Sure it was a stupid idea.
It only takes a minimum wage job in less than a week, to pay them back. The lost of 15 years, means he could of brought 10 of my tiny houses and provide homes for 20 people for life.

Now the greedy Corporation-ism gets to slave him. In the meantime he might kill himself or learn a worst criminals trade in prison. A burning piece of cloth did not ruin anyone's life, it sure will ruin his life.

That system sucks, no wonder US has 25% of the entire world's population prisoners in their cells.

I will give the gay flag money back of $150 out of my own pocket, if it saves the man from 15 years of prison.
Investigator agency have used me to scare theives straight. I will warn him if he does it again, I won't give another $150 and he will be forced to live in a cage for 15 years.

I married an Aztec I know how to handle dockey natives. Natives die guicker in prison than anyone, freedom is most important. For sure the local justice system are the biggest jackass asshole of all. This wound not happen in Canada because we are too nice and reasonable.

A flag 10 x 15 cost $150 . If you sum up what the young man did, it was destroying a flag, all other charges was injustice profiteering. Unless you want to fill the prisons up 10 times greater again with gays haters and minor property damages. Iowa law only fines money or property under $200 to $50 to $500 or 30 days in jail. Extreme punishment dose not meet the crime and extreme God freaks in the area to make it the dumbest idea ever.

@Castlepaloma Of course extreme sentencing for mere vandalism is absurd, it is used to fill prisons with cheap labor, in many places that would be people of color. THAT is morally and ethically unacceptable to me. It is legalized slavery. The link would not open to an actually page so I'm just responding to what was written in your post.

Yeh, you only get 1 to 5, if you steal and crash a car.

Race profiling everybody knows. Many don't know, systemic racism.

Anything to keep conflicts and prisons growing 10 times larger than 40 years ago. Just give him a fine and investigate for anything that maybe deeper then this. Prisons and Government win for double dipping profits from increase taxes and Corporation-ism bidding war for cheap prisoner labourers.

I say both. The man does not understand there is questionable proof of a homosexual genes in humans, yet no God gene. So that is an offense and breaks natures law, which most natives Useally follow

If the state can lock a man up for 15 years for burning a piece of cloth. Why not lock up many Christains for 15 years for hating gays. Every state by Christians try to convert gays with a 98% failures rate, meaning it's more harm than good and unethical. If the state won't pay for these gay conversations, then you can't lock them up. When the state is dominated by Judeo/Christains. It makes them great hypocrites and injust and won't foot the bill.

Richard Dawkins a world champion Atheist stated Nationism is more dangerous than Religion. Just another example of an injustice system. They want your Christains votes and money is their true God.