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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:30 PM
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Assaulted for being a "Dirty Jew"...and the traveler from Samara still lives
Edited on Thu Dec-13-07 03:32 PM by flamingyouth
By Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

There was a fight on the Q train. The last car was filled with people rolling toward Brooklyn.

A young man, accompanied by his girlfriend, had just been wished Merry Christmas by another group on the train.

The young man happily answered back with, “Happy Chanukah.”

That’s when all hell broke loose.

One of a group of other young people on the train immediately hiked up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo of Christ. Fourteen men and women jumped the “Happy Chanukah” man, yelling, “He said, ‘Happy Hanukkah, that’s when the Jews killed Jesus…’ dirty Jews and Jew bitches.”

Much screaming, bellowing, blood loss and broken bones later…

The man who said “Happy Chanukah” is Walter Adler, 23, an honors student at Hunter College, who now has a broken nose and a split lip.

http://themoderatevoice.com/society/guns/16476/walter-adler-assaulted-for-being-a-dirty-jew-and-the-traveler-from-samara-still-lives/

EDITED TO COMPLY WITH DU'S COPYRIGHT RULES.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:37 PM
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1. Yes.
Edited on Wed Dec-12-07 11:01 PM by mmonk
All the "war on Christmas" O'Reilly loons need to take note.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:39 PM
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2. I hope they are charged with hate crimes.
AND, I hope they throw the book at Jirovec. “When I get out, I want to go into the military.” ... so he can go murder brown people. Maybe he'll be too old to serve when he gets out, to Jesus I pray. O8)

Hooray for Hassan Askari!!!! :applause:
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:35 AM
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9. Seriously!
What a hatefilled bag of scum. So disgusting. Who the hell does shit like that? Thugs looking for trouble.

Well, he'll never get into the military now.

Vile pig!


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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:14 PM
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34. Unfortunately, he's very likely to get into the military now.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the U.S. military is now full of avowed White Supremacists.
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:16 PM
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35. He won't get into the U.S. military with a felony.
Edited on Fri Dec-14-07 12:30 PM by piedmont
edit: just saw in the article that he intends to join up. Blech!
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:10 PM
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62. Let's see if he's actually convicted of a felony, or if this disappears.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:34 PM
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64. Haven't they lowered their standards to allow ex felons?
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:49 PM
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71. Well, he'll never get into the military now.. Yes he will
sad to say but they'll take anyone now. I know a kid who got into the Marines when he turned 18. From the time he was 14 till he was 18 he was incarcerated for molesting his 8 year old step sister. They let him out once when he was 15 and he did it again. The Marines were happy to take him, paid him a $20,000 signing bonus.
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:54 PM
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3. Heartwarming, but it's unfortunate anybody needed to be a hero that night
Alas, haters are everywhere.
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 10:57 PM
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4. The more things change...
Edited on Wed Dec-12-07 11:05 PM by Mr_Jefferson_24
...the more things stay the same:

----snip----

It took me a while to realize what they were saying. "You kilt our Lord," the guys looking for a fight would snarl, just before landing a punch on my nose. This was in the New York City of my childhood, where the accents were heavy and the theology more than a bit crude when you wandered into the wrong neighborhood.

When I finally got the drift of what the true-believer hoodlums were saying, I was tempted to utter in plaintive defense, "No, only half of me did it!" — meaning that my father was born in Germany and raised Protestant. But my father would have taken his belt to me had I employed that cop-out because of his intense shame over the genocide perpetrated by his Christian countrymen against my Jewish mother's people in Eastern Europe.

As opposed to Mel Gibson's father, mine never underestimated the horror of the Holocaust. Nor do my Christian relatives in Germany, who have underscored the depth of wartime Germany's depravity by pointing out to me that the local minister had been one of the town's leading Nazi enthusiasts, even wearing his Nazi uniform under his clerical garb.

Old wounds, I know, but I just saw Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and it is a blood libel against the Jewish people that should have every prominent Christian minister and priest speaking out in opposition. All they have to do is look to the pope's apology for the Catholic Church's sins against Jews. . .


http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0302-04.htm

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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 11:46 AM
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5. Read my tag line. nt
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-13-07 12:10 PM
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6. I'm glad Adler is okay, and that Askari was there to help him.
That's awesome.

