Posted on 12/25/2006 9:44:27 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--A long running private Christmas light display was vandalized in the days before Christmas, with the perpetrators singling out the crosses.
According to the Ithaca Journal, "vandals cut wires supplying electricity to a large merry Christmas sign and three large crosses that stand 12- to 15-feet tall" on the property of Ithaca resident Bill Lower.
"They bypassed other decorations and went out of their way to wreck the crosses, he said.Jay Gartlein, who helps Lower put up the decorations, said he found some of the vandals' targets curious.
The Lower property has 300,000 to 400,000 lights on it, most of which were not vandalized, the article notes.
Lower suspects that the vandals are adults, because the attacks were performed in a manner that indicated they were familiar with electricity.
"[T]hey cut the cords where we plug them in and in several locations along the cords," he said. "They didn't want us to be able to fix them because of the way they made the cuts."
ÂThere's no doubt in my mind that it was an attack on Christmas," he told the paper.
The attack on Christmas is the second time this year that Ithaca vandals have targeted a local monument in the days before a related holiday. The night before Veterans' Day, vandals defaced the local War Memorial, leading some residents to question the patriotism of their neighbors in this largely anti-war, liberal, community.
It remains to be seen whether this latest incident will similarly call into question the liberal community's tolerance for traditional religion.
The District Attorney is a lesbian activist and the Police Chief an affirmative action appointee who attended topless protests after she was hired.
This is sad news, indeed.
This is easy... you'll find the pond scum that did this either at the Humanities Dept at Cornell or at the local ACLU office. Crime solved.
Yes! Round up the usual suspects!
it being a sacred holiday and all, I won't repeat what I blurted out as I read your reply ;)
I hunt deer just 30 miles south of there in Waverly....what a difference between these two places.....
And you thought I didn't know my history...
Commie maggots.
The vandals who committed this hate crime are below the Fruit Fly on the intelligence scale in the animal kingdom.
Jenette SundquistGuess that's to attrack all the PERV'S that live there. The City of Evil has a 'gay rating' of 240 or some crap (100 is the norm).
Height: 5'-09", Weight: 148lbs
Hair: Blonde/Brown, Eyes: Brown
Skin Tone: Bad
(it really says that)William R. Ferris
Hair: Red (long and curly)[and kinda DIRTY], Eyes: Blue [and kinda BLURRY]
Skin Tone: Light [and kinda DIRTY]
Miscellaneous: Also wanted by the Tompkins County Sheriff's Department for: Viol. Probation; Underlying Charge: Criminal Sale Controlled SubstanceNo Kidding. Never would have guessed that!
On the 'upside' Ithaca has a Merry Go Round
A classic hate crime. I expect the Ithaca liberals to be outraged. Not.
Jesus said "They hated Me and they will hate you also".
Round em up and put em in concentration camps!
God is taking notes- We can prosecute but in the end- they'll be justly judged- http://sacredscoop.com
Everyone knew Ithaca had a very, very large population of homosexuals living there.
Given the mentality of these criminals, it wouldn't surprise me if the cut the cords when they were plugged in.
This is a good article. They refer to the place as "an unruly frontier town" in its early history. Now it's just unruly.
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