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Vandalisms Pranks or Hate Crimes?
(WSB Radio) An outbreak of vandalism has police in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs working to determine if it's a prank or a hate crime.
Dunwoody Police Sgt. Mike Carlson says swastikas were spray painted Saturday night on two homes, one on Redfield Road and the other on Coronation Drive.
Sgt. Carlson tells WSB "we do have a large Jewish community here in the city of Dunwoody, so we're of course gonna take this very seriously and try and locate the suspects who committed this crime."
Profanity and vulgar images were also found on the mailboxes, grass, bushes and roads near the vandalized homes.
Similar graffiti was found the same night at a house on Princeton Trace in Sandy Springs.
Investigators with both police departments are comparing case notes to see if the same people may be responsible for the vandlism in the two cities.
What others are saying
- It IS a hate crimeTake a moment to learn the ins and outs of free speech before you start whining about it. Free speech does NOT cover slander and libel. Hate speech is slanderous. It is not protected by the constitution. You people need to open a book and learn something instead of just whining with your tank half-full.
- hate crimeIf an individual is singled out due to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, including a swastika, it is a hate crime. Yes, this was probably done by teenagers, but these teenagers need to be educated to NOT vandalize or spread hate. Then, maybe they won't grow up to be an 88 year old man shooting and killing innocent people at the Holocaust Memorial in DC!
- Calling All WhinersYep, you boys are exactly right. Man, oh man, are you guys right on the money, or what???
Never takes the cops long to label a crime as a hate crime when the victim is a non White does it? But the hundreds and hundreds of daily non White on White crime occur, and there's never ONE word about HATE. Nope.
Only Whites HATE, only non Whites are Victims. Remember that folks: that's your NUMBER ONE RULE OF DIVERSITY.
ONLY WHITES HATE. ONLY NON WHITES ARE VICTIMS. Life will be so much simpler for everyone if we all just remember this one truth.
But don't you just LOVE the OY VEYING AND HAND WRINGING THAT'S GOING ON NOW DOWN THERE?
It'll be bored kids or the jews themselves who think things have been just a little too quiet lately on the making Whitey guilty front.
You know someone was smashing up mailboxes in my neighborhood a couple of weeks ago and no one called the cops or contacted the news media. But then, we're just White folks here--for the most part. At least all the victims were White in the mailbox smashing incidents--so no one would care. Move along, nothing of any importance here.
Nope, when the mailboxes smashed belong to the black family in my neighborhood, THEN we'll have a story. - Chasing hoaxesThe socialist liberals have us chasing our tails in these hoaxes as in this incident. While real "hate" crimes have been committed on 9/11. US Cole, TWA Flight 800, and many many others. This is such a waste. Check your local mosque, I bet you can find a terror act against the US somewhere in there. American Socialist fools.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - hate crime or hoax?i smell another hoax here. and 'hate crimes' are committed every day. just look at when these black hoodlums find a white couple coming out of a nice midtown restaurant, then pull a sawed-off shotgun to their heads and rob them. there's a hate crime right there. course our corrupt officials will never pursue it. good enough reason to end 'hate-crimes'. they're a joke
- VandalismLet me guess, this will turn out to be two teenage boys ages 14-16.
- Hate CrimeOf course this is a hate crime, and should be taken very seriously.
- This is just one more thing for that slob Abe Foxman of the ADL to whine about and demand the passage of the Senate bill S 909. The House has already passed this attack on the First amendment.
This even isn't newsworthy. - TypicalSo typical... Everything is a hate crime these days. Its vandalism, get over it!
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Supreme Court of the U.S.A., 1957; it was established that the First Amendment rights of free speech and free press do NOT APPLY to obscenity --
"All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion - have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance."
-- Would you consider swastikas painted on Jewish homes to have social importance? I don't think so. It's hateful, it's obscene, and it's not protected by the First Amendment. Learn a little more about your own government, laws, and constitution before waving them around crazily.