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U.S. Attorney General Seizes on Recent Murders to Press for New ‘Hate Crimes’ Law
Washington (AP) – Citing recent killings in Arkansas, Kansas and the nation’s capital, Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday said new hate crimes law were needed to stop what he called “violence masquerading as political activism.”
The attorney general’s call for Congress to act came as a civil rights coalition said there has been a surge in white supremacist activity since the election of the first African-American president and the economic downturn.
Except the Kansas murder wasn’t race, and the Arkansas murder was at the hands of a black convert to Islam.
Someone finally has admitted that the Arkansas murder not only happened, but implied that it was a hate crime. And he is correct. Now if only the authorities in Arkansas are listening. Since the victim was a military recruiter, and the motivation seemed to be hate of the U.S. Armed Forces, I’m sure that Holder’s Justice Department could also get involved.
The growing number of hate crimes against Latinos also shows the need for tougher laws, Holder said.
At the hands of blacks, mostly.
Separately Tuesday, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund issued a report saying white supremacist activity online spiked after Barack Obama’s election victory in November, and hate groups now use social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to spread their message.
Separately Tuesday, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund cut and pasted material from www.splcenter.org.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reported in February that the number of hate groups had risen by more than 50 percent since 2000, from 602 to 926.
Extrapolating the SPLC data from every where that “hate groups” have risen 50 percent per decade, there will be 814,602,891,950,001,775,222,143,430 hate groups by 2020.
–African-Americans remain by far the most frequent victims of hate crimes. Of the 7,624 hate crime incidents reported nationwide in 2007, the most recent year available, 34 percent were perpetrated against African-Americans.
Mostly at the hands of Hispanics. Though since Hispanic crime is counted as white crime on the official books, my contention might be hard to prove other than using circumstantial evidence.
–In 2007, there were 969 reported hate crimes committed against Jews, constituting 12.7 percent of all hate crimes reported and 69 percent of religious bias hate crimes reported.
M-U-S-L-I-M.
–Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 2001, the number of hate crimes directed against Arab-Americans, Muslims and Sikhs escalated dramatically. In 2001, those groups were victimized in nearly 5 percent of the total number of hate crimes reported that year, 481 out of 9,730. While the number of reported hate crimes against the groups declined from the peak of 2001, it remains substantially above pre-2001 levels.
Funny, I seem to recall out of the back of my mind that there were almost 3,000 hate crimes committed on the day of September 11, 2001.
–Reported hate crimes committed against individuals because of their sexual orientation increased in 2007 to 1,265, the highest level in five years. Of all hate crimes reported in 2007, the proportion committed against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals rose to 16.6 percent, also the highest level in five years.
A high percentage of those are at the hands of blacks, especially if the victim is a white and LGBT and in a big city.
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