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Speaker 1: I want to welcome everyone back to part five of

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my reading of Crying Wolf Hate Crime Hoaxes in America

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by Laird Wilcox. A reminder about Thomas and I doing

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movie reviews. If you go over to Freemenbeyond the Wall

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dot com forward slash Movies, you'll see the links to

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all the movies we've reviewed. We watch and sort of

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mystery science theater them, but try to be a little

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more serious about it and funny sometimes. All right, this

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is part five. We're going to finish up chapter five

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and then get into chapter six. Not sure if we

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can finish chapter six today, but get as much done

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as we can. All right, here we go. Of all

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the possible hate crime hoaxes, one would think that an

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incident in which a man is deliberately set on fire

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would be impossible to fake. Yet such a hoax apparently

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happened in Loveland, Ohio, in September nineteen ninety three. Writhing

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in pain with burns over seventy five percent of his body,

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Milton Metcalf lay in front of a leveland bar Tuesday

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and screamed, I was trying to help them. His payoff,

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according to police, a cup of gasoline in the face

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and a match tossed at him. Police were checking the

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possibility the attack was racially motivated. Metcalf is black. He

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described his attackers as white. According to Metcalf, thirty, he

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was trying to help two men and a pregnant woman

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whose pickup truck was at a gas He went home

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and got a gas can, had it filled, and brought

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it to the trio. Metcalf told police that the truck

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would not start. The men asked him to get a

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cup of gas to prime the carburetor. When he complied,

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one of the men poured it on him, and the

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other tossed a lighted match. Metcalf on fire ran across

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to Zappa's Sports Bar. Bartender Angela Klaggsgens said. Angela Klaskins said,

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we heard a loud bang. It sounded like a gunshot.

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We looked at the door and there was a great, giant,

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great big fireball. He was screaming. They were trying to

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pour it. They were trying to pour it down my throat.

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They poured gas on me and set me on fire again.

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Richard Pryor for flashbacks here. Loveland, with the population in

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ninety nine hundred is ninety seven percent white and two

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percent black, according to the nineteen ninety census. Police and

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citizens initially speculated on the racial aspect of the crime.

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A few days later, another story began to emerge. Police

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had discovered a half filled gas can behind a Loveland

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shopping center, and accounts by witnesses cast suspicion on Milton

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Metcalf's story. Hearing of these developments, the local NAACP demanded

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an investigation. Frank Allison, president of the Cincinnati chapter, said,

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think if the victim was white, it would have been

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handled differently. Finally, the whole story began to come apart.

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Police revealed that Metcalf had been convicted in April nineteen

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ninety three for filing a false police report that he

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had been abducted by two men with a baby. A

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detailed police investigation determined that the incident was a hoax

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concocted by Metcalf. Also, it was learned that the late

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model Ford pickup Metcalf had described had no carburetor and

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could not be primed with gas. Finally, although many people

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had seen Metcalf in the area of the Clark Clark station,

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no one had noticed a truck. Milton Metcalf critically burned,

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and the apparent self inflicted victim of a hoax that

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backfired subsequently subsequently died from his injuries. Hatred and bigotry,

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it seems no no boundaries and no limit to viciousness,

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or so it seemed in May nineteen ninety three, when

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twelve year old Jake Thompson, a black fifth grader, reported

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that no less than ten white and Hispanic boys aged

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ten to thirteen had beaten him in the ground, beaten

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him to the ground, pushed his head inside a toilet

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and flushed it, and then wrote ends must die on

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a boy's restroom wall at Ensignal Elementary School in Santa Clara, California.

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I don't know swirly and then you know end must die. Yeah.

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I wouldn't have bought this one from the start. The

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case was originally handled by skeptical school officials who were

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cautious about buying the improbable story. Police learned of the

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incident a few weeks later while visiting the school on

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another matter, and opened a case. The case attracted the

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attention of a sympathetic news media, who, it is charged,

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blew the case way out of proportion and civil rights

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groups who hold for the boy's head send them a

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message was the slogan, as powerful interest groups pushed for

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prosecution of the youngsters and demanded the indictments of the

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youngest defendants ever to go on trial for felony hate crimes,

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forcing many of their parents to hire attorneys to represent

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the children and others to rely on understaffed and under

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financed public defenders. If convicted, the children could be sentenced

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to a draconian eight years in California Youth Authority custody.

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I'm surprised I didn't try and send them to friggin

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San quinton a kafka Escalora to The case began to

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emerge as discrepancies and inconsistencies developed, including the date of

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the hate crime which changed back and forth. Evidence appeared

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that cast doubt upon Jake Thompson's story. According to news reports,

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At a hearing held last August, a school monitor testified

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that when he saw Jake after the alleged assault, he

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showed no signs of bruising or injury. As the case progressed,

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the judge began dismissing defendants as the evidence for their

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participation evaporated. Hugh Roberts', attorney for an eleven year old

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defendant who was released in the case, said this is

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a terribly overcharged case made more difficult by community and

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media response. Deputy District Attorney Mark Buller admitted that as

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the cases evolved, we know information now that we didn't

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know then. I'll be Jakimawitz, attorney for a twelve year

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old Hispanic boy charging the case, claimed that Buller was

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pushing the case because of political and social pressure. When

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the case came to trial, the San Jose Mercury reported

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recanting his original story to police. A boy testified in

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court Wednesday that the alleged beating of a black classmate

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was a hoax. Instead, the seventh grader said Jake Thompson

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planned the whole incident shortly after school began that day,

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then later ripped his own shirt and wet his hair

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to make it appear as if he had been beaten.

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The boy told how Jake had asked him to lie

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and repeatedly called his house to make sure their story

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is matched. On the witness stand Tuesday and Wednesday, two

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of the prosecution's witnesses changed their stories and contradicted Jake's account.

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Of the May fourth incident. As Jake Thompson's story fell apart,

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Judge Paul R. Teel had no choice but to acquit

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the remaining four defendants. This, however, was not the end

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of the story. There was still a possibility for money

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to be made. In November nineteen ninety three, attorneys for

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Jake Thompson filed a three million dollar civil suit against

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Morgan Hill Unified School District, charging that they were negligent

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and fared to failed to supervise and control the conduct

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of students. In Chicago, a black man who had told

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police of an attack by a white motorcycle motorcycle gang

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in May nineteen eighty five recanted parts of his stories

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after witnesses disputed his assertion that he had been beaten

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with chains by gang members. According to witnesses, Otis Jackson's

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car was overturned by people whom Jackson had endangered by

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driving recklessly. Jackson, twenty five, also withdrew claims that the

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whites had harassed him at a stoplight, that a friend

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was in the car with him, and that the white

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gang had stolen three hundred dollars. Jackson initially said the

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gang members had pushed a Molotov cocktail through a hole

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in the rear window. Witnesses contradicted Jackson, saying that there

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was no motorcycle gang involved in the incident. According to

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media reports, witnesses have accused Jackson of trying to run

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down people on pedestrian walkways before his car hit a tree.

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A crowd became angry after Jackson had driven in reverse

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at speeds of forty miles an hour and overturned the

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car after he had run off the walkways. The car

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exploded because the motor was running. Jackson had told police

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he was driving in response to escape the motorcyclists. He explained,

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I don't know why I gave some bad information. I

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was high. Jackson had been fired from his security job

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after it was learned that Heat was a convicted felon

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awaiting trial on charges of possessing two loaded handguns, one

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of which was stolen in a burglary. Hoaxes often take

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bizarre forms. In nineteen eighty eight, fifty year old Gary A.

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Tucker stirred law enforcement officials with the death bed confession

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that he had taken part in in nineteen sixty three

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church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young black girls.

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Media sources reported a Justice Department official in Washington said

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the local United States Attorney's office and the FBI in

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Alabama had sent very optimistic reports to Washington indicating that

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mister Tucker might well be telling the truth. According to

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federal officials, Tucker really knew his dates and places and

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knew the players and the bombing. Later, David Barber, Jefferson

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County District Attorney, said that Tucker was a confessor to

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a crime he did not commit. Investigators noted that Tucker

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didn't even know the location of the church and gave

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three different descriptions of the car which he was driving.

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Barbara and Frank Donaldson, US attorney for Northern Alabama, said

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their only explanation for the hoax was Tucker's physical and

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mental condition. Tucker was a cancer patient at the VA

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Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at the time of his confession.

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Tucker's relatives said that he had been diagnosed several years

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earlier as a paranoid skitts. His explanation to us was

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what he realized he was. What was that he realized

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he was dying and wanted to get it off his

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conscious conscience. We were really real disappointed at how it

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turned out because we want that case solved. Insurance fraud

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has been the motive for more than one hate crime hoax.

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In March nineteen ninety one, a Fayetteville, Georgia, black couple

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was arrested and charged with fraud by arson, having spray

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painted racial slurs on the interior walls before setting their

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four hundred thousand dollars home on fire. White racists were blamed.

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Marcellis and Sandra Jackson were soon arrested and held on

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three hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond. They had been

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behind in their mortgage payments in phase foreclosure. Their real

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estate agent, Lynn Mitchell, was also arrested as a co conspirator.

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According to Sheriff Randall Johnson, the fire was Jackson's third

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attemp in a month to burn the house down. Jeez,

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can've me do that right? Sheriff's Captain Bruce Jordan's said,

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by the second we were considering the possibility that it

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was not racially motivated and may have been a financial conspiracy.

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Nine months later, on December sixth, nineteen ninety one, Marcellus

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Jackson was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Witnesses said

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that Jackson sent the fire himself to collect insurance on

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the house. They also also testified the Sandra Jackson real

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estate agent Lynn Mitchell, and neighbor Cesar Gators conspired to

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defraud the mortgage company that financed Jackson's house. Is just

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go on and on and on, and you know, as

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a reminder, you could say, oh, but these are the exceptions.

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Now this is the rule. Where are where are the

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real ones? Where are the real ones? When something like

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this happens, and it happens for real, it's so far

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out of the ordinary. The home of Larry Williams and

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Patricia Anderson, a black couple in Arvada, Colorado, was systematically

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ransacked November twenty, nineteen ninety and twenty nine. Swastikas were

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drawn with a felt marker on the walls for a

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black couple okay. The police report noted that the ransacking

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had been done in an unusually neat, careful manner. Nothing

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was broken and nothing was missing. Williams speculated, I guess

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they were trying to drive home a message that they

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don't want us in this neighborhood. We're the only blacks here.

