a mere dictionary. It is a living breathing language constantly changing. We borrow words from other languages without so much as a "Thank you" or offer to pay, and they throw them into common usage where they morph like the rest of our language, adopting new meanings and usages almost incessantly. The amazing thing is that Americans are so adept (through practice) at adapting to these changes. Someone can walk through the door and use a new word or an old word in a new way and they're understood. (I imagine that Englishmen watch this process in wonder as they resist such evolution in their language. After all, they have a great body of history and literature to protect. Americans are not limited by such things)
As to the "lynching"... Anyone who doubts that slavery was a curse and that racial discrimination was its evil stepchild, has only to look at the lingering effects of them. America is truly cursed by this heritage.
As to the "lynching"... Anyone who doubts that slavery was a curse and that racial discrimination was its evil stepchild, has only to look at the lingering effects of them. America is truly cursed by this heritage.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
CPT Jack Durish - You are absolutely right that America is cursed by our heritage. The actions of this creature do nothing to alleviate that curse, rather they propagate the curse as people line up to decry his actions or try to minimize it.
As for language, if you listen to Old English or Middle English, it sounds so much different from American English as to be unrecognizable. Language is alive. It evolves sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. In this case the writer used the word lynching as an attention grabber. As I said Semantics do not matter in this case. It was a cowardly act of hate, for no reason other than the color of a man's skin.
As for language, if you listen to Old English or Middle English, it sounds so much different from American English as to be unrecognizable. Language is alive. It evolves sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. In this case the writer used the word lynching as an attention grabber. As I said Semantics do not matter in this case. It was a cowardly act of hate, for no reason other than the color of a man's skin.
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CPT Jack Durish
PO3 Steven Sherrill - Of course, Old English and Middle English are different from Modern English. But let's look at the time spans involved. The American language evolves almost daily. English evolved over centuries.
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That is why we say home is were my hat hangs!
Even if you return to the place, It is no longer Home. The combination of things and persons that were home , are not longer there and will never be there ! So it is like: you never h
Even if you return to the place, It is no longer Home. The combination of things and persons that were home , are not longer there and will never be there ! So it is like: you never h
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