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Debate of hate
Boston Globe ^
| 3/25/2002
| By Douglas Belkin
Posted on 03/26/2002 12:19:23 PM PST by gd124
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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AMILTON - Eighth-grader Hanna Hoy thought she was doing a pretty good thing when she asked the Board of Selectmen to sign a pledge against hatred, already approved in 54 Massachusetts communities.
''Was I surprised when they rejected it? Yeah, definitely,'' said Hoy, a poised, articulate 13-year-old. ''I mean, who wouldn't want their town to be a more accepting place?''
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: braad; constitutionlist; culturewar; fundingtheleft; hamilton; hate; massachusetts; masslist
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Rocco Longo, the Duxbury town manager who helped bring the No Place for Hate program into his town in 1999, said he doesn't think Hamilton's selectmen should be afraid to take a stand.BARF ALERT! By not agreeing to this proposal by the convicted criminal organisation, the ADL, they are taking a stand.
It seems there is some sanity in Mass. after all.
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:19:23 PM PST
by
gd124
To: gd124
Why don't they call the program "Hate Hate"?
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:21:40 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
To: gd124
Take a stand against the ADL, an organizaton which lost its purpose years ago!
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:23:09 PM PST
by
Clemenza
To: gd124
"...and then take action by sponsoring art shows, essay contests, and the like." Perhaps if we had a few art shows and essay contests in Ramallah and the West Bank they would stop terrorist attacks. Call Rumsfeld now -- make art, not war!
To: gd124
What's the matter? These people don't like being coerced into making gratuituous statements of political correctness foisted on them by an organization with a foreign policy agenda somewhat at odds with the USA? C'mon! Where's their one-world-government loyalty?
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:27:51 PM PST
by
samtheman
To: AppyPappy
Why don't they call the program "Hate Hate"?Yes. And why are they not more accepting of it? They embrace everything else, why not hate?
To: gd124
Finally a chance to be proud of someone in Massachusetts. Saints preserve us.
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:30:15 PM PST
by
HalfIrish
To: gd124
The ADL should have been stripped of it's nonprofit status YEARS AGO. They simply don't fall under the applicable laws. Just as PETA, NOW, RAINBOW SHOVE, The Wall Shakedown Street Project, The Brady Gun Bunch, etc, etc etc. don't seem to. Add Judicial W to the list too.
Too many of these "companies" are in business to push their political agenda and/or enrich their handlers. They should not be sucking on the taxpayers tit any longer.
There are over 700,000 nonprofits in America. And nobody is paying attention to many of them that are fleecing the American taxpayer.
To: gd124
I hate it when people bad mouth hate.
Owl_Eagle
Guns Before Butter.
To: AppyPappy
I kind of like "Death To Haters!" < /smile >
To: gd124
... the feel-good program designed by the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organization that battles anti-Semitism a race-baiting, hate-filled, money-grubbing, blackmailing, anti-American, gang of terrorists who deserve to be properly tried and hanged for their offenses.
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:38:41 PM PST
by
meadsjn
To: gd124
The people of Hamilton should immediately proceed to their places of worship to thank the Lord that their city government appreciates its proper role.
BTW, why the Jewish people have leaped so eagerly on to the overcrowded, self-hating, self-destructive victim bandwagon is beyond me.
To: Clemenza
Their purpose is to raise money.
To: gd124
This is a lot like the "support gay rights" crap we used to get a o'l Missou. Everone wear jeans on February 15th to show your support for homosexual rights. Problem is, that's all we college kids had to wear and in dead of winter in flyover land we really didn't have a choice...jeans or freeze!
This is really the kind of childish garbage that you would expect from mush headed college kids. Unfortunately it seems adults seem to be regressing, a kind of second childhood where everyone has to be friends. Sorry folks, ain't goin to happen...
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:42:32 PM PST
by
shawnlaw
To: gd124
"By not agreeing to this proposal by the convicted criminal organisation, the ADL, they are taking a stand. "Yea; a soft one, maybe.
Hell.
The last thing these *Selsect Men* want to be getting??
Are ADL-engineered mail bombs.
The unhateful, killing kind?
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:43:44 PM PST
by
Landru
To: meadsjn
No Place for Hate I assume this campaign lays the groundwork to define insensitive acts of free thought to be "hate crimes" which will call for forfeiture of the life, liberty and property of the "haters", the first of those will most likely be non-pagan, heterosexist, persons of non-color, who don't recycle.
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:46:15 PM PST
by
Procyon
To: HalfIrish
So someone's boy was the victim of a slur. What one of us have not been called names at some point in our lives. This is way to big of a reaction to name calling.
To: thatsnotnice
A conundrum that reminds me of a line from a Bob Dylan song:
...while others say "don't hate nothin' at all except hatred."
To: meadsjn
Both my kids have refused to sign similar pledges at their school. Yes, even in Northern Idaho, 'tolerance' is a high school buzzword. My kids don't tolerate evil or stupidity.
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posted on
03/26/2002 12:56:35 PM PST
by
Noumenon
To: AppyPappy
I have met Jews who have told me the same.
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posted on
03/26/2002 1:00:34 PM PST
by
Clemenza
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