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Exactly two weeks later, Williams and Anderson return home to

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find their home on fire and their blue Thunderbird missing

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from the garage. Police reported that the fire had been

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deliberately set in four places. The house sustained mostly smoke damage,

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a care worn and Daves Williams said, I just can't

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believe this. The FBI entered the case, requesting a copy

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of the earlier police report. Police report, Arvada Police Lieutenant

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Jeff Walker said it's routine for them to look into

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ethnic hate crimes like this. We want to make it

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perfectly clear that we are not going to tolerate a

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situation where a family is singled out and treated this

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way because it doesn't happen. Two days after the fire,

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the Rocky Mountain News at Denver Daily reported that Williams

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and Anderson had been dayluged with an outpouring of sympathy.

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Of sympathy, Police Sergeant Merle Westling of the Arvada Police

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Department said, We've had calls from people wanting to donate clothing, gifts,

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money to help rebuild the house. I've even told I'm

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even told that there was a contractor over there this

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morning who said he'd donates some time to get the

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place straightened up. The Thunderbird was soon located in Denver.

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Police reported that someone had put a rock on the

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gas pedal and let it run into a parked dump truck.

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Police fingerprinted the car for clues. Arvada Police Chief pat

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Alstrom said that the investigation is high priority, as is

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any crime with a possible racial and ethnic hatred motive.

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Why is that different than any other crime? Why? Why?

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Because of World War Two? That's the only reason. Y'all

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realize that, right, that's the only reason, hate crime, hatred motive, racial? Yeah,

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and investigate they did. Police learned that the family was

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in severe financial straits and that the house was ensured. Moreover,

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police were suspicious from the outset when inconsistencies developed in

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their account of the incidents, but in a few days,

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Patricia Anderson was arrested along with Lee Andrew Williams, brother

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of Larry Williams, who was now was not charged in

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the case. Lee Williams and Anderson subsequently entered guilty please.

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years for one count of first degree arson. Patricia Anderson

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received five years probation for its emp to theft and

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false reporting. In July nineteen ninety nine, an arson fire

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seriously damaged the closed Encounters Clothing shopping Kansas City, Missouri's

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fashionable Westport shopping area. The owner, Angela Washington Thomas, a

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black woman, claimed that it was it was a racially

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motivated active hate. At the time of the fire, Thomas

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told of racial harassment, including threatening telephone calls, dating from

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when she opened the store in July nineteen eighty nine.

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She told the reporter, this was a purposeful hate, active hate.

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I'm borderline shock that this could happen. I'd rather it

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was of something I did personally to someone than because

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I'm black. Thomas's claim of racial intimidation brought immense local

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and national media attention. Anti racist groups were lamenting the

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plight of the brave young woman in calls for harsher

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penalties for hate crimes echoed throughout the community. It was

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it also brought the FBI into the case, which proved

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that the actual perpetrator to be the actual perpetrator's undoing.

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According to FBI spokesman Max Gueyman. The FBI conducted an inquiry,

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but a determination was made after a preliminary investigation that

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the allegations of racism were not supported. Lauren D. Johnson,

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a former Kansas City, Kansas firefighter, proved to be the

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key to the case. He had been bragging to a

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friend that he had been involved in the arson. This

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friend told a friend who called police. As the investigation

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began to focus on him, Johnson admitted his part in

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the crime. The store was failing and it was burned

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to collect insurance. Thomas and Johnson were convicted due to

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an effective attorney and their willingness to implicate one another

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in the crime. Both received relatively lenient sentences. Thomas was

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sentenced to sixty days of monitored house arrest in order

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to pay thirteen thousand dollars restitution. Johnson was sentenced to

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ninety days monitored house arrested and seventy eight hundred in restitution.

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Each was also placed on five years probation. That is

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the end of chapter five, And wow, does it have

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a lot of footnotes? Just that chapter has one hundred footnotes.

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Crazy chapter six heading Jews. There can be no question

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that faked anti Semitic hate crimes are caused for grief

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and consternation in the Jewish community. Jewish concern with persecution

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is justifiable. Deep rooted Jewish sensitivity to anti Semitism makes

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hoaxes committed by Jews particularly shocking. I guess he's not

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gonna do that. These hoaxes are almost always the product

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of individuals seeking to achieve a sense of importance through victimhood,

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to advance a particular agenda, to seek monetary advantages through

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insurance claims or damaged settlements, or perhaps more juveniles engaged

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in pranks. I remind you of a friend of mine

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who told me that when he was growing up, from

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the youngest age, as soon as he could understand, his

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mom told him, we are Jews. Everyone wants to kill us.

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This is exactly I'm telling you the story in the

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language he told me, not quoting perfectly, but I'm not

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embellishing either. So it came time. His mom was a

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teacher at the school he went to, and he had

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always kept secret that he was a Jew. When it

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came time for his ba Metzvah, he was getting ready

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and his mom invited his classmates, and he had a meltdown.

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He said, Mom, they don't know I'm Jewish. Now that

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they know I'm Jewish, they're going to try to kill me.

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It's twelve to thirteen years old at the time. What

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happens to a people who are raised to believe that

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everybody wants to kill them, but they're also God's showsen

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people and that they're very special. I would say it's

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a recipe for incredible narcissism. Not everyone, but that's the

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way it would seem to me. That's the way it

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would seem to me. Think about like a ruler, Think

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about the rule of a country, say a monarchy that

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gets passed down and you're raised, you're raised as a prince,

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but you're also in a country where there are factions

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that would want to harm you, people would want to

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take over the throne. Is there a chance that knowing

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that you're a prince and that this is your birthright

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come bind with the fact that a lot of people

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want to kill you, would that cause you to act

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a certain way, especially as a ruler, if you had

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positions of power, if you had positions of influence. To

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think about that really really hard, because I'm willing to

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accept some some people are victims of their own environment

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and upbringing. That does not excuse behavior. One issue that

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needs to be addressed is whether or not there's an

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organized campaign to commit racist and anti Semitic hoaxes. For years,

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rumors as circulated that a particular organization have been engaged

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in this activity. Right wingers are particularly fond of this

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notion in that it tends to confirm the conspiracy theories

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about the group. What right wingers. Most of the right

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wingers I know, I'm recording this on October seventh, twenty

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twenty four. Most of the right wingers I know probably

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have their Israeli flag at half mass today. Oh, I'm sorry,

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the United States flag at half mass today. Who are

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these right wingers? It's important to avoid paranoid thinking on

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this issue and to reject the kind of reasoning that

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suggests that every disturbing event must have a plot of

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some kind behind it, and a series of such events

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must be the product of a planned conspiracy. I do

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agree with that. I do agree with that. I mean,

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it's not like you know, some idiot who some rabbi

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who decides he needs some attention and spray paint swastika

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is on the side of on the side of his temple,

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and everything is part of a wide conspiracy. Now just

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looking for looking for attention, They're going to be a victim.

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Extremely extremists on both sides of this issue tend to

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think in terms with predictably unfortunate results. I found no credible,

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hard evidence of a bonafide conspiracy or organized campaign to

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commit anti Semitic hoaxes. The best evidence is that the

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hoax incidents are unconnected in the product of individuals and

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not of organizations. I don't think of a conspiracy. I

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don't think a conspiracy is required to explain a pattern

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of anti Semitic hoaxes. In addition to the psychological pleasures

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of victimhood, the advantages to Jewish activists and anti racist

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of anti Semitic incidents are obvious, so much so that

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it would be reasonably it would be reasonable, so much

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so that it would reasonably occur to potential hoaxers upon

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simple reflection with no communication between them. Who benefits from

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mindless acts of anti Semitic graffiti and vandalism is therefore

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all to see, and it is most assuredly not Antisemites.

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Some hoaxes have involved plots manner of speaking, and several

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of them have involved recognizable conspiracies to commit the particular hoax,

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but linkage with other hoaxes is very unlikely, except in

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the limited psycho psychological sense of the copycat phenomenon. The

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copycat effect is important, however, because it can account for

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not only bonafide racial and anti Semitic incidents, but for

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additional hoaxes as well. On the other hand, there is

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some evidence of a deliberate effort to cover up or

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minimize incidents that prove to be hoaxes, usually to avoid

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giving anti Semites ammunition. In the words of one journalist,

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So they seek to commit this hoax so they can

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get attention, they can get sympathy, and get whatever funding.

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And then if the hoax is found out, they don't

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want you to find out about the hoax because then

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it give people what people will realize that your behavior,

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you have bad behavior when it comes to this, is

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that what it is giving anti semitic, anti semites ammunition.

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In the words of one journalist. Okay, if somebody discovers that,

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somebody reads this book and realizes, wow, look at all

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these hoaxes. Why are they doing this? There's something wrong

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and starts to question Jewish motives because all of this

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surrounds one identity. I mean, it's there's this meme online

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it's like, what's the main cause of anti Semitism? And

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if you listen to Bill Marshaw recently, one of the

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panelists said, Gentiles, well, thank you for that. Another and

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you know, Bill Mark just oh, people are jealous because

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we're successful, to which I pointed out on Twitter. Okay,

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so the Biden administration is overwhelming majority Jewish. The director

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of project for FEMA, not the head of FEMA, like

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I said, I made a mistake on Twitter and corrected it.

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The head of field operations kind of thing is Jewish.

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The head of DHS, the Department of Homeland Security is Jewish. Okay,

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would you say that we have a successful government. People

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may be successful at getting jobs and keeping them, but

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if you look at this government and you think, wow,

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this government is terrible. They can't protect us. We need

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to take care of ourselves. And then it's pointed out

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to you that there's an real overrepresentation of people who

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call themselves Jewish who are in this government and especially

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in leadership roles. What's your success metric. I'm not trying

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to be anti Semitic here, I'm asking a question. I mean,

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if it was Chinese people, if Biden's cabinet was overwhelmingly Chinese,

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if the head of DHS was Chinese, if the FEMA

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field director was Chinese, people would be like, wow, First

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of all, there's a lot of Chinese people in our government.

