I posted on this three months ago - and in those three months: if there has been anything done by the current government in investigating this hate crime that would merit an update, I haven’t found it. Somebody attempted to murder several women and children via arson, and it’s becoming depressingly clear that that person (or persons) has gotten away with it clean.
This offends me. It should offend you. If it doesn’t, I don’t really care what your excuse is.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
From: “Seth Rossignol” rossignol72@gmail.com
Subject: healthcare
Date: August 6, 2009 1:00:41 AM EDT
To: contact@redstate.comF**k off you pieces of s**t health insurance shills! You hate mongering f**ks!
I bet he watches MSNBC. And I bet when ACORN blocks entrances to banks he applauds.
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.
…and no arrests; no updates; and no real indication that the federal government is taking seriously an organized attempt to murder mothers and children by setting their church on fire. Remember: they used accelerant on the doors. There’s no chance at all this was meant to be a ‘prank.’
Eric Holder recently went before Congress to call for a strengthened hate crimes bill. It occurs to me that calling his office at 202-353-1555 and politely inquiring how the Department of Justice is doing in its investigation of this existing one would be an excellent way to start your work week.
Moe Lane
PS: The response to this should not break down along partisan political lines; I will be pleasantly surprised if this turns out to be the case.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Alcee Hastings is a congressman from Florida. He was also once a federal judge that was impeached for corruption. It’s an indictment of America that a criminal such as he can become a prominent national politician after being convicted of crimes and thrown off the bench.
Be that as it may, for all his crimes Hastings is also a bit of a showman… as such ner-do-wells usually are. Last Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives the nation got a slice of that showmanship when Hastings took center stage to decry some “spurious” language hidden by another representative in the so-called hate crimes legislation then up for debate.
Hastings felt that the hate crimes legislation was “serious business” but the addition of some outrageous sexual practices in the bill made a mockery of it all. So, Rep. Hastings decided to read aloud some of this crazy terminology in order to show one and all how someone was “trivializing” what he considers important legislation.
The U.S. House of Representatives is bogged down in dealing with leftist hate crimes legislation.
Let’s get straight to the punch line:
Congressman Rooney offered an amendment to include veterans as a protected class in hate crimes legislation, but the Democrats voted down the amendment. Here’s Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz denying veterans need any protection:
The Democrats were, however, more willing to consider extending hate crimes protection to pedophiles. That’s not a punch line. That’s just sick.
