The trouble with hate crimes

[Christine]

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Monday, September 26, 2005




The trouble with hate crimes

Posted: September 26, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Editor's note: Parents are advised the following column contains material inappropriate for children.

By Joseph Farah



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His parents thought he was working as a hair stylist on weekends.

But when Prairie Grove, Ark., police responded to a 911 emergency call at 5 a.m., six years ago today, they found 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising on the floor, unconscious, near death, one of his wrists bound with duct tape.


His genitals and abdomen were covered with feces. His mouth was blue. He had a weak pulse, but did not appear to be breathing.

Paramedics took Jesse to the emergency room where he was pronounced dead at 5:30 a.m.

During police questioning, Joshua Brown, 22, explained that he and Jesse frequently tied each other up, though not for sexual purposes. But on this one occasion, he said, he decided to sneak up on the boy, tie his hands behind his back, shove underwear in his mouth and bind him with duct tape. He then placed a T-shirt over the boy's head, but checked to ensure his nostrils were not blocked.

He placed belts around Jesse's knees and ankles to hold his legs together. He then untied his wrists and secured them to opposite sides of the mattress. He positioned Jesse on his stomach, placing pillows under him before penetrating his anus with various items, including three fingers of his hand, his penis, a cucumber, a sausage and a douche bottle. Brown told police he also prepared and administered an enema for the victim, using his own urine as a liquid.

Brown then positioned a cucumber so that it was slightly penetrating Jesse's anus and secured it with tape. He went to the kitchen where he took a lunch break from his fun and games. When he returned to the bedroom, he found Jesse was not breathing. Brown says he pulled the T-shirt off Jesse's head, cut the tape and a bandana used to secure his gag and removed the underwear from his mouth.

A search of the premises later turned up numerous small green pills, various forms of prescription medicine, including the controlled substance amitryptilene, a heavy sedative used to treat depression. Two cucumbers, one covered in petroleum jelly, the other in feces were found in the bedroom. A tube-shaped sausage, a crushed banana and a plastic disposable douche bottle with applicator secured in place with duct tape were found among numerous items used in bondage – belts, more duct tape, strapping tape, handcuffs, nylon rope, a rubber jump rope and electrical cord.

In the living room, detectives found a computer and related equipment still running. When the monitor was turned on, a program titled, "Medical Drug Reference 4.0," was running. A note written to "Baby" was found. "Baby," detectives learned, was a term of endearment David Don Carpenter, 38, used to refer to Brown, his live-in lover. The note listed three types of prescription pills, advice on forcing someone to take them, positioning pillows beneath a male subject in a certain way and a threat to sexually assault someone for the next 14 hours. The note included a diagram depicting a person on a bed, face down, bound in tape.

The two men raped Jesse at least six times.


Why am I recounting a 6-year-old police blotter story from Arkansas?

For several reasons:


Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives voted to expand federal "hate crimes" laws to include those carried out because of the victim's "sexual orientation." This historic vote represents another step in the long march to provide special group privileges for homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites and those who have changed their sex or are in the process of doing so surgically and chemically. If approved by the Senate and signed by the president, this legislation would move the U.S. closer to Canada where a "hate-crimes" bureaucracy is already threatening freedom of religion.

The Dirkhising case, which I broke to the nation in 1999 deserves to be remembered. While the death of Matthew Shepherd, which propelled "hate-crimes" legislation across the country, was instantly considered nationally significant, Dirkhising's wasn't. I can't help but wonder if it was because the perpetrators of the Dirkhising murder were members of a special class of people we're told deserve extra government privileges and recognition. I wonder if it could have anything to do with the fact that the case illustrates so accurately the dark underbelly of the homosexual lifestyle – the part the elite media don't want you to see.
Jesse Dirkhising was brutally raped, tortured and murdered – for fun, for thrills, for the hell of it, because it felt good, maybe even because a certain politically protected lifestyle has been elevated to virtual sainthood.

The real hate crime is that more Jesse Dirkhisings are being victimized every day – and no one seems to care. Little boys are raped and abused and murdered by psychopathic predators – and somehow that's not considered "hateful."

The more we tolerate, celebrate and condone the "alternative lifestyles" that bring us such horrors, the more of these horrors we'll see – or, thanks to the cover-up artists in the elite media, won't see.


Joseph Farah is founder, editor and chief executive officer of WND and a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. He is also the founder of WND Books, publishes the premium, online, intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, and is the author of the highly acclaimed book "Taking America Back." In addition to his daily column in WND, he writes a nationally syndicated weekly column available to U.S. newspapers through Creators Syndicate.

[Saltnlight444]

How can you when the media is as sick as the ones whom they cover for? One or more of the largest media moguls are headed by lesbians and homosexuals.

