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| Social Advocate Comey: If We Don't Stop Hate Crime, 'It Will Come for All of Us' |
| 2017-05-09 |
| [PJ] WASHINGTON -- FBI Director James Comey told the Anti-Defamation League today that the Bureau is determined "not to let evil hold the field" as he fears people "stewing" with hate turning their prejudices into hate crimes. He cited recent incidents including "the vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, the racially motivated shooting of two Indian immigrants... swastikas on synagogues and subway signs, a transgender woman attacked in her own home, a noose sent to an African-American attorney... a defaced sign on a Spanish-language church." Comey told the ADL's National Leadership Summit that "as much as we love" the activist group, "we have been spending way too much time together lately -- I think we'd all be happier if we had meetings that were fewer and far between, if we had no need to investigate hate crime, no need to share information about pending terrorist threats, no need to educate kids or community leaders or cops about bigotry and prejudice." "In your line of work, and in ours, we see a lot of people filled with hate. Some of those people will sit quietly, simmering and stewing in their own bitterness. Some will shout about it to anyone who will listen, ever hopeful that maybe their hate will attract hate," he said. "And while we can try and illuminate and educate those people who are sitting there simmering, some will always be trapped in that starless midnight that Martin Luther King wrote about so many years ago." Comey mused about whether people have been "emboldened by divisive rhetoric" or if there are "simply more opportunities to instill fear and intimidation today than ever before." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Popcorn reportedly sold out. Democrats squealing tires trying to re position their stance that Comey is a martyr as opposed to a villain. |
| Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 2017-05-09 23:32 |
| #7 Not anymore, #3 Crusader. Popcorn? :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-05-09 19:11 |
| #6 Drudge sez Trump fired Comet. Popcorn and brown liquor for dinner. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2017-05-09 18:12 |
| #5 The knockout game went down the memory hole right quick, didn't it? As did the murdered police. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-05-09 17:41 |
| #4 Hate crime seems to come mainly from blacks onto whites. Just LOOK at the stats. Black Hate (amongst other cultural failure) is THE #1 problem. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-05-09 17:10 |
| #3 Again, why does this man still have a job? |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-05-09 14:08 |
| #2 Vandalism of Jewish cemeteries - bad. Funding Palestinian terrorism - good. A cynic might conclude that, for certain class of people, the only good Jew is - neh, I'm being paranoid. The World is different now - much more civilized. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-05-09 09:23 |
| #1 Hopefully Comey was inclusive in his assessment. Let's have a quick look: Jewish cemeteries - Check Hindy immigrants - Check Transgenders - Check African Americans - Check Spanish Language - Check Obligatory MLK quote - Check Not making the Comey 'Hate Crime (Rhetoric-Speech)' cut were: POTUS Chick-fil-A Ann Coulter Keystone Pipeline Victims of the VA The NRA Little Sisters of the Poor Judicial Watch The Drudge Report Sheriff Joe |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-05-09 07:58 |