Moe wrote about it here. I want to say more about it.
According to the Austin Stateman, a brick was thrown through the window of a 4 year old’s bedroom. The brick had a note attached to it that said “Keep Eastside Black. Keep Eastside Strong.”
The white homeowner has lived in the neighborhood for ten years.
Here is the money paragraph from the article:
Police have not classified this incident as a hate crime, said Austin Police Sgt. Richard Stresing, because hate crimes target an individual specifically because of an identifying characteristic, like race. Police say the incident has been classified as criminal mischief and deadly conduct.
Let’s reverse the story. A brick is thrown through the window of a 4 year old’s bedroom. The brick has a note attached that says “Keep Eastside White. Keep Eastside Strong.” The homeowner is black and has lived in the neighborhood for ten years.
By this afternoon, the NAACP would be holding protests in the neighborhood. The police would be forwarding the matter to the Justice Department as a hate crime. Barack Obama would be on television condemning the small minded act of hatred.
But because this was a white family, the presumption is that this was not a hate crime until proven otherwise. Were it a black family in a white neighborhood, the presumption would be that it was a hate crime. In fact, to be clear, this may not have been a hate crime. We know, however, that the starting presumption would be that there was a hate crime were the races reversed.
Congress is now considering hate crimes legislation that will impact the whole nation this way. We will, in effect, nationally be treating crime more or less seriously based solely on the race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation of the victim. We’ll have gone from racial preferences for jobs and education to racial preferences for crime solving.
And these preferences and prosecutorial dumpster dives into the psychological biases of criminals will be fraught with bias and distortion that will overshadow the very simple fact that the bad guy should be punished for being bad, period.
Hate crimes derive from the leftist notion that we can drive hate from society. We’ve seen in Germany, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and elsewhere just what steps the left will eventually take to drive hate from society. In modern democracies, the effort may not be genocidal, but it is just as psychopathic.
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Randy Haddock Saturday, July 25th at 12:02PM EDT (link)This is terrible.
Something like this happened on July 4th. A group of black teenagers attacked a White man in Ohio while screaming “This our world, this is a black world!”
Guess what? Police didn’t consider it a “hate” crime”.
http://randyhaddock.com/post/138447275/it-came-after-a-family-night-of-celebrating
This is a hate crime
lthurwitz Saturday, July 25th at 12:35PM EDT (link)It is a senseless act, potentially deadly, motivated by a racism.
Having said that, I have a gutt inclination on stories like this to think of that girl who carved a backwards “B” on her face.
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It's just another stupid thing from stupid people
Richard Mullins Saturday, July 25th at 12:43PM EDT (link)This happens to often to count, so a brick in the window isn’t much to worry about. Now finding the person that the brick and broke the window is something else. If I were that person that had a window broken, I would find that person that did and make them pay for it.
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No, you have a "gutt" inclination to stupidity.
Tbone Saturday, July 25th at 1:36PM EDT (link)nt
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
That's not very nice
lthurwitz Sunday, July 26th at 2:27PM EDT (link)I just look at that picture and the note and don’t believe the story is what it seems. Maybe I can’t put myself into the mind that a person angry about race would take the time to write that note and throw the brick. I believe it’s more likely some bored kids trying to stir up controversy.
I’ve never been called stupid on this site before, by the way.
Are you saying the white family threw the brick through their own window? nt
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Clearly a case for the United States AG to investigate
SteveLA Saturday, July 25th at 12:41PM EDT (link)This is clearly a case for the Civil Rights division of the United States Attorney General to investigate. That would be John E. Murphy, acting AG for the Western District of Texas.
I somehow doubt this is a “teachable moment” to the Obama….so NEVER MIND.
Who knows, maybe John Cornyn or Kay Bailey Hutchison will demand an investigation.
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Heh...not holding my breath!
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How is this hate crimes legislation reconciled with...
penguin2 Saturday, July 25th at 1:08PM EDT (link)Equal protection under the law? Can this eventually end up before the Supreme Court?
When are the people going to stand up for the violation of the rights of white people, or any other group that is not in the leftist’s camp? What are they going to do when it is a Black on Asian crime, or Latino on Black? Just like they can attack Christianity and even Judaism, but it is all PC when it comes to Islam. In this country, no religion or race should be afforded any more value than any others.
It is evil what they are pulling off.
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It's not about equal protection...though that is a major factor...it's about regulating thought which is what leftists and despots do!
AceInTX Saturday, July 25th at 1:44PM EDT (link)The way you decide whether a crime is a hate crime or not is to determine beyond a reasonable doubt what a person was THINKING during the commission of the crime…
It’s already been started by using the IRS to regulate speech coming from the pulpit, they are trying to institute it with a new fairness doctrine, (they’ll call it something else…but the results are the same) and this is just one more step toward censorship and thought control by the government and those who control it!
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It is my understanding, based on comments from the sponsor of this hate crimes legislation...that a Pastor who preaches from...
AceInTX Saturday, July 25th at 1:24PM EDT (link)Genesis 19-The story of GOD’s destruction of Sodom and Gomorah
Leviticus 18
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Judges 19
…the men of the city, a perverse lot, surrounded the house, and started pounding on the door. They said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may have intercourse with him.” And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Since this man is my guest, do not do this vile thing. Here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do whatever you want to them; but against this man do not do such a vile thing.”
Romans 1
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done. They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
1 Corinthians 6
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers-none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
and states the clear meaning of these passages and expresses his faithful observance and belief in the truth of these passages, there is no guarantee that this pastor couldn’t be hauled in and sentenced for hate crimes should a gay congregant be listening to the serman and files a hate crimes complaint because he was offended.
The only thing left for them to do is to build the Soviet Gulags and the NAZI reeducation camps!
Justice is supposed to be and has always been intended to be in America, blind not only for social status but also for race, creed, gender and even sexual orientation.
When we confuse that simple truth, we all lose and expose ourselves to the whims of politics and the passions of the mob in the administration of justice!
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I wonder if they've ever heard...
Fred Maidment Saturday, July 25th at 2:00PM EDT (link)…of the 14th Amendment.
Y’know. The one that says everybody gets treated equally.
Or that pesky little 15th Amendment, which says laws based on race cannot be enacted?
Just a thought…
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lkdavis Sunday, July 26th at 3:55PM EDT (link)the one that is considered “inconvenient” by liberals.
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Erick Erickson Saturday, July 25th at 2:36PM EDT (link)n/t
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?
That says it all doesn't it? nt
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I wouldn't classify it as a hate crime either
Jack_Savage Saturday, July 25th at 8:43PM EDT (link)I mean, who wants to go through all that paperwork when the Obama Justice Department will just dismiss the charges anyway?
Typical of what ww expect from Austin PD Chief
LittleL1954 Saturday, July 25th at 9:42PM EDT (link)Art Aceavetio has brought his California Dreaming thought processing with him. He has had and will continue to have problems with East vs the rest of Austin. This goes back 60 years and continues–just as it does in every other large city in the US. Yet President Barry O. sees a hate crime with Gates and nothing in the Austin case. Nothing more clearly shows his own bias than these two cases.