Does a Hate Crime only apply to White on Black Crime?

Apparently, it does:

Victim Describes Beating (Black Mob Attack on White Girls in Long Beach, CA on Halloween)Long Beach Press-Telegram ^ 10/2/06 Tracy Manzer

Posted on 12/02/2006 9:58:08 AM PST by Yaelle

LONG BEACH - A 21-year-old woman who had a dozen bones on one side of her face shattered during a Halloween attack testified in court Friday, recalling the beating in chilling detail.

The victim - who asked the Press-Telegram in previous interviews to be identified by only her first name, Loren, out of concern for her safety - was with two friends visiting a haunted house in Bixby Knolls when the three white women were attacked by a group of black youths.
She appeared composed and confident while on the witness stand. The only moment that revealed any nervousness came as she stood next to a diagram where she was asked to note her position and the position of her friends and the attackers at the time of the beating.
As Deputy District Attorney Andrea Bouas and several defense attorneys stopped for a brief discussion, Loren nervously capped and uncapped a red marker as she waited for the prosecutor's questions to resume.

Loren's mother said outside court that the 21-year-old victim was horribly nervous about testifying, having never done it before.
Her daughter is also struggling with her extensive injuries, she said. A team of doctors, including two surgeons, are trying to determine Advertisement how best to treat her dizzy spells and her drooping eye.
Several of her teeth have died and will have to be replaced with a partial plate. No one yet knows if she will regain the sight partially lost in the one eye.

She is studying photography, and her injuries forced her to drop all her college classes this year. Her injuries could destroy her dreams of pursuing a career as a professional photographer.

Loren was perhaps the most seriously hurt the night of the attack, which resulted in the arrest of 10 Long Beach youths - 9 girls and one boy, ages 12 to 19 - within moments of the 9:30 p.m. beating.

A few days later, police arrested two 17-year-old males, both from Long Beach. They have been charged with the same counts for which the 10 minors are currently being tried, or adjudicated as it is called in juvenile court.
The charge includes three felony counts of assault by any means of force to produce great bodily injury. Eight of the 10 minors currently in court had a hate crime enhancement added to their charges, and the two 17-year-old boys - whose adjudications are set for early January - also face the hate crime allegation.

All of the minors are black, and witness statements that the youths shouted racial slurs while beating the three victims have resulted in community and nationwide outrage.
Court proceedings so far have been slow, due in part to the difficulty of transporting the 10 minors to the Long Beach courthouse from various Los Angeles County juvenile detention centers.

Each minor has his or her own attorney, to avoid a conflict of interest, making for drawn-out arguments at times.

Friday's session, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m., started late after the prosecutor argued defense lawyers had violated Superior Court Judge Gibson Lee's order the previous day.
On Thursday, defense attorneys told reporters they changed the seating of the defendants. Until then, all the minors had sat directly behind their attorneys.

When the district attorney asked the first witness to take the stand to identify the minors in court Thursday, she matched the wrong police photograph to one of the girls in court.
Defense attorneys seized on the mistake. During cross examination the witness admitted the error, saying she could not see all of the defendants and therefore picked the wrong one. After further prompting, she said she based her identification the night of the arrest largely on what the minors were wearing, not their facial features.

Prior to the start of testimony Friday, Bouas argued that the defense attorneys had talked about moving the defendants but were told by the judge not to, according to bailiffs and officers in the closed courtroom.

The minors were rearranged anyway and Bouas accused the defense of running a "shell game," officers said.

Many of the defense attorneys became angry at the accusation, the officers said. They told the judge they did not know how the youths had been rearranged, but agreed to have the minors seated behind their assigned lawyer from now on.

"The judge stopped short of saying they violated an order," one officer said. "But he made it clear that it would not happen again."
All the officers spoke on condition of anonymity.

Once that matter was settled, the public was allowed into the courtroom and Bouas began with Loren's testimony.
Loren described how she and her friends began the night at her house, where they dressed in their costumes - she as Betty Boop, her friend Michelle as a pirate and her friend Laura as a vampire.
They had decided to go see the haunted house, located on Linden Avenue at the corner of Bixby Road, while they were waiting for a fourth friend to get off work. That was when they were all going to go to a costume party, she said.

When she and her friends arrived at the haunted house, she said, a young black male - whom she estimated to be 17 to 19 years old - was standing with a group of youths and began hollering "Are you with it?" at her and her friends while grabbing his crotch.

