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The Historic of attacks on Hate crimes against Latinos said another history.
hate climbed against due to the Political Rethorica language, Latinos were the victims for hate crimes climbing 61 percent from previous years.

In the five years from 2003-2007, the number of hate crimes reported against Hispanics increased nearly 40 percent (from 426 in 2003 to 595 in 2007). Of all hate crimes reported in the United States in 2007, 7.8 percent were committed against Hispanics. Of hate crimes in 2007 motivated by bias due to the victim's ethnicity or national origin, nearly 60 percent were committed against Hispanics, up nearly 50 percent from 2003. This alarming increase, and its correlation to increasingly virulent anti-immigrant rhetoric

The consecuences of the Anti Immigrant sentiment.

Two Chilean students were killed and three others wounded when a man broke into a reunion in Pensacola (USA) and shot with a rifle attendees. Los jóvenes participaban en un programa de trabajo e intercambio estudiantil. Young people participating in a work program and student exchange.

The deceased are Nicolás Pablo Corp, for 22 years, and Racine Balbontín Argandoña 23. Los dos eran oriundos de Valparaíso (a 120 kilómetros de Santiago de Chile). Both were from Valparaíso (120 km from Santiago de Chile). Habían llegado a EE UU en diciembre, para una estancia de cuatro meses. Had come to the U.S. in December for a stay of four months. "Celebraban que les quedaba poco tiempo para volver a casa", explicó en declaraciones a este diario Rodrigo Balbontín, amigo de una de las víctimas. "Held that they had little time to go home," he said in remarks to this newspaper Balbontín Rodrigo, a friend of one of the victims. El cónsul chileno en Miami, Jorge Valdés, informó que uno de los heridos está en estado crítico. The Chilean consul in Miami, Jorge Valdes, reported that one of the wounded is in critical condition.

El presunto responsable es Dannie Baker, de 60 años, quien ha sido identificado por sus vecinos como "un racista", además de que había enviado correos electrónicos con amenazas a políticos demócratas, según informaron medios locales. The suspect is Dannie Baker, 60, who was identified by neighbors as a "racist", and had sent emails with threats to democratic politics, local media reported.

Un portavoz del Gobierno chileno se refirió a los hechos como "un crimen macabro" que significa "una tragedia lamentable y brutal". A Chilean government spokesman described the events as "a macabre crime" which means "an unfortunate tragedy and brutal."

When you write 'KKK' and let's shoot the n-word in the head' and use confederate flags, you can't hide behind a free expression law.

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The NAACP told a UNC commission why a hate speech policy is needed throughout the UNC Systems' 16 schools.

This comes in light of racist graffiti that was painted on North Carolina State University's Free Expression Tunnel after Barack Obama was elected President.

The NAACP started its presentation to the commission by displaying a picture of one of those racist statements painted on the Tunnel that reads, "let's shoot the N****r in the head.'"

"When you write 'KKK' and let's shoot the n-word in the head' and use confederate flags, you can't hide behind a free expression law," said The Rev. William Barber, NAACP President.

The commission is tasked with deciding if the UNC System needs a policy on hate speech. On Monday, Dr. Barber made his case why he believes it's necessary. He said the incident at NC State is not justifiable as free speech.

"That speech is not merely offensive, it's threatening and it's not protected (under the First Amendment)," said Dr. Barber.

Barber said the UNC System needs to define how it will investigate hate crimes and what the penalities are. Also, he said, "we need a clear curriculum that teaches us more about how we must interface and be one community."

But Barber said this issue extends beyond NC State. It's something he believes boils down to peoples' mindsets.

"We may not be able to change their mind, but we need laws and regulations that will prohibit actions," he said.

Barber was allowed to address the commission alone today because he was unable to attend the public hearing earlier this month.

The commission's next meeting is February 9th at 1 p.m. at the Spangler Center. Commissioners will have to decide by the end of March whether to implement a hate speech policy. They are also taking a look at whether students should be required to take diversity traning courses.

UPS Worker victim of Hate Crime.!!!!!! STOP HATE.!!! Act know.

Hate crimes are criminal actions intended to harm or intimidate people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or other minority group status. They are also referred to as bias crimes.

Since the 1980s, the problem of hate crimes has attracted increasing fear and tension within Minorities.

UPS DRIVER VICTIM OF HATE CRIME.

The Richmond chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was holding a vigil in Richmond Thursday afternoon in support of Brandon Manning, a black man who was beaten Jan. 24 in what police and prosecutors have alleged was a hate crime.

Seven people were initially arrested in connection with the beating but only four have been charged. The local NAACP chapter alleges that the three people who were released would have been charged if not for a delay by Richmond police in investigating the case.

In a phone interview Thursday, Manning, a 24-year-old Pinole resident who works for UPS, recalled the attack.

Manning said he had gotten off work early that day but didn't have a ride home, so he went to a nearby gas station to ask around for a lift.

"I got a ride from some ladies who drove me to the Valero station in Pinole," Manning said.

As he was trying to get a ride from the Valero station to his home, Manning saw a group of men. They started talking and Manning thought he recognized the driver of one of the cars, he said. The driver allegedly said he recognized Manning as well "and we agreed we knew each other from a past job," Manning said.

Manning said he asked the men if they would give him a ride home, since he didn't live far from the gas station.

They said they would, but instead of taking him home, they took him to La Moine Valley View Park in Richmond.

It was a large group and they were all drunk, Manning said, so he tried to "go with the flow."

"I didn't want to piss them off," he said.

While they were in the park, they saw a police car drive by and the group started walking away from the cars so the police wouldn't think they had been driving drunk.

They started walking toward some houses to make it look like they had walked to the park, Manning said.

"Then out of nowhere I get blindsided," Brandon said. "And the rest is history."

The group started kicking and punching Manning while shouting racial slurs at him, he said.

Manning said he lay there and waited for them to leave and then stumbled to a house to ask for help.

The residents of the first house he tried refused to help him, Manning said, so he knocked on the door of the next house and they called him an ambulance.

He said he was still in a lot of pain. The left side of his face is fractured in six places and he is scheduled to have reconstructive surgery next week.

Doctors are going to put metal plates in to support his cheekbone "so my face doesn't look like it's sinking anymore," Manning said.

The assault was reported at about 3 a.m. on Jan. 24, a Saturday, but wasn't investigated until the following Wednesday or Thursday because of an administrative error, Sgt. Bisa French said.

Seven suspects were initially arrested and four were charged earlier this week. The other three were released because there wasn't enough evidence to charge them, police said.

Steven Kinney, 18, Andrew Word, 19, Victor Faria, 18, and Richard Lange, 20, have each been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, felony battery and an enhancement for allegedly committing a hate crime, French said.

Lange also faces an additional charge for violating his probation.

Ken Nelson, president of the Richmond chapter of the NAACP, said that by holding the vigil he hopes to send a message to the community that hate crimes will not be tolerated in Richmond.

He also hopes to raise awareness of what he called the "incompetence of the police department" for not investigating the attack immediately.

Nelson said he believed a delay in the investigation led to the release of three of the suspects.

"It was not taken seriously," Nelson said. "It gives the appearance of a double standard."

"That had nothing to do with it," according to French.

She said detectives presented all the evidence to the deputy district attorney and that evidence wouldn't have been any different if the crime had been investigated immediately.

According to French, the delay happened because weekend shift detectives had put the initial report of the beating on their supervisor's desk at the end of their shifts, but their supervisor didn't get back to the station to assign the case to investigators until the following Wednesday or Thursday.

Police have since restructured how they process crime reports and all reports now go directly to the on-duty watch commander, French said.

"It is extremely difficult to look at this as an isolated event or just a mistake," Nelson said.

He said representatives from the NAACP spoke with the mayor and city manager about a month ago and told them they were concerned about racial discrimination in the Richmond Police Department.

"And now here we are a month later and we have this debacle," Nelson said.

Manning said that a lot of his friends were angry about what had happened to him. They were also angry that three of the suspects had been released without charges, but he said he was trying not to let his own anger take over and make him do something stupid.

"I have a little family I have to care for," Manning said.

He has two stepsons and a baby due in March.

Kinney, Word, Lange and Faria were arraigned Wednesday in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Richmond, but did not enter pleas. They are scheduled to return to court Feb. 11 to be assigned attorneys and enter pleas, according to the superior court clerk's office. Source:

Why are we remained Silent against Hate Crimes?.

Selma Goncalves, 20, was killed January 21, 2009 by an attacker in her Brockton apartment. Another woman was shot and is recovering and a third person, a 72 year old man Arlindo Goncvalves, no relation, was shot and killed by the attacker as he fled the woman's home. The attacker, Keith Luke age 22 of Brockton had set out on a mission of hate killings according to the police. He wanted to kill and many non-whites and jews as possible. According to Luke, his intended target after the murder of Goncalves was a synagogue in Brockton that was hosting a weekly Bingo game that draws hundreds. Luke was captured after a wild chase and shootout over three miles in the city of 90,000. Selma Gonsalves had come to Brockton a year ago from her native Cape Verde. Luke face multiple charges of murder and other charges.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.!!!!!!!!!!!

Why are we remained Silent against Hate crimes?.

Cape Verdean community mourns several People killed by Racial Hatred
Brutal Racial Murders in Brockton, Massachusetts

More than 50 mourners were at St. Edith Stein Church in Brockton this morning for the funeral Mass for Arlindo Goncalves, a 72-year-old city man who was shot to death last week during a killing spree that authorities said was motivated by racism,

Arlindo Goncalves, Cape Verdean Musician Killed, 72 years - Played Trumpet and Piano Keyboard on the Street.
Selma Goncalves, 20, was killed January 21, 2009 by an attacker in her Brockton apartment


Loving Father, Husband and Friend.

"Always a Happy Man, 72 years, Always a Lover of Music".
A Racial Murder Spree - Murderer also killed a Creole Woman.
Determined to kill as many non Whites as Possible.
I guess Cape Verdeans can be called Iberics or Hispanics because they speak Portuguese, so they speak a Latin derived language and can also be called Latinos.

Hispanic or Iberic Creole from Cape Verde ( Portuguese ) killed by Brutal Racist

More than 50 mourners were at St. Edith Stein Church in Brockton this morning for the funeral Mass for Arlindo Goncalves, a 72-year-old

Why we remained silent towards Racism and Hate against Minorities?

I do understand that people living in fear due to the Economic Crisis, but that is not an excuse, or reason to response and utilize hate or racism as a vehicle as escape of they own emotional actions against Minorities. Every time ICE reinforce Raids and safety, We develop a big wave of fear but we do not understand that the most destructive element in the human mind is fear and FEAR creates aggressiveness.