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Second of all, they'd be like, I don't seems like

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they're not doing a really good job. But there's this

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one group that you're not because of everything that I'm

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reading here that you're not allowed to I mean, just

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the whole thought process behind why you wouldn't make up

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hate quote unquote hate crimes there. It's very hard for

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me to believe other than people are so indoctrinated against

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looking at you know, calling out groups group behavior that

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and you know group behavior, when you call it group behavior,

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it doesn't have to be everyone, doesn't have to be everyone.

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And Israelis will tell you, Zionists will tell you that

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everyone in Gaza is they're danger to them. Is everyone

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in Gaza danger to them? I don't think so. But

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yet when it comes to this one group and people

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lose their minds over it, yeah, and people contact me

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and they're like, well, you know, you just know. It's like, well,

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what do you want me to do? What do you

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want me to do? It's like I've said before. I

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think I said it on one of my subsec videos.

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I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I

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have good pattern recognition. I can memorize stuff. Is that

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racist continuing? I have encountered several cases where the news

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coverage of an incident was explicitly minimized once it was

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discovered to be a hoax. This, of course, is what

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is known as spin control, and some anti racist and

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human rights group are pretty good at it. The number

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of publicized hoaxes such as those documented in this report

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is undoubtedly a small fraction of those that you use

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that actually occur. The Anti Defamation League itself may have

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been party to a significant mess representation on the cover

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of the nineteen eighty five issue of the eighty L Bulletin,

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where a cover photograph designated designated desecration of a Jewish

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home in Kingspoint, New York was clearly a fake. The

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swastika depicted does not follow the contours of the panel

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door and appears to stand out and away from it.

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It was painted onto a photo or a transparency and

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then rephotographed. The issue of the bulletin also featured a

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major article entitled Anti Semitic Vandalism two year trend Reversed.

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The article noted that California, with a population of twenty

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three thousand, had experienced ninety nine incidents in nineteen eighty four,

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or one incident per two hundred and thirty thirty thousand citizens. Okay,

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so in nineteen eighty four they had their population was

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twenty three million. At the end of this, I'm going

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to look up and see what their population is now. End.

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However much that has increased, what percentage would you assume

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was from Americans. In February nineteen eight ninety four, the

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ADL was involved in a major HOAXT controversy when Donald Mintz,

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a member of the ADL's National Commission and candidate from

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mayor of New Orleans WOW, was accused of creating and

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distributing openly racist and anti Semitic flyers in order to

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create sympathy for his candidacy and raise funds for the election. Oh,

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I'm just stopping so that you can take that all

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in The New York Times reported that a main Mint's

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advisor had been charged with a misdemeanor count accusing him

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of trying to distribute some of the flyers. An investigation

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by the New Orleans Human Relations Commission issued a preliminary

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report concluding that at least two of the flyers originated

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in the Mint's camp. Pain Min's vigorously denied that he

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or anyone in his campaign was responsible for the flyers.

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He conceded, however, that his campaign had mailed thousands of

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the flyers to Jews throughout the nation in a fundraising effort.

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Bob Tucker, campaign manager for Mens's opponent, Ernest Morial, said,

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mister Mince self inflicted a racial wound where there was none,

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and he did it to raise funds nationally. Mince subsequently

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lost the election. He didn't even drop out. He lost

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the election. If I seem like I have an attitude

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more when I'm talking about these crimes as opposed to

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black crimes. When I look at those black crimes, how

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many of them were perpetrated by mayoral candidates for some

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of the major cities in the country, I think it's

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a little more important when it's people with real power

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seeking to do this. Laurie A. Wreck thirty five, a

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legal secretary, vigorously supported court ordered desegregation in Yonkers, New York.

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At a city council meeting in January nineteen eighty eight,

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she was heckled in booed by many of the eight

474
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:16,799
hundred people attending the meeting. A few days later, Wreckt,

475
00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:21,319
who is Jewish, began reporting death threats as a consequence

476
00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:24,599
of wide media coverage of her alleged victimization. Wreck became

477
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,519
a media heroine for her courage and determination in face

478
00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:31,640
of racist attacks. In May nineteen eighty eight, she was

479
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,759
awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the

480
00:32:35,799 --> 00:32:42,480
College of New Rochelle in recognition of her victimization. That's

481
00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:46,160
another sentence right there, she told friends. As she had

482
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,519
received encouragement and support from all over, and had even

483
00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:53,200
been offered a scholarship to attend law school at Toro College.

484
00:32:53,799 --> 00:32:57,759
Miss Wrec became a very important lady. The ADL had

485
00:32:57,799 --> 00:33:00,240
been in the forefront and support of Miss Wrec. In

486
00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:03,000
November nineteen eighty eight, she once again reported a death

487
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,119
threat on the telephone and claimed to have found racist

488
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,519
and anti Semitic graffiti near her apartment door. It read

489
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:15,039
end lover Jew, we haven't forgotten you. We will show

490
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:19,559
the world your cause with your corpse. A bullet waits

491
00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:25,680
for you. Unbeknown to misrect, the FBI had install the

492
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:31,079
TV camera outside her apartment and it's probably a TV camera,

493
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:36,039
probably undercover camera. That wording seems a little weird, and

494
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:40,160
attached security equipment to her telephone line to catch the perpetrators.

495
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,240
The equipment showed that no threatening call had been received,

496
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:46,559
and the hidden camera recorded Misrecked writing the racist and

497
00:33:46,599 --> 00:33:50,000
anti semitic threat on the wall next to her own apartment.

498
00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:53,839
Wrecked admitted in court to aligning to FBI agents. She

499
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,240
faced a potential sentence of five years in prison in

500
00:33:56,279 --> 00:33:59,079
a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine. Instead, she

501
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:06,400
received five years probation, no jail time, no fine. Notice

502
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,639
up top, when we were talking about the black people

503
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:14,519
like the ones who try to commit fraud, that these

504
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:18,079
are people who actually did time in jail. Let's see

505
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:22,760
if any of these in this group gets jail time

506
00:34:24,079 --> 00:34:26,920
of any significant I mean we have one person getting

507
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,360
ten years up there, so not undeserved, and must say

508
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:36,119
I mean it's definitely deserved it. But November twenty fourth,

509
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,199
nineteen eighty five, AP dispatch from New York City reported

510
00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:44,519
vandals through rocks through windows of eight Jewish owned shops.

511
00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:47,599
Mayor Edward Koch said the city would offer ten thousand

512
00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:54,199
dollars reward. Ed Koch Wow memories come flooding back. The

513
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,880
Jewish Community Relations Council offered a five thousand reward as well.

514
00:34:58,199 --> 00:35:01,400
The windows were broken in the predominantly Orthodox Jewish areas

515
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,679
of Borough Park and Flatbush and Brooklyn. Two weeks later,

516
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,719
windows in another seven stories were broken in the enclave

517
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,599
of one hundred thousand Orthodox Jews and three hundred synagogues.

518
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:24,159
Think about that. That's a lot of synagogues in one

519
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:29,119
section of the city. Newspapers around the nation reacted to

520
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,480
what shock and outrage and compared the incident to Crystal

521
00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:36,800
Knocht when Nazis terrorized Jews in pre war World War

522
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,400
II Germany. Even though no swastikas or anti Semitic graffiti

523
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,639
were found in the buildings, there are mistakes in that sentence.

524
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,960
I will not stop to correct them, because let's remember,

525
00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:52,519
normy leftists is actually writing this. Pressure from the Jewish

526
00:35:52,559 --> 00:35:56,639
community brought increase you can just listen to I have

527
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:02,199
plenty of episodes covering this and what actually happened. Pressure

528
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,559
from the Jewish community brought increased police patrols and calls

529
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:10,400
for greater vigilance against antisemitism. Although no antisemitism had been proven,

530
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,360
nine of the twelve detectives in the police Department's bias

531
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,199
unit had been assigned to the case. Within two weeks,

532
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,679
Mordecai Levi, a leader of the Jewish Defense Organization, a

533
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:25,679
militant Zionist group with a reputation for terrorism, announced that

534
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:30,079
the group was organizing night patrols. However, on December ninth,

535
00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:33,400
the mystery was solved. According to press reports, a thirty

536
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,679
eight year old Jewish man with the history of psychological

537
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,360
problems was arrested in connection with the smashing of windows

538
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,719
and Jewish owned shops in the Borough Park and Flatbush

539
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,239
sections of Brooklyn. Police had arrested Gary Dworkin, who lived

540
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,639
nearby on forty third Street in Brooklyn. He was subsequently

541
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,400
charged with thirteen accounts of criminal mischiefs, some of which

542
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,639
were felonies, including one count of discrimination. Media accounts emphasized

543
00:36:55,639 --> 00:37:00,840
his emotional instability implying that that was the reason for

544
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:06,840
his behavior. Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman issued a statement

545
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:12,559
that his vandalism was directed at Israel, Israelis and Hasidic Jews.

546
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,159
In February nineteen seventy nine, one Michael James Gutman applied

547
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:21,559
for a permit to hold the Neo Nazi rally in

548
00:37:21,599 --> 00:37:25,599
the shadow of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. Gutman claimed the National

549
00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:28,920
Socialist White People's Party would provide its own protection if

550
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,480
police didn't. The application, reported in the Philadelphia Daily News,

551
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,719
created an enormous stir in the city's Jewish community, one

552
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,239
of the largest in the nation. According to the News,

553
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,599
the application stated that signs reading Hitler was right and

554
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,800
gas kami Jews would be shown, and that the avowed

555
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,679
purpose of the rally was to show the world ends

556
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,400
and Jews are cowards. The News also reported that the

557
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,880
Jewish Defense League had announced last week that it would

558
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,280
meet force with force. Two days later, the Park Service

559
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,039
rescinded the permit according to terms of the agreement reached

560
00:38:03,039 --> 00:38:06,360
with attorneys representing survivors of the Holocaust who had challenged

561
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,440
to permit in a federal court hearing. Here that permit

562
00:38:09,639 --> 00:38:12,519
was withdrawn when the man who received it, identified as

563
00:38:12,599 --> 00:38:16,119
James Goodman, could not be found to testify. Today, an

564
00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:19,239
investigation revealed that the man posing as James Goodman may

565
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:23,880
have been using a stolen identification card. Police. Philadelphia Police

566
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,440
said that Mordecai Levi, associated with the Jewish Defense League,

567
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:30,960
had once been arrested in New York City using information

568
00:38:31,119 --> 00:38:36,079
from the same stolen card. In August nineteen eighty three,

