[Vision2020] Vandalism Deplored as Hate Crime

Mon Dec 7 14:21:22 PST 2009

And even if someone opposed to NSA's presence downtown -- let's remember, that was the issue -- used "Hitler Youth" as an epithet against them, that, while certainly obnoxious, doesn't mean that he or she then scurried down to scratch it in Crayola Sidewalk Chalk/ Sunshine Yellow.  

The thing is, if anyone who hated NSA with the rabid intensity that, perhaps, was
imagined, the unfortunate fact is that damage would have been done to
NSA property.  There was none, for which I'm grateful.

Young people, on the other hand, who at about this time see their leaders, elders, teachers and mentors engage in pranks and tricks -- "Topless Lecture," anywone? -- might be influenced by them.  Writing "Hitler Youth" in easily-eraseable chalk in front of NSA -- not ON NSA's buildings, not with anything spray-painted, not with any windows broken nor one iota of damage done to NSA property -- strikes me as, perhaps, a way for some young Trinitarian Skylarker to make a point in the hope that it would be blamed on some foaming-at-the-mouth liberal -- and impress the Big Men on NSA's campus.  

In a community where grown-up men from one church rely on pseudonyms to make even the most tepid points, where heroes of the faith steal blog designs, fonts, and formats to trash the author, pastors applaud the theft of university letterhead for knee-slapping April Fools' jokes, and NSA opponents find their cars vandalized with dog feces, it's not too much of a stretch.

What is a stretch is believing that Glenn doesn't know all this.   

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:26:23 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Vandalism Deplored as Hate Crime
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: kjajmix1 at msn.com
> CC: vpschwaller at gmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> 
> 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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