The American economy might be in tatters, Occupy Wall Street protests might be raging from coast to coast, but at least the FBI has its priorities in place.
On November 22nd, the FBI charged seven members of a breakaway Amish group in Ohio with hate crimes, after a series of hair-cutting attacks against other members of the Amish community. Hair-cutting is an intense violation of Amish beliefs, and the men in question are suspected of forcefully cutting off the beards and hair of Amish men and women between September and November of this year. Other punishments inflicted by the group included forcing miscreats to sleep in chicken coops. Several of the hair-cut victims allegedly refused to press charges against their attackers, in keeping with Amish beliefs that espouse forgiveness and avoiding court involvement. However, law enforcement officials stated to the press that was “not the victim’s job to decide or to bring charges”
2011 has been a rough year for America’s Amish. In September, a group of Amish men from Kentucky were given jail time after they refused to pay traffic fines, imposed when they failed to display bright orange reflective triangles on their horse-drawn buggies and carriages. The group in question belonged to a particularly conservative Amish sect, and stated that the bright orange color of the reflectors violated their strict modesty code, which forbids the use of bright colors (along with a host of other modern conveniences).
Earlier, in April 2011, the FBI concluded a year-long investigation of a highly dangerous Amish man selling the controlled substance of raw milk from his Pennsylvania farm. The FBI, which utilized aliases, undercover purchases, and pre-dawn raids to investigate the highly dangerous establishment known as Rainbow Acres Farm, has ordered the depraved owner of the aforementioned farm to desist selling his dangerous product to his calcium-hungry customers, who reported that conventional pasteurization processes destroy many of the nutrients found in raw milk.
photo from http://www.collegehumor.com/picture/6609112/amish-mug-shots
We may be out of work. We may be deeply in debt. However, we can sleep well at night, knowing that our tax money is being used to investigate a slew of highly disturbed, hair-cutting, buggy-riding, cow-milking pacifists. How about you?
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