Copperpot to Advance: What hate crimes?

Staten Island's Boro President James (Oswald Copperpot) Molinaro has come out to declare that the recent spate of attacks against Mexicans are not bias crimes at all.

In fact, if you are a Mexican on Staten Island Molinaro would like you to go back to the "banana republic where (you) came from."

"Let’s talk about reality... these are not bias incidents," Molinaro told the Advance. "These are criminal acts. This is a law enforcement issue."

Really? That's interesting, but its not what the police say.

Through Sunday, there have been 21 bias crimes on Staten Island in 2010, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne told the Daily News.

Here are some of the victims: Fidel González - broken jaw; Alejandro Galindo - fractured eye socket and brain trauma; Rodolfo Olmedo - skull fracture.

Is it possible that Copperpot just doesn't like Mexicans?

Here's what he said when Mexican President Felipe Calderon came to the US to criticize Arizona's new immigration law.

"The man should've been given a one-way ticket out of the country back to the banana republic where he came from," Molinaro told the Daily News.

"To see those idiots applauding him for attacking us, to me... I don't know if this country can be saved anymore."

Is this what Copperpot is doing? Trying to save this country by ignoring the hatred, bigotry, and ignorance prevailing on the pristine shores of his predominantly white borough? By agreeing with these idiots: