Posted on 09/11/2007 5:09:24 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
What if they had called her a “B**ch” or some some variation of the “F” word or maybe an “a**hole.”
Would that be as much hate as a racial word?
Once you tack on that extra “hate crime” charge for using words, the question is which other words should be included.
Its a slippery slope to banning words from being used.
First Amendment please.
A man in Lancaster, PA actually got fined 500 dollars for using the “N” word. I hear people using the “F” word in public all the time. Which word is more offensive and should merit the punishment?
Right now the “N” word has the priority but please don’t say the “F’ word should be punished with a fine because then we are going down the slippery slope of losing free speech.
Freedom and civil rights means being able to think anything I want about any person, foolishly or not, up to the point it physically affects that other person.
Stupidity should not be a crime.
Those are not racial slurs, just common filth.
Right now the “N” word has the priority but please don’t say the “F’ word should be punished with a fine because then we are going down the slippery slope of losing free speech.
Read history. Please. The First Amendment gave us the right to speak out against government without fear of reprisal. It has nothing to do with a filthy mouth or racial slurs.
I disagree. Normally I dislike the term "hate crime" because it's not used in reverse cases. And it is used as a thought crime term. In this case, it appears to be the REASON for the attack.
That doesn't matter. The attack is heinous regardless of the reason for it. Are you suggesting that because her race was the reason for the attack that it should be prosecuted as a higher level felony than an idential attack that occurred because the perps were just horny to inflict some pain on someone and they picked a victim of their own race? If you advocate tacking on "hate crime" status to this crime rather than simply punishing it for the brutal crime that it is, then you are suggesting EXACTLY that.
Legalistic treatment of people’s words will be used to silence you and anyone else that says the wrong thing if you allow “hate crime” laws to exist.
The intention of the liberals who created them is
to eventually include “sexual orientation” especially and who knows what else.
Then reading the Bible out loud becomes “hate speech” because of those passages about homosexuality.
Yes it is. And I'd love to see the 6 that tortured and murdered the white couple get nailed under the "hate crime" tag.
OK, I can live with that.
No, it would not bother me that the perp got special attention for multiple crimes. What would bother me would be if my kid's case was considered a "boys will be boys" incident while the other attack was prosecuted due to the race of the victim.
Hate Crime Statutes are Crap
As are RICO Statutes which like Hate Crime Statues have a veil of legitimacy which is used to hide their inherent injustice.
Both are perversions of the law, enforced in a Political and Ideological based manner.
The Antitheses of Justice.
W
So if your the perp that beat up your kid was charged with misdemeanor assault, while the perp that beat up a minority or other protected class kid is charged with felony hate crime assault for an equivalent or even less severe beating, you would object? In that case you should have a serious problem with invoking "hate crimes".
The first of the year a young white college couple was kidnapped by a group of black thugs. They raped the young man, castrated him when he was still alive, and later killed him. They held the young lady for another week, they sexually abused her, cut off her breast when she was still alive, forced her to drink drain cleaner to get rid of any DNA evidence, and later hacked up her body and disposed of it in separate trash bags. The prosecutor in this case said it was not a hate crime since the black suspects were friends with some Caucasians.
And that story got limited airplay while this story will continue on for who knows how long
Right on Al!
Great Googly Moogly!
A lawyer agrees with me?
They are passing out snow cones to the devil.
LOL
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