I hope the attackers get hit with hate-crime charges, but at the same time we all know that their hatred and prejudice will only get worse in prison.
x(
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Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:52 AM
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7. Anti-Semitism, the bigotry of ages.
Sadly, too many think anti-Semitism isn't a real problem, and this includes self-proclaimed "members of the left."

It is nice to see that another person took it upon himself to aid those in need.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:32 AM
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:38 AM
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10. Oh Please!
I live in Brooklyn, and the majority of people who live here aren't errant THUGS. You're calling him stupid because he responded to a holiday greeting with his own? (I'm sure the Merry Christmas was said threateningly. But, still! Why shouldn't someone say Happy Hanukkah? I'd take it in the spirit of the holiday season, like most other Brooklynites!)


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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:42 AM
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11. *ahem* Don't you watch Miami Ink? Just THIS WEEK, one of the guys did a Jesus tatoo on a guy.
They DO exist. I saw it with my own eyes and it was done on a Born Again Christian.

He was assaulted because he was Jewish.
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Wiregrass Willie Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 10:56 AM
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20. My mistake. But I've honestly never seen one n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:45 AM
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12. Anyone who takes a simple greeting such as Happy Chanukah as an incitement to violence
Edited on Fri Dec-14-07 08:47 AM by blondeatlast
is a knuckle-dragger looking to start something. Talk about oversensitive. I would have found it charming.

And FWIW, I'm a non-oppressed Christian.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:07 PM
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:12 PM
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30. So, again, a holiday greeting is rude? And if so, rudeness is an incitement to violence?
Well, since I wasn't there and you apparently were, you've got me at a disadvantage. :eyes:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:13 PM
Response to Reply #28
33. The first rule of getting out of a hole...
is to stop digging.

Happy Chanukah, shithead.
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:23 PM
Response to Reply #28
36. What the FUCK?
Do you go through life just making things up so that reality conforms to your beliefs?
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:01 PM
Response to Reply #36
73. Apparently.
Amazing isn't it?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:30 PM
Response to Reply #28
39. Consoling me because I'm content? You really are twisted... nt
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:36 PM
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41. Uh, the Muslim kid who came to their aid said there was nothing rude
Edited on Fri Dec-14-07 12:38 PM by walldude
or wrong with how he replied. The Muslim witness, who single handedly jumped into a fray against 10 attackers said he was shocked at the attack. Better get your facts straight...

On edit: BTW 2 of the attackers have been charged with hate crimes in the past:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/12/national/main3609322.shtml

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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:43 PM
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45. You'd take the word of someone who was actually THERE over our dear Willie?
What's wrong with you? You know the Jews have conspired with the Muslims for centuries against us Christians,,,

:sarcasm:
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piedmont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:56 PM
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51. Willie apparently was in the Jewish guy's head. Now THAT'S a front-row seat! nt
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:00 PM
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53. Of course. I was so caught up in waging war on my own treasured holiday I missed that.
Good one, piedmont! :rofl:
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:43 PM
Response to Reply #28
46. Just being nice?
If these people were 'just being nice', I don't know what you'd call being nasty!

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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:55 PM
Response to Reply #28
50. I read it differently and much less charitably toward the offenders
I think this was a bunch of young knuckle draggers who believed the whole "war on Christmas" nonsense and were out to "defend" the holiday.

I wouldn't be surprised if they deliberately said "Merry Christmas" to someone they thought "looked Jewish" in the hope of provoking a response.

The fact that they yelled anti-Semitic slurs (and really ignorant ones at that--"Chanukah is the day the Jews killed Christ"?)while beating the poor guy up tells me that they were mean, bigoted, stupid soreheads.

