This sets a very bad example to "Classify" people by the color of the skin, their wardrobe, or their religion.
Furthermore beyoned mere bias and bigotry, these narrow minded, vigalanties attempt to be some sort of "Hero" in their warped mind.
Please note that the majority of the American people do not suscribe to this viewpoint, let Vietnam stand as an example, also Afghanastan.
Faced with the war upon these countries, the US people spoke out for the common people. Perhaps against the Government in charge, we minimize our hatred for a people as a whole, for this I am thankful.
D A L L A S, April 4 — A Dallas-area stone worker who went out to shoot immigrants in revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States was sentenced to death on today for killing a gas station owner born in India.
The same Dallas jury that convicted Mark Stroman, 32, of capital murder on Tuesday condemned him to death for the slaying last October of Vasudev Patel, 49, a naturalized U.S citizen from India.
Stroman, who maintained his actions were the result of his anger over the Sept. 11 attacks, is also charged in the Sept. 15 shooting death of Waqar Hassan, a convenience store owner from Karachi, Pakistan, and the wounding of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi immigrant shot at the gas station where he worked on Sept. 21.
Stroman showed no reaction when the sentence was read. But as he rose to be led out of court, he saluted in the direction of the bench and said, "Thank you, judge."
In his closing arguments, prosecutor Greg Davis urged the death penalty for Stroman as he pointed to the widows and victims' families seated in the courtroom.
"They had the American dream and believed in the ideals of this country and that's why they left their own countries," Davis said. "But those dreams were wiped out because this man here had another dream. His dream was to kill them all."
Defense attorney Jim Oatman asked jurors to consider Stroman's lack of education and the poor environment he grew up in when deciding his fate.
"Those factors must be taken into account while deciding against the death penalty," Oatman said. He called it a case based on racism, but said racism is not a crime in this country.
"Racism, ethnic cleansing, have been with us for a long time and I can tell you, killing him is not going to change that," Oatman said.
The hijack attacks on New York and the Pentagon, which the U.S. blames on Islamic militants led by Osama bin Laden, prompted some violence around the country against Arab-Americans and people who appeared to their attackers to be of Middle Eastern descent, as well as vandalism against mosques.
Like Patel, a Hindu, some of the victims were non-Muslim immigrants from countries far removed from the Middle East.
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