Posted on 02/20/2019 11:20:16 AM PST by blam
If a fair and thorough investigation establishes that Jussie Smollett faked the attack he claimed was perpetrated by white men wearing MAGA hats, then he should be charged with a hate crime.
Fake hate crimes are hate crimes. If hate crime laws are merely instruments of totalitarian political power, rather than sound legal principles applicable to Americans of every color and creed, then it is long past time to get rid of them.
Smollett’s offense went far beyond wasting the police department’s time with a false report, as if that wasn’t bad enough in crime-ridden Chicago. If that is the only charge he faces, he is likely to walk out of the courtroom without paying much of a penalty at all. The law is not exactly coming down on him like a ton of bricks, as he is apparently still free to blow off investigators when they request follow-up interviews.
A federal hate crimes prosecution would make it clear Smollett deliberately targeted a group of Americans with the intention of inciting hatred against them. This cannot be considered acceptable from anyone, no matter how many boxes they can cover on the intersectional victimhood bingo card, and regardless of the skin color or political affiliations of the targets.
It is time to formally acknowledge that left-wing hate hoaxes are one of the most prevalent and dangerous hate crimes in America right now. They’re exceptionally dangerous because they instantly benefit from the combined power of credulous news media and celebrities.
We’re all supposed to be very concerned about information warfare, disinformation, and “meddling” in our politics and society. Hate-crime hoaxes are prime examples of all of those things, and they are far more influential than Russia buying $1000 of Facebook ads or whatever.
No farm-raised Russian troll could dream of whipping up...
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https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1098289639541129216
Rafer Weigel
Emmy award-winning anchor/reporter at Fox 32 Chicago
Top attorney Mark Geragos has joined #JussieSmollett legal team. He is assisting Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson. #CPD sources tell me an indictment of #Smollett could be coming in “a matter of hours. Not days”.
But Jussy is really cute and he’s an action hero too.
He beat off those attackers. He beat them off like an action hero.
The police probing Jussy is racist.
Jussy should get to choose who probes him.
Action.
Hero.
It starts with the district attorney, who resides in Chicago...so this guy will walk....
I dohn’t expect much from the federal prosecutor either.
Hate crime laws were created to criminalize anything a White says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do, and to set free non-Whites who physically assault Whites.
He will not be charged with a hate crime. I hope I’m wrong.
No one should ever be charged with a “hate” crime in a free society. How you are feeling or what your are thinking when you commit a crime is not the issue, the crime itself is.
Thoughts or feelings are not crimes.
Smollett should be charged with filing false charges and fraud, but that’s probably too much to hope for.
No one should be charged with a “hate crime”, period.
Either their action is criminal or it is not.
What they are thinking is immaterial.
Jussie likes it rough.
REAL rough.
Some 20+ years ago when people started talking about “hate crime legislation,” my first reaction was to ask how this was any different than Orwell’s concept of, “thought crimes,” and why that wasn’t glaringly obvious to everybody.
That just makes me like him more.
Joosy the best story I've seen in two weeks.
+1, yet this hate crime BS is everywhere. It’s so bad if you speak out against hate crimes you are committing one.
Hate crimes are based on a silly premise; that is, that murder or other serious crimes are less serious if hate was not the motivation, and the opposite if hate was involved.
My list of things that should be glaringly obvious to everybody but are not is growing by the day. Positively Orwellian what has happened to our country in recent years.
Wow are we really gonna see ya know..uhhh...JUSTICE
Hate crime law is based on the theory that you should do less time if you only beat the piss out of people you really like.
No should be charged with a hate crime, now or ever.
“Hate crimes” are blasphemy against Liberty, Freedom of Speech and Equality under the Law, perpetrated by Authoritarians that want to limit the people’s capacity for free thought and free speech.
Nothing should matter except the crime. What the perp was thinking when committed it should be irrelevant.
Actually, what the perp was thinking is relevant....at sentencing. Not at any other time before then.
Your post 17 a good illustration of the fallacy of hate crimes.
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