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To: quehubo who wrote (68554)	5/26/2008 9:59:01 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543340

"On the March 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh stated that Mexican immigrants who illegally enter the United States are "a renegade, potential[ly] criminal element" that is "unwilling to work." If you call people, as a class, unwilling to work, and renegade and potentially criminal- you are fomenting hate against that class. There are people in this country who are more than ready to jump on any paranoia bandwagon that rolls by- and people like Rush feed that fear. Since undocumented immigrants come here precisely because they want to work- and we know they do work- it's not only fomenting hate to say they are "unwilling to work"- it's also untrue. I wonder where that kind of lying rabble rousing goes? I guess it goes to raising the hate crimes against Hispanics.

To: quehubo who wrote (68554)	5/26/2008 10:00:29 AM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543340

Re crime against hispanics, in south florida it is often black people committing crimes against guatemalans, who are known to carry considerable amounts of cash (don't trust banks) and are reluctant to call the police: nytimes.com I doubt they listen to lou dobbs and rush limbaugh. What obama fails to understand is that the crimes are generally financially motivated.

To: quehubo who wrote (68554)	5/26/2008 10:15:35 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 543340

Well maybe not the whole left, but the legislators noted in your post are the ones who worry me the most. Obama on the other hand is quick to label others with promoting hate crimes. I wonder where this goes? So instead of evidence this is a widespread position of the left, we have some fragments and a tangentially related news item about Obama, so we still have to wonder if maybe it all adds up to something more ominous? Wake me up if it ever does. Clearly, the Fairness Doctrine was rejected in a solidly Democratic House, where a powerful chairman said we should not limit rightwing talk radio. I'll stick with facts and evidence myself. FWIW, "hate crimes" are defined by the Department of Justice and reported in annual statistics. It isn't a label Obama invented, which was more conjecture. It is part of the federal criminal code.