Subject: Hate Crimes

• Funniest Line of the Year

  It comes in the middle of a Daily Pilot story today about an incident that wasn't very funny at all: 23-year-old white supremacist Ronald Bray of Huntington Beach is accused of a hate crime for allegedly punching the face of a wheelchair-bound black man outside a Costa Mesa convenience store early Friday. It's the last sentence of this paragraph that got us chuckling: Bray, whom police identified as a white supremacist, also has several parole violations, Carver said, according to the police rep

  July 8, 2006

• Men Get Hate Crime Charges for Vicious Beating of Illegal Immigrant Janitor

  Right about now three Southern California men probably wish that they'd just gone home after drinking booze at the Angels 9-6 loss to the Boston Red Sox on August 8. Or, perhaps, James Joseph Kelly, 26, Justin Louis Mullins, 23, and Cheyne Danica Wilson, 25, wish that the final event of their evening together had been getting more drunk and watching strippers wiggle inside Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in Westminster. Had they made either choice they wouldn't be facing the possibility of prison

  September 12, 2007

• Thien Minh Ly's Killer: "I Am Not a Monster"

  Last week, we featured the story of Gunner Jay Lindberg's attempts to get off California's death row by arguing that his brutal, 1996 ambush murder of Thien Minh Ly, a popular Vietnamese American immigrant, was not a hate crime related to white supremacist views. (That story can be found here, for those of you who missed it.) The state's Supreme Court is considering Lindberg's claims and is due to issue an opinion this summer. Yesterday, we received a handwritten letter from Lindberg, who exp

  July 24, 2008

• Were All Victims Now!

  August 21, 2003

• Judge Steiner?

  Law enforcement here has a history of demonizing the victims of hate crimes, especially those who are gay. But though Scott Steiner is an Orange County deputy district attorney, and a conservative one at that, he breaks the callous stereotype. During his stint as head of the hate-crimes unit in the DA's office, Steiner vigorously pursued degenerate bigots who targeted minorities for violence, no matter the minority.Do you recall the Cal State Fullerton student who assaulted two young ladi

  March 10, 2009

• [Moxley Confidential] Clint McCall Gets His Man, Again

  March 12, 2009

• When Gunner Jay Lindberg Killed Thien Minh Ly, Was It Actually a Hate Crime?

  July 17, 2008

• Frat Brat Going to Jail for Hate Crimes

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Gaston Gastelum avoids prison with plea and apology

  June 7, 2007

• Hate, Inc.

  You never know who is standing next to you in OC

  February 15, 2007

• No Class

  September 14, 2006

• Hatesville, USA

  July 20, 2006

• Mayhem in Santa Ana

  April 24, 2003

• A Stupid Thing to Do

  April 17, 2003

• A Case of Morder

  April 3, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 5, 2002

• The Year in Cyberspace

  January 7, 1999

• Hate Central

  November 12, 1998

• New Hate-Group Tracking Website Tracks O.C. Hate Groups, Annoys Hugh Hewitt

  Brian Levin is the director for the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, a frequent guest on my KPFK-FM 90.7 radio show, and someone who condemns hate groups on the left (that anti-Semitic imam whom the UCI Muslim Student Union always invites) and right (too many to list) with equal gusto. Funny guy, too! The Center just started a new blog, Hate Fighter, tracking hate crimes and groups across the United States and also showcases Levin's many appearances on nati

  May 4, 2009

• Skeith De Wine Turns Hate Crime Into "Positive" Art

  Santa Ana artist Skeith De Wine says he was "the victim of a gay bashing hate crime" in September 2008 that left him with severe dental damage, a nose broken in two places and a fractured skull and jaw. Before the incident, he'd made many pieces inspired by hate against gays. That's how you'd assume he spent his six months in recovery, painting as a form of therapy. But the fruits of De Wine's recovery labor to be unveiled this weekend have nothing to do with violence against gays--or anyone els

