The Afroman Trial.
-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.
This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.
Just reading the HKIS writ. It's..... wow. Surprised English media didn't bother reading it, or did they censor out all the interesting stuff? Haven't seen ANY of this in the press.
The Lutherans demand:
🚫all other religious teachings (even those for "curiosity") are dropped (no more yoga or flotation tank meditation), no comparative religious studies;
🚫festivals outside Christian festivals to be strictly prohibited;
🚫an end to all acceptance and promotion of homosexuality, same-sex marriage and transgender-affirming care; and
🚫assets to be put to work to expand the Kingdom of God (rather than, I guess, build a fourth swimming pool).
It goes on.
While media in HK has focussed solely on the money and wealth of the school, this is actually a pretty bold sweeping out of the temple, far deeper than just making the school more egalitarian and instead aiming to transform it into a hardcore Christian school.
Will the church prevail? The school and its many wealthy parents (half of whom are HK's top lawyers) will probably see this off at the Court of First Instance.
But. Should an appeal end up in front of.... Judge Jeremy Poon... things would get very interesting. Poon is an ardent Christian, along with his BFF Ronnie Chan (of Hang Lung property empire), running their own branch of a California-based church sect in Hong Kong, and certainly a rival to the Lutherans.
Poon could also ask some prickly questions of the scripture choices in the writ: some choices don't really express the stated principles. For example, the Lutherans cite Romans 13:12 to support the principle of non-participation in other festivals: but Romans 13:12 talks about donning the "armour of light", nothing really to do with festivals or idolatry for which there are plenty of other decent verses. Maybe the lawyers' AI got involved and hallucinated some of Paul's letters?
Interesting times!
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