Reply #12: yeah well, xenophobia is a well understood phenomenon

[sui generis]

1. We learn by generalizing
2. We compare things to ourselves
3. We have an instinctive need to make our gene pool match with suitable "mates" and to control everyone else's reproduction

That means that people who don't look/act/talk like us are "bad" and any pre-emptive violence is in defense of our own gene pool. Somewhere in the back of our minds xenophobia is a matter of survival . . . of our genes.

Unfortunately that's where modern humans and neanderthals parted company, for the most part, but those atavistic urges are still deeply ingrained in us.

And that's just the cake. The icing is that there are people willing to manipulate others by playing those urges; so somebody is seizing territory and social power by galvanizing his posse to take action against the social ills in their lives - crackers dating "their" women.

Cut off the head, the rest will fall apart - there is one person in that group who is the cornerstone. That's who needs to be made an example of, legally speaking.