Wednesday, November 12, 2008

More serious than a hate crime

KKK literature on Long Island.
Suffolk County police are investigating this at a time when its Hate Crimes Unit is busy on several other cases, including one in Mastic, where dozens of cars were discovered with painted on death threats against President-elect Barack Obama.

"It's something that, you know, we don't tolerate in Suffolk County," Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said.

The car cases have the attention of the U.S. Secret Service. To get a handle on the hate crimes across Suffolk County, police are calling on everyone to help to get these cases solved.
Commissioner Dormer is putting it mildly. These kinds of incidents are occurring across the country. I hope that some very stupid racist people learn very quickly, & for all to see, that the Secret Service takes death threats to the President-elect of United States seriously even though he's not yet president & even if those threats are spray-painted on cars by cowardly adolescents. To the Secret Service, there are cranks, but there's no pranks. This is not the kind of petty malicious destruction of property the Municipal Court handles. The "hate crime" aspect might be the plea bargain offer when the prosecutor starts talking about Federal charges & hard time.

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