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| 2006-10-23 |
| No, CAIR, it ain't moslems. If the latest FBI hate-crime statistics are any indication, of the 1,314 verified offenses motivated by religious bias, 68.5 percent were anti-Jewish. Only 11.1 percent were anti-Islamic, despite claims of rampant anti-Muslim bigotry in the U.S. by groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations. Across the board, hate crimes in the U.S. dropped last year by 6 percent, according to the 2005 FBI report release last week, although violence against people based on their race accounted more than half of the reported incidents. Police nationwide reported 7,163 hate crime incidents in 2005, targeting victims based on their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and disabilities. That was down from 2004, when the FBI reported 7,649 incidents. The vast majority of hate crimes in both years were motivated by race, according the reports, which detailed the data based on so-called "single-bias" incidents. That means the crime was motivated by only one kind of bias against the victim, according to the FBI. Race-based criminal activity accounted for 54.7 percent of hate crimes last year, up slightly from 52.9 percent in 2004, the FBI found. Another 17 percent of hate crimes in 2005 targeted victims for their religious beliefs, and 14.2 percent for their sexual orientation. Victims were assaulted in more than half – 50.7 percent – of the hate crime cases against people. Six people were murdered and another three were raped in reported hate crimes last year. The rest of the victims, or 48.9 percent, were intimidated, the report shows. The FBI also looked at hate crime incidents that targeted property, with 81.3 percent of cases resulting in damage, destruction or vandalism. Sixty percent of the known offenders in 2005 were white, and 20 percent were black, the report showed. Note that in most cases, the victim's race, etc. is broken down much more than the attacker's. So, if one hispanic attacks another, that goes in the books as "White attacks Hispanic," instant racial crime. |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #6 The problem with "hate crimes" is that the very concept is a denial of the Constitution's Equal Protection clause. If someone is murdered out of passion, and receives a 25 year sentence, and another is murdered because they are homosexual, jewish, muslim, black or whatever, and receives a 30 year or longer sentence, then the 'special' class has been statutorily given unequal protection. The law is saying their life is worth more, in such an instance, than any other citizen. This is inherently unequal. Any 1st year law student who understands contitutional basics can tell you that. It's only when people forget the Constitution and common sense, and go the leftist PC route, that unjust laws like "hate crime" bills are passed, and unjust and unlearned Judges uphold them. Actions have consequences. Your vote matters. Vote for Constitutional constructionists, not revisionists. Guess which party represents the constructionist side. To me, the Iraq war, our foreign policy, etc is an insignificant issue compared with the need to have just Judges with strict constitutional philosophies. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-10-23 23:45 |
| #5 Hey, speaking of taboos and hate-crimes, I received this today from an unlikely source, a fortean-minded ML, really hadn't the slighest knowledge of it : October 20 marks the 33 rd anniversary of the beginning of the “Zebra Killings” in San Francisco." "...All of the 24 victims were targeted for death for the same reason: They were white. Their attackers were all members of the black supremacist Nation of Islam (NOI), then primarily known as the Black Muslims, and acted on its behalf. They were members of the “Death Angels,” a branch of the NOI which existed for the sole purpose of murdering white people. The Death Angels had a scoring system, whereby they got more points for murdering women and children than grown men..." "...Death Angels wings were awarded to each man who killed four white children, five white women, or nine white men. Upon completion of the required quota, a new member’s photograph was taken and a pair of black wings were drawn extending from the neck. The photo was mounted on a board along with pictures of other successful candidates, and the board was displayed on an easel at the loft meetings” at Black Self Help Moving and Storage..." "...The Death Angels were nurtured on a steady diet of NOI theology – that whites were “blue-eyed devils, “white devils,” and “grafted snakes,” a wicked race that had been created anywhere from 1,000-6,000 years ago by an evil black scientist named Yacub. Actually, “the Myth of Yacub” was a rip-off of black journalist George S. Schuyler’s classic, 1931 racial satire, Black No More. Schuyler had been influenced by H.G. Wells..." "...Note that the Zebra killings were not the stuff of a tiny conspiracy. At least one dozen NOI member/killers attended regular Death Angel meetings at Black Self Help Moving and Storage. And at the NOI’s San Francisco headquarters, Mosque #26, the existence of the Death Angels, though not the exact identity of all of its members, was common knowledge... " "...The NOI’s local goal was to run all whites out of the city by the bay, and establish San Francisco (though surely with a new name) as America’s first Moslem city..." "...there were 15 accredited Death Angels in California.” With the dozen aspiring Death Angels in attending the loft meetings at Black Self help, that makes for 27. But there may have been as many as 50 Death Angels..." "...The California attorney general’s office had compiled a list of 71 execution-style murders committed around the state, either with a machete or a pistol, in which the killer or killers was always a well-dressed and groomed youngish black man, and the victim always white. In addition to San Francisco, the murders were carried out in Oakland, San Jose, Emeryville, Berkeley, Long Beach, Signal Hill, Santa Barbara, Palo Alto, Pacifica, San Diego, Los Angeles, and in the counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Contra Costa, Ventura and Alameda. The NOI genocide campaign had actually begun approximately three years before the San Francisco killings..." "...the true number of Zebra murders was “just under 270.” And all of the Zebra killers but the four convicts and Anthony Harris have remained at large, ever since..." Also from Google(Tm) : http://eaif.org/zebra/zebra.htm http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3693 Even wikipedia has an entry about those killings. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-10-23 18:45 |
| #4 Hate-crime enhancements are essentially unequal application of the law. It is sad commentary that attacks on certain groups are so disproportionate that specialized and discriminatory legislation was enacted to discourage them. Hate-crime laws have all the validity of the Equal Opportunity Act and minority hiring quotas. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-23 15:54 |
| #3 We will know if and when the Congress gets it about the world situation when they repeal the hate crime bullshit. Don't hold your breath. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-10-23 11:18 |
| #2 Thought crimes are complete and utter bullshit. The motivation behind a crime never makes the commission of it any worse. A crime is still a crime. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2006-10-23 10:27 |
| #1 Apparently, most any crime against anyone of an identifiable race is a racist crime nowadays. Sigh. |
| Posted by: Slaviger Angomong7708 2006-10-23 10:05 |