[null and void]

Some pigs are more equal than others?

[Personal Responsibility]

I hate the whole idea of “hate crimes”. It implies that for reasons of religion, skin color, sexual orientation etc...one violent crime is somehow worse than another.

If someone is beaten half to death, they are beaten half to death. It shouldn’t matter if the reason was “I hate black people” or “You were hitting on my girlfriend”.

Would someone who got beaten up because he was hitting on a guy’s girlfrend be the victim of a “like” crime? A “love” crime?

Stop it.

[2CAVTrooper]

They say that its a hate crime to attack someone on the basis of their skin color, yet blacks are hardly ever charged for hate crimes despite the overwhelming number of attacks they do against whites.

I’m surprised that the law hasn’t been challenged based on its lack of equal protection violating the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment as well as the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Why not make it a hate crime? All murder should be a hate crime.

[chesley]

The one thing which could improve the situation in New York and other similar states who oppose the death penalty would be to provide exceptions for the murder of police and elected officials as a separate charge to secure the continuation of civil society.

Read Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper.