[Vision2020] Vandalism Deplored as Hate Crime

Mon Dec 7 12:26:23 PST 2009

Exactly, Keely.

I, Thomas P. Hansen, have absolutely no reservation to state my conscience
or conviction.  I do so freely, openly, willingly, and under my own name.

Tom Hansen, Intolerista
Moscow, Idaho

>
> Let's remember that the "hate speech" directed at NSA took the form of
> chalked writing about five inches tall on City property in front of the
> door, and that "Hitler Youth" was never, and has never been, an epithet
> leveled at Kirkers or NSA'ers by "Intoleristas."
>
> However, I do recall "Hitler Youth" being used by an NSA student as an
> example of the kind of things that Intoleristas might say -- a filling in
> of vocabulary, frankly, that was unnecessary, as we Intoleristas say what
> we say publicly and clearly.
>
> Huh.  I'm amazed that someone as educated as Mr. Schwaller can't figure
> out the difference between a swastika, an epithet, and a "go home" sprayed
> on a Muslim man's truck in CdA, and chalked words in front of but not on
> NSA property.   Maybe we could meet in front of your office -- say, 5th
> and Washington? -- and chalk the differences out on your sidewalk . . .
>
> Keely
> www.keely-prevailingwinds.com
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:00:53 -0800
>> From: vpschwaller at gmail.com
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Vandalism Deplored as Hate Crime
>>
>> Hmmmm . . .  I suppose had they painted these things IN FRONT of the
>> vehicle on the street it would have been "First Amendment Rights
>> freedom of expression" eh??  After all this WAS the case for Freedom
>> of Expression writings on the sidewalk in front of NSA a year or so
>> ago.  Or is this an entirely different situation??
>>
>> Funny how the law works - and how the intoleristas spin "hate" in
>> their favor when it's "necessary and warranted"
>>
>> Keep up the Good Works my friends
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>> > Courtesy of today's (December 5, 2009) Spokesman Review.
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Vandalism Deplored as Hate Crime
>> > Graffiti on truck includes racial slur, swastikas
>> >
>> > By Allison Boggs
>> >
>> > A Coeur d’Alene man of Middle Eastern descent left his pickup parked
>> > downtown Thursday night and returned to find it spray-painted with
>> > swastikas and a racial slur and a front tire slashed.
>> >
>> > The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations counts the incident
>> as
>> > the seventh hate crime perpetrated in the Inland Northwest since May,
>> > co-founder Tony Stewart said Friday.
>> >
>> > Haitham Joudeh, 33, who is a Muslim of Jordanian descent, was
>> celebrating
>> > a friend’s birthday Thursday and left his black Ford F350 truck parked
>> at
>> > the corner of Third Street and Coeur d’Alene Avenue. Friends drove
>> Joudeh
>> > and his wife home around midnight, he said.
>> >
>> > In the morning, he was notified by police that his truck had been
>> > vandalized. Two swastikas were painted on it along with a slur urging
>> him
>> > to “go home.”
>> >
>> > “I was born in this state. This is my home. What are they talking
>> about?”
>> > said Joudeh, a University of Idaho graduate. “It makes me feel like I
>> > don’t belong in this place. It makes me fear for my life and my
>> family’s
>> > life. I mean, what’s next? They’re going to come to my house?
>> Seriously,
>> > what’s going to be next?”
>> >
>> > Someone already has been to his house, where Joudeh lives with his
>> wife
>> > and baby son. On Friday morning, Joudeh found a racist flier from the
>> > Aryan Nations in a plastic baggie on his lawn. The flier was similar
>> to
>> > those distributed in several other Inland Northwest neighborhoods in
>> > recent months.
>> >
>> > Stewart said the vandalism of Joudeh’s vehicle qualifies as a hate
>> crime.
>> > It is the most recent in a spate of hate crimes, he said. In other
>> > incidents, a noose was left on a Spokane doorstep; a swastika sticker
>> was
>> > affixed to the door of a Coeur d’Alene human rights center; and
>> Hispanic,
>> > African-American and Native American people were targeted in several
>> > harassment and assault cases.
>> >
>> > “There is an escalation,” Stewart said. “We don’t know who’s doing it.
>> My
>> > suspicion is, from some of the profiles 
 it seems to be more than one
>> > group involved.”
>> >
>> > Stewart said the task force will do everything within its power to
>> help
>> > Joudeh’s family. “In all these cases,” Stewart said, “if you can find
>> the
>> > people, you prosecute them for a felony and you send them to prison.
>> This
>> > community won’t turn a blind eye.”
>> >
>> > Coeur d’Alene police said they are investigating the incident as a
>> hate
>> > crime.
>> >
>> > Idaho’s malicious harassment law makes it a felony to deface personal
>> > property with “any word or symbol commonly associated with racial,
>> > religious or ethnic terrorism.”
>> >
>> > Joudeh, a developer, said he has faced harassment since he filed a
>> > multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Kootenai County, alleging improper
>> > denial of a project he had proposed at Mica Bay. Joudeh’s company,
>> Jordan
>> > International, proposed a condominium storage unit facility on 10
>> acres
>> > just off U.S. Highway 95. The case is pending in 1st District Court.
>> >
>> > Joudeh said his ethnicity was raised, in a negative light, by people
>> > opposed to the project during the first hearing.
>> >
>> > “Nothing was done or said about it,” Joudeh said.
>> >
>> > Since he filed his lawsuit, he said, he has been the subject of racist
>> > e-mails and Internet blog posts regarding his proposed project.
>> >
>> > A tort claim filed against the county as a precursor to the lawsuit
>> > alleged that the project was denied partly because of racism.
>> >
>> > Kootenai County commissioners deny that race was any factor.
>> >
>> > Board Chairman Rick Currie said that accusation is an “embarrassment
>> to
>> > the residents of our county.” Commissioner Todd Tondee said decisions
>> are
>> > not made based on race; they’re made based on the project.
>> >
>> > Currie also expressed anger toward whomever targeted Joudeh in the
>> > vandalism incident.
>> >
>> > “That is absolutely unacceptable,” he said. “There is no place in this
>> > country for that type of action. It is something we cannot tolerate.”
>> >
>> > ------------
>> >
>> > Coeur d’Alene resident Haitham Joudeh woke to a call from the Coeur
>> > d’Alene Police Department on Friday morning telling him of racist
>> graffiti
>> > painted on his truck sometime after midnight at the corner of Third
>> Street
>> > and Coeur d’Alene Avenue.
>> >
>> > http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2009/12/04/PX248_27F0_9_t620.jpeg
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > These racist incidents by neo-Nazi scum are becoming more and more
>> > frequent, Moscow.
>> >
>> > It's time to take a stand,
>> >
>> > Speak up!
>> >
>> > Speak out!
>> >
>> > Seeya round the 'hood, Moscow.
>> >
>> > Tom Hansen, Intolerista
>> > Moscow, Idaho
>> >
>> > "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
>> change
>> > and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>> >
>> > - Unknown
>> >
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