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| Couple with Israeli flag targeted |
| 2006-08-16 |
| Hat tip: Sound Politics. For the geographically impaired Tacoma lies about 20-30 miles south of Seattle in the Peoples Republic of Washington State. Rebecca and Keith Yale say they won’t take down their Israeli flag. Not after a passenger in a car driving past their Northeast Tacoma home last week made an anti-Semitic remark and spit at Rebecca, who simply wanted to cross the street to get the mail. And not after someone smashed one of their windows with a rock labeled “Jew” and burned a small cross on their front yard Monday night. My son “fought for our freedom to do what we want,” Rebecca, 50, said Tuesday, of her son, Lucas Litowitz, a soldier wounded in the Iraq war. “I feel like we have a right to fly whatever flags we want.” Apparently not in the Peoples Republic.... Tacoma police are investigating Monday’s incident at the Yales’ house on Frances Avenue as a hate crime, police spokesman Mark Fulghum said. Investigators aren’t sure if the two incidents are related, and they haven’t yet identified any suspects, he said. But they think the Yales were targeted because of the Israeli flag, which flies on a pole in their front yard along with an American flag, Fulghum said. Rebecca had finished watching a TV show Monday about 9 p.m. when she heard the sound of glass breaking, she said. She rushed to check her glass front door, and then ran to her home office. She pulled the window shade, noticed the window was broken and then saw a fire burning in her front yard. She thought her house was on fire until she went outside and got a closer look at the flames, which were burning a 1-foot-by-2 foot cross. It appears whoever set the fire sprayed a flammable fluid on the cross and ignited it. “I was quite puzzled by the burning cross,” said Rebecca, a Messianic Jew. “I felt like I was back in the early 1900s.” She went next door to tell her neighbor, and then returned to search her yard. That’s when she found the first-sized rock that broke her window. It had smashed two panes of glass, but apparently rebounded off a window screen. Keith Yale, a Pentecostal minister, described his neighborhood as “very quiet, peaceful.” “It’s really unsettling to have this happen,” he said. “For anti-Semitism to come to my doorstep is really shocking.” Not me. I know how some of our more 'tolerant' leftish neighbors can get around here. Rabid doesn't begin to describe it. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #6 This is the world the Democrat party wants us to live in. This is what is at stake if they when in November. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-16 23:41 |
| #5 from www.sourceforge.net: Motion monitors the video signal from one or more cameras (video4linux interface) and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed. Features: interval snapshots, live streaming webcam, mpeg generation, database interface, OSD etc phpmotiondetect Motion detection using PHP. Detects motion using your webcam and stores snapshots on disk or in a mysql database. ZoneMinder ZoneMinder is video and cctv surveillance and security application. It supports multiple video or IP cameras and a sophisticated motion detection system based around zones. Both live streams and historic events can be viewed via the web interface. Devolution Security System Devolution Security System is a video surveillance system which can handle up to 16 cameras with motion detection, notification and record on motion to mp4. Stream over the LAN (Multicast) or Over the Net (Unicast). Motiontrack Motiontrack is a motion detection backend which simply and effective compares 2 images and checks for any objects which have moved. Works even with low quality and high flicker / snowstorm images. Will someday be able to recognize objects. Mimas The Mimas Toolkit is a C++ real-time computer vision library. Algorithms include edge/corner-detection, object recognition/tracking, LSI-filters, segmentation, array-operators, convolution etc. OO wrappers for LAPACK, libxine, V4L, FFTW are provided. MAlib 'MAlib' is an open source C library for ... Media Analysis, Motion Analizing, Movie Architecture, and Media Authoring. gtms GTMS, or ground truth measurement system, is a high speed (quasi-real-time) optical tracking and motion capture software. gspy - a gnome security camera app Gspy retrieves images from a video4linux device and processes these images looking for significant motion events. Each image of interest is recorded to a daily image directory may be optionally converted to mpeg movies. see http://gspy.sourceforge.net MPT MPT is a toolbox that supplies cross-platform libraries for real-time perception primitives, including face detection, eye detection, blink detection, and color tracking. Catcher Catcher is a v4l motion-detector for KDE. lots more other places... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-08-16 23:36 |
| #4 Cure: Remington 5077 Riot Shotgun with a mix of buckshot and slugs. |
| Posted by: Brett 2006-08-16 23:13 |
| #3 There's the spirit of free enterprise! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-08-16 22:58 |
| #2 Sounds like an excellent place to set up an ambush. First set up a private drive that looks like a public way, with tire-shredding electronic security spikes. Then several good quality hidden cameras, and something that looks easy to damage, like a big pane of glass. When they throw or shoot something at the glass, the spike strips activate and pop all four of their tires. Then you get a couple of big, mean guys to charge them, so they abandon their car and run away. Then you tow their car. All told, they pay for the glass, extra-expensive tow charges, four new tires, and a "hate crime" fee, or you offer to turn the video over to the police and press criminal charges. Three or four of the idiots and it pays for itself. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-08-16 22:06 |
| #1 Tacoma may be considered St. Pancake territory since that is where Evergreen is. Too bad they didn't have a security videotape going. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2006-08-16 19:48 |