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Lynn Syewart (yes that Lynn Stewart) is defendng two Palestinians who firebombed a synagogue in NY, back in the Fall of 2000. Apparently this wasn't a hate crime. It was just some michief with some political overtones.
“We believe it was mischief, it was negative,” Stewart said. “It may have had political overtones, but not hate crime overtones, because I don't think these kids are capable. They say to us, ‘We just wanted to send a message. We want them to know they shouldn’t be supporting Israel, that our people were dying.'”
So because you are upset about what is happening on another continent you are going to throw molotov cocktails at a place of worship? And how would Ms. Stewart feel about a couple of young American boys throwing molotov cocktails on Sept. 12th?
“We are going to question whether or not the vodka was indeed an inflammable of the type that is seen as part of a Molotov cocktail. We contend it isn't,” said Stewart.
Just because they were too stupid to know a vodka molotov cocktail wouldn't work does not remove the intent of their crime, which was carried out on the basis of the religion of the people at the place they targeted.
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