[Bob434]

[[Excuse my ignorance on this but lets just say it was a noose. How would a simple knot in a rope be a crime?]]

IF soemoen tied one and intentionally put it in a spot that was meant to intimidate soemone, then that’s a hate crime- but there is no evidence at all that the rope was tied that way to intimidate anyone, now was it placed in a manner that would intimidate someone (ie on their doorhandle, or hanging from their mirror, or whatever- where it would ‘send a message’, and coudl then be considered a ‘hate crime’)

But again- none of that happened here- but bubba- always the attention seeking professional victim, continues to call it a racist act- and to call everyone who doubts it ‘simple minded’

[Reily]

The whole concept of “hate crime” is bogus!

Someone says something or puts up a symbol that says I hate you. Big deal weren’t we supposed to get passed that type of emotional reaction to juvenile nonsense when we reached the age of majority (or earlier like when we get out of grade school!)

Thought police are just around the corner from “hate crime”!

[precisionshootist]

Is Bubba black? Sorry I just don’t follow Nascar that much. It sounds like this driver is making this into a big deal but that would not be possible without the wonderfully useless FBI turning this into a monty python skit.

[precisionshootist]

I will have to say at least the FBI dismissed it as a possible hate crime. So I guess they at least got that right but it sounds like it took more than a half a dozen guys making six figure salaries to figure out what would have been obvious to a 5th grader.

The problem with the FBI is not the 1 percent, the problem is the other 99.