STOP HATE, STOP RACISM, ENDS INTOLERANCE, AND STOP BIGOTRY.

ANCHOR NEWS MUST BEING ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ANTI IMMIGRANT TONE.

We should learn the ART OF HEARING, We always Translating what others are saying. There is a difference between the comprehension of words and the comprehension of the state of Fear. If you ask me whether is possible to live without fear or not? I will said yes, We need to stop make comparison and identify your causes of fear. Then if you identified those are your factors and your mind seeing those as bringing about fear then the very perception of those factors ends the contributory causes.

A spate of seemingly unrelated incidents in Mountain View — a vandalized school sign; middle school students chased down a street by BB gun wielding teens; a neighbor unhappy about Latino day laborers; and more recently, an e-mail peppered with racial insults directed at the new mayor — has rattled officials and leaders of a city that views itself as a model of diversity.

Days before she was sworn in to office, Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga, the city's first Asian-American female mayor, received e-mail through her public City Hall address. "I can't believe this city elected a stupid Asian-American like you," Abe-Koga quoted from the unsigned e-mail, which went on to blame undocumented immigrants for the country's economic woes.

"It didn't surprise me," said the Harvard University graduate Abe-Koga. "But I was angry."

The day she took office Jan. 6, Abe-Koga, 38, condemned the recent incidents that occurred weeks apart late last year, and referred to the e-mail she received.

"To remain silent was something I couldn't do," Abe-Koga said. "This is not what we're about. We need to come together."

Abe-Koga has joined a growing chorus of city leaders and community groups who say the incidents may be isolated, but a forceful, vocal response is the best defense against a worrisome trend that "something is brewing" in Mountain View.

"It's happening to middle school students. It's happening to the mayor," said Oscar
Garcia, president and co-founder of Mesa de la Comunidad, a local education and advocacy group for Latinos. "The community needs to know it's happening at all levels."
Garcia is teaming up with Alicia Crank, a former city human relations commissioner, the police department and other community leaders to plan a "Not In Our Town" gathering, an event named after a 1995 film documentary about the unequivocal response by residents of Billings, Mont., against white supremacists. A similar gathering was held in Newark in 2003, a year after the killing of a transgender teenager.

"We need to ask where this is coming from," Crank said. "There's something there that needs to be exposed so we can move past it." The event has not been scheduled.
The first incident was reported the day after the November election. Garcia's wife was driving past an empty lot festooned with all sorts of candidate campaign signs. One sign stood out. "No More Aliens" was stenciled in red across a Spanish sign about school registration.

"To me it was a deliberate attempt to intimidate the Latino community," Garcia said. "To me, the message was, 'Anyone who speaks Spanish, you're not welcome here.' "
Also sometime in November, day laborers at the Mountain View Day Worker Center's old office on Escuela Avenue were confronted and reportedly intimidated by an apparently disgruntled neighbor unhappy about the immigrant workers.

"There's a lot fear," said Maria Marroquin, executive director the day worker center, which is now located near downtown Mountain View. "There's a lot of ignorance."
On Dec. 5, three white teens, ages 14 and 15, were arrested by police and charged with hate crimes, making criminal threats, brandishing a replica firearm and conspiracy to commit a felony. One of the 15-year-olds was also charged with possession of marijuana. The cases are pending in juvenile court and the identities of the teens were not released by police.

According to police, four 11-year-old Latino students were walking home from school. As they walked, the teens shouted racial comments from the open window of a house and threatened to kill the students. Then the teens chased the students down the street.
In an interview with the Mercury News, Abe-Koga, the daughter of Japanese immigrants, disclosed another incident in December. As she and her 7-year-old daughter were walking from Castro Elementary School, a group of Latino boys began talking. She said she realized later that the boys were doing a racial taunt, speaking mock Chinese.

"I just felt sadness," she said. "Maybe there's no connection between these incidents, but I want people to be aware of this problem."

Suffolk Police Department under the Loop for Hate Crimes.

The Suffolk County Police Department is conducting a sweeping review of police reports to search for evidence of hate crimes that haven't shown up in official statistics, Commissioner Richard Dormer said Thursday.

Dormer told the county legislature's Public Safety Committee that he launched the investigation two weeks ago. He said it will include every 2008 police report from the Fifth Precinct in Patchogue, where Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero was killed Nov. 8.

Seven teenagers who police say sought to attack a Hispanic person have been charged in connection with his death.

Dormer said reviews will continue in other precincts covering neighborhoods in Brentwood and Huntington with significant Hispanic populations.

We need to be aware and be sensitive that even if [reports are] written up as minor incidents, they may indicate that something larger is happening," Dormer said in an interview.

Dormer said he does not have a target date to finish the review and that the final results may not be made public.

Since the Lucero killing, Dormer and County Executive Steve Levy have defended the county's hate crime statistics, which list one anti-Hispanic crime in 2007 that fits criteria of the hate crimes statute.

Levy says the county's anti-Hispanic crime figures are similar to Nassau's. Between 2005 and 2007, for instance, each county reported 13 hate crimes against Hispanics. Overall in that period, Suffolk reported to the state a total of 264 crimes that fit the hate crimes statute, while Nassau reported 313.

Suffolk also provided new statistics Thursday showing that over the same period, 25 hate incidents against Hispanics were reported to police. Not all the incidents ended up fitting the hate crimes statute, however. No comparable figures for Nassau were available.

Patrick Young, director of the Central American Refugee Center in Hempstead, said the review shows Levy and Dormer are questioning Suffolk's official crime statistics.

"It shows that the confidence that Steve Levy and Commissioner Dormer expressed a week ago was already in question in their own minds a week prior to that," he said.

State Assemb. Phil Ramos (D- Central Islip), a former Suffolk detective who Thursday called for state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to investigate the county's hate crime data, said that although he welcomes Dormer's review, the police reports probably won't offer a complete picture of ethnic attacks.

"Field reports are very brief," he said. "Certainly it's worthy of review, but I think that more intensive review would reveal a truer picture."

County Legis. Ricardo Montano (D-Central Islip) said the review won't capture the primary problem -- that Hispanics are afraid to call police.

"If you view the local police as your enemy," he said, "you're not going to call them."

Hate crimes on rising levels.

Local religious leaders organized a candlelight vigil in Austin at University Baptist Church last night to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the deaths of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., both of whom perished at the hands of men who learned to hate others because of their sexuality and/or race. Last night's event was an attempt to bring the community together to to battle the evils of homophobia and racism. Among the speakers was Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo who said that hate crimes are something that he will not tolerate:

"It hurts me as a person that we still average 10 hate crimes a year in our city," Acevedo said. "That's 10 too many."

Another speaker, Reverend Stephen Sprinkle, spoke out against the lack of federal laws dealing with hate crimes directed at victims based on sexual orientation, gender issues, and disability.
While hate crime victims Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. led very different lives, they are "forever united in a history of hope" for an end to prejudice-motivated crimes, the Rev. Stephen Sprinkle told a group gathered in Austin to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their deaths.

Sprinkle was the keynote speaker at a candlelight vigil Sunday night at University Baptist Church on Guadalupe Street to honor Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man who was killed in Wyoming, and Byrd, a black man who was killed in the East Texas town of Jasper.

"A decade ago, they lost their lives to men who learned to hate," said Sprinkle, a theology professor at Texas Christian University.

Sunday's event was organized by local religious leaders who wanted to bring people in the community together to combat racism and homophobia.

"We wanted to bring African Americans, the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) community, and people committed to hope and compassion," said the Rev. Karen Thompson of Metropolitan Community Church of Austin.

"Hope is always a better way, regardless of our differences."

The 1998 deaths of Shepard and Byrd brought national attention to hate killings in the United States. Shepard was robbed and tortured before being tied to a fence on Oct. 7, 1998, in Laramie, Wyo. He died in the hospital a few days later.

Four months to the day earlier, three white men attacked Byrd in Jasper, tied him to the back of a pickup and dragged him to his death.

Sprinkle was critical of the lack of federal laws dealing with hate crimes directed at victims based on sexual orientation, gender issues and disability.

He also said that not enough crimes have been prosecuted under Texas' James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act.

"The real problem is not the murders," Sprinkle said. "It is that their deaths have not been vindicated."
Addressing the vigil, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said hate crimes are something that he will not tolerate.

"It hurts me as a person that we still average 10 hate crimes a year in our city," Acevedo said. "That's 10 too many."

University Baptist Church member Roy Larson said he was proud of his congregation for hosting the event.

"Our continued hope is that attitudes will change and that the laws will protect all people," Larson said

Racism in U.S. spreads at high speed against Latinos specially Mexicans.!!!!

Racism in U.S. spreads at high speed against Latinos specially Mexicans.!!!!!!!

US Federal authorities should act to anti-Latino racist attitude starting to ingrain in national culture.

Hate crimes against Hispanic people is growing and calls for local, state and federal government fast decision-making, says El Diario/La Prensa.

"If they go unpunished, such social intolerance will turn staple national attitude, just like with racial segregation up to short after the mid 20th century", adds the warning.

"Nothing today compares to the 1882 Law through which racist people expelled Chinese from Western cities," it reminds.

Among other relevant incidents, the paper relates the mid July fatal beating by two teenagers of a Mexican immigrant, 25, in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.
Check this post from Symsess about the attempt to distor the truth about Luis Ramirez Death. click here:

In Nashville, Tennessee, the Police detained, handcuffed and shackled a pregnant woman with labor pain over a traffic violation.

Also, five men and the organization Somos America sued Maricopa County PD and the Mayor's Office for bashing Latinos

Enforce the rule of Law. Pastor harrased by Ignorants and racists K.K.K. Members. Jessie Stensland.


A prominent Oak Harbor pastor has been targeted by hoodlums purporting to represent the Ku Klux Klan.

Fannie Dean, long-time pastor of Unity Fellowship, said the trouble started about a month ago at Oak Harbor Thrift. Dean runs the church's thrift store, located on Goldie Road.

She has received hateful, racist calls. Someone broke a window. She started finding notes scrawled on paper or cardboard. The messages said things like "Get out" or "You gotta go" and they were signed "KKK."

Dean found the most recent message Wednesday morning. It said simply: "I'm running the KKK."

Dean said she's not scared, but she's sad this still happens in the community.

"They may be running the KKK, but I know the man in charge," she said, referring to a higher power. "People are trying, but they can't stop me. I've come too far to turn around now."

Dealing with racism is nothing new for Dean, a well-known and outspoken African-American woman in Oak Harbor. She said racists came to her home and burned her family's vehicle years ago. She sometimes feels disapproving stares as she moves about the community.

"The haters are still out there. You better believe it," said Dean. Still, the well-loved pastor is anything but an angry person. She's downright cheerful and enthusiastically speaks about her love of God.

