Iowa: Man Sentenced to 16-Years in Prison for Stealing, Burning LGBT Flag

[Damaged Eagle]

The Confederate statues and other memorials demolished across the country weren't property that belonged to progressives (ANTIFA) to destroy.

Should we give those ANTIFA members all fifteen years in prison too?

*****SMILE*****

They were "demolished"? Says who? And if you were honest auiqs.jpg:), you would admit those statues were taken down legally, voted to be removed...NOT demolished....by the very city, county, or state governments that own them. But I suppose HONESTY is not something to really expect from CRCs.

There's plenty of past news articles about the ANTIFA and BLM protests and the destruction of Confederate memorials. So it appears you're the one being dishonest about the situation.

What makes you think I'm a CRC??? I take it that means something something Christian? Sounds to me like can't do any sort of research.

This is why people like you are going to insure that Trump wins in 2020 because you'll have the independents and moderates vote for more because we're all.....

*****CHUCKLE*****

 

[bodecea]

The Confederate statues and other memorials demolished across the country weren't property that belonged to progressives (ANTIFA) to destroy.

Should we give those ANTIFA members all fifteen years in prison too?

*****SMILE*****

They were "demolished"? Says who? And if you were honest auiqs.jpg:), you would admit those statues were taken down legally, voted to be removed...NOT demolished....by the very city, county, or state governments that own them. But I suppose HONESTY is not something to really expect from CRCs.

There's plenty of past news articles about the ANTIFA and BLM protests and the destruction of Confederate memorials. So it appears you're the one being dishonest about the situation.

What makes you think I'm a CRC??? I take it that means something something Christian? Sounds to me like can't do any sort of research.

This is why people like you are going to insure that Trump wins in 2020 because you'll have the independents and moderates vote for more because we're all.....

*****CHUCKLE*****

What Con-federate statues were destroyed?

 

[airplanemechanic]

Dude read the titles of threads. Dupe.

Iowa: Man Sentenced to 16-Years in Prison for Stealing, Burning LGBT Flag

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Not what I said. I said they banned the flag of MS but allowed the Palestinian flag. Learn to read, you Jew hating asshole. You're pathetic and a coward.

So they banned the flag of Multiple Sclerosis?? what do you mean they banned the flag of MS??


You can also burn the Palestinian flag if that makes you feel better.....

Why would I burn any flag? That’s for Leftists.

and homophobes...remember??

That was what this was about...a guy burning someone's property because he hates gays....like you do...

Hmm, so which clan does Martinez come from?
More akin to the Klu Klux Klan, or more like the Klan of Pancho Villa?

The "I hate gays" clan.......its an equal opportunity employer...why you think they let you in?

Still waiting. Find one post where I bash gays.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Not what I said but par for the course.

Of course you did, but I understand you hesitate to make yourself look like a dick.
But....whatever.

 

[justoffal]

You understood even before you posted this that your argument was going to be dishonest. He wouldn't have received any jail time if he had burned HIS flag .

Yeah I'm thinking this more along the lines of property damage....
Though I have to wonder if the roles were reversed and faggot Central burned this man's American flag instead if it would simply be considered first amendment rights.

Jo

 

[pknopp]

You understood even before you posted this that your argument was going to be dishonest. He wouldn't have received any jail time if he had burned HIS flag .

Yeah I'm thinking this more along the lines of property damage....
Though I have to wonder if the roles were reversed and faggot Central burned this man's American flag instead if it would simply be considered first amendment rights.

Jo

No it would not. If you can find a single instance of someone stealing the property of another and burning it getting excused as free speech, then you might have a point. You aren't going to find it.

This is a complete non story if he had burned his own flag.

 

[skye]

How many times is this thread going to be posted? The guy was convicted of a hate crime. Get over it.

Isn't burning an American flag a hate crime?

WTF is wrong with you people?

Exactly. ^^^^

 

[skye]

Hypocrites! makes you sick!

 

[Thunderbird]

15 years!! That’s insane!

 

[Carl in Michigan]

You understood even before you posted this that your argument was going to be dishonest. He wouldn't have received any jail time if he had burned HIS flag .

Yeah I'm thinking this more along the lines of property damage....
Though I have to wonder if the roles were reversed and faggot Central burned this man's American flag instead if it would simply be considered first amendment rights.

