The following article bears a provocative headline (written by my old employer, the AP), redolent of the reality that it is crypto-Jews and Jewish agents who are bombing synagogues and vandalizing Jewish graveyards worldwide.
This is not an isolated case by any means. Recall Protocol 9 of "The Learned Elders of Zion": "Anti-semitism is the means by which we control our lesser brethren." -M. Hoffman II
June 25, 1997
By The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- An Orthodox Jew was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for planting a pipe bomb at a Jewish center to try to prevent former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres from speaking.
Harry Shapiro, 31, planted the pipe bomb at the Jacksonville Jewish Center in February and pleaded guilty a month later. The device, found nine days later, was a dud.
`To Mr. Peres, I apologize, for I was wrong in thinking that I should be a part of your punishment,'' Shapiro said in court. ``Your punishment will come from heaven and no man should or will be a part of it.''
U.S. District Judge Ralph W. Nimmons Jr. sentenced Shapiro for using an explosive to threaten a foreign official, internationally protected person and official guest of the U.S. government.
By pleading guilty, Shapiro avoided an additional federal charge of using an explosive in commission of a crime, which could have sent him to prison for another 30 years if convicted.
Police believe the device was planted Feb. 13, the day of Peres' visit, and missed by security teams. Children found the dud pipe bomb Feb. 22.
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Hoffman's endnote: Sam Macy of the santimonious "Hatewatch " center, which purports to document and expose hate crimes and which posts, online, a voluminous list of news articles on the subject, has refused to include the preceding AP article on his web pages. When I asked him if such an omission didn't constitute a type of fraud, he replied:
"Once again Michael you are wrong. It was a violent act done out (sic) because of a misguided political justification....by legal and common sense definition this does not constitute a hate crime."
To which this writer rejoined: Ha...that's rich. Jewish hate crimes have a "misguided political justification," therefore they are not what they seem!
Of course hate crimes by non-Jews don't have "misguided political justification" and therefore are hate crimes.
If anyone other than a Jew had bombed that synagogue you would have listed it as a hate crime and included the news article about it.
But you exclude the information about the Jewish synagogue-bomber from your web pages because you are interested in creating the illusion that Jews do not commit hate crimes.
What a joke!
--Michael A. Hoffman II
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