  May 11, 2009

• ACLU Blames Hate Mongers Coming to CdM High on Original 'Rent' Stance

  Corona Del Mar High School officials' initial decision to cancel the student production of Rent and their subsequent failure to address a growing atmosphere of intolerance at the school created "a breeding ground for homophobic attitudes" that is bringing the Rev. Fred Phelps' "God Hates Fags" group to campus today, says American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California attorney Lori Rifkin.After first being allowed, then being canceled, then being allowed again, a tamer high school version

  April 24, 2009

• Cypress Mosque Hate Crime Gets Twittered

  Here are some random comments on Twitter regarding the anti-Muslim graffiti at the Cypress mosque Nick Schou previously blogged about:  ...Obama gave a powerful speech in Cairo on the US-Middle East relations & an Islamic center in OC was immedtly defaced in a hate crime...   Our military will kill you all painted above door of Mosque=calls for DOJ to investigate hate crime, GIs gunned down=silence   My hometown. Never this way growing up.   Racist thugs; probably watch F

  June 5, 2009

• Top 5 Hate Crime Reports in June--and a [Non-]Bogus Bonus [THE RE-WRITE]

  Kevin O'Grady, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Orange County/Long Beach office, was kind enough to email over five hate-crime reports his office received this past June, in reverse chronological order. While that format may be helpful to give readers a sense of how bigotry, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, neo-Nazism and Holocaust denial progressed as the month wore on, it still begs the question: Where's the fun in that? Here, then, are those same five hate

  July 2, 2009

• Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

    Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and racists and supremacists and Hitler lovers and Mexican bashers and hater/racist skinheads of Huntington Beach (and, yes, not all skinheads are hater/racists, so hold that comment). Oh, yes, the

  July 30, 2009

• Alleged Hate Crime Sparks Reg Reader Racist Fusterkluck!

  On July 4, two young white male suspects, one described as a skinhead with a swastika tattoo, allegedly attacked a Latina custodian in Ladera Ranch. In a press conference held with Sheriff's Dept. officials, the victim, 45-year-old Maria Guadarrama, said the men stole her wallet, which contained $797 from a just-cashed check, tried to rip open her shirt, attempted to stab her with a Swiss army knife, and told her to "Go back to Mexico." Although Guadarrama provided a detailed description of the

  July 10, 2009

• The Laramie Project

  September 24, 2009

• Did a Candy-Ass Gang Member Plan to Murder a Mexican Months Before Their Slater Slum Smackdown?

  Hicks: The Stupidest Skinhead​If you believe the friends of the Candy-Ass Gang--the trio of pendejos (Brian Charles Hanson, Bret Macdonald Hicks, and Michael Aaron Powell) and one pendeja (wannabe chola Erin Lee Brooks) who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Beach's Slater Slum neighborhood with the expressed purpose of beating up a Mexican, only to have their asses cracked at the hands of wabs--the group is innocent. These white supremacists just happened to drive into an alley in a heavil

  October 5, 2009

• [BEST OF OC] El Activista (the Activist): Brian Levin

  October 8, 2009

• Gay-Bashed Artist Shows Work at Site of Hate Crime Against Him

  ​Santa Ana artist Skeith De Wine was victimized by gay bashing on Sept., 18, 2008, in front of what is now Belsito Roche Fine Art Gallery on East Broadway in Long Beach.Exactly a year to the day after the hate crime that left De Wine with severe dental damage, a nose broken in two places and a fractured skull and jaw, a show featuring some of his works opens in the new art space."The location of this show or night of the event were not planned," De Wine says in an email to friends and art supp

  September 17, 2009

• La Voz de Aztlan Defends Local Muslims--By Demonizing Jews

  Carreon, at right: Who knew such a venomous man was an beer-bellied, middle-aged pendejo?​If I were a member of UC Irvine's Muslim Student Union, I'd be scared: Hector Carreon is taking up your cause! The sole writer of the notoriously gay-bashing, Jew-trashing La Voz de Aztlán--who has taken to leaving anonymous death threats against me and having minions leave homophobic slurs against me on other blogs--has recently posted twice on the latest controversy affecting the MSU in its eternal fig

  October 22, 2009