Conservatives predict higher crime rate with Obama; then cause the crimes

Remember before the election, all those conservatives said crime would be rampant if Obama was elected? Turns out they were right, and they’re the ones causing it.

From California to Maine, police have documented a range of crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to attacks. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders. This includes cross burnings, schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama,” black figures hung from nooses, and racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

Crime committed by McCain supporters is on the rise, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.

There are thousands of examples of racial crime going up, Mark Potok highlights several.

Four North Carolina State University students wrote anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: “Let’s shoot that nigger in the head.”

At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: “Osama Obama Shotgun Pool.” Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. “Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count,” the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written “Let’s hope someone wins.”

Racist graffiti was found in many places, including New York’s Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and “Go Back To Africa” were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.

Madison County, Idaho was once dubbed “the reddest place in America”, but that didn’t make it any less shocking when second-graders were chanting “assassinate Obama” on the school bus.

University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. “It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork,” Houston said.

Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose.

Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and Apolacan Township, Pa.

A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted ‘Obama.’

In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying “now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house.”

And of course we can’t forget Ashley Todd, who beat herself up and claimed that a black person had done it.

So when conservatives said crime would rise with Obama, they were right. But I’m not sure if it is fair to credit them with this prediction, since they’re the ones causing the new crime.