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MSU Student's Mouth Stapled Shut In Horrific Hate Crime.
watchdog ^ | 9.25.2012 | watchdog

Posted on 09/25/2012 3:38:43 PM PDT by Morgana

Zachary Tennen, a 19-year-old sophomore at Michigan State University, was at an off-campus party when two college-aged men approached him and demanded to know if he was Jewish.

When Zachary said he was, the men made a Hitler salute, said they were part of the Ku Klux Klan, and beat him unconscious, breaking his jaw in the process.

While he was knocked out, one of them stapled the boy’s mouth shut while guests at the party watched. No one intervened or called the police – instead, the other guests kicked Zachary out of the house the moment the 19-year-old came to.

Zachary is scheduled for surgery this week, but his trials are far from over. As East Lansing police try to find the men who assaulted him, department spokesmen claim they don’t believe the attack was a hate crime, and are refusing to investigate it as such.

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To: Morgana
Anyone with a modicum of sense knows that the American right is pro-Israel and pro-Jewish and anti-Muslim.

If anyone actually did beat this kid up, they were likely Muslims and certainly not Republicans nor right wingers.

21 posted on 09/25/2012 3:56:03 PM PDT by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: ZULU

Michigan does? How much?


22 posted on 09/25/2012 3:57:12 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

May be made up; yet to be seen. Don’t bet that if true it won’t be promoted as an attack by “right wing” (read GOP) extremists.


23 posted on 09/25/2012 3:57:16 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Meanwhile in Ann Arbor a judge just handed down a restraining order against a kid who got his ass kicked by several members of the UofM hockey team.

Yeah he got his butt kicked but good but then he shouldn’t have been stalking the ex girlfriend he beat up a few days earlier.


24 posted on 09/25/2012 4:00:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: RJS1950
The original KKK was a Souvrn' phenomenon and it was pret' near a Democrat deal. The later KKK of the 1920s was an Ohio Valley phenomenon ~ and they took over the Republican party in numerous places.

There were competing KKK operations in the 1920s.

The KKK in the immediate post Civil War period was dedicated to corraling Negroes and murdering Republican politicians. The KKK in the 1920s was dedicated to supremacy over Negroes, Catholics and Jews ~ giving it an entirely different flavor.

Today's KKK is mostly irrelevant.

25 posted on 09/25/2012 4:02:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Good to see someone was on this one before I saw it.

Short story (from various sources): he drunkenly provoked another drunk, who gave him a single [undeserved] shot to the jaw. A couple people put frozen veggies on his jaw, put him in a cab, and sent it to the hospital. No Nazis, no extended beat down while witness did nothing, no anti-semitism, no mouth stapling.

He is the victim of assault and battery. He's also a liar, possibly to belatedly save face (multiple puns intended).

The Anti-Defamation League actually withdrew its statement on this being a "hate crime..."
26 posted on 09/25/2012 4:03:04 PM PDT by verum ago (Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
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To: RJS1950
Don’t bet that if true it won’t be promoted as an attack by “right wing” (read GOP) extremists.

I'm betting nothing . . . your comment simply was like "blaming it on the "local union and democrat party headquarters."

27 posted on 09/25/2012 4:03:24 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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“Police also have no evidence that Tennen’s mouth was stapled as he maintains, Murphy said.”

Well,,,, with my experience with staplers,,,, the kid would have to have really, really thin lips for them to be stapled shut.


28 posted on 09/25/2012 4:03:52 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: ZULU

Michigan ranks about 6th in the muslim population of the USA. I believe NY tops the list.


29 posted on 09/25/2012 4:04:05 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yeah, so?


30 posted on 09/25/2012 4:04:30 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Morgana

A little web research revels that this article is a little over board. The police investigation states one punch no hitler salutes no witness to the mouth stapling etc. One suspect questioned but not arrested yet.


31 posted on 09/25/2012 4:05:54 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: muawiyah

I would agree with that, mostly irrelevant, except when the democrat party ties them to conservatives.


32 posted on 09/25/2012 4:06:13 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

Knee-jerk reactions are just that, just sayin’,


33 posted on 09/25/2012 4:10:12 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Morgana

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012309170031&nclick_check=1

even the ADL says not a hate crime. now the kid and the parents are silent.


34 posted on 09/25/2012 4:11:17 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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clearly someone punched him, but witnesses and that he (zach) was drinking and knocked unconscious could have tinkered with his memory.

the news media can’t find him, but he’s twittering away

https://twitter.com/ZJTbasketball11


35 posted on 09/25/2012 4:14:30 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

@ZJTbasketball11

“I am a self-proclaimed NBA expert. Don’t compare me to anybody else.”

If that kid acts like that every day I imagine its not the first or last time he gets his butt kicked.


36 posted on 09/25/2012 4:22:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Morgana

These police are effing stupid.


37 posted on 09/25/2012 4:30:31 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: cripplecreek

This was his tweet about the incident. (aug 26th)
“I’d really appreciate a retweet. I got my jaw fractured by 2 kids as a hate crime and they stapled inside my mouth.”

“@mcuban tweeted me? No way! One of my biggest supporters is @DirkRoberts, but what about Nowitzki? I’d like to hear from him! “ (aug 29th)

Someone started a support FB page for him, but the lasts posts are around the time (Sept. 6th), that witnesses were saying something different, a lot different and apparently he was walking party row, and no one in that house knew him. It happened out on the sidewalk in front. Plenty of more differences than Zach’s recollection. His father was very vocal, now they both have shut up.

He was apparently assaulted (while drinking underage), with one punch. That punch could have killed him. The alleged perp is 18 and hasn’t been arrested yet. The media of course, hyped the story and when the investigation to a hate crime turns up no Nazi-hate-crime, the MSM has moved on. The MSM has a duty to follow up.


38 posted on 09/25/2012 4:30:37 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Morgana

When I go to off-campus parties to drink, I always carry a stapler. You never know when you’ll have to prepare a report.


39 posted on 09/25/2012 4:32:57 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: cripplecreek

https://www.facebook.com/ThoseInSupportOfZachTennen?ref=ts


40 posted on 09/25/2012 4:33:16 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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