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- Jun 27, 2003
The stranger wanted to tell Maxwell Begley’s family that no woman would ever love him, no employer would ever hire him, and that he should move into the woods, or be euthanized.
The stranger typed the letter, sealed it inside an envelope, and popped it in the mail. The stranger had time to change his or her mind. Instead, the stranger chose to devastate a family.
“It made me sick to my stomach to think that somebody hated my son that much and they didn’t even know him,” Karla Begley says, her voice breaking. “But they just hated him because he was different. That’s the only reason they had to hate him.”
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I put this in politics because I felt this is a bummer topic compared to what we normally talk about in Le Cafe. This article came out last week and I'm still so sick to my stomach over this. Now legal eagles on talk shows/news shows have come out saying this cannot be classified as a hate crime. If this isn't hate, then what is?!