Man charged with threatening Arab group

The weird thing is that despite the charges and the title of the article, they don't actually reproduce anything that would be considered a threat. Saying you approve of Israel "bombing Lebanon back to the Stone Age where it belongs” and saying “Arabs are dogs” might be mean sprited, but he doesn't threaten to harm them in any of the quotes provided. I'm wondering if they're saving the incriminating stuff for the trial or if the U.S. Attorney's office is just going after people who use their First Amendment Rights. Being an asshole, I'm glad to say, is still very much legal in the United States, despite what the Justice Department would like to believe. The ACLU has supported the rights of Nazi skinheads to protest, will they do the same for Patrick Syring?

Patrick Syring left phone and e-mail messages last summer with the Arab American Institute saying, “The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab,” federal prosecutors said.

At the time, Israeli was bombing targets in Lebanon while Hezbollah was firing rockets into northern Israel. James Zogby, the founder of the Arab American Institute, criticized the U.S. for not doing enough to protect U.S. citizens visiting family members in Lebanon.

Syring, in expletive-laced messages, accused Zogby of being anti-Semitic, prosecutors said.

“You wicked evil Hezbollah-supporting Arabs should burn in the fires of hell for eternity and beyond,” Syring wrote in one e-mail, according the prosecutors. “The United States would be safer without you.”

Syring, according to an e-mail cited in the indictment, praised Israeli forces for “bombing Lebanon back to the Stone Age where it belongs” and said “Arabs are dogs.”

It' really seems like the government is out of control on this one. Does he threaten to burn their place down? Does he threaten to assassinate Arabs? Does he threaten to blow up a mosque? No. What exactly does he do besides hurt their feelings? It seems like Arabs aren't really dogs, but actually pussies, whining about some fruitcake that hates them.