[Scoutmaster]

I'm torn on this one.

I object on the whole to the concept of hate crimes.

In his case, the victim likely suffered more than an average person whose beard may have been cut.

But I see your point.

[Nowhere Man]

Man, I got into this debate on another board about this and I do stand corrected on the disabled girl case. Still, when I stated my opposition to "hate crime laws," one lib branded me as a Nazi and me calling him a cripple because I'm against it. It's as bad as The Race Card. I learned, one thing, there is no reasoning with the left. They understand only two things, force and the threat of force. Reagan understood that.

I did add in my reply, if you want to see true Nazis, just try Obamacare in a few years an the death panels. My grandfather fought the Nazis from Omaha Beach to Buchenwald. I'm part Russian Jew. Well, I'll just go on, he violated "Godwins Law."

It's like trying to reason with a shark, you reach out and get a bloody stump in return and the shark's happy.

I hope one day, they all have an epiphany, a "come to Jesus moment" if you will but I'll leave it up to Him for that, sometimes I think we just need to dig in and see what happens.

No one should go through having their beard cut or being harrassed like that poor girl, but we must use existing laws and not succumb to emotion over reason to trump over the Constitution.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Basically, it’s harassment getting lumped in with whatever the other crime is. Just call it harassment and it’ll be treated more fairly. There is no sense in “throwing away the key” for this.