Too Easy

Something doesn't smell right about the Lefkow case. I caught the the story on the local news, who reported they did not know who the victims were, but were connecting it to Hale and his group. That struck me as odd. The Hale connection was introduced immediately. Almost as quick as the description and arrest of Lee Harvey in the Texas Theater. One of the first news reports regarding the double homicide quoted Hale from the earlier conviction of soliciting the judge's murder: "If you're charged with attacking a Jew you want good representation, and I feel you should have it. In fact I feel you should be exonerated and you should serve no jail time." But Lefkow wasn't Jewish, according to the CSM "She is not, and her husband was active in the Episcopal Church." This wouldn't make much difference to a thug like Hale but he would have known.

Just as quickly there's chatter of "Traffic Heavy On Hate Sites After Lefkow Murders." The online audience is the same one that white supremacist Mathew Hale tried to reach through his World Church of the Creator. They were something of pioneers in that they were one of the first groups to be very active on the Internet in terms of using it as a recruitment tool," said Daniel Elbaum, who tracks extremist Web sites for the Midwest branch of the Anti-Defamation League."

They may have been pioneers but according to the SPLC Hale's group never numbered more than 150 nationwide. Hale never attracted the kind of followers who could do a hit unless it was mowing down innocents randomly. They also were more focused on Blacks and Gays, drive-bys and pipe bombs, parking lot beatings. If Hale followers are eventually charged with the murders there won't be a response from the more or less non-existent World Church of the Creator.

So what am I getting at? I don't know. But feels like contrivance and convenience.