It was just called "a hate crime" by the Seattle police dept. Chertoff has standing orders to law enforcement I guess that every time someone is taken out, it is a hate crime, not terrorism.
He doesn't use the colors like Tom Ridge used to either. Guess we're on our own.
The only way to tell is to check out the perp's family and associates thoroughly. Hopefully that will be done objectively without any preordained conclusion.
I'm not impressed with Chertoff's general job performance at all, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that there are "standing orders" to classify every incident like this as a "hate crime" rather than terrorism. There are instances where it might be difficult to distinguish between the two. Let's just wait and see what develops here.
Go figure, seems to me that terrorism IS a hate crime anyway, blurry line?
In fact, also seems to me that most vocal Muzzies' ARE rooted on hate, so I guess we need to let the lawyers sort it out?
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