Posted on 06/11/2009 12:22:06 PM PDT by pissant
On a Sunday morning in Wichita, Kan., a man is murdered while attending church. The killing is immediately labeled a "hate crime" and an act of "domestic terrorism."
The news media is outraged. Television networks act as if the man was a martyr, and the story is front-page news in every newspaper in the country. Attorney General Eric Holder orders the U.S. Marshal's Office to increase security around the slain man's business and around similar businesses. Later he announces that the Justice Department will launch a federal investigation into the murder to see if it was a conspiracy.
The next day, in Little Rock, Ark., two young men are shot down by a lone gunman. One of them dies. For the most part, the public knows nothing about this shooting because the news media don't report the story. They are too busy covering every possible aspect of the first murder. No federal investigation is announced to determine whether there may be others involved in a conspiracy in Little Rock. And no one calls it a hate crime.
What could possibly make the first victim so much more important than the second? Why the lopsided coverage? What about the shooters? What information do we have on them? And why would the United States government go to such lengths to search for co-conspirators in the former case and not the latter?
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Good post!
Smoke & Mirrors?
I was surfing the evening news broadcasts yesterday evening, and when talking about the Museum murderer, they referred to the other hate crime of the murder of Doctor Tiller.
Ironic that they didn’t classify the Little Rock murder as a “hate” crime. Seems to me this act filled all the critieria. But, then again, whaddoIknow.
To liberal-drug-damaged mind, hate crimes do not apply to members of the military. We aren't in their 'protected class'.
Rank hypocracy
The concept of “hate crime” is ridiculous. But libbers love the term “hate crime” for the extra exposure and “impact” it has. Eliminate the concept of “hate crime”. A crime is a crime. Period.
Covering up the “extenuating circumstances” of the recruiting center shooting,
combined with the pardoning of the same group for their voter intimidation in Pa...
I think you can put the pieces together and see where they want to go with this.
More ironic that it is largely because of the military that they have the freedom to express their views.
Islam IS a hate crime.
It all comes up looking like obama’s administration is upset over the death of a dr. who was killing Americans by the thousands, and yet at the same time he’s not upset over a muslim convert who murdered an American.
I don’t believe that dr. should have been murdered but it sure makes you wonder; As long as Americans are being killed obama’s happy? Not happy when someone takes out their killers?
One crime fits in with the media’s agenda - White Christian males are evil but dark middle eastern bearded ones are really nice people, just misunderstood.
There’s no such thing as equality in the ‘progressive’ world.
Divide and conquer....
Later term abortion is the ultimate hate crime.
They don’t care about justice and public safety.
All they care about is political correctness.
“Terrorism At Work” was the headline of Arkansas Times today, focused entirely on Tiller’s murder. The only mention of the Little Rock shooting was in the “It was a good week for/bad week for” section.
Disgusting that the paper would choose to write an article about an abortion doctor, rather than the death of one of Arkansas’s own.
in Little Rock, Ark., two young men are shot down by a lone gunman. One of them dies. For the most part, the public knows nothing about this shooting because the news media don't report the story. They are too busy covering every possible aspect of the first murder. No federal investigation is announced to determine whether there may be others involved in a conspiracy in Little Rock. And no one calls it a hate crime.
You are absolutely right.
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