Halloween display is a "hate crime" in South Pinellas,FL

St. Petersburg Times ^ | Oct 20, 2004 | LAUREN BAYNE ANDERSON and LEANORA MINAI

[pillbox_girl]

It had the face of Frankenstein and the hands of a werewolf.

Outfitted in jeans and flannel shirt, the creature - stuffed with crumpled newspaper - hung by the neck on a homemade gallows outside a home in the Allendale neighborhood.

To its owner, "Bob" was a Halloween decoration. But to Omali Yeshitela, it was a racially charged symbol of hate.

On Tuesday, as police officers on the scene scrambled to contact the homeowner at work, Yeshitela and others from the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement tore the dummy down.

[pillbox_girl]

What can I say. The mentality of permanent victim-hood rears its ugly thuggish head.

Read the full article for this gem:

Yeshitela said he would do it all again, even if it meant going onto private property. "The issue of private property holds no special mystique," he said.

And it gets better:

Watson told police she did not want to prosecute anyone. On Tuesday, she called Yeshitela and apologized. He accepted.

Why are the victims apologizing to these thugs? And how a dummy in a Frankenstein mask somehow become a statement on blacks? Permanent victim mentality.

[beansox]

you mean they broke a law (trespassing) to break another law (vandalzing)..and they are acussing who of hate???

[DanTheAdmin]

Please, tell me this isn't true. Good God, what happened to the America I grew up in?

[kitkat]

She probably apologized on the advice of her attorney who told her she could go to jail for a hate crime. GRRRRRRRR! Just give in to them all. They'll leave us in peace. Yeah, sure!

[JennysCool]

It started kowtowing to minorities, women, "victims" and nutballs.

[Alien Gunfighter]

Just another reason to build a tall electric fence around my yard. Of course, that's probably a hate crime, too.

[jennyp]

you mean they broke a law (trespassing) to break another law (vandalzing)..and they are acussing who of hate???

Yep...

Yeshitela said he would do it all again, even if it meant going onto private property. "The issue of private property holds no special mystique," he said. "We have been private property as a people."

[kingattax]

i dont subscribe to halloween,and with that said....WHAT THE HECK ? Tell these idiots to SHOVE IT.

wasnt "uhuru" the communications officer on the Enterprise?

[JennysCool]

The remains of "Bob":

[Viking2002]

People, we have quarrantine these demented freaks. This country will not survive much longer on it's present course.

Whatever it takes.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

The Uhuru's are nothing more than a racist gang of marxists that look for things to incite violence.

[Integrityrocks]

For every law that is passed in this country in the name of protecting someone, another person will use that law to hurt someone unnecessarily.

I just can't stand this stuff. It makes me CRAZY!

[Kokojmudd]

This is garbage. What these creeps did to their display was criminal. They should press charges against these vandals.

[eyrish69]

I don't know about anyone else, but where I live we shoot trespassers on sight. You come in my yard and start tearing up my property you might loose both of your legs at the knee.

[BenLurkin]

Seems maybe private proerty is a "hate crime" to this person.

[Kokojmudd]

"The Uhuru's are nothing more than a racist gang of marxists that look for things to incite violence."

Are they some kind of weird cult that worships Lt. Uhuru of Star Trek?

[Nowhere Man]

[steve-b]

Get a load of this moronic statement:

"There is no history of hanging ghouls in this country but there is a history of hanging African people," said Yeshitela, leader of the St. Petersburg-based group.

[DanTheAdmin]

True that. I would have demanded the loser be charged with trespassing and willful destruction of private property, but I know the outcry of the pansy-people would crush me. Gad, even the cops were pussies. I’m sick of this crap.

[Nowhere Man]

People, we have quarrantine these demented freaks. This country will not survive much longer on it's present course.

Dude, if I could, I'd beg, borrow or steal a C-130 from the 911th Airbase here in Pittsburgh to fly these idiots back to where they came from. See why I posted the "Aw Geez Guy?" B-)

Whatever it takes.

I'll drink to that!