Should we who claim the name of Christ be surprised? Not at all for, God has told us that before the end, things would wax worse and worse. In fact this is what makes me shudder. God told us in His Word what to look for when the time oif His return was close.

These things are the birth pangs. Our lovely America, where freedom still rings, has begun to call evil good and good evil.

For you who do not believe in this God, it would benefit you to see what God told us a couple thousand years ago as He stood answering the questions of the people. Of course we who do know the Lord understand that you can't see, for your eyes are blinded by your sin.

What a horrid thing to happen to this young boy. Jesse suffered greatly and yet he was not given the decency of being seen as the victim of hatred. One day these men will stand before a Holy God and pay their own debt for this and all other sin they are guilty of.

[Christine]

In the archives of this board, I found this post with a link to many more articles about this awful crime against Jesse. Joseph Farah rightly calls it one of the "most spiked stories of 1999". Remember all the press, publicity, news commentator stories, 2 TV movies and a play that came about after Matthew Shepard's murder? Both were awful tragedies, but why was one "elevated" (for lack of a better word) in coverage above the other? Some of the additional articles at the link below may help answer that question.

Below that, I have included an excerpt from a book review done at the NARTH website. It discusses how "political correctness" has skewed everything from media, education, psychology, psychiatry, and even science in what is being revealed to the public on volatile issues (such as homosexuality) of our time. Sounds like a great book that tells a truth that needs to be revealed; but which is often squelched due to...you guessed it....political correctness.

Christine

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Article and link:


"Court Upholds Sentencing in Jesse Dirkhising Case"

News of the Dirkhising case was surprisingly muted throughout the country, perhaps because it involved a homosexual crime, said WND readers, who voted it one of the most spiked stories of 1999.

At one point, Farah took the Washington Post to task over it, and most major newspaper's, lack of coverage of the case. In response the Post's ombudsman, E.R. Shipp, blasted Farah and WND in a column she penned defending her paper's decision to focus more attention on the death of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual student who was murdered in Wyoming in Oct. 1998. Read entire article plus links to more than 10 related articles at:

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34709

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NARTH website book review:

I was reading a book review on "Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm" at the NARTH website. Within the review, there was a segment that brought up the harm imposed by those who adhere to political correctness:

Understanding Political Correctness
The authors note that there is no empirical data on political correctness because it is "politically incorrect to question political correctness" (p. 22). They pose two questions regarding political correctness, and offer a number of hypotheses for potential testing. The questions are: "What psychological functions does political correctness fulfill for the individual?" and "What is the attraction of political correctness to certain personalities?" The hypotheses offered to understand these behavioral phenomena include:

Political Correctness Harbors Hostility
Political Correctness Reflects Narcissism
Political Correctness Masks Histrionics
Political Correctness Functions as Instant Morality
Political Correctness Wields Power
Political Correctness Serves as Distraction
Political Correctness Involves Intimidation
Political Correctness Lacks Alternatives
The empirical study of the above questions may offer valuable data on the phenomenon of political correctness. Meanwhile, the authors note how this understudied phenomenon is hostile to science by allowing the dismissal of any finding not consistent with a particular ideology or agenda: "Thus, political correctness and the postmodernism that currently pervades academic psychology go hand in hand" (p. 24).
The authors assert that political correctness is hostile to certain research questions that may be unpopular, and can have a chilling effect on science. Further, political correctness can view certain questions as settled moral issues rather than empirical questions requiring scientific investigations. The authors note, for example. "...the status of homosexuality is a settled moral question in the PC movement," citing, for example, that the National Endowment for the Arts would likely view those who object to the painting Piss Christ as infringing on freedom of expression, while finding a similar painting titled Piss Gay as offensive and morally wrong (p. 24).

Finally, they note that the political correctness is so ingrained in many of the institutions of science, academia and government agencies, that priorities and policies are influenced such as those affecting AIDS funding as opposed to funding for breast cancer, or the practice of evaluating grants by federally determined categories of minority inclusion (p. 25).

O'Donohue offers a critical examination of cultural sensitivity, noting that though the need for cultural sensitivity is repeatedly cited in the mainstream literature, the definition of that term remain elusive. He points out the difficulty in defining culture, and how race and ethnicity create problems with group membership, citing the benefits and costs of using ethnic groups as variables. He concludes that:

Given the complications, culture as a global construct may not prove particularly useful to our activities as scientist-practitioners in psychology. It may also be premature to make ethical prescriptions based on this construct, given the state of our knowledge at this time. We counsel a cautious stance. Before we rush to be accepted as culturally sensitive, we need to define the applicability of this concept to psychology and assess its potential contributions to the field. These benefits must be weighed against the real pitfall of allowing cultural considerations to weaken our ability to provide efficient therapy and effective research (pp. 42- 43).

Read the entire article at:

http://www.narth.com/docs/destructive.html