After the victims made their way through the haunted house and returned to the front yard where they had started, she noticed the crowd had grown larger and included girls and boys.
"He said, `Are you with it?' again," Loren testified. "He was loud, he was yelling."
The crowd was also getting louder and more boisterous and the victims could hear other things, she said.
"I heard them (say) something about the white people and `white b---."' Loren testified.

She described trying to walk away and being pelted with pumpkins and lemons. She was hit in the back of the head and in her back. The force was strong enough to cause pain, she recalled.
She also recalled seeing one of her friends - Laura - get hit in the back and in the legs. That is when her friend turned around and told the crowd to stop.

As Laura turned back toward Loren and Michelle, she said, she saw at least two girls grab that friend by her long hair and her dress and yank her backward.
"I heard one voice say, `I f------ hate white people,"' Loren testified.
It was a male voice that shouted the statement, loud enough to be heard over the shouting crowd, she said.
At about the same time she said she heard male and female voices saying, "white b---," and the group surged toward Laura, partially surrounding her friend and cutting off her access to Michelle and Loren.

Loren recalled yelling to Michelle that they were getting separated. Michelle was shouting back that she was calling 911 as she dialed her cell phone.
The victim described, and was asked to demonstrate, how her friend was knocked to the ground. Loren then recalled seeing a young man flip a skateboard he had at his side up over his head.
"I saw him flip it up and swing in the direction of Laura," she testified, describing the suspect as black, tall and with a medium build, adding that he was big but not overweight.
His hair was close to his head, in either braids or corn rows, she added.

Loren said she rushed back to Laura but was quickly surrounded by a group of about a dozen people, mostly girls. They circled her in two rows, one inside the other, she described.
She first felt someone kick the back of her leg, just below her knee, and her leg buckled. But she did not fall, the victim testified.
Punches to her face and the back of her head rained down on her, with more than one person hitting her and most of them girls, she said.
She felt her left cheek pop from the force of one extremely strong blow and assumed it was from a male.
She said she ducked her face and flailed her arms, trying to stop her attackers, but they continued beating her.
"I could feel the rhythm of one-two ... getting punched in the back of the head and the face," she recalled.

She was eventually knocked to the ground when she tried to flip open her cell phone to call for help, and it was knocked out of her hand, she said.
Many of them were girls, she said. Some were wearing sweaters with the Rocawear logo, several had braids and some wore hoop earrings, Loren testified.
Rocawear is a popular line of clothing created by rapper Jay-Z.

Curled in a ball on her knees, Loren said she wrapped her arms over her head and kept her legs tucked under her body. She could feel people pounding her with their fists and kicking her, striking her on top of her head, around her face, her back and up and down her body, she said.
"Once I hit the ground, I remember being kicked by what I thought was a man," she testified. "Because the force was so hard, and when I looked up I thought I could see ... male legs."
At one point, she peered out from under her arm and said she could see one of her friends laying on the ground.
"She was being stepped on," she testified. "It looked like males."

It didn't stop until a black man ran up and began pulling people off her, Loren said. She recalled him yelling at the youths to stop.
She said a young black woman grabbed her under her arms and helped her stand up, taking her closer to where her friends were standing.
The woman screamed for ice for the victim's swollen and bloody face as neighbors began to come forward, Loren recalled.
"I was bleeding really bad and grabbing at my nose," she said.

The police arrived first, followed by paramedics. Not long afterward, officers told her that they had found some people who might have been involved and wanted to drive her to a nearby parking lot to see if she could identify those people.

The victims were taken in separate vehicles one at a time, Loren said.
She sat in a police SUV with an officer who wrote down what she said as a line of youths was asked to come forward one by one into the glare of several police headlights and search lights.
She said she immediately recognized the first person, a girl in a white shirt, and told the officer, "Yeah, that's the one that beat my friend. I think she was attacking Laura."

Loren explained in court that the reason she told the officer she thought it was the girl who attacked her friend, rather than say she knew it was the girl, was because she had been instructed to be as specific as possible.
She had seen the girl going toward Laura, she said.
"She was attacking Laura, but I wasn't positive she was punching her or pushing her," Loren explained.
She also said she wasn't able to identify all the minors arrested that night.

