Posted on 12/14/2010 12:41:10 PM PST by Wile E Coyote Genius
After conducting an investigation in response to a recent police report that 36 books treating LGBT topics had been damaged with what appeared to be urine in Lamont Library last month, the University determined Monday morning that the incident was an accident and will no longer be treated as a hate crime, according to a statement sent from College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds to the Harvard community on Monday.
On November 24, library staff at Lamont discovered the damaged books—on subjects including lesbian and gay issues and same-sex marriage—along with a bottle assumed to have contained what investigators believed to be urine. This past Friday, library personnel reported the incident to the College and Harvard University Police Department as vandalism, and the affair was subsequently investigated as a hate crime for the "focused nature and related topics" of the affected books, according to Hammonds.
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Exactly.
You called it...
Who cares?
Bet on it. It is likely that the "clumsy staffer" got caught setting up the "hate crime."
Link to my post on an earlier thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2642222/posts?page=37#37
never cry “wolf”
Yeah. They’re busy studying alright. Studying how to stuff various and sundry bodily fluids into a bottle.
Occam’s Razor.
Chainsaw in this case.
What’s all the ruckus? Some sodomite just left his bottle of pee on the shelf while perusing the selection of “gay” literature. Understandable. /sarc
Does make this Dean look like something of an idiot. Maybe there should be a prohibition for filling a “false” hate crime report. Naw...don’t combat dumb laws with dumb laws. Plus, it would somehow be used against hetereosexuals.
This just shows that “hate crimes” legislation should be removed from the books. A crime is a crime....the motive doesn’t matter except as a mitigating circumstance...not something to make the crime more heinous. If you wrongly punch someone in the nose, it is assault and battery...it matters not if it was because you thought the person “queer” or just unlikeable. Assault and battery is a crime....leave it at that for the punishment. Now if you punched the dude for calling your wife a whore then there might be grounds for a lesser punishment or dismissal...a mitigating factor. I’m not sure that aggravating factors like “hate” should matter....now if the motive was robbery, that is an aggravating factor.
Urine on gay books = hate crime
Urine on religious Cross = Art
Got it?
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