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    Default Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol


    Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol
    [Associated Press]
    Jill Bleed and Andrew Demillo, Associated Press
    ,Associated Press•June 28, 2017

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A man yelled "Freedom!" as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma's monument at its state Capitol, authorities said.

    The privately funded Arkansas monument had been in place outside the state Capitol in Little Rock for less than 24 hours before it was knocked from its plinth and smashed to pieces.

    Michael Tate Reed, 32, of Van Buren, Arkansas, was booked in the Pulaski County jail shortly after 7:30 a.m. on preliminary charges of defacing objects of public interest, criminal trespass and first-degree criminal mischief. An arrest report lists his occupation as "unemployed/disabled."

    Authorities did not know whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf, and a video arraignment was set for Thursday morning, a Pulaski County sheriff's spokesman said.

    Arkansas Secretary of State's Office spokesman Chris Powell said officials believe a Facebook Live video posted on a Michael Reed's Facebook account that depicted the destruction is authentic.

    In the video, the sky is dark and the Arkansas Capitol's dome is visible. Music is heard followed by a female voice, likely on the radio, saying, "Where do you go when you're faced with adversity and trials and challenges?" The driver is then heard growling, "Oh my goodness. Freedom!" before accelerating into the monument. The vehicle's speedometer is last shown at 21 mph (33 kph) and then a collision can be heard.

    Arkansas' monument fell from its plinth and broke into multiple pieces as it hit the ground. The debris had been cleaned up by midmorning Wednesday.

    Oklahoma County Sheriff's spokesman Mark Opgrande told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Reed was arrested in October 2014 in the destruction of Oklahoma's Ten Commandments monument at the state Capitol. Opgrande confirmed that the suspect arrested Wednesday in Arkansas was the same person arrested in the Oklahoma case.

    In a 2015 email to the Tulsa World , Reed apologized for wrecking Oklahoma's monument and said he suffered from mental health issues.

    "I am so sorry that this all happening (sic) and wished I could take it all back," Reed said.

    Arkansas' granite monument weighed 6,000 pounds (2,721 kilograms). It was installed Tuesday morning on the southwest lawn of the Capitol with little fanfare and no advance notice. A 2015 law required the state to allow the display near the Capitol, and a state panel last month gave final approval to its design and location.

    "Obviously, I'm very disappointed that someone would carry out an act of violence that's actually against the people of Arkansas," said Republican Sen. Jason Rapert, the state lawmaker who led the push for the monument. Rapert said he was confident he could quickly raise funds for a replacement.

    Travis Story, the general counsel of the American History and Heritage Foundation, which raised money for the monument, said the group has already ordered a replacement but that it would take a couple months.

    Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who signed the legislation requiring the monument's installation, called its destruction "very troubling."

    "Resorting to property destruction is never the answer to a policy disagreement," he wrote in a tweet.

    The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday that it planned to file a federal lawsuit challenging the monument, calling it an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

    Plans for Arkansas' monument sparked a push by the Satanic Temple for a competing statue of Baphomet, a goat-headed, angel-winged creature accompanied by two children smiling at it. Efforts to install that display, however, were blocked by a law enacted this year requiring legislative approval before the commission could consider a monument proposal. The Satanic Temple has vowed a lawsuit over the measure, and said it didn't believe the law should be applied retroactively to its proposal.

    Arkansas' monument is a replica of a display at the Texas Capitol that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005. After Oklahoma's monument was destroyed in 2014, a replacement was erected but then ordered removed by that state's Supreme Court, which determined its location on state property violated a constitutional prohibition on the use of state funds to support a religion

    SO LET THE BASTARD GO , SO THAT HE CAN DO IT A THIRD TIME!

    GUY NEEDS THE LIVING HELL STOMPED OUT OF HIM , AS HE IS VERY LIKELY A DEM/LIB LIVING IN THE USUAL FANTASY WORLD THEY ALL LIVE IN, IMHO.-Tyr
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    SO LET THE BASTARD GO , SO THAT HE CAN DO IT A THIRD TIME!

    GUY NEEDS THE LIVING HELL STOMPED OUT OF HIM , AS HE IS VERY LIKELY A DEM/LIB LIVING IN THE USUAL FANTASY WORLD THEY ALL LIVE IN, IMHO.-Tyr
    There are dems in Arkansas?

    btw, he has mental illness. Needs treatment.

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    I'm quite certain that there should be a civil suit for the cost of the piece.


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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    There are dems in Arkansas?

    btw, he has mental illness. Needs treatment.
    You're going to explain away this act of violence and intolerance? Tsk tsk ... True colors are showing.

    He needs treatment all right. That he'll remember next time before he acts. Some broken bones would suffice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kathianne View Post
    I'm quite certain that there should be a civil suit for the cost of the piece.
    You think he has the money?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    You think he has the money?
    Pretty sure with $20something k, he'd pay or be in jail. Truth is, thinking about the amount, they probably would treat it as criminal.


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    Default The Joke's actually on him, and everybody like him.

    Doesn't matter what it might cost, nor how long he may be punished for what he did. Truth is....he failed in the larger scheme of things today.

    People like him can try to destroy whatever they want, BUT, they will never remove, or take away the FAITH behind those 10 Commandments, he, and millions of other Ignorant, Hate Filled, dummies who claim NOT TO BELIEVE in them...So they break every Commandment anyway. Just like IGNORING OUR LAWS....they don't like them, so they ignore, and break them.
    I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
    So, this is for them.
    GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !

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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    There are dems in Arkansas?

    btw, he has mental illness. Needs treatment.
    It's been said many times around here that liberalism is a mental disorder. Proof.


    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    You think he has the money?
    He had money for a car, didn't he?
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete311 View Post
    There are dems in Arkansas?

    btw, he has mental illness. Needs treatment.

    petey. Using one of the most used, most often spoken defenses in any court from Liberals, and Democrats is....the MENTAL ILLNESS excuse. Which explains why so many Liberal Democrats are proving to be MENTALLY UNSTABLE like MAXIPAD WATERS.
    Making excuses, and blaming others is typical for LIBERALS who lie, and then try to disguise their IGNORANCE by claiming mental problems but...THAT PRETTY MUCH DESCRIBES THE ENTIRE DNC, and DEMOCRAT PARTY..now suffering from EVERYTHING TRUMP SYNDROME.
    I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
    So, this is for them.
    GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !

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