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"Hate Crimes" in Our Future?--The ridiculous bipartisan case for codifying thoughtcrime.
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| November 17, 2003
| Robert W. Tracinski
Posted on 11/17/2003 5:09:57 AM PST by SJackson
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:09:57 AM PST
by
SJackson
To: SJackson
Dimwit Senator Orrin Hatch must be aborted !!!Oh oh... Did I just commit a "hate crime"???
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:15:52 AM PST
by
GeekDejure
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To: SJackson
Different laws for different folks -- what a great idea! Say, why don't we scrap the whole "Republic" thing and just act like a Democracy? Maybe we can vote on how White people should pay not taxes. Classify Hispanics as White and I think we'd have a winner. So, Blacks can be taxed (and only Blacks) to pay for all social services and whatnot that the Fed government provides for all Americans. Great, huh?
Or ... would that be a bad idea that spits in the face of everything this country stands for?
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:16:26 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(France delenda est)
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:19:53 AM PST
by
mhking
To: SJackson
Seems like Orwell's prediction of "thoughtcrime" in his book 1984 was about 20 years premature.
To: SJackson
Kind of rocks the "equal protection" clause on its butt, doesn't it?
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:24:41 AM PST
by
LTCJ
To: SJackson
some are more equal than others.
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:26:38 AM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: SJackson
"Hate crime" legislation is far more frighteningly Orwellian than anything in the Patriot Act.
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:27:29 AM PST
by
shteebo
To: shteebo
Why don't Hatch and Kennedy just incorporate the thought control programs including the building of gulags and indoctrination camps that the USSR and China have found so effective? Why slice off a slab of bacon when you can just as well take the whole hog? These two idiots don't have a half-wit combined.
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:42:38 AM PST
by
meenie
To: SJackson
"The ostensible purpose of such a law is to protect minorities from persecution."
Isn't this just wonderful. Aren't all Americans supposed to be held to the same standards....apparently not.
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:44:54 AM PST
by
Arpege92
To: SJackson
So what if a pale faced American of French ancestry beats up a pale faced American of German ancestry? Considering the history of war and violence between France and Germany, this should be dealt with very harshly.
What if an American of Haitian ancestry beats up an American of Jamaican ancestry?
How about if an American of Mexican ancestry beats up an American of Honduran ancestry?
Or maybe an American of Indian (Hindi [New Delhi area]) ancestry clobbering an American of Indian (Dravidian [southern India area]) ancestry?
What if old Viking era rivalries pop back up and an American of Norwegian ancestry pummels an American of Anglo-English ancestry?
The possibilities are endless. Government is just going to implement another mindless law and the lawyers will get rich off of it while the citizens of this country continue to get more and more divided.
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:53:56 AM PST
by
xrp
To: Arpege92
Especially since, with the hyperactive hyphenation of Americans today, technically everyone is part of a minority if you toss skin color aside. Just find your niche and add (your ancestry here)-American to how you view yourself and anytime anyone speaks or looks at you wrong, file a lawsuit against them.
"Hey! You Danish-German-Americans didn't give me, an Italian-American, the correct change! You're trying to steal from me and that's a hate crime!"
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posted on
11/17/2003 5:59:45 AM PST
by
xrp
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To: SJackson
why can't he be tried simply for being a "purveyor of hate"?Don't worry. Thats comming next. They are already doing it in Canada.
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posted on
11/17/2003 6:35:00 AM PST
by
Desron13
To: xrp
"What if old Viking era rivalries pop back up and an American of Norwegian ancestry pummels an American of Anglo-English ancestry?"
My surname is an English one but is apparently of Norman origin which means I descend from Vikings, what if I beat myself up? What if I raid my house and carry off my wife? What if I force myself to pay Danegeld?
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posted on
11/17/2003 6:48:54 AM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
To: meenie
These two idiots don't have a half-wit combined.I disagree. You think they're stupid. I think they're evil.
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posted on
11/17/2003 6:50:41 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
To: SJackson
There was a thread yesterday about them trying to build a thought crime detector.
The nonsense about detecting racist thoughts.
He passed the lie detector, Your Honor, but we nailed him with the Hateful Thought Detector test!
To: xrp
The possibilities are endless...You miss the point...The law does not apply to "minorities", it applies to "protected minorities." The possibilities do end...and they end way short of you and me!
To: SJackson
The surest way to encourage prejudice, discrimination and to cause "hate crimes" is to institutionalize the population into seperate groups, as this legislation hopes to do. IMO.
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posted on
11/17/2003 7:43:06 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(democrats are herd animals)
To: Onelifetogive
You miss the point...The law does not apply to "minorities", it applies to "protected minorities." The possibilities do end...and they end way short of you and me!Well, at least this will apply to whitey when Hispanics grow to become 30% of the population, Asians are 10%, Blacks are 13% and whitey is 47% of the American population.
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posted on
11/17/2003 7:52:28 AM PST
by
xrp
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