Jo

No it would not. If you can find a single instance of someone stealing the property of another and burning it getting excused as free speech, then you might have a point. You aren't going to find it.

This is a complete non story if he had burned his own flag.

So the 15 years in prison is for stealing the flag?

 

[justoffal]

You understood even before you posted this that your argumentive was going to be dishonest. He wouldn't have received any jail time if he had burned HIS flag .

Yeah I'm thinking this more along the lines of property damage....
Though I have to wonder if the roles were reversed and faggot Central burned this man's American flag instead if it would simply be considered first amendment rights.

Jo

No it would not. If you can find a single instance of someone stealing the property of another and burning it getting excused as free speech, then you might have a point. You aren't going to find it.

This is a complete non story if he had burned his own flag.

So the 15 years in prison is for stealing the flag?

Yeah the sentence is politically correct for sure.....if it was an American flag he would have received 6 months probation and a pat on the back for being a brave pioneer.

Jo

 

[skye]

You understood even before you posted this that your argumentive was going to be dishonest. He wouldn't have received any jail time if he had burned HIS flag .

Yeah I'm thinking this more along the lines of property damage....
Though I have to wonder if the roles were reversed and faggot Central burned this man's American flag instead if it would simply be considered first amendment rights.

Jo

No it would not. If you can find a single instance of someone stealing the property of another and burning it getting excused as free speech, then you might have a point. You aren't going to find it.

This is a complete non story if he had burned his own flag.

So the 15 years in prison is for stealing the flag?

Yeah the sentence is politically correct for sure.....if it was an American flag he would have received 6 months probation and a pat on the back for being a brave pioneer.

Jo

My GOD! these people are sick! I never get tired of saying this because it is the truth!

The Rats are sick....the Left is sick .

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You understood even before you posted this that your argument was going to be dishonest. He wouldn't have received any jail time if he had burned HIS flag .

How much is the proper incarceration time for stealing and destroying a $20 flag worth?....Your liberal judges give out 5 year sentences AND LESS for MURDER!

He is also a habitual offender.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Nope that is not what happened. The Israeli flag was burned. Confederate flags were banned from the convention. Even the flag of MS. But not this flag.

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Good thing Confederate flags aren't banned from Trump rallies....
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So again.....did the people burning the Israeli flag buy that flag or did they take someone else's property and destroy it??


No one is stopping you from burning Nike shoes because of how protesting police shootings triggers you, you can burn Mexican flags ..you can purchase and destroy whatever other items that you feel represents minorities you hate -- have at it...burn them....

It still isn't illegal.......but it isn't enough for racists, xenophobes and homophobes...they need to burn other people's property, or burn things on people's property to get the full buzz hate gives them....

Rallies is one thing. DNC is another. You're mixing apples and oranges.

So the DNC banned Confederate flags at their convention??

And this triggered you why??

Remember when this post was about a guy burning someone else's property and you totally abandoned defending and starting talking about oranges??


Trumpers are pathetic....

Not what I said. I said they banned the flag of MS but allowed the Palestinian flag. Learn to read, you Jew hating asshole. You're pathetic and a coward.

So they banned the flag of Multiple Sclerosis?? what do you mean they banned the flag of MS??


You can also burn the Palestinian flag if that makes you feel better.....

You really are a dumb MFer! MS is the postal code abbreviation for Mississippi!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The Confederate statues and other memorials demolished across the country weren't property that belonged to progressives (ANTIFA) to destroy.

Should we give those ANTIFA members all fifteen years in prison too?

*****SMILE*****

They were "demolished"? Says who? And if you were honest auiqs.jpg:), you would admit those statues were taken down legally, voted to be removed...NOT demolished....by the very city, county, or state governments that own them. But I suppose HONESTY is not something to really expect from CRCs.

I couldn't help by notice how you've suddenly become fixated on the overused three letter acronym "CRC." It probably makes you feel edgy, hip, aware, woke, or some such bullshit, but it's really kinda lame.

So I came up with one for you secular progressive useless Democrats.

SPUD

Wear it well, because it fits you people perfectly.

CRC: con-servative republican christian. So...you think CRCs are lame, huh?

