Posted on 12/25/2006 9:44:27 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--A long running private Christmas light display was vandalized in the days before Christmas, with the perpetrators singling out the crosses.
According to the Ithaca Journal, "vandals cut wires supplying electricity to a large merry Christmas sign and three large crosses that stand 12- to 15-feet tall" on the property of Ithaca resident Bill Lower.
"They bypassed other decorations and went out of their way to wreck the crosses,” he said.Jay Gartlein, who helps Lower put up the decorations, said he found some of the vandals' targets curious.
The Lower property has 300,000 to 400,000 lights on it, most of which were not vandalized, the article notes.
Lower suspects that the vandals are adults, because the attacks were performed in a manner that indicated they were familiar with electricity.
"[T]hey cut the cords where we plug them in and in several locations along the cords," he said. "They didn't want us to be able to fix them because of the way they made the cuts."
“There's no doubt in my mind that it was an attack on Christmas,"” he told the paper.
The attack on Christmas is the second time this year that Ithaca vandals have targeted a local monument in the days before a related holiday. The night before Veterans' Day, vandals defaced the local War Memorial, leading some residents to question the patriotism of their neighbors in this largely anti-war, liberal, community.
It remains to be seen whether this latest incident will similarly call into question the liberal community's tolerance for traditional religion.
Evil indeed.
What to do about this ...
I guess they wouldn't consider classifying this as a hate crime.
Well its neither Ramadan, Martin Luther King Day, or Gay Pride Day, so hate crime prosecutions are out...
that is truly hideous. Other than Cornell, what IS there about Ithaca? I never thought of COrnell in the same category as, say, Wisconsin-Madison .. guess I was wrong.
BUT if this was done while students were on break, maybe it's just locals? Is Ithaca a hippie-haven for transplanted NYCers?
And intense hatred for Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross.
Living up to their city motto.
The locals are the problem, not the students. The City is a magnet for evil intolerant liberal academics and their slug families who hate America and traditional religion.
It truly deserves to be nuked off the map and the ground salted so nothing can ever grow there again.
This is one of the reasons God inspired man to make shotguns!
Cornell University and Ithaca College faculty would still be in town, wouldn't they? If they are individuals who don't celebrate Christmas? Where else would they go?
Imagine all the screaming that would be going on if this had been a mosque. It would have been the end of the planet Earth as we know it.
More love from the Party of Tolerance.
There's nothing else to say, really...
so it's not just lefties from NYC, but you get 'em from all over .. how lucky can one city be? And, I assume they 'own' local law enforcement so nothing will be done?
I like your nuking idea, so long as you and governsleast got out first.
Yes, Virginia, there is vicious hatred among the liberals.
That was its original name. Seriously.
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