569
00:38:36,079 --> 00:38:39,079
a series of fires in West Hartford, Connecticut, terrorized the

570
00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:42,880
Jewish community and evoked media comparisons to the Night of

571
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,159
Broken Glass, when Nazis terrorized Jews in pre World War

572
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:49,559
Two Germany. Like I said before, fires were set at

573
00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:52,639
Young Israel Synagogue, the Emmanual Synagogue, and the home of

574
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:57,880
Rabbi Solomon Krupka. In September, the home of Connecticut State

575
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:03,239
Representative Joan who is Jewish, was set on fire. Kemler

576
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,079
had spoken out against the unknown perpetrator of the three

577
00:39:06,119 --> 00:39:11,320
previous fires. Police involvement in the matter was intense. Nationwide

578
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,639
media attention focused on the incident, which had launched several

579
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:19,599
legislative proposals to curb bigotry and violence. Police Chief Francis

580
00:39:19,639 --> 00:39:22,639
Reynolds double patrols in the predominantly Jewish section of town

581
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,880
West Hartford. Mayor Charlie R. Charles R. Maddies announced a

582
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,280
fifty thousand dollars reward. Indeed, police staked out entire square

583
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,519
blocks of West Hartford hoping to find someone, hoping to

584
00:39:34,559 --> 00:39:39,159
charge someone with arson. An article by Barbara Sullivan in

585
00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:42,239
the Chicago Tribune was typical of the coverage. She quoted

586
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,159
an elderly, white haired man who sobbed I had relatives

587
00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:48,360
in the Holocaust. I never thought I'd see this happen again.

588
00:39:49,079 --> 00:39:52,320
Scott Fiegelstein of the Connecticut Regional office of the Anti

589
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,320
Antidefamation League is quoted as saying, we have to be

590
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,440
realistic because of our history. We have to take utmost caution.

591
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,599
Perhaps good has come out of all of this because

592
00:40:02,599 --> 00:40:06,159
it's drawn people together, but how sad it's come from

593
00:40:06,199 --> 00:40:09,239
something too terrible. I think the most important part of

594
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,079
that statement is perhaps good has come out of all

595
00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:17,679
of this because it's drawn people together. The Jewish Defense

596
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,960
League announced that they would have arm patrols operating West Hartford.

597
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:26,519
The Hartford Current published an apology for their insensitive coverage.

598
00:40:26,559 --> 00:40:29,000
Of this and another incident in which an anti Semitic

599
00:40:29,079 --> 00:40:31,480
note was found on the doorstep of a West Hartford home,

600
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,360
the paper editorialized the Current, for its part, must continue

601
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,079
to walk that delicate line between informing the public and

602
00:40:39,119 --> 00:40:42,079
not playing into the arsenist's hand. The paper must be

603
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:46,920
careful not to inflame an already touch the situation. And

604
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,119
early suspect in the case was Barry Dave Schuss, a

605
00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:55,679
seventeen year old Jewish student. An FBI psychological profile of

606
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,440
the arsenists clearly pointed to Schuss, as did several other indicators.

607
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,599
Only on December fourteenth, newspapers reported that Schuses had confessed

608
00:41:03,599 --> 00:41:06,920
to all four arsons. In fact, Schus had confessed to

609
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,639
his rabbi, Solomon Krupka, several days before his family and

610
00:41:11,679 --> 00:41:15,920
the police were notified. Grupka claimed that the relationship between

611
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,760
a clergyman and congregant is privileged. Grupka disavowed any responsibility

612
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,800
for not notifying the police, which would have saved taxpayers

613
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,159
thousands of dollars. In calm tense nerves, damage control in

614
00:41:28,159 --> 00:41:32,239
this case was a masterpiece. Jack Schuss, the boy's father,

615
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,000
said that he had some problems in the past and

616
00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:38,679
had been receiving treatment from time to time. An editorial

617
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,559
in the Hartford Current spoke of a troubled and alienated

618
00:41:41,639 --> 00:41:47,079
seventeen year old. The editorial quoted Rabbi Kryptka, it's time

619
00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:50,480
not to be judgmental, but to feel the feeling. Now

620
00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:53,039
is how we would as a family react. We have

621
00:41:53,119 --> 00:42:00,119
to be very sympathetic to his family. Obviously you're thinking

622
00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:04,679
the same thing at this point. It's just saying it

623
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:08,760
is just so if it had been a gentile, would

624
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:15,719
they be saying the same thing, all right? Would we

625
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,599
be being sympathetic to his family or be blaming them

626
00:42:19,639 --> 00:42:28,800
for raising the next hitler? It's really tiresome. It was

627
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,840
revealed that until Schus confessed to his crimes, they did

628
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,400
not have enough evidence to arrest him, even though several

629
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,119
times circumstances pointed directly to him. In fact, Schuss was

630
00:42:38,199 --> 00:42:41,159
a suspect virtually from the beginning. At one point during

631
00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:45,239
the investigation, police kept thirty three thirty three officers in

632
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,599
the neighborhood where the fires occurred. The Hartford Current reported

633
00:42:48,599 --> 00:42:51,400
that six homes were watched twenty four hours a day.

634
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,239
In about a dozen suspects were given lie detector tests.

635
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,679
At least fifteen officers were assigned to door to door interviews.

636
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,239
More than three hundred people eventually were about the fires.

637
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,840
Following his arrest on four counts of second degree arson,

638
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,920
each of which carries a minimum twenty year sentence, a

639
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,880
motion was made to try Schuss as a youthful offender,

640
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,639
even though he had planned to set at least four

641
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,599
additional fires before he was apprehended. On February twenty seventh,

642
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:24,239
nineteen eighty four, Hartford Superior Court Judge John D. Brennan

643
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,079
gave Barry Doves Schuss a suspended sentence and placed on

644
00:43:28,159 --> 00:43:31,280
five years probation. In a statement to the court, Shush

645
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,400
said that a possible reason for setting the synagogue fires

646
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:38,079
was to show vulnerability of the police or the synagogue

647
00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:43,599
to Antisemitic violence. Even the rich and famous or not

648
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:47,880
immune to anti Semitic coaxes. No less of a personage

649
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,760
than Morton Danny Junior was caught in such a fabrication.

650
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,000
In May nineteen eighty nine, Donny claimed that he had

651
00:43:54,039 --> 00:43:58,079
been accosted by either one, two or three neo Nazi

652
00:43:58,159 --> 00:44:02,320
skinheads and the men's restroom at the San Francisco Airport.

653
00:44:02,639 --> 00:44:05,920
That's because that's I mean neo Nazis and San Francisco.

654
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:10,079
That's what I think. And as first play as I

655
00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:16,840
jumped to if I think, oh, neo Nazi skinheads, San Francisco, Minneapolis,

656
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,159
Greenwich Village, New York, Yeah, that sounds about right. They

657
00:44:21,199 --> 00:44:24,119
then pinned him against a toilet stall, drew a swastiker

658
00:44:24,199 --> 00:44:28,039
on his face, and cut a small swatch from his scalp.

659
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,239
According to Downy, then they gave the Nazi sig Hiles

660
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,599
salute and left. According to Newsweek magazine, airport police weren't

661
00:44:35,679 --> 00:44:38,400
buying it. Officers on the scene said Downy only had

662
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,559
a couple of lines on his face, not the full

663
00:44:40,639 --> 00:44:43,199
swastik he displayed to the press, and none of the

664
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,119
dozen or so people near the bathroom saw anything. Set

665
00:44:46,159 --> 00:44:52,559
an airport sergeant draw your own conclusions. Downy later admitted

666
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:55,760
that incident was publicity and it was pre arranged. Went

667
00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,000
of Downy's former producers at the WWRTV in San francisc

668
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,679
said Morton knew his show was in trouble and he

669
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:06,039
was trying to make a splash in the San Francisco market.

670
00:45:07,559 --> 00:45:12,039
What's said, what does that say about San Francisco. I

671
00:45:12,079 --> 00:45:16,840
don't know Swastikas, while regarded as specific to anti Semitism,

672
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,639
have become a universal symbol of racism and ethnic bigotry,

673
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,960
have they? In San Francisco, two non Jewish minority fire

674
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,199
inspectors reported finding a wooden plaque with a swastika painted

675
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,920
on it in their office in January nineteen eighty eight.

676
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,920
A San Francisco Chronicle account reported their discovery was deemed

677
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,079
a striking instance of racial harassment in the troubled department

678
00:45:39,079 --> 00:45:42,239
and led to the resignation of Fire Chief Edward Phipps.

679
00:45:43,159 --> 00:45:46,360
The incident was troubling in other aspects as well. Fire

680
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,800
Captain Michael McKinley found certain contradictions and inaccuracies and statements

681
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,039
given by fire inspectors Walter Batiste and David's Son. He

682
00:45:55,119 --> 00:45:57,719
asked them to submit to a polygraph machine. He said

683
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,639
that key witnesses who disputed their statements had passed light

684
00:46:00,679 --> 00:46:04,679
detector tests. Batiste and Son were granted disability leave for

685
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:09,199
stress since they allegedly found the plaque. Captain McKinley said

686
00:46:09,199 --> 00:46:13,000
they had been sent registered letters asking them to come

687
00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:16,519
back for more questioning, but neither replied. The men sought

688
00:46:16,679 --> 00:46:19,440
the assistance of private attorneys in the matter, and the

689
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,639
case was dropped from public view. Oh wow, co Op

690
00:46:24,679 --> 00:46:29,079
City have a relative that lives there, still lives there

691
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,559
been there many times in New York City. Residents of

692
00:46:33,599 --> 00:46:36,360
co Op City, a massive housing cooperative in the Bronx,

693
00:46:36,599 --> 00:46:42,559
found anti Semitic reffedi and swastikers dabbed dabbed, dabbed daubed

694
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,199
on fifty one apartment doors and walls in March nineteen

695
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:50,519
eighty four. The incident received wild wide publicity, including comparisons

696
00:46:50,519 --> 00:46:53,880
with Nazi Germany. A thirty five hundred dollar reward was

697
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,400
offered for the perpetrators. Later, two Jewish teenagers tried to

698
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,960
collect a reward by turning in someone else and were

699
00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:03,159
The two youths, aged fourteen and fifteen, were charged as

700
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:07,760
juveniles with conspiracy, criminal mischief, and falsely reporting a police incident.

