-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 26 Aug 1999 22:06:46 -0000 From: HateWatch Updates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List Member <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: HateWatch News for 8/27/99 HateWatch Updates - http://hatewatch.org HateWatch News for August 27, 1999 **Jury not able to agree beating was hate crime** A Spokane jury could not agree Wednesday whether the beating of a black man this summer at a pub was a hate crime. After a three-day trial in Spokane County Superior Court, jurors deadlocked 10-2 in favor of convicting Daniel Stout of malicious harassment on the basis of the victim's race. http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=082699&ID=s627348&cat= **Reservation beating probed as hate crime** A white man was beaten, kicked in the head and left for dead with a rope around his neck on an Indian reservation in what the sheriff described as a hate crime. Three Indians were arrested. Brad Young, 21, was in critical condition Wednesday. He was found early Saturday, about seven hours after he was beaten on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/news/docs/026851.htm **Content of fliers was legal, lawyers say** Attorneys for two former Miami University students accused of posting racist and anti-gay fliers on campus said their clients' actions are legal and protected by the First Amendment. Brad Allen, 22, of Shaker Heights, and Nathaniel Snow, 22, of Cincinnati, are on trial in Butler County Area I Court on misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and criminal trespass. They are accused of posting more than 50 racist and anti-gay messages in the university's Center for Black Culture and Learning on Oct. 30, 1998, that led to student demonstrations demanding a meeting with university President James Garland. http://www.dispatch.com/pan/news/trialxnws.html **Hate-crime suspects were set for trouble** When the arrest went down, Benjamin Matthew Williams and his brother were ready for trouble. Matthew Williams was wearing a bulletproof vest and a fanny pack that held a 9 mm Glock pistol, as well as the driver's license and credit cards of a man who had been found shot to death a week before...The two men also are the prime suspects in the arsons at three Sacramento synagogues June 18. They're also under suspicion in the later fire at a building that houses a Sacramento abortion clinic. http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local01_19990825.html **KKK Anti-Gay Recruitment in Maryland** The Ku Klux Klan distributed some 1,200 flyers bearing two Bible verses against homosexuality in Frederick County, Maryland on August 23. The flyers also bore a photo of a group of Klansmen dressedin robes and hoods and asked recipients to join the KKK by mailing $30 to a post office box in Libertytown. A Klan spokesperson told reporters this was a routine membership drive, in which the flyers were randomly left on doorsteps. http://www.planetout.com/pno/news/article.html?1999/08/25/5 ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN Messenger Service lets you stay in touch instantly with your family & friends - Visit http://messenger.msn.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om