Racist US diplomat quits State department

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Gulf Daily News

A career US diplomat indicted this week for sending threatening messages to an Arab political organisation has retired from the foreign service.

Patrick Syring retired last month, about a year after he allegedly left racist and intimidating phone and e-mail messages with the Arab American Institute, but before his Wednesday indictment on federal charges of threatening and violating civil rights laws, State Department spokesman said yesterday.

The spokesman declined to comment on the specifics of the matter, citing privacy concerns but stressed that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice would not tolerate the behaviour in which Syring was alleged to have engaged.

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"The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab," Syring is alleged to have said, accusing Zogby of being anti-Semitic, prosecutors said.

"You wicked evil Hizbollah-supporting Arabs should burn in the fires of hell for eternity and beyond," Syring wrote in one e-mail, according to the prosecutors.



Read more: http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=190873&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30150

[Hekate]

1. Bush et al. actively encourage this kind of thinking; good for Condi to disagree...

...and take action.

Bushco is an embarrassment to the human race -- but we knew that.

Hekate

[EST]

2. How precious!

Another good, competent ripublicker has Peter Principled himself into his ultimate slot, that of demonstrating his capacity as a Rush Bimbo soul partner.

"Racist diplomat" ultimate oxymoron.

[wellst0nev0ter]

14. Can These Bushtards Do ANYTHING That's Not Ironic?

A pedophile in charge of a congressional committee on child predators, a Clinton-era moral scold caught frequenting whorehouses, and now we have video footage of Dick Cheney making our case against the Eye-Rack war?

Jesus God. . .

[superconnected]

20. hahahha good catch on racist diplomat

:rofl: :rofl:

[LeftishBrit]

3. Talk about someone NOT suited to a diplomatic career!

Blimey!

[rodeodance]

11. spawned from a hate factory.

[IndianaGreen]

4. He is expressing views that are quite common among rightwing Israelis

The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab."

The US and the UK government blocked cease fire efforts in the UN when Israel was bombing Beirut and raining incendiary, radiological, and cluster bombs throughout Lebanon. The only plausible explanation for our complicity in crimes against humanity is that our Middle Eastern foreign policy is based on religion permeated with racism and exceptionalism.

Unfortunately, catering to the racism of people like Avigdor Lieberman, no relation to Holy Joe, and Bibi Netanyahu, is not confined to Christian dominionists like Mr. Syring. We can hear plently of coded hate speech from Republican and Democratic politicians when they speak to groups such as AIPAC. One went as far as saying that bombing Iran with nukes was a legitimate option, the "all options are on the table."

[Xipe Totec]

7. And here I thought he was Christian

with all that talk he spewed about burning in hell.

I think he has his dogma out of kilter.

[IndianaGreen]

9. These people want to bring about Armageddon

which is why now they are pushing for war on Iran.

[yurbud]

5. gulf daily news--that's good PR for us. Do these douchebags do this on purpose?

Like, "oh my god! the Arab seem to want peace! somebody kick them in the nuts again so we have a reason to steal their shit."

[IndianaGreen]

8. I am sure that our friends in Bahrain are not surprised

Why are we giving Israel $30 billion in weaponry if not to carry out the racist policies that people like Patrick Syring hold dear? Syring expressed views that are commonly heard from rightwing radio and Christian leaders in America like Pat Robertson.

Why did the US block a UN ceasefire in Lebanon, unless we believe in what Syring espoused?

[Judi Lynn]

6. Did this country ever employ complete assholes as diplomats before Ronald Reagan?

The word used to have a certain respectability to it in the years before Reagan's John Negroponte!

[leftchick]

10. he is merely reflecting the foreign policy beliefs of the neocons

in the US/Israel. What a shock! :eyes:

[rodeodance]

12. "Patrick Syring, indicted in federal court here Wednesday"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602221.html?nav=rss_print/asection


Speaking of diplomacy, the State Department said yesterday that career diplomat Patrick Syring, indicted in federal court here Wednesday on charges that he threatened Arab American Institute President James Zogby and other employees there, has retired.

Syring allegedly sent e-mail and voice-mail messages during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer cursing, accusing Zogby of being anti-Semitic and saying: "The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab. The United States would be safer without you."

A department spokesman said that "Syring has chosen to retire from the State Department," which he did last month.

[Ian David]

13. None of the headlines in the MSM mentioned him being a Bush diplomat, did they? "Virginia Man"

Talk about burying the lead!

[tanyev]

15. Meh. Diplomacy is obviously overrated.

Now, threatening phone messages, THAT'S how you get things done!

[marmar]

16. "evil Hizbollah-supporting Arabs should burn in the fires of hell for eternity and beyond,"

Sorry dude. Hell will be too full of right-wing faux Christian assholes.

[Romulox]

17. disgusting.

I know many Lebanese-Americans, and they are lovely people.

[greiner3]

18. I know many people from many different countries;

And they are all fine human beings and fine, fine people. I'm sorry, your point bieng?

[Penndems]

19. I'm shocked, but somehow not surprised

For the most part, State hires the very best people. Every once in a while, the dreck manages to find its way in.

Considering the seriousness of what Syring did, he should never have been allowed to retire with full benefits. Firing him and pension his retirement would've been a much more effective punishment.

[Penndems]

23. Should have read "cut his pension" - sorry

I just can't type tonight. :(

[shenmue]

21. What's beyond eternity?

:shrug:

What a dumbass.

:dunce:

[Posteritatis]

22. "only good arab is a dead arab" .. "accusing zogby of being anti-semitic"

Lolz, etc.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Where is the asshole who said that remark was NOT a threat? Come on, jackass, show yourself! -nt