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.
"Mere mention of the word religion has caused eruptions of animalistic rage among National Socialists."
EWALD VON KLEIST-SCHMENZIN
National Socialism: A Menace
Der Nationalsozialismus (Berlin: Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, 1932).
Vile.
Ithaca,
What else would one expect?
Upstate N.Y. is where they spit on Police at a Mrs. Clinton rally.
The owner of this property needs to install some motion sensitive surveillance cameras and identify who are these perps.
John 3:18-22
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The criminal behavior must have been reinforced at Harvard [Law School].
Yes, but Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Bill Maher and Janet Reno also all went to Cornell.
And didn't Cornell employ Cynthia McKinney between Congressional gigs? They'll probably give her a full tenured position now for attacking the Capitol cop trying to
protect members, employees, and visitors of that august legislative body.
Yes. McKinney was a Professor at Cornell between congressional gigs.
Maybe an F5 tornado centered on the university?
Maybe, but it is somehow awkward for the Christians to use the power of the state to combat hatred or promote love. Goes against the grain of Christian faith since the salvation comes from heartfelt repentance.
"Round em up and put em in concentration camps!"
Too bad we can't just feed them to muslim terrorists.
So did Paul Wolfowitz. Bet he didn't have too many good buds there!!
Hate from the heart of Clinton country.
Hey! I take offense to that. If it weren't for the fruit fly (D. melanogaster) the field of genetics would not be at its current point and thousands of genetics students would be without the tools to understand it's basic tenets. Libs can't really compare to such a noble creature.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Hah! I agree, and that's why I placed them below the Fruit Fly. The humble Fruit Fly has already contributed more to the knowledge of mankind than we can ever expect from the ignorant thugs who committed this hate crime against Christianity.
yeah, the typical Ithacan is more of a slug...
"On the 'upside' Ithaca has a Merry Go Round"
Yeah. But notice how all the horses are white.
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