As the district attorney began to show the victim police photos taken of the 10 youths in the parking lot, several defense attorneys objected.
Showing the victim the photos before asking her to identify the minors in court would coach her into saying precisely what the prosecutor wanted, they argued.
The same objection was raised with the first witness to testify; an 18-year-old who was in the area with her baby, her friend and her younger sister at the time of the beating. As in the first witness' case, the judge overruled the objection but it was quickly followed by several others made by most of the 10 defense attorneys in court.

Judge Lee ended Friday's proceedings at that point, saying he would return to the issue next week. Court is expected to resume Monday at 1:30 p.m.

JESSE JACKSON and AL SHARPTON!!!

Where are you???

Women: Know your Limits

KNOW YOUR LIMITS

I just learned something about Congress

You know, I just learned this morning they get almost 170K a year and they only work two months a year. That's about 2,700 a day!

A guy on Good Morning America was walking around the halls in the white house this morning....all empty.

Man, I wish we could fire all those deadbeats and put someone in there that'll work.

I will miss The Fruit Cake Lady

She died on November 13th. Hat tip to AmIAnnoying.com.

Circa 1911-November 13, 2006)
Born in Alabama
Birth name is Marie Rudisill
Appears on the Tonight Show's ‘Ask the Fruitcake Lady' (2002-)
Authored eight books
Aunt of Truman Capote

She didn't pull punches.
She helped raise Truman Capote.
She taught Mel Gibson how to make a fruitcake, Cuba Gooding Jr. to cook a cherry pie, and Hugh Grant how to stuff a turkey.

When someone asked her if she had been naughty or nice in 2005 she said, ‘Now how in the hell is a ninety-four year old woman gonna be naughty? My naughty days are over forever!'

RECRIMINATIONS

THE UNAPOLOGETIC VARIETY

By: Norman Liebmann]

(I like the way he writes) A principal bone of contention in the recent election devolved on which party would more likely keep America safe. In a world full of Moslems, safety is an illusion, and nobody promised it more lavishly and irresponsibly than the Democrat Party. What passes for safety among Democrats is denial. Liberals are unprovoked beyond finger wagging and tongue clacking by Islamic excesses. They believe the silver lining to being beheaded by jihadis is that it is a quick cure for a migraine headache.

The Republicans waged an irresolute political campaign pretty much like military one they did in Iraq. In coming to power the Democrats will bring with them a virtual tsunami of taxation and corruption. Moderates have merged with Democrat surrender-freaks and marched under a banner that proudly proclaims “Mish Mash Accomplished”.

The electorate’s response demonstrated America’s aversion to partial birth wars and abortive political campaigns. History instructs them that compromise quickly morphs into collusion. George W. Bush described his party’s loss as “a thumping”. Rather it was a thoroughgoing humiliation and a pedal to the metal acceleration for the encroachment of Armageddon due largely to Bush’s naïve delusion that there are good Moslems and bad Moslems. He comes by this warped ambivalence honestly. Bush Sr. still labors under the delusion there are good Bill Clintons and bad Bill Clintons. Bush Senior is still sucking up to his unprincipled predecessor. The Bush’s family’s failure to inveigh against the crimes of Bill Clinton is tantamount to an endorsement of them. Apparently, Texas has become a rats’ nest of forgiveness. If the past is prologue, in due course George W. will soon be trysting with his nemesis, Cindy Sheehan.

The campaigns conducted by the Republicans and Democrats were septic and obscene, something like watching Jerry Springer and Maury Povitch throw up on each other. The Liberals rounded up the usual dupes and dragged them to the polls. They were fed the proposition that Bush engineered the 911 attack on the World Trade Center, and Civil rights leaders disseminated the canard that he also created the low pressure system that sent Katrina flooding Basin Street and gave everyone a damp case of “the blues”.

Instruments in the Democrat victory are Bill Clinton, (Hillary’s time-share husband), Kofi Annan, highly-situated scam artist and international oil hoaxer, and the ghost of Pancho Villa. Likely the Democrat campaign strategy was mapped out in the cantinas of Tijuana and the whorehouses of Little Rock.

The Democrat Party is also an acknowledged sanctuary for conscienceless opportunists, Arkansas yokels, the chronic disloyal, aging Princes of Pork, ugly women, and an assortment of sexual epicenes and pathogenic feminists. These ranks are fleshed out by “oppressed” minorities seduced by the promise of raising the minimum wage with a commensurate promise of minimizing work.

The hood ornament of the Democrat victory is Nancy Pelosi of the City of San Fag-cisco, America’s Babylon-by-the-Bay, who has finally reached the portals of Marxist/Leninist heaven where she can change her name to Svetlana and wait for her turn to straddle a tractor as a means of getting some sexual relief.