Grace Schiffman, Dean's close friend and a member of the church, said she believes Dean was targeted because of her prominence as an African-American woman. The pastor organizes the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. program. She and her church sponsored the Juneteenth celebration, which celebrates the freedom of black people from slavery. Dean and families from her current church are building Mission Ministries Outreach on Goldie Road.

"We are not going to let them stop us and they're not going to prevent us from building the church," Schiffman said.

While Dean isn't frightened, Schiffman said some members of the church are concerned for her safety.

Island County Sheriff Mark Brown said deputies are investigating the case, but they have no leads. He said the actions fit the definition of a hate crime.

"This is something we take very seriously," he said.

Enforce the Rule of Law.....It's getting ugly out there.
Hate crime against Hispanics has been rising at top levels.!!!!!!!!.




We see too often Hispanic leaders, Immigration advocates and Hispanics has been receiving a Death Threats, hate mail, do to their position and support on Comprehensive Immigration reform.

For North Carolina's Hispanic leaders, the biggest hazards of the job were once long hours. Now, they include death threats.
A pair of the state's most prominent advocates, Andrea Bazán and Tony Asion, say that for the past several months, each time they have spoken publicly, they have gotten a raft of profanity-laced messages, some of them exhorting them to return to their home countries and others denigrating Hispanics. Several legislators say they have also gotten messages recently that cross the line into racism, and one got a menacing voice mail.

Threats of violence are becoming common enough that Bazán, president of the philanthropic Triangle Community Foundation, has requested protection at some public appearances. Asion, director of the Raleigh Hispanic advocacy group El Pueblo and a former police officer, said he has received two handwritten death threats at his office since May.

This is not about immigration," Bazán said. "This is not about debating policy. This has moved on to another sphere. This is hate."

Bazán and others say they've gotten disturbing hate mail before. A 2005 effort to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants brought reams of it, but that furor died down fairly quickly. Now, they say, threats and racist messages are becoming routine.

State legislators who supported a bill this year that would have guaranteed illegal immigrants the right to attend state colleges got a raft of messages, some of which smeared immigrants.

Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Greensboro Democrat who sponsored the bill, said she received one phone message warning that "my days are numbered." She said the message, which included profane insults, felt like a threat.

"I have not seen anything like what illegal immigration elicits," Harrison said. "It's revealing a very ugly side of humanity that I've never seen before."

Beyond the crackdown

Immigration has become an especially controversial subject in North Carolina and across the nation, fueled by the failure of a federal immigration reform bill last year.

Since then, sheriff's departments have started enforcing immigration law, the state's community colleges have barred admission to illegal immigrants, grassroots groups opposing illegal immigration have grown and some politicians have made an immigration crackdown the centerpiece of their campaigns.

Even those who have advocated a crackdown say they don't condone hate mail or threats.

"Certainly, any kind of threatening or antagonistic tone to any debate is unwarranted," said Brian Nick, spokesman for Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who has joined with sheriffs to push for the deportation of illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
But some say anti-illegal immigration activists have given the impression that Hispanics are to blame for all of society's ills, including crime, illness and unemployment.

Deborah Lauter, director of civil rights for the Anti-Defamation League, a New York group founded in 1913 to combat prejudice against Jews, said the ideas and language that have come to define the debate could fuel fringe groups.

"When you describe immigrants as Third World invaders or murderers, or say that they are swarming or coming in hordes, this is dehumanizing language," Lauter said. "That kind of rhetoric inspires others who might act out on hate."

William Gheen, a Raleigh man who has built a grassroots organization to oppose illegal immigration, often accuses Hispanic immigrants of carrying deadly diseases, raping and murdering Americans, plotting to merge the American and Mexican economies, or even reconquer parts of the Southwest for Mexico. He organizes e-mail campaigns against those he doesn't agree with.

Gheen said he does not condone violence or racism and has never made threats, and he dismissed claims that groups such as his could spark threats. "The only violence I'm seeing are the dead, maimed and raped Americans ... that are victims of illegal aliens," Gheen said.
However, other anti-illegal immigration activists say the movement has developed an ugly side.

"Something has gotten distorted, and it's creating a lot of hate," said Jim Gilchrist, the Southern California founder of the Minuteman Project, which organizes citizen patrols of the Mexican border.

Gilchrist said there are extremists on both sides of the issue and that he has received threatening messages from people on the pro-immigrant side of the debate. But lately, he said, he gets more hate mail from people on his side of the issue. He said groups are now fighting among themselves, and some have adopted messages that he considers racist.

Gilchrist said one California Minuteman chapter made a fake video depicting its members shooting a Mexican crossing the border illegally.

Blogs as soapboxes

Bazán said that in the past few months, she has gotten several nasty calls at home and has been the subject of violent talk on blogs, where she was referred to as a target.

The talk frightened her enough that she sent her children to stay with her ex-husband and stayed away from home for several days in June, when it was announced that she was the new board chairwoman of the well-known Hispanic advocacy group National Council of La Raza.

On the day of the announcement, a person commenting on one blog about her new post commanded others to "buy guns" and referred to Hispanic immigrants as "monkeys." "The time is coming to fight back and yes many will die in this fight," the comment read.

Bazán said she has met with Durham police to make them aware of the threats.

When she speaks publicly, a guard often protects her. She had a full-time private guard last week at a La Raza convention in San Diego.

Bazán, along with some other Hispanic advocates, said they have begun reporting messages they consider hateful to the state Human Relations Commission.

