Effigies

Okay, so within a week we have two completely separate effigy-hangings of candidates -- one of Barack Obama and the other of Sarah Palin. The only difference is that the Secret Service arrested two people for the Obama one, and asked nicely for the Sarah Palin one to be pulled down with no legal or criminal consequences. Why is it that hate crimes are only able to be perpetrated against minorities... It was no big deal with Bush or Palin effigies, but hang the Messiah and there will be Hell to pay. One question though, if he's the Messiah... shouldn't he welcome it as inevitable?