The Democrats now have leave to vent their true feelings toward all things military – contempt, distrust, and mostly, ingratitude. Nancy Pelosi has already laid claim to a plush office whose strategic advantage is a picture window that enables her to drop her knickers, and moon the Pentagon.

The politicians have formed a study group, presumably of the same ilk that oversaw the evacuation of Saigon. Needless to say, they will not be of the same fabric that raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi. It includes James Baker from the Bush Sr. Administration, which reaffirms the proposition that in politics there’s always room to go backwards. It is hoped that W. is good with leftovers. The whole process is something akin to trying to fertilize dinosaur eggs. Colin Powell’s head pops up intermittently like a prairie dog with his panacea solutions for Iraq. He does have unchallengeable credentials. After all, he did the voice-over for Desert Storm. It is hoped one measure the group will consider is the abolition of the State Department, that murky pond of compromise and nesting ground for the propagation of appeasers.

The slogan “Stay the course” has been discredited as the Bush strategy in Iraq deteriorated from “Victory or bust” to “Occupation and rust”. The Democrats are at odds over a date certain for bailing out of Baghdad. They are divided into two camps – those who believe we should take the money and run, and those who believe we should take the money and quit. Either strategy might be described as “committing Murtha”. In either case it only remains for the Marines to shove Saddam Hussein back down into his spider hole and hop the next freighter back to Camp Lejune. (Our sometime ally, Tony Blair, wants to enlist those rogue states, Iran and Syria, to help solve the problems of the Middle East. Apparently Neville Chamberlain lives! As an alternative to victory Blair is offering us a reenactment of Dunkirk.)

The War on Terror was destined to remain theoretical as long as George Bush was distracted by his preoccupation with making the world a cushy place for the swarthy tribes of the world, and a sewer big enough to mix the molasses for his brand of compassion. The problem is not that he hasn’t won the war in Iraq. He simply chose not to fight it. He is intent on fixing the infirmities of the world of terror and insurgency with a kind of global soothing. Hence, it is apparent that there is no such thing as “winning” in Iraq. Despite Bush’s good intentions toward the people of the Middle East, the determining pragmatism of Islam is a slavery-is-not-all-bad mindset.

In any event, Americans have turned their backs on open borders and piecemeal wars. The conventional wisdom is that any Moslem killed today is one that won’t have to be killed tomorrow. A viable strategy for the Bush Administration might have been, instead of discouraging a Civil War in Iraq they should have been fomenting one in Iran.

[Note: A grim factor in the election demographics is that American Jews voted
85% Democrat. Presumably old habits die hard. At Auschwitz such collaborators
were called “kapos” and served as maitre d’s stationed at the velvet rope to
check whether a hapless kinsman had a reservation in order to enter the gas
chamber. In gratitude for their support, Minnesota Democrats spit in their faces
by electing a Moslem to Congress. That is tantamount to the Hassidim in Brooklyn
sending a mohel to Mecca.]

The situation promises to get worse before it gets better. John Kerry has not abandoned his political ambitions. It is likely that Hillary will be the Democrats’ candidate for President in 2008 and Kerry will be their candidate for Vice- President. The ticket may well be designated as Bitch and Botch. Their Administration would quickly demonstrate that Democrats are unable to solve any problem until they have first made it global.

John Murtha’s candidacy for the Democrat Majority Leader has already been deep-sixed. His aspiration was sunk by his ethically-challenged political past and his unmistakable resemblance to Helen Thomas’ passport photo. Worse, we see the reemergence of that notable invertebrate Trent Lott, who made the Clinton impeachment an exercise in futility. Lott demonstrated that you can’t stand up without a spine, and to remedy that, in Lott’s case, would require a surgical procedure about as radical as implanting a hockey stick in his back.

Having done nothing about illegal immigration, nothing about Iran, nothing about North Korea, Bush has become Dudley Do Nothing. It took him a year to respond to 9/11 – and arguably to the wrong enemy. One suspects there will be a call for a fallback position to a Fortress America military posture, since the Europeans have scuttled their democracies and defaulted themselves and their posterity to the Moslem barbarians.

Bush now can look forward to the humiliation of impeachment without the amenities. The only way the Bush family can atone for the coming apocalypse is to subject the Arkansas lout to a gradual and painful execution for the public entertainment before his natural demise resuscitates the nation’s honor. The only question that Bill Clinton has to conjure with these days - is there impotence after death, or even worse, before?

