Wildfires stoked the flames of ethnic hatred

The Southern California wildfires were just too alluring for the wackos bent on demonizing Latinos.

All the elements for conspiracy were there — innocent victims, massive destruction and no clear culprit. Perfect.

So some jokester with a few computer skills jerry-rigged a bogus version of a news Web page and sent it off into the vast reaches of the Internet. The made-up headline — ‘Separatists claim responsibility for California Wildfires’ — was posted on a site that looked seriously like CNN.com.”*

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