To: Conscience of a Conservative
The altercation erupted when Adler and his friends said "Happy Chanukah" to a group yelling "Merry Christmas" on the Brooklyn-bound train. Where were Adler's friends? 10 guys beat up Askari while Adler and friends who also engaged in the taunting escaped injury?
Is there security camera footage of the assault?
Eight men and two women have pleaded not guilty to assault, menacing and other charges in the case. Prosecutors have said the charges could be upgraded to hate crimes.
Would I have been justified engaging the black muslim street preacher who held a bullhorn to my face and pointed me out to the crowd as I walked by calling me a "white devil" for happening to have white skin and walking the streets of NYC (I did not say a thing or react before or afterwards to the man, his insult was in no way provoked)? Would my retaliation have been a "hate crime"? Or is the original taunt a hate crime?
13 posted on
12/12/2007 10:17:47 AM PST by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: weegee
Adler and friends who also engaged in the taunting escaped injury? Adler, pictured in today's Post, has a large, swelled black eye.
18 posted on
12/12/2007 10:18:50 AM PST by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: weegee
Where were Adler's friends? 10 guys beat up Askari while Adler and friends who also engaged in the taunting escaped injury?
"That a random Muslim kid helped some Jewish kids, that's what's positive about New York," said Adler, 23, who suffered a broken nose and a lip wound.
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