[muawiyah]

Actually, the biggest problem with "hate crimes" legislation is that it ends up providing two different penalties for the exact same act ~ the difference resting on what the criminal said about the victim, provided, of course, that the "victim" be in the protected class of people about whom such things cannot be said.

What this does is CONFER A TITLE OF NOBILITY on the protected class.

I thought we got over that Medieval class stuff a long time ago. Apparantly we didn't, but there it is. No doubt Teddy "Fitzgerald" Kennedy wants the class system returned to what he believes to be it's rightful place.

Remember, in the bad old days the "upper class nobles" got to murder whomever they wished without any question.

People who support the return of an old fashioned European class system should probably be horsewhipped and ridden out of town on a rail.

[Liz]

Nice deconstruction.