Crime in America.

That is Edmond Aviv, 62 years old, carrying, more or less literally, his sentence for disorderly conduct. The judge made him carry that sign in public for five hours today, dictating to him the words he was to write on the sign. The disorderly conduct stemmed out of a running--15 year--dispute with a neighbor. No. The judge's sentence is wrong. That public humiliation is wrong. I do not know any of the facts of the case. Disorderly conduct is not a "hate crime," however; nor is bullying an element of disorderly conduct.  The legal definition of disorderly conduct includes nothing about intolerance or picking on people.

This is just bizarre.

The sentence does not fit the crime. "Fuck you, Russia! Putin's a pig!" If I scream that on a street corner, that's disorderly conduct. If that's what I am charged with, I cannot, legally, be made to wear a sign admitting to "intolerance" toward Russians. If "Fuck you, Russia! Putin's a pig!" also constitute some "intolerance" crime then to make such a sign-carrying sentence arguably legal, I'd have to be so charged. I assume whatever state this was in allows a sign-carrying sentence in the first place. I don't think such a sentence is even permitted in some states.

I am outraged.

The language on that sign is so "politically correct"...This is going to come back to haunt this judge. This is hard to believe. Appalling, embarrassing.
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Three people at two different Jewish community centers in Kansas were murdered today by a gunman, apparently alone, who was in his 70's! Police haven't determined if the murders were hate crimes yet. Rosh Hashanah begins Tuesday according to Wikipedia.
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Today in Utah: the bodies of six babies were found in a woman's house. The woman was the mother. She gave birth to them over a ten-year period. Her ex-husband called police to say there was a, one, baby's body in the house. Police found six.

Years ago, there was a similar case in rural Pennsylvania. A woman died and her long-time male friend told the police. There were, three I believe, babies bodies found in the attic of the house that the woman and man had lived in. They had been born and killed decades earlier. I remember
newspaper had been stuffed into one of the babies mouths, suffocating it. They were murdered. That is the implication in Utah. I remember in the Pennsylvania case, investigators wondering how nobody knew. Like, "She's pregnant, where's the child?" Three times. The Pennsylvania investigators thought maybe because she was obese. How the heck does nobody notice six pregnancies, six babies born. And six babies disappearing. At least the Utah woman is alive, the case not so remote, people who would have known, like the ex-husband, are alive. There will be some answers. Horrible, awful.