I can't get this bitch right to save my soul. So bear with me for a few days kids.
In the mean time, check this out
If the appeal fails, where on earth are they going to put these people? Prison sounds a little to much like cruel and unusual punishment to me. The Amish aren't versed in the worldly way. Putting one of them in prison is a kin to cutting them and throwing them into a tank filled with bull sharks.
They don't stand a chance of survival.
America, you cannot let this happen. The horror that it implies is to great to inflict upon anyone.
Samuel Mullet Sr., the domineering leader of a renegade Amish sect, and 15 followers were convicted of federal conspiracy and hate crimes Thursday for orchestrating a series of bizarre beard- and hair-cutting attacks last fall that spread fear through the Amish of eastern Ohio.
The convictions of Mr. Mullet and his followers and family members who carried out the assaults could bring lengthy prison terms. The jury’s verdict vindicated federal prosecutors, who made a risky decision to apply a 2009 federal hate-crimes law to the sect’s violent efforts to humiliate Amish rivals.Mr. Mullet, 66, founder of a community near Bergholz, Ohio, and 15 followers, including six women, were tried for