Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Check out that smile
Oh, irony. Blah blah guy arrested for throwing brick through window of UCLA LGBT Resource Center. Vandalism and burglary, obviously. But that's not what he's charged with. "Grosfield was charged with the interference of the exercise of civil rights, a felony, and is being held on $50,000 bail." Umm... What exactly is a civil right? Isn't it, by definition, not something that a private person can interfere with? Well, whatever. That's not the funny.
Here's the funny.
Immediately after the attacks, Chancellor Albert Carnesale met with Sanlo and other campus officials and issued a statement outlining the campus' zero tolerance policy in cases of hate crimes.
And here:
If Grosfield is convicted of this crime and property damage, the Queer Alliance feels the appropriate course of action includes nothing less than full dismissal from this university. We feel this is in accord with Chancellor Albert Carnesale's zero tolerance policy on hate crimes as well.
Remember the hoopla about Berdahl's zero tolerance policy on protests which was outlined shortly before the crime? Naturally, the same forces on a different campus would stand up and.... uh....
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