-Caveat Lector- Los Angeles Times State and Local Sunday, August 15, 1999 http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/t000072750.html By Joe Mozingo, Times Staff Writer Congregants arriving at a synagogue in East Hollywood on Saturday were confronted with a swastika and the words "Jews Die" spray-painted on the front of the building overnight. Many of those who attend services at Temple Knesset Israel on Vermont Avenue are elderly Holocaust survivors who were horrified by the act of hatred. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's Northeast station documented the vandalism and notified the department's crimincal conspiracy section. "I believe it's a copycat thing. Somebody wants a little press," said Sgt. Sanford Rosenberg, referring to last week's shooting at a Jewish community center in Granada Hills. He said whoever committed the crime would be charged with felony vandalism for defacing a place of worship and would face increased penalties for committing a hate crime. In the temple's mailbox, offcers found a letter that appeared to be anti-British. "It doesn't make sense," one officer said. The letter was confusing, at times saying the British were going to start interning people, she said. The temple's president, Harvey Shield, is British. Shield said that in light of the incident he will hire a private security guard for the holy days in September. Last week, when congregants suggested increasing security after Tuesday's shooting, he said he was reluctant to do so. "My initial response was: 'Let's not overreact so quickly,'" he said. "Now there is no question about it." Police said they will step up patrols in the area. The painted letters, scrawled at the entrance to the preschool, were about six feet high. The doors to the temple have gates in fron of them, making it difficult for vandals to reach them, but owrshipers could easily see the hateful message as the they stepped inside. Shield said about a dozen people saw the swastika. Police painted over the graffiti Saturday morning, but worshipers were still worried. "Can we get some protection here for the rest of the morning?" parishioner Frances Miller asked Rosenberg. "I'm afraid to be here now." The sixty-one year old Los Feliz resident said much of her family who had perished during the Holocaust in Poland and her three cousins who survived for months by hiding in ahole in a cemetery under a fallen tombstone. She broke into tears when she saw the vandalism. "This could be a warning," she said, adding that she is always wary of hate crimes. "I don't like to be in any large groups that could be targeted by a hate group." --------------------------------------------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
