http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267705/prosecute-racially-motivated-statue-vandalism-hate-daniel-greenfieldPROSECUTE RACIALLY MOTIVATED STATUE VANDALISM AS A HATE CRIMEIt’s time to hold the statue vandals accountable.
August 29, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
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See URL above for full article."It's important to tear down these vestiges of white supremacy," Takiyah Fatima Thompson, an admirer of the racist Black Panther hate group, declared by way of explanation for her role in the vandalism of a Confederate statue.
Ngoc Loan Tran, another of the vandals, blamed their arrest on "white supremacy."
In the intersectional left, “white supremacy” doesn’t mean Neo-Nazis or the KKK. Instead it’s equivalent to “whiteness”. White supremacy is anything that normalizes whiteness. In essence, it’s white people.
A show with white actors, an ad with white models and a coffee shop full of white people are all forms of white supremacy. A math textbook listing key pioneers in the field who happen to be white is white supremacy. Anything that is not properly diverse is by definition, “white supremacy.”
The color coding was literal. In Phoenix, a Confederate monument was vandalized by painting it white. At a Houston protest, a Black Lives Matter agitator denounced, “whiteness”.
In Baltimore, a statue of Columbus was smashed to fight against a “culture of white supremacy.”
“Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere,” the vandal declared.
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But the Federal government has extensive hate crime laws on the books.
Some of the attacks at issue, on both people and property, involved activists who crossed state lines. As the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act specifies, the Federal government can get involved if state prosecutions fail to "vindicate the federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence" or if "a prosecution by the United States is in the public interest and necessary to secure substantial justice".
The Act may not necessarily apply to property destruction, but it would certainly apply to anyone injured as a result of racially motivated protests that target statues for racial reasons.
The Federal government has two extremely compelling reasons to be involved.
First, these attacks are the product of an interstate conspiracy funded by a network of national and international organization whose scope is far beyond the ability of any single state to investigate. Suspects in some attacks have shown the intent to escape across state lines. Funding for racist hate groups such as Black Lives Matter has been in the millions. Behind it are politically influential groups such as the Ford Foundation. The Workers World Party, whose activists took the lead in the Durham attack, is a national Communist organization with deep roots in the radical left.
Second, they were set into motion by the actions of the previous administration. Racist activists were aided and abetted in their violent protests and harassment of white people by the Justice Department. It falls to the DOJ to atone for its recent past by not only disavowing the support that racists received from the DOJ under Holder and Lynch, but to take the lead in cracking down on black nationalist hate groups. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division played a large part in creating this mess. Now it needs to clean it up.
The statue vandalism is racially motivated. It fits the definition of a hate crime and must be prosecuted as one. It’s time to hold the racist left accountable for the violence of its racial supremacism.
