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Montana legislators will consider Wednesday afternoon whether to join every other state in the nation in putting anti-bullying policy into law. A bill being introduced by Democrat Rep. Kimberly Dudik in the Montana House Education Committee would define bullying, prohibit it in public schools and require that public school districts enact their own policies addressing bullying. […] Julie Hertzog, director of PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center, said most state laws enforcing bullying definitions and procedures were enacted in the mid-2000s, with updates like cyberbullying provisions being added every year. She said the laws build better environments for kids to learn...

This is one reason why conservatives and libertarians did not join Barney Frank and the left in promoting politically correct hate-crime legislation that would create a few more specially protected categories among us, as a kind of human “endangered species” act. Sorting Americans into distinctive racial, ethnic and gender groups, while designating whites and heterosexuals to be their “oppressors” makes the latter into legitimate targets of hate themselves. It thus becomes a way of exacerbating, rather than correcting, the social disorder.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder says recent violent attacks show the need for a tougher hate crimes law. Holder, speaking Tuesday at a luncheon for civil rights lawyers, noted the recent killings of an abortion doctor in Kansas, a soldier in Little Rock, and a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington. He called the attacks brazen acts committed in once-unthinkable places, and said it is past time for Congress to strengthen hate crimes laws to prosecute violence based on gender, disability, or sexual orientation.

I have just recently met this Mark Harding, who was sentenced to 300 hours of community service for this crime. He has just recently began his community service and was ordered to serve the Muslim communty in Toronto. What does this community service consist of? He was sent to a local mosque, and when he reported for service, was told that he had to sit in a room and learn Islam without asking questions or he would be sent to jail immediately. We had better wake up as you can see below, several USA senators have the same laws in...

SHOT DOWN FOR HIS BELIEF “I think he was shot down for nothing. He was shot down for his belief.”-- Dutch food inspector Tom Kursten, 20, on the assassination of politician Pim Fortuyn. “I wonder if it was a hate crime?” That odd, random thought bolted through my brain as the news that right-of-center Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn had been gunned down at a radio station outside Amsterdam. As of this writing press accounts lean toward a lone, loony gunman, now identified as an environmental whackjob. But after two weeks of hand wringing about the terrifying wave of neo-Fascism supposedly...