Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Orthodox Jews trash prison vehicle over electronic tagging
Crowds trashed a prison vehicle in an Israeli city in a row over the electronic tagging of an Orthodox Jewish man.
Prison officers went to Bnei Brak after they stopped receiving signals from the high-tech device that local rabbis decreed could not be worn on a Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said Tuesday.
Confronted by an angry mob, the prison offers fled the city -- a stronghold of Haredi Judaism, the most conservative branch of the Jewish faith -- on foot, leaving their vehicle to be smashed and overturned with its windows broken.
The man had been electronically tagged as a form of house arrest for his role in a recent violent demonstration against a gay pride parade in Jerusalem that was subsequently canceled.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070102/wl_mideast_afp/israelreligionjudaism_070102104324
Crowds trashed a prison vehicle in an Israeli city in a row over the electronic tagging of an Orthodox Jewish man.
Prison officers went to Bnei Brak after they stopped receiving signals from the high-tech device that local rabbis decreed could not be worn on a Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said Tuesday.
Confronted by an angry mob, the prison offers fled the city -- a stronghold of Haredi Judaism, the most conservative branch of the Jewish faith -- on foot, leaving their vehicle to be smashed and overturned with its windows broken.
The man had been electronically tagged as a form of house arrest for his role in a recent violent demonstration against a gay pride parade in Jerusalem that was subsequently canceled.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070102/wl_mideast_afp/israelreligionjudaism_070102104324
Comments:
SHHAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSS!!!! (Please insert here sound effect of rocks striking glass windshield)
Comment Credit ---This article posted by 
: January 03, 2007 7:51 PM
: January 03, 2007 7:51 PM
ABK:
Uh, are you serious? He's already committed a crime! That's why he went to jail!
The police tag people that have committed a crime, as this guy clearly did, as part of the parole process. Why you think that he shouldnt get tagged like anyone else that broke the law is beyond me.
If he didn't like wearing the electronic device on Shabbos, he could have stayed in jail where he wouldn't have had any problems whatsoever.
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Uh, are you serious? He's already committed a crime! That's why he went to jail!
The police tag people that have committed a crime, as this guy clearly did, as part of the parole process. Why you think that he shouldnt get tagged like anyone else that broke the law is beyond me.
If he didn't like wearing the electronic device on Shabbos, he could have stayed in jail where he wouldn't have had any problems whatsoever.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : January 04, 2007 1:47 PM
: January 04, 2007 1:47 PM
