UPDATE II: Sunday 5-31-09 - Looks like Mr. Epstein (age 26) really gets around. Even Little Green Footballs is denouncing him for who he meets with. HINT: it's a racist Belgian political party. Also, if you care to look at the court documents, they're links at the bottom of this page.
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We've been witness to some insane attacks on soon-to-be-Supreme-Court-Justice Sonia Sotomayor. They all smack of Karl Rove politics (accuse your opponent of that which you do). It won't work. She will be confirmed.
But still, it's important to point out the hypocrisy when we find it.
So, who is Marcus Epstein, and why should you care?
Epstein is expected to be sentenced on July 8 for a simple assault charge to which he plead guilty. Court documents allege that Epstein struck an African-American female and called her a "nigger" on a street in Washington, D.C. on the evening of July 7, 2007. Epstein escaped from the woman's husband, who briefly detained him, only to be arrested by a Secret Service agent who witnessed the incident.
Did I mention that he plead guilty? Although, only after a plea agreement was reached. And he even amended the guilty plea in a most egregious way.
I am pleading guilty because I am in fact guilty of the offenses set forth herein. believe the government could prove me guilty.
The change was hand-written onto the guilty plea. Yep, he's trying to get out of it, even though the incident was witnessed by off-duty Secret Service personnel.
Yes.
Actually, what he did was, he karate-chopped her on the head whilst she was walking down the street with her husband. That's right, she was a complete stranger to him.
You know, it's lucky for Mr. Epstein that African-Americans look different from him, or how would he know whom to hit?
Now THAT'S some good old-fashioned racism, there, kids.
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BUT JUST WHO IS THIS BRAVE YOUNG MAN???
Well, have you heard of Tom Tancredo? Do you know Pat Buchanan?
Do you know of their organizations, Team America PAC and The American Cause?
Well, Marcus Epstein is executive director of them both.
His main goal in life seems to be to rid the nation of brown people. Just read " 'Transcending Race' is a Good Way to Get the Black Vote" if you don't believe me. Or, read this. Or, just look at this:
Epstein's political activism also included appearing on The Political Cesspool, a white supremacist radio program hosted by Council of Conservative Citizen member James Edwards that proudly admits to hosting white supremacists and Neo-Nazi figures.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that Mr. Epstein is due to be sentenced on July 8?
Yes.
Youth for Western Civilization Co-Founder Faces Sentencing on Hate Crime
Friday, May 29 2009 @ 11:41 AM CDT
Right-wing activist and founder of the racist group Youth for Western Civilization, which broke into the media last year after two of its events were severely disrupted in Chapel Hill, NC, is facing sentencing for a 2007 hate crime. Marcus Epstein, the young executive director of an organization chaired by Pat and Bay Buchanan, the reputed co-founder of a new racist college organization and a regular staple in paleoconservative circles, is to be sentenced for an assault on an African-American woman in Georgetown, DC that has been classified as a hate crime, court records show.
So, this is the person who runs the organizations that are chaired by the people who are now all over your TeeVee, calling Sonia Sotomayor a "racist."
UPDATE: nailbender just informed us in the comments, that Marcus attended the very same university that Ben Domenech did. William & Mary. If you'll recall, Ben was a college-winger who was caught plagiarizing. One wonders if they were frat-brothers?