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April 30, 2008
Spotted Roadside
As I headed over to the school to pick Little Dude up this afternoon, I saw a gathering over at the sign for Ner Tamid Synagogue. I figured there was some sort of dedication happening or something, but really I was focused on getting to school.
Once I had LD in the car, we headed back down the road and saw several news trucks and the reason for the gathering: graffiti. Apparently it's been there since Saturday night/Sunday morning. I've driven past this sign how many times since then? I hadn't noticed.
But since my attention had been directed to it, there was no mistaking what was scrawled on the sign. 14/88 was there amongst the rest of the scrawlings. This isn't all that uncommon, unfortunately, in this area. We've had Aryan groups here for 20+ years, thanks to the Metzger clan up in Fallbrook. It seemed like things had settled down a bit, but obviously whatever these groups were doing was much subtler over the last few years rather than not occurring at all.
This is being considered a hate crime and there is a reward offered for information leading to an arrest.
As LD said in his very concerned voice, "there's just no sense in any of this. There's no reason to act hateful toward others just because they believe in a different God. I wish we could go scrub that sign clean."
Me too, buddy.
I think what bothers me most is how little progress we've made when it comes to learning to live with each other and our differences. You know what? We're all different, yet we're all the same. Deep down, we're made of the same proteins and other amino acids. We all bleed the same color. When we die, we all end up pretty much in the same place -- in the ground, in the water, or in the air (soon to settle on ground or in water). It just doesn't make sense. And to prove how little sense this makes, check out the comment (currently only one comment is there, click "more" below to read the comment just in case it disappears) on the local NBC site linked above. Hate just breeds more hate, people. There's nothing to be gained from this.
Currently the lone comment on the vandalism article:
Norm Leven San Diego, CA Reply #1 2 hrs ago It was probably a Rabbi trying to drum up some extra money. This happens all the time. We live in a slave world controlled by Zionists that have made merely thinking against them a specific crime they dub 'hate.' Wake up America, the blood of Palestine is on your hands.
I don't think so. Hateful, hateful, hateful. There's no gain from any of this. Norm, get real, dude. This stuff's gonna eat you up inside and make you sick. And for those who vandalized the sign in the first place, grow up and get a life.
Posted by Da Goddess at April 30, 2008 11:23 PM
Comments
There's been a couple of similar acts here So.Fl. in the last couple of weeks.
It's completely hateful and disrespectful.
LD, as usual, is right on target.
Posted by: Amanda at May 1, 2008 09:36 AM
yep, except that in the case of Jews and Christians, it's the SAME God. Just with a different name.
Bastards, I wish they'd just take themselves out of the gene pool.
Posted by: caltechgirl at May 1, 2008 11:46 AM
The graffiti is now gone from the sign. Faint traces are visible, but the synagogue has taken back their sign and there's definitely a sense that folks aren't going to stand for this crap anymore. Let's hope it ends here.
Posted by: Da Goddess at May 1, 2008 08:40 PM
Given that the news media focus on "Israeli brutality to the Palestinians" all the time and scarcely ever tell the story of how the Palestinians have maintained a war of terror against the State of Israel since 1948, Norm Leven's comment is typical of the ignorant who fall for the Arab anti-Israel propaganda.
Did you know that the discredited "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" has been re-published in several Middle Eastern countries and is once more on sale as "proof" of the Zionist plot to destroy Islam and take over the world? It is - translated into Arabic and several other languages and freely on sale right here in the UK. The Bible of Holocaust Denial and the excuse for the Russian Pogroms against the Jews and Hitler's purges.
Apparently its OK now though, because our intellectual classes - like Norm - argue that its "legitimate" debate in the light of Israeli attrocities
Posted by: The Gray Monk at May 3, 2008 11:32 AM