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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (2887)	9/17/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Del, let me give you a scenario to describe what I am saying and why Janet Reno and the liberal mainstream media are being hypocritical.... Let's say that a person barged into a meeting of "Act Up" and started shooting its members. While firing off the rounds the killer is shouting a bunch of hate filled anti-gay words toward his victims. Then the person kills himself. Given what you have said that wouldn't be considered a "hate crime" unless the rest of his life was squared away or normal. Do you believe that sick people who do acts of violence like this live in a vacuum of sickness? In other words, do you believe they're only sick toward their victims and for everyone else they are filled with love? I challenge you or anyone to read the following passages and replace the word or reference "christian" or "religios" with "homosexual" and tell me you honestly do not believe that horrible shooting incident would be considered a "hate crime" by the media and Janet Reno. Anyone who shoots up a bunch unarmed children is a mental case Del! _____________________________________________________________________ "If 47 year-old Larry Ashbrook had a motive to his madness it apparently died with him," asserted Bob McNamara on Thursday's CBS Evening News as CBS and CNN were unable to assign any motive to the shooter who killed eight on Wednesday night inside Fort Worth's Wedgewood Baptist Church. But both ABC and NBC told viewers about his anti-religious views. NBC's Jim Cummins noted how "authorities say the gunman...entered the church sanctuary ranting anti-religious curses." ABC relayed how the FBI discovered anti-religious writings inside his house as World News Tonight also provided a very unusual piece for network news -- Peggy Wehmeyer portrayed Christians as the victims of hate, observing: "What worries many church leaders is that active Christians are being singled out for their beliefs." For third straight night on Thursday, September 16, the three broadcast networks devoted over half their evening shows to the hurricane. All made the Fort Worth shooting their second topic with two stories each. -- No discernable motive. Bob McNamara began his CBS Evening News story: "If 47 year-old Larry Ashbrook had a motive to his madness it apparently died with him." Fort Worth Deputy Police Chief Ralph Mendoza then explained: "We don't have any significant information in regards to why he committed this crime." McNamara later added: "Police say the shooter had no criminal record, no hate group ties." Next, Richard Schlesinger looked for a motive but couldn't find one: "In this case, just like so many of these cases, what happened is painfully clear. Why it happened will probably never be known." After a soundbite from an FBI agent describing Ashbrook as paranoid, Schlesinger continued: "The search for answers began immediately at Larry Ashbrook's house and yielded details about his life that were more disturbing than revealing." FBI agent: "He's trashed his house. He's punched holes in the walls. Furniture has been destroyed, photographs have been cut up, faces removed from the photographs." Similarly, on CNN's The World Today, Anne McDermott avoided suggestions of an anti-religious or anti-Christian motivation, concluding her story on the search of his house: "They did not find any recent notes or a computer or any other clues that might be able to point to a motive and neighbors are just as puzzled....one law enforcement official here says we may never know why." -- Anti-religious motive noticed. On NBC Nightly News reporter Jim Cummins relayed what Ashbrook did after shooting a maintenance worker in a hallway: "Authorities say the gunman then entered the church sanctuary ranting anti-religious curses and opened fire on a group of kids at a teenage prayer service..." ABC's Dean Reynolds alerted viewers to things found in the house that neither CBS or CNN noted: "In addition to boxes of ammunition and bomb making material, the FBI discovered writings that condemned religion and law enforcement." After the piece by Reynolds, ABC's religion reporter, Peggy Wehmeyer, examined how Christians feel targeted: She began: "Anyone listening to Christian radio today heard conservative Christians expressing their fears about a frightening trend." It's hard to imagine many network types ever listen to Christian radio. She then played a clip of Marlin Maddoux of the USA Radio Network, who also serves as a judge every year for the MRC's annual Best of Notables Quotables issue: "I think it's time for America to take a good hard look at the rising tide of anti-Christian bigotry that's growing daily in our nation." Wehmeyer uniquely added an eyewitness account: "One witness said the gunman appeared to be taunting Christians." Teen Boy: "And someone pointed a gun at this man and said you're religion is all fake and he said no it's not, that I believe in this with all my heart, basically."