John Paul Jones said, “I have not yet begun to fight” - and neither have the Republicans. Unsure of how to conduct war with the Iraqis, the Bush Administration instructed the Marines to approach any Moslem unlocked and unloaded - and with a saucer of milk. Bush was equally docile when he sent his pussycat political strategist brigades to reason with the groin kickers on the left. So much for the new tone.

In the interest of space, read the rest here.

Those non-blinking, Botoxed Eyes

Congratulations to the Democrats, but be Careful what you Wish for

Not all democrats are happy. I believe there are conservative democrats..or democratic conservatives (whatever) out there that are concerned.

I have met a few in other forums.

That's what I probably am, having voted democrat until this last presidential election.

I think somewhere between FDR and Kennedy, the conservative mindset gave way to socialism and liberalism.

Does being a democrat nowadays mean you accept the government's hand in everything you do?

Does being a demcrat mean you have to gleefully accept illegal aliens, giving them all the rights an American citizen enjoys?

Being a democrat, do you agree that the Iraq war is a failed concept and we should cut and run right now...nevermind how many Iraqis will be slaughtered when we leave?

Let's get ready for higher taxes and interest rates.

Fire up those social programs...change our language to Spanish (we don't need to be selfish).

Health care for everyone....that's what those other socialist countries do and it's working out fine for them.

I guess I need to learn Arabic and get used to being on my knees, looking up some other guy's ass too, since being a Democrat of today means I must apologize to all those countries that don't like us.

Next stop, the White House, I guess.

Let's put the Hildebeast or Obama-Whama in there.

The repubs did lose and the dems have finally gotten some power in the house after 16 years. Congrats but I am concerned about what this will create.

I don't see good things from this but maybe that's my pessimistic nature.

I'm off to learn all about Socialism and try to get a fixed rate on my mortgage.

24 Sneek Preview

I'm pumped.

This Guy is Completely Devoid of Class

Bill Maher is, and always will be a complete moron.

If he's not obsessing on hating Bush, he's choosing to go out in public with this tasteless costume, making fun of Steve Irwin.

This fool will do anything to get noticed.

The sad thing is, sometime during the evening he looked in the mirror and thought that was funny.

How to Dance like a White Guy

"Party of the Rich" - Limousine liberals are upgrading to Lear jets

Strange how just a few years ago, it seems, Democraps (including me at the time) were thought to be against big business and rich politicians.
Now it seems all that time they were just getting richer (except me).I remember that last election that the dems are still whining about. Kerry and Edwards were the richest candidates ever to run for president.
The dems are just beside themselves because they can't understand why they have all that money and no power.
If it all changes (which it probably won't) in the elections, they'll have ALL the money and ALL the power.

I hope it happens. I'll be a lot more active on forums and my website when I gloat about how they're screwing things up on a daily basis.

Racists on a Plane

BOOOSH!

What the hell are the North Koreans up to? This sounds a bit ominous to me.

WASHINGTON – As reports circulated of a second imminent nuclear test, a high-ranking North Korean official who is called the unofficial spokesman for Kim Jong-il issued a not-so-veiled threat to the United States today in an interview with South Korean radio.

"Everything will be settled in a week," said Kim Myong-chol on KBS Radio.
"That is, whether we, Korean people, will remain as we are now, or lose, or New York will lose, or Washington, D.C., will lose, it will all be settled once and for all."

The report was carried in Chosun Ilbo, a Korean-language newspaper in the south.

The Only Reason I Watch Comedy Central

School for Scoundrels and Sling Blade - See it Today

Pasta Incident

Did you ever cough pasta through your nose?

Hate it when that happens.

Julian Beever

White and Nerdy

Did you catch Donny Osmond as his background dancer?
I think Seth Green is in there as well...not sure.

The Pope and the Muslims

The pope was quoting from literary text. If a muslim takes exception to that, he/she should respond with literary protests, not with violence.

I'm sorry the Pope thought he had to apologize. I hope he's watching this violence and is, at least in private, saying, "See, I told you so."

Now, they want his head?

Low-life barbarians.

10 first place winners in the International Pun Contest

1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger."

2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, "Dam!"

3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says "I've lost my electron." The other says "Are you sure?" The first replies "Yes, I'm positive."

5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because", he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer."

7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him... (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good). A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did????