G.I. Allison, director of the commission, which was formed to ensure equal opportunity in housing and other areas, said he receives regular complaints of hate messages and threats against Hispanics. The commission recorded 38 hate incidents in the first half of this year, but it doesn't track how many are against Hispanics.

Asion said he frequently receives messages that he considers racist, but the recent death threats were the most troubling.

The author claims to be watching Asion, threatens bombings and dismemberment, invokes the Ku Klux Klan and commands Asion to "go home Mexico."

Asion said he hasn't gone to police because there is little they can do. But he said he now fears for his staff members.

"I tell my folks, if you get a box and it doesn't have a return address, you don't know where it's from, don't open it," Asion said. "These are the times that we're living through."

Hate crime. I am tired of them. They should go back where they came from. Cosby said.



Standing before the judge with his head held high, a white man accused of hate crimes for intentionally driving his car into a black woman seemed unconcerned Tuesday afternoon.

"I have no legal obligation under Act (Corp.)," Thomas Darryl Cosby told County Judge Peter McGlashan at his first appearance in court. The statement came in response to a public defender's request that the 56-year-old Port Orange resident undergo a mental health evaluation.

However, McGlashan granted the request for the evaluation. In addition he ordered Cosby held on $60,000 bail on charges of aggravated battery and simple battery.

The counts stem from an incident at 7:50 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of South Atlantic Avenue. Police said, "for no apparent reason," Cosby drove over a curb and hit Nekedia Cato while she was riding her bike on the sidewalk.

The 25-year-old Daytona Beach resident suffered a badly broken left leg and unknown internal injuries. She was listed in good condition at Halifax Health Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon.

After hitting Cato, police said Cosby's sedan careened into a tree and then hit the front porch of a nearby home, rolled over several times and came to a stop. Cosby, who suffered only minor injuries, climbed from the vehicle and started screaming at bystanders, urging them to "help me kill these (racial slur for black people)," several witnesses told officers.

At one point, he struck another person before being detained by witnesses until police arrived.

When asked what happened to his car, Cosby told investigating officers, "I turned my car to take him out," even though the victim was not a man.
Crosby also complained to police about blacks making fun of him and having sex with his wife and girlfriend.

"I am tired of it," the arrest report states, quoting Cosby. "They should go back to where they came from."

Cosby's racially charged statements prompted the enhanced charges, Daytona Beach police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said.

"We felt that met the criteria for a hate crime," he said.

According to court records, Cosby has a history of mental illness. In 2000, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity on a 1998 complaint of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. Before that determination, he was involuntarily committed to a state mental hospital for three months.

Jews second most targeted for hate crimes in Canada.


TORONTO — A survey of police-reported hate crimes released recently by Statistics Canada showed that in 2006, Jews were Canada’s most targeted group by religion and second only to blacks as the most victimized group overall.

Jews continue to be subjected to anti-Semitic vandalism

Of 220 hate crimes motivated by the victim’s religion, 137 were aimed at Jews, or almost 63%. Muslims were the next most affected religious group, with 46 incidents (21%) reported, followed by Catholics, who experienced 13 incidents (6%).

Overall, blacks were the most targeted group, whether considered on racial, ethnic, gender or religious bases. Some 238 hate events were reported involving blacks out of a total of 892 incidents. Blacks were victims in 27% of all occurrences, Jews in 15%.

The data were obtained from the Hate Crime Supplemental Survey, a study of hate crimes reported by police departments across Canada that cover 87 percent of Canada’s population. Statistics Canada reported that the number of hate crimes “accounted for less than one per cent of all criminal incidents reported to police.”

The study showed that half of all hate-motivated crime concerned property offences, while one-third involved violence. The highest rates of police-reported hate crime were in Calgary (9.1 per 100,000 residents), Kingston (8.5), Ottawa (6.6), London (5.9) and Toronto (5.5). “Hate crimes were most likely to involve young people, both as victims and accused persons,” the report stated.

“Most violent hate crimes are committed by strangers rather than persons known to victims. In 2006, 77 percent of victims of police-reported hate crime did not know their perpetrators, compared to 33 percent of victims of other violent crimes.”

The national hate-motivated crimes statistics parallel findings by the hate crimes unit of the Toronto Police Service. In its 2006 report, the unit found that Jews were the second most victimized group, behind blacks.

Twenty-eight of 162 incidents were aimed at Jews (17%), while 15 incidents (9%) targeted Muslims. Blacks were singled out in 30 per cent of occurrences.

Const. Wendy Drummond, a spokesperson for the Toronto Police, said the most recent data for 2007 again showed that Jews were the second most targeted group, behind blacks. Altogether, Jews were affected in 29 percent of incidents, while blacks were targeted in 33 per cent of events. Gays were next at 13 percent, followed by Muslims and Pakistanis at 9 percent each.

Police also recorded a “multi-bias” category – where the motivation involved more than one type of animus, such as a black and gay – in which Jews were the second-most-targeted group, she said.

Wendy Lampert, national director of community relations for Canadian Jewish Congress, said the findings are consistent with long-standing patterns.

“Historically, we have been targeted,” she said. “We really have to remain vigilant as a community and take appropriate measures to secure our facilities going forward.”

Exist Hate crimes in Canada?




Statistics Canada provides invaluable service as national provider of statistical information, the first of its two self-proclaimed "main objectives."

But the federal body did a great disservice to Kingston and fell down on the job on objective No. 2, promoting "sound statistical standards and practices."

