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In January of this year, a rash of racist graffiti began to show up in several communities around Orange County. Here is the report from the OC Register dated January 18, 2011.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/police-284611-hate-anaheim.html
As you will note in the above article, Orange County, a bastion of racist hate, is fortunate to have the Orange County Human Relations Commission on hand, headed by Rusty Kennedy, a man on 24-hour call ready to rush to the scene of a hate crime at any hour of the day or night and issue a statement.
"It sounds like there is a group of hate mongers who have traveled around the county doing this stuff," Kennedy said. "We are horrified that there are these groups out there and whenever they raise their heads and spew their hate, it sets off alarms."
Well, the investigation continued 24-7, and thank God, the hate mongers were BUSTED.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/police-288270-martinez-anaheim.html
One mentally-disturbed woman in her 50s.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what Orange County is paying $300,000 a year for including a 6-figure salary for Kennedy. And for that, we get told that gangs of hate mongers are running loose in Orange County.
But wait!!
We also get the prestigious annual Rusty Award!
And who gets the Rusty Award?
You don't wanna know.
It appears that the graffiti was discovered in January and the woman was arrested in February. What has the commission done the rest of the time?
ReplyDeleteNow I see where you get your preoccupation with "hate crimes" from Gary. Indeed, Rusty is badly overblown in talking about this as a serious threat. Even if there were five high school students who continued to choose to think of themselves as "white," rather than one mentally disturbed old woman, it would still be routine juvenile delinquency, not a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, if you could stop dealing with routine small-scale rioting as George Schuyler's The Black Internationale come to life, we could move on to more serious topics.
ReplyDelete(Don't know about Schuyler or the Black Internationale? You should -- he was a black conservative before your icons were even born.)
Recognizing mental illness has been a part of standard police training for years. Those who know Fullerton say community group have a history of compassion toward the homeless.
ReplyDelete"Fullerton's had a pretty stellar response to the issue of community response to homelessness," said Rusty Kennedy, executive director of the county Human Relations Council. "There's been pretty significant, broad-based support in Fullerton for addressing the issue of homelessness."
Kennedy, who was born and grew up in Fullerton and still lives there, added that the police department has often had a representative on the county Human Relations Commission. Most recently it was former Police Chief Pat McKinley, Sellers' predecessor and now a member of the Fullerton City Council.
"We are a city that is friendly to the homeless and cares about them," said former Councilwoman Pam Keller, executive director of the Fullerton Collaborative, an association of city leaders and civic groups. The group works to help the homeless.”
This is an excerpt from the “Voice of OC” dated 11th August 2011 written by Tracy Wood.
Rusty Kennedy, executive director of the Orange County Human Relations Commission (OCHRC) should be investigating the Kelly Thomas beating death at the hands of the Fullerton Police as a civil rights violation and a hate crime. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Unruh Civil Rights Act clearly define mental illness as a disability. Kelly Thomas had a severe psychiatric disability, schizophrenia, and due to his disability the Fullerton police meted out not due process of law but a death sentence.
Instead of justice, Rusty Kennedy of the OCHRC may protect his friend and OCHRC colleague, retired Fullerton police chief and current Fullerton council member, Pat McKinley. McKinley sat silent until public outcry demanded a response from him on the death of Kelly Thomas.
From the article cited above, it seems a conflict of interest for the OCHRC to honor its obligation to investigate Kelly Thomas death as a hate crime and a violation of civil rights, when Pat McKinley is a member of the OCHRC and a colleague of its executive director, Rusty Kennedy. .
Will cronyism or justice prevail in Fullerton?
Taxpayer,
ReplyDeleteI am going to withhold comment on the Fullerton incident until the video and the facts come out. Based on what I hear in the news, I am troubled, but we just don't know all the facts yet.
Mr. Fouse, I respect your ethics which sharply contrast with Rusty Kennedy's inflammatory lies to the media.
ReplyDeleteTaxpayer,
ReplyDeleteThank you. Rusty Kennedy is an empty suit with an obvious political agenda. The taxpayers need to be aware of how their money is being squandered to support this useless agency. It seems to me that Kennedy has a stake in making it appear that our county is teeming with racist night-riders bent on spreading hate; thus, we need the OCHRC.
Keep us posted.
Seems to me that Rusty Kennedy and Gary Fouse need each other, much as George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden did. Each demagogue needs its opposite number to demonize, and often, each is correct about the other.
ReplyDeleteUnlike Milwaukee, where you live, Orange County doesn't need a human relations commission. We get along fine out here. We should send Rusty Kennedy to you.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure we HAVE a human relations commission, and one thing I agree with Gary Fouse on is that it wouldn't do us any good to have one. Keep Rusty around Gary -- you need a model for your effigys. No reason you have to fund him though.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I have a cousin who as a teen ager in Huntington Beach used to love driving into the barrios of Santa Ana to shout racial epithets in Hispanic neighborhoods, which a crowd of like minded friends of course. Maybe that's what inspires Rusty to think a commission would help. It won', of course, but you "need" such a commission about as much as any other urbanized county in the U.S.
Trust me, Siarlys you (Milwaukee) do have a human relations problem. We saw that at the county fair.
ReplyDeletesiarlys, and your cousin et al lived to brag of their exploits? I don't doubt persons have directed racial epithets at Hispanic residents of Santa Ana, but make it out alive to brag about? No way.
ReplyDeleteSomehow he did Fullerton, and I can't say I would have cried about it if someone had thrown a punch through the window of his car.
ReplyDeleteGary, you have adopted Sarah Palin's penchant for switching sides of the argument just long enough to score brownie points at whoever you are arguing with, abandoning any pretence at a consistent set of principles.
In Palin's case, it was arguing that our level of debt is unsustainable, and we must make deep cuts to balance the budget, then, when Democrats made a modest effort to rein in Medicare and Medicaid costs, ranting about "death panels." If its a sacred duty to provide the money, then we must be prepared to pay the necessary taxes to fund it. If we can't have it all, then we must be prepared to say "No" to covering something.
In your case, you rant and rave about what a complete waste this Orange County human relations commission is, then insinuate that it would be a fine thing for Milwaukee taxpayers to fund one. We don't need Rusty, because we have some fine young people, most of them of African descent, standing in the gap in the face of the short-lived incidents you like to harp on.
P.S. The kids who shot the mother to death in front of her twelve year old have been apprehended, and are being tried as adults. Could Rusty do any better for us than that?