Vandals Smash Menorah, Damage Jewish Chapel

[oberliner]

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9636337/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news

Vandals Smash Menorah, Damage Jewish Chapel

SYLMAR, Calif. -- Vandalism at a Jewish chapel in a Sylmar cemetery is being investigated as a hate crime, a sheriff's sergeant said.

A groundskeeper contacted authorities at about 9 a.m. Saturday after discovering the vandalism at Glen Haven Memorial Park and Mortuary at 13017 Lopez Canyon Road in Sylmar, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Don Bee.

A menorah in the chapel of the Sholom Memorial Park section of the cemetery was smashed, pews were knocked over, and several caskets were pulled from a storage area and vandalized.

[rockymountaindem]

1. Kick

We need to do something to stop this BS, but what can we do?

[Ravenseye]

2. put more money into public education?

Not to be snide, but until the majority of people in this country have a good enough education to realize that racism/anti-semitism is stupid it's going to continue. It's a major problem with "white" america and I'm growing tired of it.

If it isn't the "kikes" it's "the ragheads" or "the fags". Why the people in power have so much hatred to everyone else, is beyond me.

[rockymountaindem]

3. I was thinking more along the lines of viscious guard dogs

Or maybe that flaming sword that God put outside the garden of Eden. However, your idea would be a good place to finish, but I don't think it's going to help us within the next couple of weeks or months.

[Ravenseye]

6. Oh you mean like short term?

Nothing. We can't do anything. People who do shit like this are so far into hating people for no good reason that nothing will stop them.

So...stay in groups in well lit areas, and maybe hire a security firm to watch the temple. other than that...assholes will be assholes.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. I think it's the music, frankly.

These kids need to fire up the bong, put on some pink floyd and chill the fuck out. It did wonders for our empathic circuitry when we were growing up.

[scarletwoman]

7. Right on, man! (seriously!)

I love your term "empathic circuitry" -- that is SO what's missing in our culture these days.

sw

[Ravenseye]

8. I wish that were it

I encountered a hugely racist asshole recently and he was all about smoking up and listening to music from the 70s. I challenged him on his crap, and he didn't back down. I was in a situation where I was stuck with him for at least the night with the group of people I was with (camping/fishing trip) so I just ignored him the rest of the evening. His mind was turned off.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Hmm. Which music from the 70s?

That covers a lot of ground.

[Ravenseye]

11. Yeah true, but like you mentioned

Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynrd...

He literally smoked up, got high, and while pink floyd was playing railed on 'fags' and 'ragheads'.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Sounds like he needs the advanced course.

I would recommend a heavy dose of 1977 Grateful Dead. Try May.


Seriously, though, I don't know what the answer is. There are eeedjits everywhere. It just seems to me that since the 80s, particularly, the culture -and the increasingly corporate dominated media- has increasingly promulgated values like greed, intolerance, fear and outright hate.

It's a shame, really.

[TomClash]

5. Friday night morans

"spicing up" their moribund lives by pathetic attempts at "manliness."

[EFerrari]

10. This is terrible. The hate crimes here are only going to increase

because the Thuggery needs the hate to success.

Please let's stay aware of that.

I'm so sorry for what that congregation must be going through. :(