NORMAL PEOPLE do not respond to a holiday greeting with violence, not even if it's the "wrong" one.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:57 PM
Response to Reply #28
52. seek help. you desperately need it.
From what I've read about this sorry incident it was completely different from your sick, made up story. Seriously, you need help.
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jhrobbins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:25 PM
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103. I'm sorry I got here late and missed the post - I am one of those half breeds
a Jewish Presbyterian (or a Presbyterian Jew, depending on which grandmother you ask) and would have loved to have read it (or maybe not, my blood pressure is high lately and I guess I need to avoid dumbassness). ANyway, I'll take you word from your post that it was offensive and I always respect your posts.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:33 PM
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107. thank you. It was beyond offensive.
It was, in fact, quite remarkable. The poster claimed that the folks being attacked provoked said attack by wishing the thugs that assaulted them, "Happy Hanukkah. But he went further than that, and put revolting words into the victim's mouth. He should be tombstoned.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:35 PM
Response to Reply #107
108. Yeah that was an.......
interesting...... response, wasn't it?

I wonder what the odds are that a post will appear shortly on FR about how he finally got axed at DU?
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:04 PM
Response to Reply #28
56. The group was not being nice
They were looking for a reason to jack somebody.

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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:27 PM
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63. This is an interesting fabrication. Are you a fiction writer?
"Adding action to thought - the poor wretch let them have it with a --"Happy Chanukah, sh*t heads!". He sure taught them a lesson !"

He said "shitheads?" I don't see that in the article. Is this some secret, special knowledge of the incident that only you have? Please share, if so.

The group of strangers took the insult as intended and straightaway began to rebuke the young man in hopes of improving his disposition."

"Happy Chanukah" = insult. Got it. I assume that "Merry Christmas" is also an insult? If not, why not?
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:40 PM
Response to Reply #63
87. Good points, Ignis....
I'd like the poster to come back and answer whether he believes that saying Happy Chaukah, even if meant as a "correction" to a possible assumption, is in truly an insulting answer. That's just insane reasoning.


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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:58 PM
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89. I fear we'll both be waiting a long time.
But that doesn't make my questions any more rhetorical. :)
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Wiregrass Willie Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:53 PM
Response to Reply #87
93. Explanations are generally useless ..
As they say in the British Foreign Service -- "Never complain, never explain and never apologize". But being we are all civilized, here goes --

There is a time and place for everything. Had he been the first to speak, it would have seemed to me to have been a nice gesture to wish strangers a "happy Chanukah".

But when the other guy says "merry Christmas", it would seem improper to me to start a religious debate. Which is what he insisted on doing. Arguing such a thing ranks up there with "f**k off" or "Heal, dammit, Heal !" as a response to "merry Christmas". As our hero found out.

But what surprises me most is to have 10 guys jump on you and after ... "Much screaming, bellowing, blood loss and broken bones later…" to only get a broken nose and split lip seems awful gentle.

Oh, well. I'm sure it wasn't all that big event for a NYC evening.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:57 PM
Response to Reply #93
94. You are
touched.

When people wish me a "Merry Christmas" I say, "Thank you! And a happy Chanukah to you!"

Thank G-d if all I suffer is a broken nose for that! I should consider myself lucky for having acted so foolishly!
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:36 PM
Response to Reply #93
98. I live in Los Angeles. We have a very large Jewish population
in my neighborhood, and we also have a large Muslim population. In my practice, I always wish people a Merry Christmas, because I was raised nominally Christian and that's the holiday I celebrate. I neither know nor care the religion of the person I am greeting in most cases.

If they are Jewish, guess what their response is? Happy Hanukkah. And guess what? I don't take the slightest offense. In fact, I would consider it bizarre thing, and a sign of rather pitiful fear and submissiveness if a Jew wished me a Merry Christmas back.

If it were a Muslim and they wished my Happy Holidays or Happy Eid, I wouldn't give a good god damn.

What the hell is the matter with you?
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:40 PM
Response to Reply #93
99. I take the train at night quite often....
and I never see anything like this. Even in dangerous Brooklyn, where I live.

And I am a Christian, of the Roman Catholic variety. If I did wish someone a Merry Christmas, and they responded with a Happy Hanukkah, even in a nasty tone as to try to tell me something, I'd look at them and say, "Happy Hanukkah!"

It's definitely not deserving of a beatdown.


