ents. In this message, he said he hated Asians and wanted to kill them all. Although the e-mail was sent from an anonymous account, Machado was questioned by the campus police and admitted being the author of the messages. In August 1997, the Central District of California charged Machado with violating a law that prohibit interference with a Federally protected activity, attending public college, because of race, color, religion or origin. The first trial ended in February 1998, and the jury found Machado guilty of violating the Asian student civil rights. At the second trial there was evidence that Machado had sent other threatening messages to campus staff prior to the “Asian Hater” one. He was sentenced to one year in prison. Machado was sentenced under Federal law because his messages were motivated by racial bias and aimed at people engaged in a Federally protected activity.A similar case that happened in 1999 is United States v. Kingman Quon. Quon sent a hateful e-mail to Latinos faculty members and students both at the California State University in Los Angeles and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston. The messages stated that he would “come down and kill” them, and that Latinos were “too stupid to get jobs.” He pleaded guilty and received a two-year sentence.In 1999, the case Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. ALPHA HQ, involved a complaint against a Ryan Wilson, owner of a white supremacist Web site, ALPHA. He was charged for terrorist threats, harassment, and ethnic intimidation. He placed harassing material on the Internet that involved employees of the Reading Berks Human Relations Council. One of the pictures on ALPHA’ s Web site showed a bomb blowing up the office of Bonnie Jouhari, an employee who was involved in anti-hate activities. Next to the image a comment stated that she should be hung from a tree. Due to these insults, the white supremacists...