701
00:47:08,119 --> 00:47:10,960
They are also suspected of other racist and anti Semitic

702
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,400
incidents dating back over a several month period, all of

703
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:18,960
which had been attributed to racists. As usual, the crimes

704
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:24,360
received far more attention than the revelations of fraud. On

705
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,960
July fifteen, nineteen eighty seven, a Rockville, Maryland Jewish woman

706
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,400
and her Roman Catholic husband awoke at four to forty

707
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,599
five am to find a fire in the shape of

708
00:47:32,599 --> 00:47:36,360
a swastika burning on their lawn. Neo Nazi skinheads and

709
00:47:36,519 --> 00:47:41,119
KKK were widely speculated as to perpetrators responsible for the outrage.

710
00:47:41,559 --> 00:47:45,480
Elise Rothschild of the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission spoke

711
00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:48,159
of the fire as an active terror and said that

712
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,639
there has to be an outcry from everybody in the

713
00:47:50,679 --> 00:47:53,559
country that we will not tolerate this type of behavior.

714
00:47:53,599 --> 00:47:57,960
It is totally not acceptable. It's incredible that like this

715
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:03,599
happened in Rockville, Maryland and immediately they go to the

716
00:48:03,639 --> 00:48:08,360
whole country has to be a part of this. Lieutenant

717
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:13,760
Carvill Harding, the Montgomery County Marshall reported that the perpetrator

718
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,920
came forward and confessed that the urging of his father.

719
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,519
Gary Elstein, a nineteen year old Jewish man, confessed to

720
00:48:19,559 --> 00:48:22,679
the crime and implicated a longtime friend, John F. Finnigan,

721
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,639
as the actual perpetrator. According to Harding, Stein claimed that

722
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:32,880
his buddy did it. On July nineteen eighty nine, the

723
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,440
Asbury Park Press reported that two unnamed Jewish teenagers had

724
00:48:36,519 --> 00:48:39,039
been arrested on the morning of July fifteenth for throwing

725
00:48:39,079 --> 00:48:42,880
firecrackers at passing cars. The two youths were apprehended after

726
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,119
a chase. A subsequent investigation quickly linked them to an

727
00:48:46,119 --> 00:48:49,079
incident in which swastikas and anti Semitic remarks were painted

728
00:48:49,119 --> 00:48:52,400
on a home and car. According to Marlborough Township Police,

729
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,039
the two were charged with seven counts of criminal mischief,

730
00:48:55,119 --> 00:48:59,840
four counts of burglary, and two counts of theft. Mark Grayer,

731
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:08,280
President of Temple Rhodolph Tora of Western Monmouth. Western Monmouth, remarked,

732
00:49:08,599 --> 00:49:11,280
there is enough anti semitism from non Jews. I would

733
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,559
hope people brought up in a Jewish home would protect

734
00:49:13,559 --> 00:49:18,400
the religion. Something obviously went wrong. Had the swastika painting

735
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:23,800
and anti Semitic graffiti been the active been the act

736
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,519
of non Jews, the incident would certainly have been prosecuted

737
00:49:26,519 --> 00:49:29,840
as a hate crime. This was not done. However, according

738
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:33,000
to Detective Sergeant Robert Holmes, it's tough to prove their

739
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:36,360
actions are anti Semitic if they are both Jewish. The

740
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:41,440
Yasbury Park Press quoted unnamed community leaders and scholars familiar

741
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,840
with anti Semitism, to the effects that the teenagers probably

742
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:49,320
acted out of personal reasons rather than religious hatred. Jackson Toby,

743
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:53,800
director of the Institute for Criminological Research at Rutgers University,

744
00:49:54,159 --> 00:49:56,280
noted that the incidents might have been motivated by an

745
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,960
attempt to arouse and blow the minds of the local

746
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,480
Jewish community. He added, if you want to get people excited,

747
00:50:02,679 --> 00:50:09,400
start talking about prejudice and racism. They know. Three men

748
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,960
allegedly entered a Milwaukee synagogue and poured a caustic substance

749
00:50:13,519 --> 00:50:17,599
on Buzz Cody, the sexton. The December nineteen eighty five

750
00:50:17,679 --> 00:50:20,599
incident occurred just a few hours before the start of Hanukkah,

751
00:50:20,679 --> 00:50:25,159
a major Jewish holiday holiday. Cody, a former Roman Catholic

752
00:50:25,159 --> 00:50:28,000
who had converted to Judaism twelve years previous, said that

753
00:50:28,079 --> 00:50:31,920
one of the men demanded that he unlocked the sanctuary's arc,

754
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,519
where four of the synagogue's eleven main tours are kept.

755
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:37,679
He said, the men demand and open it up. We

756
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:41,280
want your holy Quran, and referred to the group with

757
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:46,360
the initials PDL, possibly referring to Palestinian Defense League. Cody

758
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,239
described the men as being dark complexion and speaking with

759
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:55,400
Middle East accents. The synagogue senior Rabbi Francis Barry Silberg

760
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,039
said that Cody was obviously willing to sacrifice himself for

761
00:50:59,119 --> 00:51:02,039
his faith in his duety and the integrity of the synagogue.

762
00:51:02,679 --> 00:51:06,239
Alert police detectives suspected a hoax from the beginning. Milwaukee

763
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,440
Police Lieutenant William Vogel said, I can't justify it with

764
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,280
the investigative results as they have been presented to us.

765
00:51:12,599 --> 00:51:15,760
When you're talking about something involving a radical group, they

766
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:20,400
don't operate in this manner. The skepticism prompted the Milwaukee

767
00:51:20,519 --> 00:51:26,079
Journal to editorialize that the police uncertainly seemingly demean the

768
00:51:26,159 --> 00:51:31,480
episode's seriousness, which could be interpreted as reflecting police insensitivity.

769
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,920
In July nineteen eighty five, the Jewish Community Center in

770
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:39,280
Milwaukee had been defaced with nine spray painted swastikas. A

771
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,000
year before that, in June nineteen eighty four, the Congregation

772
00:51:42,159 --> 00:51:47,480
Beth l ned Nair Tamid in nearby Mekwan was defaced

773
00:51:47,519 --> 00:51:52,400
and several red spray panted swasis with several spray panted swastikas.

774
00:51:52,599 --> 00:51:55,480
The incident was followed by anonymous telephone calls in the area,

775
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,880
one of which said that the Defense League is at

776
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,880
war with the Jewish community. On December nineteen, nineteen eighty five,

777
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,760
Cody's apartment was allegedly vandalized. The walls were covered with

778
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,280
anti Semitic symbols, again in race red spray paint, including

779
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:14,239
a large swastika and the letters PDL. Police could find

780
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,320
no fourth entry. Rabbi Silberg said the victim has been revictimized.

781
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:23,280
An investigation it turned up no such as organization as

782
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:28,199
Palestinian Defense League or PDL. On May fifteenth, nineteen eighty six,

783
00:52:28,639 --> 00:52:31,159
Cody was charged with two counts of his obstructing an

784
00:52:31,199 --> 00:52:33,719
officer in connection with reports he had made to police

785
00:52:34,199 --> 00:52:38,239
after receiving threatening telephone calls which police had determined were

786
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,000
not true. A tracer installed by the phone company has

787
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:42,800
shown that at least two of the calls were placed

788
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,400
from Cody's private line. Later that same day, possibly fearing

789
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:51,039
discovery and disgrace Buzz, Cody tragically committed suicide. Police Captain

790
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,559
Ronald Mell, referring to the alleged December nineteen eighty five

791
00:52:55,599 --> 00:52:58,400
attack on Cody, said there was no shred of evidence

792
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:03,360
to support the allegation. No further PDL incidents followed Cody's death.

793
00:53:05,199 --> 00:53:09,840
Sixteen months after arson destroyed Woodside Synagogue in Silver Spring, Maryland,

794
00:53:10,119 --> 00:53:12,480
no arrest had yet been made. At the time of

795
00:53:12,519 --> 00:53:15,800
the April eighth, nineteen eighty six fire. Community leaders rallied

796
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,920
to the aid of the Orthodox Jewish Congregation and supported

797
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,880
a wave of demands that urgent action be taken to

798
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,880
stem anti Semitism and hate crimes. Lieutenant Carvel Harding, a

799
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:30,559
Montgomery County fire inspector, thinks he knows the culprit's identity,

800
00:53:30,639 --> 00:53:33,840
although he lacks sufficient probable cause to arrest the subject.

801
00:53:34,199 --> 00:53:37,519
Harding told Washington Jewish Week that we feel we know

802
00:53:37,639 --> 00:53:40,159
the motive, but if we tell you, you'll know who the

803
00:53:40,199 --> 00:53:45,039
person is. This is very touchy, he said. Harding also

804
00:53:45,079 --> 00:53:47,239
said the arson was not an act against people of

805
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,719
the Jewish faith. Synagogue sources said one member who had

806
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,559
since left the area, was brought in for questioning and

807
00:53:53,679 --> 00:53:59,480
is still a suspect. Doctor Sheldon Jacobson, a Jewish dentist,

808
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,039
discovered a fire in the form of a large swastika

809
00:54:03,119 --> 00:54:06,199
burning on his lawn at his Hewlett Neck, New York

810
00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:10,199
home in August nineteen seventy nine. It was thought that

811
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,840
the incident was another in a series of racial offenses

812
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,599
that had allegedly occurred in the area in the last

813
00:54:15,599 --> 00:54:18,440
several weeks. A few days later, police had their culprit.

814
00:54:18,599 --> 00:54:21,119
He was Douglas Khan, a Jewish teenager who had been

815
00:54:21,119 --> 00:54:25,280
angered about because Jacobson's dog had defecated on his front lawn.

816
00:54:25,679 --> 00:54:28,119
He retaliated by pouring gasoline in the form of a

817
00:54:28,199 --> 00:54:32,480
twenty by twenty foot swastika on Jacobson's lawn and lighting it. Khan,

818
00:54:32,559 --> 00:54:36,280
who had worked as a guard at Kennedy Airport, was

819
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,159
later convicted a fourth degree criminal mischief, placed on three

820
00:54:39,199 --> 00:54:42,400
years probation, and ordered to pay six hundred and fifty

821
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:47,920
dollars in restitution. How many hate crimes can one bear?

822
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:52,280
That's what Nathan Cobrian was asking himself all summer in

823
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,719
nineteen ninety one, and there's no end in sight. Cobra

824
00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,079
and a Jewish man from Concord and California, claimed to

825
00:54:58,119 --> 00:55:00,599
have been the victim of anti Semitic telef phone calls.

826
00:55:00,679 --> 00:55:03,880
Letters are sent in verbal threats on twenty separate occasions

827
00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:07,400
between May seventeenth and Labor Day, nineteen ninety one, all

828
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,119
threatening his life. Moreover, he claimed that the ordeal has

829
00:55:10,199 --> 00:55:13,920
damaged his health. On August sixth, when an unidentified woman

830
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:19,719
told him he would die, he stopped eating. According to Corbin,

831
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,480
my nerves were shot and my stress level was very high.

832
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,519
On August eighth, Cobran became almost totally paralyzed. He was

833
00:55:26,559 --> 00:55:29,480
taken to a hospital and released the same day. However,

834
00:55:29,559 --> 00:55:32,599
after an article on the Northern California Jewish Bulletin appeared

835
00:55:32,599 --> 00:55:36,599
detailing his courageous battle with anti Semitism, followed by another

836
00:55:36,639 --> 00:55:40,960
sympathetic account in the August seventeenth Contra Constant Times, his

837
00:55:41,039 --> 00:55:44,760
spirits lightened. He received some fifty calls to support. According

838
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,800
to Cobrin, people were telling me that they weren't Jewish,

839
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,559
but they knew what I was going through. All kinds

840
00:55:50,599 --> 00:55:54,400
of people called Hispanics were calling blacks. The whole ethnic

841
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:59,800
tossed salad. It was amazing. The harassment of Coburn began

842
00:56:00,039 --> 00:56:06,039
on May seventeenth, when Halim Abdul Sanjai, a Muslim who

843
00:56:06,039 --> 00:56:09,360
lived in the same apartment building, allegedly threatened Croburn because

844
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,719
he was Jewish. Sanjani was arrested He was jailed a

845
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:16,280
second time July twelfth, when he resisted Concord police who

846
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:19,400
were serving a restraining order on Cobran's behalf. Over the

847
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:23,119
next several weeks, Cobrn claimed to have received numerous telephone

848
00:56:23,159 --> 00:56:26,199
death threats and awakened twice to find his backyard fence

849
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,480
on fire. On August sixteenth, Coburn received a letter that

850
00:56:29,599 --> 00:56:33,880
read dropped charges or I kill you jew Boy. Sanjani

851
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,360
twenty eight, who was originally charged with resisting arrest and

852
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,239
hitting an officer, found himself also charged with making terroristic

853
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,800
threats and interviewing with Cobrn's civil rights. He faced several

854
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:46,480
years in prison. Having acquired status as a heroic victim

855
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,639
of bigotry and prejudice, Coburn became widely known in the

856
00:56:49,639 --> 00:56:52,199
San Francisco Bay Area. His case was used as an

857
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:55,079
illustration of the hatred toward Jews that lurks about in

858
00:56:55,079 --> 00:56:59,199
our society. However, on September twenty first, nineteen ninety one,

859
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:02,559
Bay area residence were presented with a different story. The

860
00:57:02,599 --> 00:57:06,800
Oakland Tribune reported a Concord man who claims to have

861
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,519
been the victim of twenty two anti Semitic attacks since

862
00:57:09,559 --> 00:57:12,840
May told investigators yesterday that he fabricated ten of the

863
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:17,800
alleged incidents, police said. Nathan Cobrin, thirty six, said he

864
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,800
was the victim of terroristic phone calls, hate letters, and

865
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,679
two arson fires that were set in his patio. He

866
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,960
blamed most of the attacks on his former neighbor, twenty

867
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,400
eight year old Halim Abdul Sajani. Yesterday, Cobran admitted its

868
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,079
investigators that he ignited two fires in his patio, left

869
00:57:33,079 --> 00:57:36,199
two terroristic messages on an answering machine, and wrote six

870
00:57:36,239 --> 00:57:41,960
hate letters to himself. Concord Detective Stuart Rolinson discovered Coburn's

871
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,199
fabrication the night of September ninth, after Cobran claimed to

872
00:57:45,199 --> 00:57:47,840
have received a threatening anti Semitic note, one of six

873
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:51,559
he had admitted to falsifying, and that he had chased

874
00:57:51,559 --> 00:57:54,679
an assailant through a parking lot. Detective Rolison, who had

875
00:57:54,679 --> 00:57:56,880
been watching the apartment all night, hadn't seen any of

876
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:00,760
the alleged incidents. Ralison also previously suspected that Coburn was

877
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,280
lying about some of the incidents. The ADL, which had

878
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:07,599
basted in the publicity against anti semitism and hate crimes,

879
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,760
brought by Cobran's fabrications was caught holding the bag. Richard Hershaut,

880
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:16,239
executive director of the ADL Central Pacific Regional Office, who

881
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,880
had several contacts with Coburn, spoke of the developments in

882
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:23,000
a shocked and shaken voice. He said, the tragedy of

883
00:58:23,079 --> 00:58:26,239
Nathan Coburn in no way discouncer diminishes the reality of

884
00:58:26,679 --> 00:58:31,599
increased antisemitism and the increased throughout society and hate crimes.

885
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,960
The false charges against Sujani were subsequently dropped. Coburn was

886
00:58:37,039 --> 00:58:39,159
ordered to appear for a ram in January thirty first,

887
00:58:39,199 --> 00:58:43,440
nineteen ninety two, in Contra Costa Superior Court. He was

888
00:58:43,519 --> 00:58:45,719
charged with one count of perjury, two counts of artison,

889
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:49,400
and six counts of preparing false documentary evidence, all her felonies.

890
00:58:49,679 --> 00:58:52,079
In addition, he was charged with nine misdemeanor counts of

891
00:58:52,119 --> 00:58:56,440
making false police reports. Coburn was convicted in nineteen ninety two.

892
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,599
Deputy District Attorney Terry Barker said he should receive the

893
00:58:59,639 --> 00:59:03,079
maximum sentence for committing hate crimes, eight years in state prison.

894
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,559
She commented, I argue that these were hate crimes and

895
00:59:06,599 --> 00:59:08,719
they were done out of a motive against mister so

896
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,039
Johnny because of his race. It was sophisticated, because there

897
00:59:12,159 --> 00:59:15,320
was a lot of planning involved. It was a hideous

898
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:19,039
misuse of the system and of emergency personnel. In July,

899
00:59:19,119 --> 00:59:21,000
he was sentenced to one year in the county jail,

900
00:59:21,039 --> 00:59:23,039
in spite of please from his attorney that his sentence

901
00:59:23,079 --> 00:59:27,159
be suspended. Nancy diner An, a DL official who attended

902
00:59:27,199 --> 00:59:30,000
the sentence, said that Cobrin's hoax will not change the

903
00:59:30,039 --> 00:59:36,440
way it investigates anti Semitic crimes. One year. That's all

904
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,920
we've gotten so far in all these readings. We haven't

905
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:44,760
gotten definitive on every case. That's what we have so far.

906
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,800
One year. And I mean, what do you think he's

907
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,280
going to serve the whole year. Usually if they serve

908
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:51,960
the whole year, they give you a year and a day.

909
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,880
In February nineteen, four ninety four, a Jewish student at

910
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,880
the Kansas City area Leewood Middle School was apprehended after

911
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:05,440
he distributed anonymous anti Semitic notes, apparently only to other

912
01:00:05,519 --> 01:00:09,400
Jewish students. According to media sources, the perpetrator was identified,

913
01:00:09,599 --> 01:00:12,039
and it is thought to be responsible for placing anonymous

914
01:00:12,079 --> 01:00:15,199
Jewish notes with pencil drawn swastikas and phrases such as

915
01:00:15,599 --> 01:00:18,280
go home jew in the books and lockers of six

916
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:23,119
students over two weeks. The incident caused a major fear

917
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,320
among parents of students at the school, and some threatened

918
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,559
to use the legal system to force release of the

919
01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:33,400
student's name. Leewood Police Chief Stephen Cox criticized members of

920
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:35,840
the community and the media for creating a feeding frenzy

921
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,320
over the incident. He said, the child is already an

922
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,840
intensive counseling and so are the parents because they are

923
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:45,079
responding appropriately. I see no need whatsoever for any further

924
01:00:45,119 --> 01:00:50,119
involvement or sanctions, though through either the criminal justice system

925
01:00:50,199 --> 01:00:53,000
or the school system. What is very harmful now is

926
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,360
to continued turmoil at the school, children accusing each other

927
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,960
divisive efforts to identify the child. I would urge that people.

928
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,360
I would urge these people to carefully consider their own

929
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:10,400
motives before taking such action. I mean, how many times

930
01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:15,159
can you say it? I mean, if it was genuine

931
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:19,760
quote unquote, some gentile or black or I mean all

932
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:24,199
genzaws doing this, everyone will want to know. But no, no,

933
01:01:24,239 --> 01:01:33,800
we need to protect protect this one because oh what

934
01:01:34,239 --> 01:01:37,639
do you think some of the leading cause of people

935
01:01:37,679 --> 01:01:41,599
going uh, I don't know about this group of people behavior.

