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Ithaca Vandals Destroy Crosses for Christmas
Federal Review ^ | Monday, December 25, 2006

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.

Jay Gartlein, who helps Lower put up the decorations, said he found some of the vandals' targets curious.

"They bypassed other decorations and went out of their way to wreck the crosses,” he said.

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Front Page News; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: antichristian; censorship; christmas; christophobia; cityofevil; damndirtyhippies; hatecrime; ithaca; liberalbigots; merrychristmas; misotheism; persecution; religiousintolerance; santa; tolerantleft; waronchristmas; waronchristmas2006; whatgoesaround; willcomearound
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To: EDINVA
And, I assume they 'own' local law enforcement so nothing will be done?

The District Attorney is a lesbian activist and the Police Chief an affirmative action appointee who attended topless protests after she was hired.

21 posted on 12/25/2006 10:09:29 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

This is sad news, indeed.


22 posted on 12/25/2006 10:10:46 AM PST by Ciexyz (I highly recommend "Apocalypto" - raves, raves, raves.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This is easy... you'll find the pond scum that did this either at the Humanities Dept at Cornell or at the local ACLU office. Crime solved.


23 posted on 12/25/2006 10:12:24 AM PST by navyguy (We don't need more youth. What we need is a fountain of SMART.)
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To: navyguy

Yes! Round up the usual suspects!


24 posted on 12/25/2006 10:15:25 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

it being a sacred holiday and all, I won't repeat what I blurted out as I read your reply ;)


25 posted on 12/25/2006 10:19:38 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I hunt deer just 30 miles south of there in Waverly....what a difference between these two places.....


26 posted on 12/25/2006 10:22:33 AM PST by Vaquero (Moderate Islam is Radical Islams Trojan horse in the West)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

And you thought I didn't know my history...


27 posted on 12/25/2006 10:24:30 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Commie maggots.


28 posted on 12/25/2006 10:30:06 AM PST by Condor51 (Mayor Daley (D-Chi) For POTUS . Really, why not? He's more conservative than Rudy!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Should I respect a philosophy that has been adhered to by billions of people over centuries and discussed and critiqued for the past 2000 years by learned men and women, or should I honor the philosophy of a few dope-smoking, immoral thugs who got their philosophy from a dope-smoking, immoral professor last year in Poli-Sci class and have talked about it while passing around joints in the basements of their parent’s homes? What a dilemma, how should a rational person make such a difficult choice?

The vandals who committed this hate crime are below the Fruit Fly on the intelligence scale in the animal kingdom.

29 posted on 12/25/2006 10:34:33 AM PST by Unmarked Package
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Here's some of Ithaca's finest citizens....
Jenette Sundquist

Height: 5'-09", Weight: 148lbs
Hair: Blonde/Brown, Eyes: Brown
Skin Tone: Bad
(it really says that)

William R. Ferris

Hair: Red (long and curly)[and kinda DIRTY], Eyes: Blue [and kinda BLURRY]
Skin Tone: Light [and kinda DIRTY]
Miscellaneous: Also wanted by the Tompkins County Sheriff's Department for: Viol. Probation; Underlying Charge: Criminal Sale Controlled Substance

No Kidding. Never would have guessed that!

On the 'upside' Ithaca has a Merry Go Round

Guess that's to attrack all the PERV'S that live there. The City of Evil has a 'gay rating' of 240 or some crap (100 is the norm).
30 posted on 12/25/2006 10:58:54 AM PST by Condor51 (Mayor Daley (D-Chi) For POTUS . Really, why not? He's more conservative than Rudy!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

A classic hate crime. I expect the Ithaca liberals to be outraged. Not.


31 posted on 12/25/2006 10:59:10 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Oh.. and the real original inhabitants though the place was cursed - and that got worse after the dirty trick Natty Bumpo pulled on them...
32 posted on 12/25/2006 11:07:56 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Jesus said "They hated Me and they will hate you also".


33 posted on 12/25/2006 11:09:27 AM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Round em up and put em in concentration camps!


34 posted on 12/25/2006 11:15:49 AM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: BenLurkin

God is taking notes- We can prosecute but in the end- they'll be justly judged- http://sacredscoop.com


35 posted on 12/25/2006 11:18:50 AM PST by CottShop
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I grew up in Syracuse.

Everyone knew Ithaca had a very, very large population of homosexuals living there.

36 posted on 12/25/2006 11:31:32 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Given the mentality of these criminals, it wouldn't surprise me if the cut the cords when they were plugged in.


37 posted on 12/25/2006 11:40:33 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This is a good article. They refer to the place as "an unruly frontier town" in its early history. Now it's just unruly.


38 posted on 12/25/2006 11:43:35 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Persons in this country are creating these young vandals purposefully. Like the puppies from Animal Farm...
39 posted on 12/25/2006 11:51:01 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Liberty Valance
No nukes please. My family is local, and they are all good God fearing Conservatives. Use snipers.
40 posted on 12/25/2006 11:58:57 AM PST by Brucifer (JF'n Kerry- "That's not just a paper cut, it's a Purple Heart!")
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