Why do you keep using a term that means nothing to anyone but you?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

"
What in the hell is going on in America?

People can burn an American Flag and it is Free Speech.

I don’t have to like it but I am OK with a person’s right to express themselves.


But what if it’s an LGBT flag?
NEVADA, Iowa, December 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow “pride” flag on fire has been sentenced to prison for 16 years.

Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa was found guilty last month of having committed a “hate crime” – arson – plus reckless use of explosives or fire. "

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/12/20/iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison-for-stealing-burning-lgbt-flag/

Progressivism = Fascism.
Progs are authoritarian to their core.

fascism

"2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial controlearly instances of army fascism and brutality"

Definition of FASCISM

au·to·crat·ic
"taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; domineering."

It is a little more than the inflammatory headline. according to Man gets 15-plus years for burning gay pride flag
The June 11 incident took place after Martinez got kicked out of the Dangerous Curves strip club in Ames and threatened to come back and burn the bar down, per an Ames Police Department spokesman. Police were called to the scene shortly after midnight, which is when they found, burning in the street outside the bar, a car tire and a gay pride banner Martinez had ripped off the front of the Ames United Church of Christ, reported KCCI at the time.
If I have to kick you out of my house (not a strip club), your get mad and start threatening to come back and burn my house down, then you show up and try to start a tire fire with any rags, flag, flammables or explosive in front of my house (especially at night) I WILL put three into you from my porch, when you flick your Bic, including a head-shot and take my chances with a jury of my peers.
Martinez sounds like a dangerous man of low self control to me. I am not too outraged by choice of charges used to put him out of the way for a few years.

No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.

 

[JGalt]

The Confederate statues and other memorials demolished across the country weren't property that belonged to progressives (ANTIFA) to destroy.

Should we give those ANTIFA members all fifteen years in prison too?

*****SMILE*****

They were "demolished"? Says who? And if you were honest auiqs.jpg:), you would admit those statues were taken down legally, voted to be removed...NOT demolished....by the very city, county, or state governments that own them. But I suppose HONESTY is not something to really expect from CRCs.

I couldn't help by notice how you've suddenly become fixated on the overused three letter acronym "CRC." It probably makes you feel edgy, hip, aware, woke, or some such bullshit, but it's really kinda lame.

So I came up with one for you secular progressive useless Democrats.

SPUD

Wear it well, because it fits you people perfectly.

CRC: con-servative republican christian. So...you think CRCs are lame, huh?

Why do you keep using a term that means nothing to anyone but you?

But she's so inspiring, that's why I came up with my own term:

SPUD (Secular Progressive Useless Democrat)

Or you can refer to them as Pedocrats.

 

[idb]

It was arson, elevated to a hate crime and further elevated as he was a habitual offender with two previous felonies and no sign of remorse.
He got the maximum penalty.

This is a good summary

Crime and Charges

Ames, Iowa, police arrested Martinez in the early hours of June 11, after police said he had caused a disturbance at a local bar and threatened to burn down the establishment, before returning with an LGBT rainbow flag he stole from the Ames United Church of Christ, and setting fire to it outside the bar. Martinez admitted to his crimes in an interview with KCCI, saying he was motivated by an antipathy towards homosexuality and that he had “burned down their pride, plain and simple.”

Despite his on-screen confession, Martinez pleaded not guilty to three charges, the Story County Attorney’s Office told Snopes: Third-degree arson, an aggravated misdemeanor which typically carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison; third-degree harassment, a simple misdemeanor; and reckless use of fire or explosives, a serious misdemeanor that typically carries a maximum prison sentence of one year.

On Nov. 6, a jury in Story County convicted Martinez on all three charges. The County Attorney’s Office confirmed to Snopes that Martinez was given a 30-day prison sentence for the charge of third-degree harassment, and a one-year sentence for reckless use of fire or explosives.

In the normal course of events, a conviction for third-degree arson would yield a maximum sentence of two years in prison. However, because the flag burned by Martinez was an LGBT symbol, and because Martinez himself said this was his motivation for setting fire to it, prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to the arson charge.

Iowa law requires that certain offenses, if prosecuted as a hate crime, must be “classified and punished as an offense one degree higher than the underlying offense.” Thus, Martinez’s conviction for third-degree arson was elevated from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony.

