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To: who_would_fardels_bear
But they should not be punished because of why they did it. This would just be feeding into the same nonsense that gave us "hate crime" legislation.

Disagree

Why they did it is a conspiracy. That is a more serious crime than setting one individual fire.

80 posted on 12/10/2005 6:38:02 AM PST by beebuster2000
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To: beebuster2000
"Conspiracy" is the lamest crime in the book.

The constitution gives us the right to free association.

If people commit crimes they should be punished for those crimes. If someone aids a criminal before, during, or after then they are also guilty of a crime.

Accusing people of "conspiracy to commit a crime" seems on the face of it to be anti-constitutional as it is making a crime of free association and not just the behavior that resulted from it.

Obviously I'm wrong in my thinking as people have been going to jail for conspiracy for years and years. But then I also believe that there is a right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution which soon may go they way of the dinosaurs as well.

118 posted on 12/12/2005 2:08:50 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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