936
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:48,440
I don't know. Uh. One of the stranger cases of

937
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:51,000
fake dancy Semitic violence was staged in nineteen ninety one

938
01:01:51,039 --> 01:01:54,719
by a former volunteer firefighter in Sugarloaf Mountain, Colorado, who

939
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:59,079
said he was mistaken as a Jew. Terry Hutter, who

940
01:01:59,079 --> 01:02:01,360
claimed that a mysterious fire set at his home was

941
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,039
one of the several alleged hate crimes committed against him

942
01:02:04,039 --> 01:02:06,639
since nineteen ninety four by people who wrongly believed he

943
01:02:06,719 --> 01:02:09,920
was Jewish. The fire was contained before the home was destroyed,

944
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,519
but another fire completed the destruction. A month later, The Boulder,

945
01:02:13,559 --> 01:02:18,000
Colorado Deli Camera reported investigators discovered that in a videotape

946
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:22,039
of the fire, Hudder inadvertently was recorded talking about setting

947
01:02:22,079 --> 01:02:25,239
the fire. Hudder and another man involved in the tape conversation,

948
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,840
Curtis Kobe, didn't realize they were being recorded. In April

949
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,039
nineteen ninety two, Terry Hudder pleaded no contest to a

950
01:02:32,119 --> 01:02:34,559
charge a third degree arson. He was sentenced to eight

951
01:02:34,639 --> 01:02:41,519
years probation and mandatory psychiatric counseling. He couldn't even get

952
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,639
a Chicago area case of anti Semitism vandalism in a

953
01:02:45,679 --> 01:02:48,880
West Rogers Park townhouse was originally thought by police to

954
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:52,679
be a hate crime. On February fifth, nineteen ninety four, however,

955
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,280
police had arrested Shas Steel, seventeen, and his fourteen year

956
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:59,239
old girlfriend. The two were charged with vandalism and with

957
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,599
burglar as an the same house. Belmont Area Police Sergeant

958
01:03:02,679 --> 01:03:06,599
Rick Batrich said that the youth who apparently knew the

959
01:03:06,719 --> 01:03:10,000
owner of the townhouse, and that the two painted the

960
01:03:10,039 --> 01:03:13,000
graffiti to link the burglary with the other unsolved anti

961
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:16,239
Semitic incidents in the area. They did this to throw

962
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:22,599
some attention off themselves. He said. It was one of

963
01:03:22,639 --> 01:03:26,480
the worst anti Semitic cemetery desecrations in recent memory. Los

964
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:30,159
Angeles County Sheriff's investigator initially believed that the June nineteen

965
01:03:30,239 --> 01:03:34,079
ninety one incident at Home of Peace Cemetery in East

966
01:03:34,119 --> 01:03:36,639
Los Angeles, one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the area,

967
01:03:36,719 --> 01:03:39,039
may have been a hate crime. According to news reports,

968
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,119
more than twenty five tombstones were knocked over in Nazi

969
01:03:42,119 --> 01:03:47,159
swastikas kkk Ku klux Klan KKK's and devil worship slogans

970
01:03:47,559 --> 01:03:51,199
were painted on some walls and tombs and just throwing

971
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:55,880
everything out there. I was just within days the case

972
01:03:55,960 --> 01:04:01,000
was solved. The owner of CDTA Security, Roger Cardo Sapien,

973
01:04:01,119 --> 01:04:04,920
twenty seven, of Rosemead, wanted to obtain the security contract

974
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:09,280
on the Jewish cemetery. According to according to authority, Sapien,

975
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,320
with the aid of two confederates, apparently committed the vandalism

976
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,400
in order to discredit the firm now providing security. There.

977
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,559
Information on the case took detectives to Sapien's home, where

978
01:04:19,559 --> 01:04:23,559
they found the guard dogs recently stolen from the cemetery.

979
01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:27,599
The three were booked for investigation of vandalism of religious cemetery,

980
01:04:27,679 --> 01:04:33,480
a felony, and Sapian was charged with theft of the dogs. Huh.

981
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:38,840
Cooper City, Florida, I know those bliss In Cooper City, Florida,

982
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:43,480
Jerme and Jamie Brown Rodal, a Jewish couple, returned home

983
01:04:43,519 --> 01:04:48,559
to find their helme trashed and burglarized. April nineteen ninety three.

984
01:04:48,639 --> 01:04:51,639
Incident included anti Semitic grafeiti in the form of swastikas

985
01:04:51,639 --> 01:04:56,079
painted on the walls. News reports indicated that outraged community leaders,

986
01:04:56,119 --> 01:04:59,360
police and residents moved quickly to stem what they thought

987
01:04:59,519 --> 01:05:01,760
was to start of a trend in hate crimes. Within

988
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,440
two weeks, an interfaith council to promote unity among ethnic

989
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:09,400
and religious groups was organized. A detailed eight month joint

990
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:12,119
investigation with the Cooper City Police, the FBI, in the

991
01:05:12,119 --> 01:05:15,960
Florida State Department of Insurance, fraud was conducted. According to police,

992
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:19,159
detected Bobby Kates. In the weeks prior to the burglary,

993
01:05:19,239 --> 01:05:23,119
Jamie Rodell purchased several expensive items. She then conspired with

994
01:05:23,159 --> 01:05:26,360
several people to stage the burglary and vandalism. She also

995
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:30,239
filed acclaim with Allstate, her insurer, for forty seven thousand

996
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,639
dollars in losses and damages. The insurance company paid Rodal

997
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:36,920
thirty thousand. After she collected the money. Jamie Rodell left

998
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:40,239
her husband and began living an expensive lifestyle with a boyfriend.

999
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:42,760
In December nineteen ninety three, she was charged with fraud

1000
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:46,159
and grand theft. She was freed on two thousand dollars bail.

1001
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:52,760
Her estranged husband was not charged in the case. Swastika

1002
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,719
painting vandals were suspected of setting fire to the basement

1003
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:59,280
of a downtown Denver restaurant June tenth, nineteen ninety The

1004
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:03,400
restaurant's jewe owners were beside themselves with outrage at the

1005
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:08,280
ugly graffiti. Hitler Reborn died. Juw Lee Waldman, owner of

1006
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:11,840
the Eggshell restaurant, also noted the business was down forty percent.

1007
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:18,679
According to the Rocky Mountain News, Denver police intelligence officers

1008
01:06:18,679 --> 01:06:26,679
suspected skinhead involvement. Denver Mayor Frederico Pgna nineteen ninety nineteen

1009
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:30,920
ninety YEA ordered an investigation into recent racist attacks in

1010
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:34,119
the city, and the News carried several alarmist articles on

1011
01:06:34,159 --> 01:06:38,119
growing racism and anti semitism. Lee Waldman said, I think

1012
01:06:38,159 --> 01:06:41,440
there's a lot more anti semitism in Denver than people realize.

1013
01:06:41,599 --> 01:06:43,800
I think he, I mean, he sounds like he was

1014
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:47,599
very hopeful of this. City leaders responded with outrage, stepped

1015
01:06:47,639 --> 01:06:51,440
up police activity, and called for new anti racist legislation.

1016
01:06:51,679 --> 01:06:55,239
Of course it did. As the investigation proceeded, however, it

1017
01:06:55,239 --> 01:06:57,719
became more and more apparent the skinheads were not involved

1018
01:06:57,719 --> 01:06:59,760
in the event, and the possibility of a hoax loomed

1019
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,679
and their horizon. Denver police have heavily infiltrated local gangs

1020
01:07:03,679 --> 01:07:06,440
and skinhead groups and have kept meticulous track of racist

1021
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:09,519
and anti Semitic incidents in the community. The News noted

1022
01:07:09,559 --> 01:07:12,880
that most incidents were committed by adolescents, perhaps bored and

1023
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:16,039
ignorant of the consequences of their acts, and not by

1024
01:07:16,239 --> 01:07:19,440
organized hate groups, a fact that is often ignored. A

1025
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:23,079
one paragraph article finally noted that swastika is spray painted

1026
01:07:23,079 --> 01:07:25,039
on the walls of the restaurant may have been an

1027
01:07:25,039 --> 01:07:28,239
effort to mislead. In a later article on hate crime hoaxes,

1028
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:33,000
news reporter Kevin Flynn noted that after all the grandstanding

1029
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,679
and headlines, the spray painting of swastikas and the eggshell

1030
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:38,320
arson is now believed to have been a hoax and

1031
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:43,079
not to have involved neo Nazi skinheads at all. Investigators

1032
01:07:43,119 --> 01:07:49,360
believe the swastikas were meant to divert suspicion. In one

1033
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,760
prominent case, the suspected perpetrator of a hate crime hoax

1034
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:56,280
and insurance fraud was acquitted on the basis of insufficient evidence.

1035
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,599
Susan and Curtis Klein, a young Jewish couple, returned to

1036
01:07:59,599 --> 01:08:04,159
find their Germantown, Maryland, townhouse vandalized swastikas were painted on

1037
01:08:04,199 --> 01:08:08,039
the living room carpet, bedroom mirrors, walls, and hallways. Most

1038
01:08:08,039 --> 01:08:10,039
of their clothes were ripped, and most of their furniture

1039
01:08:10,159 --> 01:08:15,239
was either painted black, ripped, scratched, or smashed. The deliberateness

1040
01:08:15,239 --> 01:08:17,720
and effort required to commit the March nineteen ninety one

1041
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:21,520
vandalism was highly unusual and alleged hate crimes. Someone would

1042
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:23,319
have had to spend the better part of an hour

1043
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:28,520
attending to the detail graffiti and vandalism in the bedroom

1044
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,399
of their eight year old son. The words jew boy

1045
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:33,880
were sprayed on a mirror. According to mister Klein, the

1046
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,399
officer said, this is the worst case of vandalism he's

1047
01:08:36,399 --> 01:08:39,119
ever seen in a private home. He added, we grew

1048
01:08:39,199 --> 01:08:42,640
up being taught about the Holocausts and being sold never again,

1049
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,680
and here we are now. I don't think we've gotten

1050
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:48,880
through the state of shock. The apparent hate crime was

1051
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:53,960
committed just a day before. The hate crime was committed

1052
01:08:54,039 --> 01:08:58,159
just a day before. Jeffrey Lee Escu, a self styled skinhead,

1053
01:08:58,199 --> 01:09:01,039
was acquitted of breaking and entering the delicious destruction and

1054
01:09:01,079 --> 01:09:05,600
religious vandalism at an Orthodox Jewish boys' school in Montgomery

1055
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:11,239
County Maryland. The response to the anti semitic vandalism was overwhelming.