In Iowa, a Class D felony is typically subject to a maximum prison sentence of five years. However, Martinez had two previous felonies, details of which were not immediately available. Iowa law designates as an “habitual offender” anyone “convicted of a class ‘C’ or a class ‘D’ felony, who has twice before been convicted of any felony in a court of this or any other state, or of the United States.” Therefore, Martinez was sentenced as an habitual offender.

Iowa law states that the maximum sentence for an habitual offender is 15 years in prison. In this case, prosecutors recommended that maximum sentence, on the basis that they believed Martinez to be “very dangerous” and because of his lack of remorse. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds told KCCI that Martinez “stated that there was nothing the judge could do to stop him from continuing this behavior, and that he would continue to do this, no matter what.”

On Dec. 18, the judge imposed that maximum sentence, to be served consecutively with the one-year sentence for reckless use of fire and 30-day sentence for third-degree harassment, yielding a total prison sentence of 16 years. Due to his status as an habitual offender, Martinez will not be eligible for parole until he has served a minimum of three years.

Conclusion
It’s true that the action that garnered Martinez a total prison sentence of 16 years was setting fire to an LGBT flag outside a bar in Ames, Iowa, in June 2019. However, this does not account for the length of his prison sentence.

If the object Martinez burned had been a neutral one (for example, a banner or flag bearing the logo of a brand of beer) then his third-degree arson conviction would not have been enhanced as a hate crime, and he would have received a sentence of no more than two years in prison, likely yielding a total sentence of three years, taking into account the one-year sentence he received for reckless use of fire. So it’s true that the fact it was an LGBT rainbow flag, specifically, did cause Martinez’ punishment to be increased. Because the hate crime enhancement converted the arson offense from an aggravated misdemeanor to a Class D felony, it also triggered the habitual offender mechanism.

However, that habitual offender mechanism would not have been triggered if Martinez did not already have two felony convictions. Without that criminal history, Martinez would simply have been given a sentence commensurate with a Class D felony, after the addition of the hate crime enhancement. Instead, because of his own previous convictions, his sentence for third-degree arson was tripled, from five years to 15 years.

The websites mentioned at the beginning of this article served their readers poorly by failing to provide this crucial contextual information and created the false impression that anyone, in any circumstances, was liable to be imprisoned for 16 years for burning an LGBT rainbow flag in the state of Iowa.

Did an Iowa Man Get 16 Years in Prison for Burning an LGBT Rainbow Flag?

 

[White 6]

"
What in the hell is going on in America?

People can burn an American Flag and it is Free Speech.

I don’t have to like it but I am OK with a person’s right to express themselves.


But what if it’s an LGBT flag?
NEVADA, Iowa, December 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow “pride” flag on fire has been sentenced to prison for 16 years.

Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa was found guilty last month of having committed a “hate crime” – arson – plus reckless use of explosives or fire. "

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/12/20/iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-in-prison-for-stealing-burning-lgbt-flag/

Progressivism = Fascism.
Progs are authoritarian to their core.

fascism

"2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial controlearly instances of army fascism and brutality"

Definition of FASCISM

au·to·crat·ic
"taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; domineering."

It is a little more than the inflammatory headline. according to Man gets 15-plus years for burning gay pride flag
The June 11 incident took place after Martinez got kicked out of the Dangerous Curves strip club in Ames and threatened to come back and burn the bar down, per an Ames Police Department spokesman. Police were called to the scene shortly after midnight, which is when they found, burning in the street outside the bar, a car tire and a gay pride banner Martinez had ripped off the front of the Ames United Church of Christ, reported KCCI at the time.
If I have to kick you out of my house (not a strip club), your get mad and start threatening to come back and burn my house down, then you show up and try to start a tire fire with any rags, flag, flammables or explosive in front of my house (especially at night) I WILL put three into you from my porch, when you flick your Bic, including a head-shot and take my chances with a jury of my peers.
Martinez sounds like a dangerous man of low self control to me. I am not too outraged by choice of charges used to put him out of the way for a few years.

No, you wouldn't be taking any chances with a jury of your peers because you would be convicted 100% of the time you tried something stupid like that.

Maybe, but I live in a stand your ground, castle doctrine state. Hope it never comes up.