My apologies.

I will restate my belief which is that MOST criminal aggressive assault towards another human involves hate.

Stealing food in order to survive is not something that Westerners suffer from too much (due to social policies of one type or another) because we are not starving, most have rooves over their heads etc etc.

That hungry belly is usually found in listless children with their ragged mothers in extremely poor Third World countries. The physically fit and able have long since fled to find better prospects elsewhere…

Rudeness in general, aggressiveness, disrespect, stealing, street violence, targeting the vulnerable, etc etc are on the rise. People are rougher and rougher.

Seeds of hatred are jealousy and coveting. A doesn’t have something. A wants it. A festers. A hates. A takes.

Care to explain how stealing food to survive comes from hate?

All crime comes from hate. Inhuman treatment of others is something all individuals are capable of.

One day I hope people stop being obsessed by race.

One would think that a country which has suffered through a horrific civil war, as the US has, would have learned from it. Yet we seem doomed to prove Santayana’s dictum – that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them….

“A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed