assault is assault
it shouldn’t matter who or why
Dang. I thought emos were birds similar to ostriches.
“The next generation of “hate crimes”.”
The natural progression for this sort of nonsense is that when everybody becomes “special”, then no one is.
And then the idiotic process starts all over again.
I flame Libs everyday three times a day.
Did you hear about the latest in gene-modification? They’ve developed it for your lawn. it’s called “EMO-GRASS”.
You plant it in your yard, and it cuts itself.
So if I say that Bruce Springsteen fans are stupid, dupes, and have bad taste, that’s now a hate crime???
Why so sad EMO kid?
No “hate crime” laws are needed for a crime of “assault” - assault is crime that is definable regardless of the motive of the perpetrator.
If someone is a victim of assualt are they any less of a victim if the motive of the perpetrator cannot be found to fit a definition of a “hate crime” (what about: “she’s might %%^%%$ husband/wife and I hate him/her”).
Hate crimes are nothing other than “thought crimes”. It is not really the “assualt” they are being prosecuted for, as no “hate crime” is necessary to prosecute ANY assault. They are being prosecuted for the thought they demonstrated or expressed at the time of the assault.
A “hate crime” is a thought crime. It attempts to prosecute a particular motive for the same crime - assault - that a different motive would be excused for no more than what it is - the motive.
I do not oppose the bringing forward in the prosecution of an assault the evidence for the motive behind the assualt, no matter what that motive is. But to call one motive a separate crime is a miscarraige of justice and is really nothing other than prosecuting someone for their thoughts.
Accepting the very legal concept of “hate crime” is a totally dangerous slippery slope down to where it only takes some majority to say some opionions are “hate crimes”.