1056
01:09:11,319 --> 01:09:14,479
Five hundred people volunteered to help Curtis and Susan clean

1057
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,199
up their home. A raffle was organized to raise money

1058
01:09:17,199 --> 01:09:20,600
for the Clins. Area businesses donated food and soft drinks

1059
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:23,479
for the volunteers, and local hauling company offered to provide

1060
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,960
a truck to haul debris. Newspapers printed an address where

1061
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:30,840
donations could be sent to the Klein family. Police skepticism

1062
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:35,239
crystallized early in the investigation. Aside from the unusual time

1063
01:09:35,279 --> 01:09:38,039
consuming deliberateness of the attack, the most obvious clue was

1064
01:09:38,079 --> 01:09:41,680
the issue of secondary gain. The clients became local heroes

1065
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:45,840
and symbols of the struggle against anti Semitism. Moreover, according

1066
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:48,840
to the news reports, mister Klein claimed that ninety percent

1067
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:51,680
of their belongings were slash broken, shredded, or marred with

1068
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,800
black spray paint that was used to write hate graffiti

1069
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:59,119
throughout the house. A review of hate crimes against property

1070
01:09:59,159 --> 01:10:01,680
and anti Semitic vans dalism suggests the cases where the

1071
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:04,760
perpetrators go to this much effort to send the message

1072
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,399
are extremely rare for a person to take time to

1073
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:10,720
shred clothes, for example, implies a deep personal motive for

1074
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:13,760
the vandalism, suggesting that it might have been someone with

1075
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:17,560
a personal animus against the victim. Investigators could not locate

1076
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:21,199
anyone who fit this description. On the other hand, cases

1077
01:10:21,239 --> 01:10:26,119
like this often proved to be hoaxes. According to Montgomery

1078
01:10:26,199 --> 01:10:30,319
Police spokesman Harry Gering, we have not established a motive.

1079
01:10:30,399 --> 01:10:33,399
We have no suspects. As strange, why was this family targeted?

1080
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:38,279
There were other Jewish families in the area. Before long,

1081
01:10:38,319 --> 01:10:40,920
the media began reporting that Curtis Klein was a suspect

1082
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:43,239
in the case. Although no charges have been filed, the

1083
01:10:43,279 --> 01:10:50,000
client's attorney, Barry Healthend and Alan Goldstein were accused. Were accused.

1084
01:10:50,039 --> 01:10:54,840
Police accused police of leaking information to the press. Goldstein

1085
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,359
spoke of it in conspiratorial terms, saying the police were

1086
01:10:57,399 --> 01:11:00,960
trying to poison the public's mind. It was also learned

1087
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,000
that client had been charged with stealing approximately thirteen hundred

1088
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:06,880
from a Germantown beauty salon where he used to work.

1089
01:11:07,239 --> 01:11:10,560
An advice from his attorneys, Klein refused to answer any questions.

1090
01:11:11,119 --> 01:11:14,720
On July six, Montgomery County Police charge client with felony, theft,

1091
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:17,920
destruction of property, and filing a false crime report in

1092
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,520
order to collect more than thirty one thousand dollars from

1093
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:25,079
his insurance company. Anti Defamation League regional director David Friedman,

1094
01:11:25,279 --> 01:11:27,920
who had taken an interest in the case, expressed sadness

1095
01:11:28,399 --> 01:11:31,199
as the direction the case had taken. Klein denied the

1096
01:11:31,279 --> 01:11:33,520
charges and said he had been a victim of hate violence.

1097
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:38,520
His wife was not charged. A district court statement of

1098
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:44,560
charges detailed several inconsistencies in Clin's account. Montgomery County Detective

1099
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:47,520
Kevin Stone said that the entry was apparently not forced.

1100
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:50,600
Curtis Klein reported to work as a hairdresser about ten

1101
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,000
to fifteen am on the day of the incident, gave

1102
01:11:53,039 --> 01:11:57,039
him ample time to vandalize the house. A neighbor said

1103
01:11:57,039 --> 01:11:59,560
the Klein's dog, who had always barked the strangers, didn't

1104
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:02,279
bark that up morning. Although many of the client's belongings

1105
01:12:02,319 --> 01:12:05,479
were destroyed or damaged, some items that were obviously Jewish

1106
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:09,560
were not harmed, somewhat the opposite of what might be

1107
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:13,840
expected in a bona fide hate crime. Police immediately searched

1108
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,000
for a spray paint can, but it was three days

1109
01:12:16,079 --> 01:12:19,079
later that the clients turned in a can they said

1110
01:12:19,199 --> 01:12:22,439
was found under the debris. The can had been purchased

1111
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:25,680
at the hardware store closest to the Klein residence, and

1112
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:27,720
a clerk said that Curtis Klein had been in the

1113
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,560
store on the morning of the vandalism. Klein had first

1114
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:32,760
claimed that sixty seven hundred and fifty dollars worth of

1115
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:35,640
jewelry had been stolen, but later said it was not missing.

1116
01:12:36,279 --> 01:12:38,520
The statement also said that the clients were in debt,

1117
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,439
including five thousand odes to the irs and seven thousands

1118
01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:45,039
of relatives. Their combined income was forty one thousand, from

1119
01:12:45,239 --> 01:12:47,960
which five hundred and eighty monthly was for car payments

1120
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,479
and seven hundred and sixty five for rent on the townhouse.

1121
01:12:52,159 --> 01:12:55,159
Police said they had taken out of renter's insurance policy

1122
01:12:55,239 --> 01:12:57,920
less than three months before the incident, had broken their

1123
01:12:58,039 --> 01:13:04,079
lease and made plans to move shortly before the vandalism.

1124
01:13:04,279 --> 01:13:06,600
In September nineteen ninety one, the case came to trial.

1125
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:11,039
Eight prosecution witnesses testified. Frank Bell, property specialists for the

1126
01:13:11,159 --> 01:13:15,119
USAA Property and Casualty Insurance Company, said the client had

1127
01:13:15,119 --> 01:13:18,760
claimed compensation for a glass topped dining room table. Bell

1128
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:21,279
testified that a chunk was broken from the table when

1129
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,960
he inventory damages on March twenty fifth. However, a police

1130
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:27,720
photograph taken to the table during the investigation on March

1131
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,359
twenty first showed that it was unbroken at that time,

1132
01:13:30,399 --> 01:13:34,119
suggesting that it had been broken afterward. Nevertheless, the evidence

1133
01:13:34,119 --> 01:13:38,279
against Clein, although seemingly strong, was circumstantial. Hardware store clerk

1134
01:13:38,359 --> 01:13:40,520
Jay Russell could not identify mister Klein as the man

1135
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:42,720
who purchased a spray paint, although he remembered him in

1136
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:45,760
the store that morning, Claiming that the evidence presented by

1137
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,119
the state was speculative, Judge William C. Miller found for

1138
01:13:49,159 --> 01:13:54,680
the defense and acquitted Curtis Klein of all charges respect

1139
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,960
to the failure of the Klein's dog to bark of

1140
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,640
the alleged vandal. Miller said, the only thing the court

1141
01:14:00,079 --> 01:14:02,720
her is that this dog is not a very good watchdog.

1142
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:07,800
A week later, Marylynd's assistant state's attorney, James Trusty, dropped

1143
01:14:07,840 --> 01:14:10,199
the charges in the alleged theft of thirteen hundred dollars

1144
01:14:10,239 --> 01:14:14,319
from Clin's former employer. Client been accused of destroying and

1145
01:14:14,359 --> 01:14:18,560
falsifying receipts between November one and November sixteenth, nineteen ninety

1146
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:22,880
police said client's attorney, Barry Heflin, said, my client has

1147
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:25,600
already admitted it to the police. My client had a

1148
01:14:25,600 --> 01:14:28,279
nervous breakdown over this case. In spite of his admission,

1149
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:33,600
I'd have won the case. He has been reimbursed by

1150
01:14:34,159 --> 01:14:37,600
by his former employee. He has reimbursed his former employees,

1151
01:14:38,359 --> 01:14:41,079
but it was not over yet. Once again, the mysterious

1152
01:14:41,119 --> 01:14:45,680
anti Semitic vandal struck the hapless Klein family in July

1153
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,720
nineteen ninety two, fifteen months after the first anti Semitic incident.

1154
01:14:49,119 --> 01:14:50,920
Susan Klein says she opened the door of her new

1155
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:54,079
apartment and faced a black Nazi swastika painted on the walls.

1156
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:57,760
As in the March nineteen ninety one incident, couches, chairs, drapes,

1157
01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:01,399
and clothing were slashed, Drawers were strewn about, china closet

1158
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,720
and kitchen cupboard doors were open, and everything seemed to

1159
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:08,920
have been spotted by black spray paint. Jew was painted

1160
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,640
across the table and a picture of a rabbi was slashed.

1161
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,880
Police said they found no sign of fourth entry. Miss

1162
01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:18,479
Klein pressed concern that police would consider her husband a

1163
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:28,119
suspect once again. I mean, I just don't know what's

1164
01:15:28,840 --> 01:15:35,119
where to go. I mean, it's it's just frustrating. I mean,

1165
01:15:38,079 --> 01:15:42,680
everyone will throw in your face. The synagogue shooting in

1166
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:48,439
Pittsburgh's fucking horrible. I think, I you don't want to

1167
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:50,039
live in a country like that. You don't want to

1168
01:15:50,039 --> 01:15:52,640
live in a country where shit like that happens. You

1169
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:54,720
don't want to live in a country that has disorder

1170
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,520
like that. You want order, You don't want that to

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happen no matter what. But that seems to be as

1172
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fucking horrible as that is. It seems to be the

1173
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a crazy exception, a tragic exception. We have a hoax

1174
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problem in this country. It just seems that. I mean,

1175
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when you look around and you see just basically how

1176
01:16:22,239 --> 01:16:28,520
abusive this government is, dropping thousands and thousands, tens of

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thousands of Haitians into one town, not responding properly to storms.

1178
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You would expect people to respond with violence, frankly, not something,

1179
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not something I'm calling for, but you would almost expect, Wow,

1180
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this is going to cause people to But they don't.

1181
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I mean, people just don't do this. Yet we have

1182
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to put up with this and see no one go

1183
01:17:06,079 --> 01:17:12,520
to jail for it and people actually using the excuse

1184
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that well, you know, at least it raised awareness awareness

1185
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for what. All Right, So we finished chapter six and

1186
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we're onto chapter seven where it says other minorities, and

1187
01:17:28,279 --> 01:17:34,520
I guess we'll jump into some first. One looks like Asia,

1188
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:43,159
like Asian. There were ads in this, and you can

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1194
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:03,319
get the file. So yeah, and that's it. We'll be

1195
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back for chapter seven. I think there's only three chapters left,

1196
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so this will be over pretty soon. But I hope

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that I hope you're getting a lot out of this.

1198
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I hope you're staying a lot. So that's it. Take

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care till the next time. Thanks,