Former U.S. diplomat gets year in prison for anti-Arab comments

[Violet_Crumble]

Source: Ha'aretz

A retired U.S. diplomat was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison and fined $10,000 for sending racist, threatening messages to an Arab-American group, the Justice Department said.

The diplomat, Patrick Syring of Arlington, Virginia, sent abusive and intimidating e-mails and voice mails to employees of the Arab American Institute, a Washington group.

He was sentenced in federal court in the U.S. capital after pleading guilty to federal civil rights charges, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Among his comments in a series of e-mails, Syring wrote that "the only good Arab is a dead Arab."



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[LeftishBrit]

1. This was a *diplomat*???

Quite scary.

[DCKit]

2. Of the John Bolton school, no doubt. n/t

[hlthe2b]

4. That was a Bush* "diplomat"

clearly....:eyes:

[Hardrada]

3. Iif he'd said that about Iranians he'd probably be promoted

and also given a seat on the American Enterprise Institute Board.

[LynnTheDem]

5. It still shocks and amazes me that anyone so deeply ignorant manages to

get through elementary school, let alone anything else.

[bean fidhleir]

6. People like that usually aren't doing well mentally. They are very often diagnosable

though usually not at the level where locking up is needed.

[14thColony]

7. I wonder

If he even realizes there are 20+ million Arab Christians in the Middle East -- since I assume by 'Arab' he really meant 'Muslim.' This is what the State Dept has to offer from its Diplomatic Corps nowadays?