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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:44 PM
Response to Reply #99
101. There wasn't even a nasty tone.
The young man happily answered back with, “Happy Chanukah.”
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 12:09 AM
Response to Reply #101
116. I know that....
I was just trying to point out the absurdity that EVEN IF he used a "snotty" tone, he was beat up for it.

:)

(Said in a non-snotty way! You can't always tell tone on the internets!)


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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 10:36 AM
Response to Reply #116
122. Then why did I have to
wipe off my screen? Huh?? Huh???? :)
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 11:59 AM
Response to Reply #122
123. Those are fighting words!!!
:*
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:28 PM
Response to Reply #93
104. you are a raging asshole of monumental proportions
and judging from your posts here and in other threads a prime bigot and anti-semite. That you haven't been tombstoned is shameful, shithead.

A big fuck you in your general direction
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:29 PM
Response to Reply #104
105. Actually, he has been.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:00 PM
Response to Reply #105
112. Thank goodness. I've alerted on him in other threads. Hey, on-duty Mod--
Happy whatever the heck you want to have happy around now! :toast:
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:10 PM
Response to Reply #112
114. Enthusiastically agree.
Here's to the mods: :toast:
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:22 PM
Response to Reply #112
115. I will note for the record
that trying to provide the mods with champagne through the port in your laptop does some seriously bad shit. :+
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #93
111. Disappointed that the victim had no more damage? That's a sick version of blaming the victim.
But since you are one of those whiny-ass "oppressed" Christians, I'm not surprised, dear Willie.

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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:39 PM
Response to Reply #28
67. Well meaning strangers????
You have a funny way of looking at people.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:03 PM
Response to Reply #28
74. Yeah the group was
so nice that one of them has plead guilty of a hate crime against African Americans in 2005.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:31 PM
Response to Reply #28
81. 'I certainly don't condone the behavior of the group, but I can understand it.' - Good gravy.
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:37 PM
Response to Reply #28
86. Totally different reading of the situation...
than I have. And if they were offering really nice season greetings, I doubt that they'd turn on a dime, even if the response was rude, in order to beat a stranger up.

They were out to do damage.


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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:09 PM
Response to Reply #28
91. Are you for real?
Hey there Mr. Oppressed Christian, I'd suggest not leaving your house if you have such a warped outlook. Don't want you going around roughing people up for not replying to your greetings in the correct manner. You can understand the behavior of that group? Are you really that sick and twisted? If you weren't aware, Christmas isn't until the 25th, Chanukah is already happening. Have fun being oppressed.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 12:21 PM
Response to Reply #12
124. I used to live in Cleveland
and heard Happy Chanukah every time I went to the deli down town. I always accepted it with the spirit intended.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:49 AM
Response to Reply #8
13. "Challenge" a Merry Christmas? A holiday greeting is now an incitement to gang violence?
"Challenge" a holiday greeting. Some ideas are beneath contempt--and yours is the beneathest I've seen.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 11:02 AM
Response to Reply #13
23. Proving once again
that if you can't hide the fact you're Jewish (or Asian, or Muslim, or African American, or female, or....) it's your fault if something bad happens to you.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 11:09 AM
Response to Reply #23
26. It's exhausting inciting twisted minds to violence all the time.
Yet I soldier on bravely and won't stop until the last good male is pushed beyond the brink of self-control.

For the wittically challenged (not you, LD): :sarcasm:
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 11:34 AM
Response to Reply #26
27. hehehehehe
Well done.
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Wiregrass Willie Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:49 PM
Response to Reply #13
92. Beneathest ? Is that down there with whale shit ? n-t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:03 PM
Response to Reply #92
102. And then some. nt
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elizfeelinggreat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:57 AM
Response to Reply #8
14. huh?
Stupid? I thought it was an entirely appropriate response. Or perhaps you think appropriate would have been to say, "Why are you trying to convert me to YOUR religion?" That seems to be where you're headed with this line of reasoning.

Last week I said, "Happy Holidays" to a man as he was waving good-bye to me and he said, "Oh come on, none of that sh**, say 'Merry Christmas'". I simply replied "That's a holiday, too" and walked away.

