Don't Like Obama? Burn Down a Church

clipped from rawstory.com Just hours after Barack Obama was elected president last November, three men set ablaze a predominantly African-American church in Massachusetts to "interfere" with the civil rights of its congregants, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. Benjamin Haskell, 22, Michael Jacques, 24, and Thomas Gleason, 21, all of Springfield, Mass., burned Macedonia Church of God in Christ to the ground in the early hours of Nov. 5th as payback for the election of the country’s first African-American president, the department's indictment alleges. The three men were released Monday on $100,000 bail each, the Springfield Republican reported, after spending 11 days in federal custody. After finding gasoline, the trio poured it on the interior and exterior of the 18,000 square-foot building and set it ablaze, the department said, which ended up injuring firefighters.

Pictured is Jacques, who looks like a real freakin' Einstein. You always want to ask dumbasses like this when it was, exactly, that any of this seemed like a good idea.

Then again, I guess racists don't have good ideas. It's just not the sort of thing that happens to them. If convicted, this particular bad idea could cost them 10 years of their lives.

It's an expensive lesson that I somehow doubt they'll learn.