Just what in the world is up with Ohio? This story made the news a few days ago, and I can't help but wonder if we might not have a lot more racist people in Ohio than we knew about. It seems like Ohio just keeps making the news in regard to racism and hate groups. Thankfully, they didn't know what they were doing and no one was injured.TO ORIGINAL REPORT
Police: Chemical Bomb In Mailbox Might Be Hate Crime
Reported by: Becky Freemal
Web produced by: Mark Sickmiller
Photographed by: 9News
First posted: 1/23/2006 2:49:31 PM
Last updated: 1/23/2006 5:45:14 PM
Police are investigating a possible hate crime in Warren County after finding a chemical bomb in a mailbox.
The mailbox belongs to an African American man who lives in the 10000 block of Grog Run Road in Hamilton Township.
At 3:19 a.m. Sunday, a neighbor called police after seeing three white males approach a mailbox on two occasions.
A fourth white male stayed behind inside a dark, four door vehicle, the witness said. All of the males were wearing dark, hooded sweatshirts.
When police showed up, the suspects were gone. But police noticed an open mailbox.
Inside: a large plastic bottle enclosed in duct tape, which was starting to foam as a chemical reaction took place, police said.
Officers believe it didn't explode as intended because of how it was put together, as well as the cooler temperatures.
"If somebody had been in the proximity when this device detonated they would have been hurt pretty bad from the caustic burns, the shrapnel it would have created and everything else," said Lt. Detective Jeff Braley of Hamilton Township Police.
The Butler County Bomb Squad was called in and blew up part of the device in order to vent it.
Police did not say what the chemical was, but the device was taken as evidence.
Hamilton Township Police say they're investigating this as a possible hate crime because of the circumstances surrounding it.
If you have any information about this crime, please call Crimestoppers at (513) 352-3040. You don't have to give your name and you may be eligible for a reward if your tips lead to an arrest.
One could make the argument that Ohio, in the middle of the Rust Belt, is a prime breeding ground for racism.
ReplyDeleteHigh unemployment coupled with reduced economic opportunity and decaying infrastructure create a discontented populace, and who better to blame for trouble than people who look a little different from us?
Instead of focusing their anger at the elites who sold them out with schemes lke NAFTA, some people end up falling for misleading racist ideology to explain their unhappy existence.
Anyways, that's my quasi-academic take on it, Nikki.
Stefan, you make a good point. I doubt that it was "random" since most people have a specific reason for placing a bomb in a mailbox. However, it could have been in retaliation for something that wasn't racial. It's just that so damned much stuff of a racist nature has been happening in Ohio.
ReplyDeleteI hope they catch whoever it was. Just think what would have happened had they done a good job. Just think what would have happened if a child had opened the box - or the mailperson.
Agreed. There are civil ways to solve problems, and idiots on both sides of the political spectrum use violence both as a form of terror and a means to destroy society.
ReplyDeleteI read that mess over there and just shook my head. Bill White needs a padded room.
ReplyDeleteActually, I kinda wondered if Mr. Davis could "convert" Bill. Of course, it would just be another ruse...until Bill could reinvent hinself again.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, EB.
ReplyDeleteWhite and Blevins seem positively terrified of Pluss. To see them go tag team and attack him on his blog was bizarre.
What does he know?
Or are they just getting back for the massive credibility hit they took when word got out about Dr. Pluss?
Padded room Nikki? For a bitch who'll soon be behind bars you talk a lot of smack.
ReplyDeleteBill White seems to have shifted his obsession to Daryl Davis.
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Stefan, The 5.5 foot Hal is full of hot air. The only reason Hal held the Kingston rally was because he chickened out of the first one and got so much mockery from other idiots that he had no choice. Even with that, Hal was so afraid to be physically confronted that he even told the cops ahead of time what resturants he was going to so he would have protection. That's how all these businesses got the word up that Hal was coming because Hal was in communication with the cops the entire time.
Hal's got a big mouth as long as someone is there to protect him.
You said it straight, Harry. And this whole thing with a rally at the Super Bowl - Hal was pretty certain that it wouldn't fly or he wouldn't have suggested it. Now he can call all those who spoke out against it cowards and claim that he was ready to look the lion in the mouth. The truth is, Hal Turner isn't ready for Detroit - and he sure as hell isn't ready for rallying at the Super Bowl.
ReplyDeleteI've said this other places, but I would bet that the Detroit Police would arrest Hal the second he stepped in the city and hold him until the Super Bowl press leaves.
ReplyDeleteHe wouldn't get a chance to shout the first racial epithet before he would be stuffed into a paddy wagon with any supporters stupid enough to join him.
Detroit is pulling out all the stops to have this event go off without a hitch.
The problem is Hal, who might not be able to resist the lure of a worldwide television audience. He just might be stupid enough to try this for the publicity.
I lived in Detroit for 25 years. Yes, it has seen better days.
ReplyDeleteI approach the demise from an economic, rather than a racial, persepctive. As the auto industry began to shrink, Detroit took it worse than any other place (it is, of course, still the "Motor City" in name if not fact).
Coupled with the rise of suburbmania in the 1960s and 1970s, Detroit watched not only jobs leave the region but people with money, who went to the suburbs.
It was not just "white flight," either. Suburbs like Southfield, Hazel Park, and Warren have quite a few African Americans who joined suburbia.
Yes, Detroit is a hellhole, but nothing will improve until the economy improves.
And until the corrupt Kilpatrick regime is booted out.
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In case anyone wants to know Detroit has a median income of $30,000 per family.
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Which is nearly twice as much as McDowell County, West Virginia which is 87 pct white and a median income of $16931 per family.
Prince George's County in Maryland is majority black and only 24 percent white has a median income of $55,256 per family. Much higher than the national average.
LOL! Now, that was funny, Matt! It conjured up some pretty wild visuals!
ReplyDeleteStefan,
ReplyDeleteSo you are saying that blacks are more productive in a large city then whites are in the small community?
Buffalo, NY has the lowest family per capita in the United States for major cities. Buffalo is majority white.
San Jose has the highest per capita income in the US for major cities.
ReplyDeleteWhites are only a minority in San Jose.
Well Hell, the KIKE Schwartzo is showing his strong desires again to suck Hal's Dick.
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