The Legacy of Chimpy/Gopper Klanservatism

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Let me beat that dead horse once again, for those who may not have been here for any of my other beatings.The election of 2004 was framed around the issue of “gay marriage” in order to get the Jesusistan wingtards to the polls to keep the moronic monkey installed in office. They, plus the sleazy machinations of J. Kenneth Blackwell in rigging the Ohio election, got the job done. But hating gays is only the tip of the flaming cross.

Those who have been paying attention for longer than 5 minutes know all about the Jesusistan fringe of Gopperdom. They claim to congregate (and vote) out of Christian love, but their street message is an unrelenting tome of hate. They hate women who have abortions (whether or not the abortion is because of rape, or sex with your brother, or to save your life.) The funny thing is, they hate people who wind up on public assistance (nearly all of whom have children) every bit as much as they hate women who have abortions. I suppose that one could conclude that they want to make sure that they never run out of people to hate. But, I digress…

It isn’t the public assistance that they hate, so much as their concept of WHO is on public assistance. Jesusistanis have had it pounded into their pointy little hoods that the only people who are on public assistance are Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans,… you get the picture. They also believe that all these people are sitting on their lazy asses, collecting fat paychecks, driving around in big Buicks, and totally coddled by the “libruls” who just love to pay people for doing nothing. Since the Jesusistanis never go beyond FOX “News” or the Sunday sermon for any of their information, they have almost no concept of what life is really like for about 99.99% of people on public assistance, the vast majority of whom are WHITE. If public assistance is as good as wingtard pundits claim it to be, how come we aren’t all banging down the door to the local welfare office? Oh, yeah-you have to be a minority to live the good life for free. How do I keep forgetting these things? Anyhow… what has occurred is that through the “values” mobilizations, bigoted wingtards all over the country have had their concept of minorities reinforced, in spite of there being nothing in actual fact to back those concepts up. Those concepts of minorities (welfare-liking doped and drunk criminals out to steal everything you have and cart off all the pretty blonde girls for use as doped-up sex toys) come straight out of the ante-bellum South, and were largely responsible for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan. The bigotry of the “values” folks is undeniable, as at least one of the famous “values” groups is using a mailing list purchased from the Ku Klux Klan.

Given that the bigots are in control of the Republican Party and in fact installed a President themselves, it is no surprise to see them gearing up in 2008 for a very nakedly racist assault on the Hispanic population in America. Yes, they say “illegals,” but the core of the crusade is aimed straight at the brown people who speak with accents. You never hear anyone complaining about the numerous Russian, Polish, Latvian, and other such illegals in the country, do you? Of course you don’t. And you know why.

The bigots being in charge has left the rank-and-file bigots feeling pretty good about themselves. As a result, attacks on minority people are skyrocketing, especially attacks on Hispanics. Again, no surprises here; the Hispanics are the latest ones in the crosshairs. Every time the wingtard bigots focus on a particular group of people, attacks on them shoot up. But the spikes against certain minority groups should not blind us from the overall trend, which is alarming. I don’t believe the US can work as anything except the melting pot is has traditionally been, a belief that was shared by Dr. King, among others. If we persecute these people, and force them to live in enclaves of poverty and destitution, then we are excluding them from American life. Why would they want to be a part of a country that treats them so badly?

Having had many relatives who never left Reservations, I do know exactly of what I speak. The prejudice is institutionalized from without, and absorbed and hard-coded from within. If we don’t get these racist religious pukes out of our Government, we’re going to experience firsthand what the Russians experienced when the Lithuanians finally saw an opportunity to make a break. Do the wingtards hate minorities so much that they are willing to destroy the country to avoid giving them an even break?

I believe that they do.

There were no hate crimes in Mississippi in 2005 or 2006, according to the most recent FBI statistics. Nationwide, say the stats, hate crimes rose 7.8 percent in ‘06, with 7,722 incidents. Hardly, is the answer from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics. Hate crimes stem from bias, aimed against a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability. The DoJ reports that the numbers are almost 25 times higher than the FBI reports, with annual average of 191,000 hate crimes from 2000 through 2003.

Law enforcement agencies voluntarily furnish statistics to the FBI, who compile them into their Uniform Crime Reporting stats. Hate crimes are a subset of the total numbers. The fact that reporting is voluntary explains some of the discrepancy. If police fail to record a crime as a hate crime, if departments don’t report them to the FBI or report them inaccurately, the real numbers never show up in the FBI database. In Mississippi, 62 agencies report hate-crime numbers, representing 28.5 percent of the state’s population. The city of Jackson does not report, and neither do about a third of law enforcement agencies, nationwide.

Failure to report can be false reporting when states turn in zero crimes for jurisdictions that simply did not report.

The DoJ report merged the FBI numbers with those of the National Criminal Victimization Survey, which reports hate crimes based on victims’ perceptions and require corroborating evidence. It is a proactive survey, instead of a passive compilation.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups nationally, reported problems with the FBI’s stats in 2001 in Intelligence Report magazine. In “Discounting Hate,” the SPLC stated that “the national effort to document hate-motivated crime is in shambles.”

“I think a few more agencies report now than they did then, but it hasn’t changed that much,” said “Discounting Hate” co-author Heidi Beirich.

Beyond just insufficient reporting, the FBI’s numbers affect public policy. Agencies use the faulty statistics to support their need for after-school programs, for example. When a jurisdiction reports inaccurate numbers, they can’t target programs or qualify for grants. As a result, there are no programs.

Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990, following a wave of anti-gay violence in the late ’80s. The “hate” crime designation was the first to include sexual orientation, and doing so made the label controversial from the start. As one “Discounting Hate” interviewee-a Texas police chief-put it, “I always had a problem with hate crime laws, anyhow. I mean, you don’t shoot people because you love them.”

But hate crimes are different. First, targeting one individual because of a bias is targeting the group, and seeing that person as its representative. Secondly, preventing hate crime requires different tactics than those for crimes involving domestic violence, for example, or drug crimes. Being able to see why crimes are being committed instead of just counting how many occur allows officials to implement effective anti-crime tactics.

“You need state-level agencies that care about hate crimes,” Beirich said. In California and New Jersey, the states pressure law enforcement to take hate crime statistics seriously. Conversely, other states, such as Alabama, don’t even include all of the federal definitions of target groups in their state statutes, leaving out sexual orientation.

Most recently, violence against Latinos has taken a sharp upward turn. Even looking at the FBI’s woeful numbers, anti-Latino crime has risen 35 percent nationwide from 2003 to 2006. In California, the state with the largest population of Latinos, the numbers have nearly doubled. Regularly characterized with inhuman attributes-invaders, illegals, cockroaches-Latinos are under siege by those who wish to repel and exterminate them.

“People who are undocumented, when crimes happen to them they’re very fearful to come forward.” said Bill Chandler, Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance president and executive director, adding that law enforcement seems resistant to deal with anti-Latino crimes. In Mississippi, Chandler said, only Ridgeland and Canton have been responsive.

Nationwide, victims report less than 44 percent of all hate crimes to the police, according to the DoJ study. And of those reported, police validate only one in five. Given the controversy surrounding the “official” FBI numbers, it seems unconscionable that Congress has not implemented a more accurate method to report hate crime statistics.

“The FBI’s numbers are considered the ‘gold’ standard, and it’s ridiculous,” Beirich said. “It’s more like a ‘fool’s gold’ standard.”

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