Don't threaten a judge with Deuteronomy!

This 'activist' suggests he was just paraphrasing Deuteronomy in calling for an 'extreme burning' of the judge. Well, legally that's not much of a defence -- if I use a threat of violence it's a threat of violence even if it's violence as described in the Bible. (And certainly the Bible's got lots of colorful violence to choose from).

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A community activist who ran for Congress from prison, where he had been sent for warning that a judge could be tortured by God, can post bond while he appeals his conviction, an appeals court has ruled.

After being convicted and sentenced to probation in 2007 for paying people to vote in a Benton Harbor recall election, Edward Pinkney wrote an article in a small Chicago newspaper saying the judge who handled the case could be punished by God with curses, fever and "extreme burning" unless he changed his ways.
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