It costs nothing to be polite

Police in New York (recently on the news for apparently eating each others’ underpants) are now alerting the public to a new menace: one who ventures out at night in a brightly colored jumpsuit to daub hateful messages on Jewish houses or set fire to Jewish institutions. He is the African American neo-Nazi – not identical to the 1930s German type for he doesn’t shriek ‘Sieg Heil!’ or goosestep between daubing sessions, but he admires the Führer, loves bonfires and hates Jews.

That at least is what the public may believe after reading press accounts of recent…