Assault because of political beliefs

[sleigh]

I hate this. I hate that I'm suspicious. I hate that if my suspicions are wrong, that someone would do something this heinous to another person. I don't like anything about it.

You've probably read this morning about the McCain volunteer who claims she was robbed, assaulted and branded with a "B" by an African-American man because of the McCain sticker on her car.

I find I'm suspicious that this happened at all. Here's why: the young woman is heavily bruised around her left eye. That's consistent with a right-handed attacker, who is more likely to strike that side of her face. Yet the "B" is on her right cheek, which would be consistent with someone left-handed (think of how you'd have to hold the knife with your right hand to write on someone's right cheek), or by a right-handed person making the mark on their own cheek. Adding to that second suspicion is the fact that the B is backward. Sure, it's possible that the attacker is illiterate enough to have made the B facing the wrong way.... but if you were doing this to yourself by looking in a mirror and didn't remember that the mirror renders letters backward, well, you'd end up with a backward B on your cheek. And it's strangely nice of her assailant that the B was created by shallow scratches that didn't even break the skin, so there won't be permanent defacement.

I'm suspicious. I wonder if this isn't someone trying to cover up another assault with a story that has racial and political overtones. I hate that suspicion. I really do. But I looked at the picture of her and had to wonder.

I hope I'm wrong, and if I am wrong, I hope they catch the bastard and toss him in jail, because anyone who would do such a thing doesn't deserve his freedom, and is ratcheting up the already-tense emotions in this political season.

Argh!

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My wife writes left, but does most other things right. It's apparently not that uncommon.