That's because Statistics Canada released 2006 information about hate crimes that ranked Kingston as the second-most racist city in Canada, behind only Calgary.

The survey found an incident rate of 8.5 hate crimes per 100,000 as based on police reports - nearly triple the national average of 3.1. Calgary's rate was 9.1 and Kingston was followed by Ottawa at 6.6, London at 5.9 and Toronto at 5.5.

But by the time the Whig-Standard crunched the numbers - or the comparisons, at least - they no longer seemed valid. It seems that the Calgary and Kingston police forces may be more zealous in the way they report the statistics than in other cities.

Sgt. Helene Corcoran of the Kingston Police has investigated hate crimes for three years and in that time has only encountered two or three violent crimes against people of a visible minority.

And specific to 2006, the year of focus for the Statistics Canada report, a series of disparaging letters sent to local mosques and politicians were all classified as individual hate-crime occurrences. That process would have inflated Kingston's numbers.

At the other extreme of the statistical ledger, criminologists and other experts suspect that many police forces are under-reporting hate-crime occurrences in their communities.

"There are protocols that can differ between police services that can also affect the volume of crime that is reported to them," said one of the report's authors.

Which begs the question: What purpose does the publishing of the results serve?

Oklahoma man hanged dog from tree.


Apparently this Man do no have a compassion for Humanity. that's ashamed, sad, wrong and Inhumane. Let's bring this man to Justice.


The Broken Arrow man faces a felony charge of animal cruelty.


A Tulsa County man faces an animal cruelty charge alleging that he hanged a neighbor's dog from a tree when it wandered onto his property.

The Tulsa County District Attorney's Office filed the felony charge Monday against George Henry Roberts, 59, who lives in a wooded area in the 13100 block of South 125th East Avenue in Broken Arrow.

Roberts is alleged to have hanged the dog, which belonged to neighbor Leah Owings and her family, on May 24.

"Neighbors were driving by and saw him string up a black Labrador mix," Assistant District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said.

The neighbors then called the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office, and deputies soon arrived at Roberts' house.

"When deputies pulled up, the dog was still hanging," Kunzweiler said.

Owings said her family had adopted the dog, named George, after he strayed into the neighborhood in recent months.

"We fed him every day and gave him baths. He just loved it," she said.

Owings said the dog was tame and showed no signs of harming anyone
He was so incredibly passive and was so laid back," she said " He would lie there like a rug".
Owings did not know until Saturday that her dog had been killed.

The family, which lives on 126th East Avenue about 100 yards from Roberts' house, was on vacation and did not return until Memorial Day — two days after the dog reportedly was killed.

For the next two weeks, family members looked around the neighborhood and contacted animal shelters in a futile search for George.

Then deputies interviewed the Owingses in their attempts to find out who had owned the dog.

Owings was devastated that someone would kill her dog.

"I just cried. It made me sick," she said.

Neighbors who told deputies that they'd witnessed Roberts hang the dog also said he had threatened to kill their pets if they ever wandered onto his property, Deputy David Long said.

"He's basically an animal hater," Long said.

A man who answered the telephone at Roberts' home Tuesday evening would not comment.

Deputies are in the process of obtaining a warrant to search Roberts' property, where they believe the dog's remains have been buried, Long said.

An arrest is expected to be made this week.

Immigrant Advocacy Group Reports Threatening Calls.

Montgomery County (webnews) police and the FBI (web) are investigating three threatening telephone calls made May 18 to the immigrant advocacy group CASA de Maryland.

CASA officials said they frequently received angry e-mails and calls. But they said the recent calls were more threatening.

"The message said 'Do not be surprised if one of these days, you find yourself with a bullet in the back of your brain,'" said Rev. Simon Bautista, CASA de Maryland Board VP.

Bautista said the call came in on his cellphone on May 18, the same day the Communication's Director for the immigrants' rights group answered his phone and heard a man saying, "'You should be scared and not surprised when all your places start to blow up in pieces."

Police said they are actively pursuing leads but would give no information about the case. They said, at the moment, the case would not be classified as a hate crime. The staff of CASA disagrees.

"We have been receiving dozens of different hate e-mails threatening our organization and our staff," said CASA de Maryland Executive Director Gustavo Torres.

A year ago, someone attempted to set fire to CASA's new day laborer center in Derwood, Maryland. Police said there was no evidence the two incidents were related.

CASA de Maryland said its website had an exceptionally high number of hits the same day the phone calls came in.

The group has also asked the State of Maryland to launch an investigation. http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0608/525149.html

burning of racist symbols in yard of African-American family in Metairie. By Michelle Hunter.



More than four weeks after someone burned the letters KKK and the shapes of three crosses in the front yard of an African-American family's Metairie home, the grass still refuses to grow. And the family has not rushed to remove the symbols.

"We left it out there because we want people in the neighborhood to know that there are people in their own backyards that believe in this garbage," said the family's patriarch, who asked not to be named when a reporter stopped by Monday. He said he doesn't want any publicity for himself, just public awareness that "racism is still alive and it is well."

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and the FBI are investigating the damage as a possible hate crime. The symbols appear to have been made by a chemical, not by fire. They were reported May 7. No suspects have been arrested.

The property, in a predominantly white section of northeast Metairie, is home to a 35-year-old chef and a 34-year-old cosmetologist and their three children. They had lived in the house only five days when the symbols were discovered.

