A Utah man is now facing federal hate crime charges for threatening to kill a black child of a neighboring Caucasian couple. Robert Keller, a 70-year-old resident of Hurricane, wrote to the family to say he would kill the boy if the child remained in his neighborhood.

Keller told KUTV that he didn't mean anything by it, "All I wanted to do was open their eyes." "To me, it's not a threat, it's my opinion, which I should be allowed to," he said, trailing off, before concluding with, "Of course, I wrote it down, which was a mistake."

What Keller wrote down, in a letter to the family last December, was a direct threat. His hate-filled letter - which concluded with "Get this n!gger out!" - explicitly warned the parents that he would kill either the boy or the parents if they did not remove him from the neighborhood.

Understand, IMO, the cops are the LAST place you look for any genuine insight into people and what makes them tick. Except, of course, for the most obvious cases, when they jerk themselves off because they got as confession out of the small percentage of murder suspects they ever arrest.

Law enforcement, in context, is probably the single most psychologically ignorant institution in the nation, along with the military. The White House ain't far behind usually.

Just my two cents.

This from Margaret Atwood is so right on:

`"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.'

Margaret Atwood, Writing the Male Character (1982)

Some folks say pay day lenders are a better option for some folks than kiting a check or other ways to get money to pay bills that are due.  Of course the fees are outrageous.

Not trying to defend the pay day lenders.  But if you want to go after them pass laws to limit interest rates and fees.

Last week it was revealed that Chase Bank made the decision to cancel hundreds of accounts belonging to porn performers, at least one of which was a personal account belonging to a retired performer.

Guardian

Last month, porn star Teagan Presley told Vice that JPMorgan Chase & Co. closed her account because the bank considered her "high-risk." Then, on Wednesday, porn director David Lord told the Daily Beast that Chase sent him a letter notifying him that the bank was going to close his account on May 11....

"This has nothing to do with Operation Choke Point," the source [Chase Insider] told Mother Jones. "There's not a targeted effort to exit consumers' accounts because of an affiliation with an industry [and] we have no policy that would prohibit a consumer from having a checking account because of an affiliation with this industry. We routinely exit consumers for a variety of reasons. For privacy reasons we can't get into why."...

....A footnote in the guidelines linked to a list of products and services, published in 2011, that the feds say have been associated with high-risk activity, including get-rich products, drug paraphernalia, escort services, firearm sales, pornography, and racist materials.

My translation of your Rush-style reiterations is "please, please, Lord, give us a Democrat Watergate..a Democrat Iran-Contra.."