I was raised Catholic and thought nothing of saying happy holidays but he saw it as some kind of personal challenge. What a sad kind of life that must be to live.

I could have escalated the conversation and tried enlighten him on the spirit of goodwill this season but realized from his "sh**" comment and the change in his posture when he said it that any such effort would be energy wasted.


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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:43 PM
Response to Reply #14
68. Obviously the poor oppressed gent
listens to Bill O'Reilly or John Gibson or any of the other faux news talking heads that feel they are so beaten down they've declared war.
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 09:04 AM
Response to Reply #8
17. You're out of your mind. As a former NYer, we deal with other ethnicities 24/7. It's standard.
I remember one day, my girlfriend and I sitting on the train holding hands and playing with a little boy with his grandmother: who was in a full black nikab and face veil. She laughed with us as we played with her little boy for about 45 minutes.

In NYC you're dealing with on average of about 10 different races/ethnicities an hour and everyone. There's nothing odd about saying Happy Hannukah in response to Merry Xmas.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:24 PM
Response to Reply #17
37. i love how some people feel ENTITLED to say merry christmas but think its ok to get beaten up
for saying happy hanukah

fucking assholes.
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:45 PM
Response to Reply #17
69. Wow - I was just telling someone
that while I see women in headscarves all the time in the city, I've never seen a face veil. They were shocked. I guess I take the wrong subway.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 09:05 AM
Response to Reply #8
18. wow. what is wrong with you? Every single account of this
story makes it quite clear that this group was indeed assaulted because they were Jewish.

Your blaming the victims here is repulsive. Active denial of out and out bigotry isn't much better than the actual bigotry itself.

As for never having seen a tatoo of Christ, they're not uncommon. But keeping making excuses for the perpetrator. Shows who you are.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 09:06 AM
Response to Reply #8
19. you've never seen a tat of jesus?
there are LOTS of them out there.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 11:05 AM
Response to Reply #19
24. Truly.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 11:00 AM
Response to Reply #8
21. Wowsers.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:11 PM
Response to Reply #8
29. Um...wow. And rape survivors are raped because they're stupid.
Teach them to go outside without their chador.

(And I have seen Jesus tattoos)
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:13 PM
Response to Reply #8
31. you are an ass. nt
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:13 PM
Response to Reply #8
32. you are an ass. nt
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:00 PM
Response to Reply #32
54. heh. let me echo your echo and add a "hole" onto the the "ass" n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:21 PM
Response to Reply #54
59. I've got a suggestion that piccybacks your suggestion. A hint can be found in post 33
Edited on Fri Dec-14-07 01:35 PM by blondeatlast
(except I would encourage dear Willie to continue in your suggestion).
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:28 PM
Response to Reply #8
38. Where are you from?
I saw one just this morning getting my coffee and bagel at Guy and Gallard in Manhattan. One of the workers. And whenever someone wishes me a Merry Christmas and it's during Chanukkah, I always answer Happy Chanukkah. Are you also calling me stupid and deserving of a mob beating up on me?
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:31 PM
Response to Reply #38
40. yes, because clearly when its a religious greeting from some other faith, its an insult
however from christianity it is a friendly greeting.

welcome to hypocrisy 101. hope you have learned something in this class.
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:36 PM
Response to Reply #40
65. That this happened in New York makes
me want to cry. I know that sounds bad but right here in my office we have Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and a sprinkling of atheists and we all celebrate/acknowledge eachother's holy days, asking questions, understanding the history. You would think living in this city these miscreants would be more tolerant (or would surely know that Jesus wasn't killed during Hanukkah!!). I guess the assholes are everywhere. Hope these guys/gals spend a good deal of time locked up away from the rest of us.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:42 PM
Response to Reply #8
43. In other words, he was assaulted because he ADMITTED he was Jewish/ non-Christian?
'Don't ask, don't tell' if you're not Christian - is that the idea?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:54 PM
Response to Reply #43
48. I think in dear Willie's mind,saying "Happy Chanukkah" is a bold, unvarnished threat.
It's okay to flash the JC tat on your forearm, but a polite greeting is a threat justifying physical assault.

Willie is a candidate for big things in the failed Bush administration, I'm guessing.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:55 PM
Response to Reply #8
49. The Bush administration is on line 4--they say like the way you think, dear Willie. nt
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:32 PM
Response to Reply #8
60. Nice post, John Rocker!
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:48 PM
Response to Reply #60
70. Ooh - a blast from the past
yeah, he was charming.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:06 PM
Response to Reply #70
75. What an idiot! He should be banished to living on the 7 train!
BTW, you heard he was named in the steroid report?

:rofl:
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:35 PM
Response to Reply #75
82. No - I hadn't seen the whole list
but that kinda makes my day!! I can be very easily amused. I am sad that Andy Petite was on it though.

As far as the 7 train, it's too good for him. That train and the whole city would spit him out.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:46 PM
Response to Reply #60
88. Couldn't be...
could it?!

Or could it?

It could...
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 05:01 PM
Response to Reply #8
90. You are a schmuck.
You know that, don't you?

And if you didn't before, you know it now, putz.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:28 PM
Response to Reply #8
95. So you expect Jews to wish people a "Merry Christmas"???
(.....kestrel guffaws hysterically.......then weeps at the sheer unmitigated ignorance of this suggestion....)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:29 PM
Response to Reply #8
96. You've never seen a tattoo of Christ? You must live in Podunk, AR.
Come to my town.
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:35 PM
Response to Reply #8
97. What Type of Believer Would Call That Sacrilege?
Edited on Fri Dec-14-07 06:37 PM by Crisco
The type who listens to Chri$tian radio and buys WWJD paraphernalia?

You're right, though, he wasn't assaulted because he was Jewish. He was assaulted because he had the audacity to tell a group of Christians they don't own the holiday season, in not so many words.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 06:44 PM
Response to Reply #8
100. Go back to Stormfront, roachie.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 09:01 AM
Response to Original message
15. These guys were gonna get jumped either way
That doesn't make it right, but the arm waving about this is a very interesting case study in the effects of tabloid journalism. The crew jumping these guys were a bunch of douchebags. That's for sure.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 11:06 AM
Response to Reply #15
25. They were?
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:40 PM
Response to Reply #15
42. For what exactly?
2 of the attackers have been charged with hate crimes in the past and the Muslim kid who came to their aid said they did nothing wrong except reply Happy Chanauka..


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/12/national/main3609322.shtml

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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:07 PM
Response to Reply #42
58. You're asking for a reason?
They were drunk on the subway looking for trouble. You run into a crew like this, you'll see that asking for a reason is silly. They're gonna jack somebody.

By the way, I didn't say that the group that was attacked did anything wrong.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:09 PM
Response to Reply #58
76. So they were looking
to bash rather than it being a neonazi drunken overreaction? Eeew.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:04 PM
Response to Reply #76
83. Whatever
Things are very simple in your world. I welcome you to it.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:14 PM
Response to Reply #83
85. WTF?
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:42 PM
Response to Reply #15
44. why were they going to get jumped. its nyc, we all say happy hanukah/merry christmas
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:03 PM
Response to Reply #44
55. I grew up in New York City
I'm perfectly aware of the Happy Hannukah/ Merry Christmas dynamic. Still, it seems to me that the crew that rolled these guys were itching to throw a beatdown. It could have been Happy Hannukah, or a sidelong glance, or an accidental brush of the foot. It's a wrong place wrong time thing, not a war on Christmas thing.

This sort of shit happens all the time in New York. In this case, somebody in the tabs thought it was worth publicizing, likely due to the strange ethnic dynamic. I git stabbed on the 7 Line by a group of Chinese gangsters. They were like "What's up, whiteboy?" But it wasn't really a hate crime. They didn't attack me because I was white. It was just wrong place wrong time. That the racial or ethnic dynamic should emerge in such cases is just a by-product of the way New York runs. It is not the proximate cause of the attack. I would say that's the case here as well.

