"Where the rubbber meets the road" !

" Eventually, there is no safety in looking away, seeking the quiet life by ignoring the struggles
and oppression of others. "
President G.W. Bush-United Nations-Sept. 21, 2004

The above quote was printed in the Brownwood Bulletin - September 25, 2004 - Church Page Ad for Steves' Market and Deli
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Note from Steve: Mr President, I couldn’t agree more with your words !
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“ The focus of this statement is on hate crimes related to 9/11. We wish not to dismiss other acts of hate that have been leveled against people of color and the gay and lesbian community in Texas.
For one example, the ACLU, with local concerned citizens, is currently investigating a rash of hate crime in Brownwood, Texas. We suspect at least 10 hate crimes in that town alone-including murders and even murders of witnesses to those hate crimes. Local officials have repeatedly refused to investigate or prosecute these crimes according to the mandates of the the Hate Crimes Act. In one instance, a field officer drafted a crime report which clearly documented race as the motive of the violent crime. Nevertheless, the local District Attorney's office still refused to prosecute this at all, much less as a hate crime. Our conclusion is that the law alone is not enough. The Texas Attorney General, or some external body, must be vested with full authority to prosecute these crimes or at least monitor the law's enforcement in some meaningful way. ”

William Harrell, Esq. Executive Director, ACLU of Texas
To the House Judicial Affairs Committee Regarding
The Committee's Oversight of the Texas Attorney General's Office

August 15, 2002 San Antonio, Texas

source: House Judicial Affairs Committee
[PDF/Adobe Acrobat]
... the ACLU, with local concerned citizens, is currently investigating a rash of hate crime in Brownwood,. Texas. We ...

archive.aclu.org/news/2002/harrell_statement.pdf
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Note:

Brown /Mills County District Attorney Sky Sudderth (Republican) resigned
May 24 as part of a plea agreement in which three felony indictments against him - charges of aggravated perjury, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and tampering with a government record - were dismissed.

source: http://www.woai.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=
2E2EB83E-DC23-42CF-A4CA-4EF22CF7777F