May 2009: Democrats make it happen.
9 years from utterly insane crazy joke to law.
I have never believed in hate crime bills anyway...every crime is a hate crime. Also, I don’t see why the Dems would not define ‘sexual orientation’ as excluding pedophiles...stupid is as stupid does.
The Democrat party is the party of perversion and pedophilia. Look at this guy Wade Sanders who was Kerry’s Butt Buddy, convicted of being a consumer of child pornography. Even worse, look at all the libs who say the guy should not get any jail time. Jimmy Carter and nearly every other Democrat.
Just unbelievable.
Our senate, congress and of course the courts don’t give a damn what the people think or want.
This is a weird article because H.R. 1913 only relates to extra penalties for violence. Now, I don’t agree with that, of course,violent crimes can be handles under current law as assault, murder or even terrorism.
But I can’t find any language that gives protection to anyone who has sex with kids.
So does this mean that if a guy is rubbing himself against my wife in the subway (frotteurism), and I punch him out, I am guilty of a hate crime?
(Those French have a word for everything.)
The notion that pedophiles are deserving of enhanced protection when they are victims of crime simply illustrates how ridiculous this whole notion of “hate crimes” is. Where is this leading?
Here’s the full text of the bill (only 4 pages or so)
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1913
On the surface its purpose is to help Local, State, Tribe governments prosecute crimes where the motive for the crime was the victim’s “race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability”.
On the service the help takes the form of grants and additional personnel to help the subordinate governments prosecute a case. But also there’s the following: “No prosecution of any offense described in this subsection may be undertaken by the United States except ...”. That means that the Federal Government can actually be the prosecutor.
Four reasons are given for the Federal Government stepping into a case. The first three have the lower-level government (e.g. Local) making the call. The final reason says that the Federal Government can step in if it feels like it.
Does the bill protect pedophiles? Given the text of the bill, I’d like someone to explain how it does that.