[BC] WANO 1230 pineville ky. Fire

[Brian Urban]

Texas changed its laws a couple of years ago.  Radio stations are now
considered "critical infrastructure" and penalties for messing with them
have increased.  Arson is a felony in every state that I am aware of which
trumps any increased "critical infrastructure" penalties.


On 3/20/07 3:59 PM, "Douglas B. Pritchett" <wbzq1300 at verizon.net> wrote:

> This is not meant to be political. However, with the plethora of hate
> crime legislation considered at the Federal level, what about a federal
> law specifically for the purpose of punishing individuals who do this
> sort of thing. Perhaps there is one, but if there is one, I'm not aware
> of it.
> How often do we hear of towers being felled by kids or drunk rednecks?
> "Oh, it was a childish prank gone bad". Yeah. Right. How bout if you
> lock these weasels up for about 20 years and see how they feel about
> their "childish prank" then. Or make them listen to a poorly tuned IBUZ
> station, slightly off freq for a couple of days....yeah, that's the ticket.

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