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Over 30,000 hate crimes are committed by White supremacist terrorists yearly in the United States. Why does talk radio completely ignore over 30,000 hate crimes committed by American Christians and members of other faiths each year ...and instead chooses to focus on a handful of crimes committed by international terrorists who practice a radical form of Islam? (quoting John Lindsay from MCP Listserv)
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| User | Points |
|---|---|
| curtis | 1953 |
| ebeh | 1161 |
| Madhuri | 1145 |
| erinjerri | 1074 |
| oliveoil | 578 |
| spamfriedrice | 551 |
| Calvin Prashad | 358 |
| JennyG | 281 |
| jenn | 219 |
| chriswong | 190 |
30,000 huh? How's that possible when according to FBI stats there were only 7783 hate crime incidents. 66% of which were commited against Jews and 7% against Christians and 6% against Muslims. Get your facts straight.
not all crimes are reported
actually, many of the hate crimes reported are not pursued by the law, therefore are not recorded in that FBI list. I have personally been the victim, and survivor of a violent hate crime in a town considered exsessivly liberal, on a university campus, with impartial witnesses and perps so convinced they were rightous that they actually confessed. I bear scars from it to this day and yet nothing was done after the initial police report and investigation. For once the police did their job, but the local legal system proved that upholding it's image was more important that protecting it's citizens. The guilty persons actually camped outside my house in camper for months selling heroin and meth, even broke into a friends house because I was in it. Everyone knew. It was reported. Nothing was done about it.
So while neither of your numbers are probably spot on, you both have a good point. Research is important to back up opinions, but we have so many problems in our livingr rooms, yet we feel we have the right to go 'fix' our neighbors family feud.
No wonder we're just making things worse. This war isn't about justice or freedom. It is certainly not about peace. It's about stimulating our economy so that it collapses slowly instead of practically overnight. In accomplishing this we can put into place systems that can support our nation's elite, and keep the machine of our society running.
Logic and self-presevation seem to prevail over humanitarian justice and peace.
If we force the world to live in fear, they'll do whatever they're told will keep them safe, whether they are the Taliban in Afganistan, Dick Jan and Spot in the white-washed suburbs of America, or Haitians literally living of diets composed of mud and clay in the wake of Western Civilization's slave run plantations.
Like scared children, we'll do as we're told as long as some father figure can gauruntee our saftey.
That was a quote from a posting by a subscriber on another listserv. He cited the Southern Poverty Law Center as its source. Please note that the point he was trying to make was that the 30,000 hate crimes were perpetrated by "White supremacist terrorists." Of course, when you add in the number of hate crimes perpetrated by other nut-cases not affiliated with White supremacist groups the number is higher. So, the issue is why we get all crazy about "Muslim Terrorists" --- one person who is Muslim and commits a crime (Fort Hood) but we ignore the fact that 30,000 hate crimes are committed by White supremacist terrorists.
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