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To: Cindy

“The interstate commerce element contained in § 249(a)(2)(B) would ensure that Federal prosecutions for hate crimes based on sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability would be brought only in those particular cases in which a Federal interest is clear.”

Really? It is not at all clear to me how calling someone a fag in Hillbilly Junction, TN or Liberal Snob, Washington affects interstate commerce at all.


5 posted on 06/25/2009 3:41:22 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You know what this is really about.


7 posted on 06/25/2009 3:44:54 PM PDT by Noumenon (As long as I have a rifle, I STILL have a vote...)
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