Posted on 06/14/2007 11:13:10 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- What happened to Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, a young Knoxville couple out on an ordinary Saturday night date, was undeniably brutal. The two were carjacked, kidnapped, raped and finally murdered during an ordeal of unimaginable terror in January.
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But whether the attack was a racial hate crime worthy of national media attention is another question, one that has now ignited a fierce dispute over the definition of hate crimes and how the mainstream media choose to cover America's most discomfiting interracial attacks.
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Country music star Charlie Daniels, who lives 150 miles from Knoxville, contrasted scant coverage of the Christian-Newsom murders with the national media frenzy that erupted last year when a black woman accused three white members of the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her at a party. The white players were cleared in April after the accuser proved unreliable and no evidence corroborated a crime.
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"If this [Knoxville case] had been white on black crime, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and their ilk would have descended on Knoxville like a swarm of angry bees," Daniels wrote on his Web site. "I guess the lack of TV cameras discouraged them."< snip >
Authorities say the couple's assailants, some of them ex-convicts, forced their victims to drive at gunpoint to a clapboard house in one of Knoxville's roughest neighborhoods, where both victims were raped and then killed. Newsom's body, shot and burned, was found dumped beside nearby railroad tracks, while Christian, who was strangled, was found bundled in plastic garbage bags inside the house.
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Anyone who asks what is a hate crime, or questions the validity of hate crime as a type of criminality, has committed a hate crime. I’ve reported this author to the PC police.
Hate crime laws were created ONLY to give White Christian males more prison time for crimes that they commit against non-Whites, non-Christians and women. Prosecutors and police in EVERY state know this and always comply.
I disagree because I don’t agree with your framing.
Hate crimes (which are treated as additional crimes separate from the assault, vandalism, murder, etc) are a different beast because they are crimes which intend to cause fear in people other than the target of the crime. A hate crime, by virtue of motivation, intimidates a group of private citizens belonging to a certain category which is already subject to a Sword of Damocles.
The original crime is of course prosecuted, but any additional effects (social unrest, fear, terrorism) or intent of the crime, which compounds its abhorrence, will be prosecuted via a “hate crime”.
That needs to be corrected. Anything white people are accused of doing. BTW, that includes anyone of a “minority” who are off the plantation, since they are really white anyway due to the lack of proper “mindset”.
bttt
Unbelievable. No coverage.
Guess they were busy with Duke LAX
A hate crime is defined as an action that requires establishment of Federal police.
So what the article is saying is that, it happens enough, therefore it's not newsworthy, inversely, the same is true if a White attacks a black, it happens so little it is newsworthy. If that isn't blatant coddling and racism on the part of the MSM, I don't know what is.
“There is a discomfort level [in the national media] with stories that have black assailants and white victims,” said Michelle Malkin, a prominent conservative newspaper columnist and TV commentator who has featured the Knoxville case on her Web site. “If it doesn’t fit some sort of predetermined narrative of how we view taboo subjects like race and crime, there’s a disinclination to cover it.”
Not sure if you’ve been following this one...
oh yea.....it’s an abomination
and on the flip side...no stone unturned
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850588/posts
I saw a clip on CNN a few weeks ago in which the DA (I think) adamantly DENIED that the victims were raped and tortured. The news story was basically saying that yes, these two were murdered, but that untrue rumors were swirling about the rape and torture.
Now, I wonder IF the DA is lying in saying that the rapes and tortures didn’t happen. If he IS lying, WHY?
The perps are a bunch of sickos and the media willfully glosses over the torture, rape, and murder they committed.
But the MSM will railroad college kids at Duke and dig up a Klan story from 30 years ago ad nauseum.
BUMP
Again, claiming to be able to determine the inner thought or intent of the alleged perpetrator; to assign criminality to particular thought or intent; and weighing the actual act as being of greater or lesser evil because of that thought or intent.
ThoughtCrime.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. In my view, how anyone feels about a crime must never be taken into account at all, and the idea of it being used to determine the punishment for the underlying act is abhorrent to me.
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