To that extent, I would also call into question the vision of a happy, integrated New York. NYC is ridiculously segregated to this day in terms of where people live and even who people generally associate with. This is especially true when you get into the outer boros (where the assailants live), but it is also obviously true of Manhattan. Outer boros culture remains fervidly racist and anti-semitic, especially in the historically white enclaves.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:05 PM
Response to Reply #55
57. i see what you mean.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 09:04 AM
Response to Original message
16. "Happy Hanukkah, that’s when the Jews killed Jesus…"
ummmm...that would actually be passover.

and according to the story- pontius pilate, and the romans who put the guy up the cross were not jews.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 11:01 AM
Response to Reply #16
22. But that says a great deal about the type of "Christians" who would jump
someone over a holiday greeting.

All cross, no Christ (as another DUer observed recently) and NO knowledge of the literature of their faith.

All too common, really.
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hughee99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #16
66. That's right...
IIRC, Hanukkah is when Moses rises from the dead to feast on the blood of the living.

I hope it's not necessary to say this, but just in case, I am just kidding.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 12:47 PM
Response to Original message
47. This is both a shocking and an inspiring story
Inspiring because of Askari's heroic and humane behaviour. Yes, it does remind me of the Good Samaritan.

Shocking because of the hateful behaviour of the 'Christians' (who obviously don't know much about their religion, or at least they'd know that Jesus was not killed at Chanukah! So they're stupid, as well as evil.) I am glad that they are being charged with hate crimes.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 01:55 PM
Response to Original message
61. Wow. So much for christian tolerance. I hope that BIll O'Reilly is happy now.
In the spirit of the birth of Jesus we are going to pound the living hell out of you. Sad.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 02:59 PM
Response to Reply #61
72. My bad--my sl was uninformed. Apologies to thoise who read it. nt
Edited on Fri Dec-14-07 03:25 PM by blondeatlast
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:11 PM
Response to Reply #72
77. 2 of the people charged have been arrested for hate crimes
in the past. While I understand your point I do believe this was motivated by the victims religion..
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:24 PM
Response to Reply #77
79. Good point, and my bad on this.
:hi:
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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 04:07 PM
Response to Reply #79
84. No sweat.. that info was not in the link the OP posted..
Edited on Fri Dec-14-07 04:08 PM by walldude
I think I got it from CBS news..

edit: linky in case you need it

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/12/national/main3609322.shtml
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:22 PM
Response to Reply #72
78. Yeah, I wonder if they were from Howard Beach
:eyes:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 03:27 PM
Response to Reply #78
80. Again, my apologies. I wasn't aware there was a previous hate crimes conviction. nt
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jhrobbins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:31 PM
Response to Original message
106. I have been known on occasion to wish myself Merry Christmas and then
respond, Screw you Jewboy and then knock myself out. It cuts out the middleman.
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:37 PM
Response to Reply #106
109. roflol
I have been known to beat myself up while uttering anti-Semitic sentiments after buying up Cadbury Cream Eggs half price the Monday after Easter. :+
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 07:38 PM
Response to Reply #106
110. LOL!!
priceless. :rofl:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-14-07 08:01 PM
Response to Reply #106
113. I think I love you. I needed a laugh
:rofl:
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Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 02:02 PM
Response to Reply #106
125. That is a hoot! AND...needs to be a DUzy!
:rofl:
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jhrobbins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 06:54 PM
Response to Reply #125
126. Thank y'all - I'll be here all week.
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 12:21 AM
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117. Wow - this story is crazy
Hard to believe it's 2007 and stuff like this still happens.
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entanglement Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 12:53 AM
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118. Take a look at this picture of the alleged attackers
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 12:54 AM
Response to Reply #118
119. Swoon.
:puke:
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entanglement Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 01:15 AM
Response to Reply #119
120. Me too
I also hope the young lady in the picture realizes the risks of associating with WN Skins / Christian Identity types. Definitely not a good idea for anyone, male or female. While many are working class kids I feel sorry for at some level, they are thoroughly brainwashed and have an astonishing propensity for violence and hate.
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-15-07 02:31 AM
Response to Reply #118
121. aww, sexual roleplay -- i think.
nope, no, i'm wrong. either that or they can't remember their safewords... though you think they would know the game would end somewhere after over a day of play.
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