The Oldest Hatred, Forever Young
Most of the hate crimes in the United States dont take the fatal form that the shootings in Kansas over the weekend did, and most arent perpetrated by villains as bloated with rage and blinded by conspiracy theories as the person accused in this case, Frazier Glenn Miller. Hes an extreme, not an emblem.
This is someone who went on Howard Sterns radio show four years ago (why, Howard, did you even hand him that megaphone?) and called Adolf Hitler the greatest man who ever walked the earth. When Stern asked Miller whether he had more intense antipathy for Jews or for blacks (why that question?), Miller chose the Jews, definitely the Jews, a thousand times more, he said.
Compared to our Jewish problem, all other problems are mere distractions, he declaimed, and he apparently wasnt just spouting off. He was gearing up.
On Sunday, according to the police, he drove to a Jewish community center in Overland Park, Kan., and opened fire, then moved on to a nearby Jewish retirement home and did the same. Three people were killed.
They were Christian, as it happens. When hatred is loosed, were all in the crossfire.
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)he wants these people to show themselves as they really are. Give them enough rope, so to speak. I heard a clip on the show the other day, a replay of the call from four years ago, and Miller really sounded like a freak.
Hopefully Miller will be tried and convicted and stay away from society the rest of his sorry life.
cntrygrl
(356 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,959 posts)The man is deranged, but his opinions are more common than many think. Are people as likely to go out and do what he did? No or rather, highly unlikely, but anti-Semitism is alive and well in the US.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)"Hey! People are paying attention now, and we're getting our message out! The time is coming for decisive action! It will only take a single spark to ignite the public!"