"I just didn't know what to think," the man said, holding his 19-month-old son in one arm and his 5-month-old daughter in the other. "I didn't know what to say. I was just in awe."

The father said he was afraid at first, then outraged. Now he's confused and frustrated.

"I want to ask, 'Why?' We haven't been in the neighborhood long enough to cause a ruckus. We didn't do anything. It's 2008 and you still can't get past the racial issue?"

Perhaps the hardest part for the couple was explaining to their 9-year-old son why there were so many police cars in the yard last month, the meaning of burned crosses and the Ku Klux Klan, and why someone might not like the boy because of his skin color. It was a painful conversation the father said he never imagined having to have in this day and age.

But the family is determined to stay put, said the father, recalling that they have moved three times since Hurricane Katrina. "After my wife made me pack up all that stuff and move, I'm not going anywhere," he said with a laugh.

He called the vandalism a cowardly act born of ignorance, and a similar reaction on his part would amount to stooping to the culprit's level. As a father, he said, he must be a better model for his son.

"I still have to be a responsible adult in this house," he said. "We're trying to teach them that they should not live in fear, to speak when spoken to, keep your hands to yourself and respect others."

The family has been helped by neighbors who, one by one, came to their door and offered support as word of the incident spread. One of those neighbors was Dave Tibbetts, 52.

"It's just unbelievable that this would happen," Tibbetts said.

The family is confident that the guilty party will be caught. The father said he's not looking for a stiff jail sentence or fines, but for the perpetrator to be sentenced to community service in an African-American neighborhood.

"I want him . . . to come out of his comfort zone," the father said, "to see that black people are not animals. They are everyday people."

Anyone with information about the incident can call the FBI at (504) 816-3000 or the Sheriff's Office investigations bureau at (504) 364-5300

HATE CRIME. MAN SENTENCED TO 121 MONTHS IN CROSS BURNING CASE





Kyle Milbourn of Muncie, Ind., was sentenced by a federal judge today for a hate crime stemming from a cross burning last year that was directed at a woman and her three biracial children, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Grace Chung Becker and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Timothy Morrison.

Milbourn was convicted by a jury in March 2008, of one count of interfering with the housing rights of another person; one count of conspiring to interfere with civil rights; one count of using fire during the commission of a felony; and one count of tampering with a witness. He was sentenced to 121 months on all four counts combined.

According to testimony at trial, on or about March 6, 2006, Milbourn and another individual, who previously pleaded guilty, built an eight-foot wooden cross, erected it in front of the victims’ home, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire. Milbourn did this with the intent to interfere with the victims’ rights under the Fair Housing Act. In an attempt to thwart the FBI’s investigation into the cross burning, Milbourn, in November 2007, tried to prevent a witness from speaking to FBI agents.

“It is deeply disturbing that, in this day and age, circumstances still require us to prosecute cases that involve burning an eight-foot wooden cross in front of the home of a bi-racial family,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Becker. “The Justice Department will vigorously prosecute anyone who engages in cross-burning.”

“No one should have to suffer the terror and intimidation of a cross-burning,” said U.S. Attorney Morrison. “Civil rights enforcement remains a top priority of the Department of Justice.”

The case was prosecuted by Trial Attorney Betsy Biffl from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and resulted from an investigation conducted by FBI Special Agent Charlie Rownd of the Muncie Field Office.

California Man Convicted of Federal Civil Rights
Crime For Race-Motivated Threats



WASHINGTON - A federal jury in Fresno, Calif., yesterday found Bradley Smith guilty of a felony federal civil rights offense for a series of race-motivated threats against an African-American member of his community. Smith, a resident of Modesto, Calif., was convicted of race-based interference with the victim's federally protected housing rights. Smith also was convicted of a second felony offense for providing a false statement to an agent of the FBI. Smith faces a maximum punishment of 15 years imprisonment, criminal fines and restitution for the victim. Sentencing is scheduled for July 25, 2008.

The evidence at trial showed that between June 2005 and May 2007, shortly after the victim moved to the Central Valley city of Modesto, the defendant engaged in a campaign of racial intimidation that was intended to drive the victim from the Modesto area. Smith and the victim were avid citizens-band (CB) radio enthusiasts and many of Smith's threats were made via CB broadcasts that were overheard by other Modesto-area CB participants. The defendant's threats were laced with racial slurs and included threats to burn a cross on the victim's lawn, firebomb the victim's house, and hang the victim from a tree while sexually assaulting the victim's wife.
In addition, local police had to intervene on at least one occasion in which the defendant followed up on his threats by going to the victim's home with a group of approximately six people in at least three vehicles. As a result of the defendant's conduct, the victim eventually moved from the Modesto area to another community in California's Central Valley.

"Threatening to attack someone in their home because of their race or color is offensive to our nation's fundamental values," said Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "The Justice Department is committed to vigorously prosecuting the federal laws that prohibit such violent threats."

"There is no place for the reprehensible speech perpetuated by the defendant, whether on citizens band radio or on the streets of our communities," said McGregor Scott, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California. "The jury is to be commended for drawing a very distinct line between free speech and racial epithets and criminal threats."

Prosecuting the perpetrators of bias-motivated crimes is a top priority of the Justice Department. Since 2001, the Civil Rights Division has charged 184 defendants in 123 cases of bias-motivated crimes.

This case was investigated by agents from the FBI and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Gappa from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California, and Trial Attorneys C. Douglas Kern and Karen Ruckert from the Civil Rights Division.