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June 02, 2009 06:37 PM UTC
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“‘I’m assuming that the only thing that makes (the incident) even newsworthy is the fact that it comes in the context of the Sotomayor thing,’ Tancredo said… ”
Right. We obviously wouldn’t care about a public figure committing a hate crime if Tom Tancredo hadn’t already shot his mouth off on the same subject earlier in the week.
Oh, wait… yes, yes we would. Because “Tom Tancredo” and “racism” have been connected for as long as I can remember. Also, way to show sympathy and compassion for the victim of a senseless, racially-motivated crime committed by a guy you hired.
Stay classy, Tom Tancredo. You and your ilk disgust me.
The NYT published this excellent op ed piece about the Republican’s hypocrisy regarding Sotomayor’s alleged racism.
Read the whole thing here. Those without NYT registration can use this shared login:
user: silly101
password: revenue
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I hope that’s not an account tied to your personal info, like email. Call me paranoid, but my mind reels at the abuse a malefactor could make of this. Death threats, for instance, traceable back to you.
If it is tied to you somehow, I recommend changing the pword ASAP.
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Someone on another blog shared it. I get the feeling it’s making the rounds. I have my own registration there that I’ve had since the early oughts (e.g., this decade…)
Thanks for your concern.
passing on a log-in like this seems to be like passing on copied music … I don’t think the Dixie Chicks would approve.
Your turn…
then you can complain to them and they’ll shut it down.
Then everyone will be forced to register for free.
Hail free enterprise!
a government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have …. who said that Roosevelt, Jefferson???
that you have nothing to say about the Tancredo and his racist staffer — all you have to offer is the typical “liberals stink and want to take away our money and freedom” drivel. What about the subject of this thread — the fact that Tom Tancredo is and always has been a racist POS? No witty retort?
Let alone facts of the victims statements, whether of not TT was supervising this guy (above it calls him a former staffer of a PAC that TT hasn’t been leading for a number of years), why the prosecutor agreed or not to a deferred sentence, why the judge ruled on such a sentence, the social affects of minority on minority crime ….
This topic has been re-posted for 2-3 days; its tired, incomplete and old. Its whole goal is to bait and form group think to around a man that will never hold another elected office again.
Where is the dignity for the victim? Its not like she was a one of the world’s leading practitioners of partial birth abortion procedures.
In your mind Ritter still committed murder in Africa contrary to all evidence, and yet you want to give Epstein a free pass because we dont have “the complete facts”.
Actually, gee, we never will have “the complete facts” about the Epstein assault. I mean, hell, none of us were there ! I guess we can never judge him then for something so repugnant. How convenient.
The Guv never murdered anyone is Africa, he was a missionary.
I’m just stunned you have no dignity for the victim.
Because having a violent racist as the ED of your little political slush fund would never be newsworthy if you didn’t just happen to be race-baiting on cable TV the previous week. It’s all a conspiracy. Moron.
attack by a racial epithet screaming PAC executive director on an innocent woman, doing nothing but walking down the street while black, is a ho-hum non-newsworthy event in and of itself in the mind of Tancredo and Co. Guess he thinks this kind of thing must happen all the time. Besides, the real victim here is the poor drunk racist sociopath. Just wow.
What kinda radical judicial d-bag would throw a victim under the bus again and again. Where is the dignity?
Methinks that Epstein thinks he is really a character from Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s wildly funny movie.
Fuck Yeah!!!
Couldn’t resist
I’m either being lazy for not wanting to navigate through the site to find this gem of an opinion, or else they’ve taken it down. Pols, can you double check that please?
Found it on the side. I thought it would be a full diary. My bad.
For those wanting the direct link, here it is:
http://townhall.com/columnists…
The idea that someone would write this after pleading guilty to randomly assaulting an African-American woman in the street, barely avoiding a hate crime charge himself via plea bargain, is just too incredible to be believed. This person has some serious pathological issues, like Tancredo himself.
Hey, asshole, you’re the “link!” And it ain’t so phony now!
And he’s the face of the modern, 21st century Republican Party–you know, the party of Libertard, Karate Kid, MesaModerate. A perfect front man, no?
I think we may have just found a home for him at Team America.
Even in a bad economy, we liberals continue to provide for our brethren.
only he and VP Biden know the secret location of their plant. Dust him off and get him ready, I believe more tea parties are scheduled.
Here he is protesting that most of the incited hate crimes referred to were in fact not related to violent attacks of any kind while entirely leaving out the fact that he himself committed a violent hate crime with no particular incitement whatsoever.
He must have been pretty confident no one was paying attention to his 2008 assault. Judging from the fact that this story was ignored for so long you can’t blame him. What a little creep and how unsurprising that he’s a Tancredo Team America little creep.
As to the battery upon the woman, obviously a crime has been committed.
That he called her a name that most Americans find offensive, in poor taste, reflective of some psychosis is protected by the First Amendment. He wasn’t screaming “Fire” in a crowded theater, or even an empty one.
People in Canada and the UK are being hauled into court for expressing opinions whereby they express dislike for certain others, usually on an ethnic or racial basis. In Britain, a ten year old boy called an old immigrant woman some names, she whacked him repeatedly with a hard stick (good for her!), it was the KID hauled into court for saying unkind words.
We cannot legislate away hatred or tiny minds. Only as we change the hearts of men and women can we reduce things like what this jerk did to the woman.
Thank Gawd those old dead white men gave us the protection and right to be an idiot.
with legislating away the actions related to those hates. They’ve demonstrated an added danger beyond mere assault.
This doesn’t affect turds who want to yell “nigger” or “faggot” from a car while passing by at 35 mph. Free speech lives!
It’s the use of the N-word combined with physical assult to show state of mind. Big difference.
Didn’t see your comment before I posted just below, but it is a far more concise way of expressing what I was trying to get at.
are a long-standing tool in criminal sentencing of violent acts. It has nothing to do with the speech, it has to do with the nature of the criminal act — which is revealed by the speech.
We had a good discussion of this with The Barron not too long ago.
Bias-related hate crimes are of a particularly dangerous nature not just for the victim, but for society as a whole–they threaten the political and social fabric, and so have a unique aspect to them that warrants sentencing enhancement.
I used to be uncomfortable with hate crimes statutes because of the speech implications, but I’ve come around to the opposite point of view. Violence is not an act of legitimate expression. Marcus Epstein isn’t a hate criminal for the words he used; rather it’s that the words he used during his act of violence explains the nature of that violence in a way that government has declared it has an added interest in penalizing.
…that the use of language during the committing of a crime is a factor in motive and perhaps punishment.
My concern was with some posts on a previous thread on this topic that seemed to me suggesting that certain words just need to be outlawed. I.e., it’s a criminal offense to say or used them in public or the internet.
Oy, there goes Mark Twain……