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If Smollett Isn’t Charged With A Hate Crime, No One Should Be
Breitbart ^ | 2-20-2019 | John Hayward

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; empire; fakenews; harris; hatecrime; hoax; hoebama; illinois; jussie; jussiesmallett; jussiesmalltit; jussiesmellit; jussiesmollett; kamala; nigeria; noose; race; smollett
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To: nikos1121

https://twitter.com/RobElgasABC7/status/1098319797245435904

Rob Elgas
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@RobElgasABC7

Chicago police spokesman to @ABC on Smollett case: “We got information and we want to run (it) by him. If the opportunity is not taken [to come in], we’re going to go with other methods to create a culture of accountability.”

12:33 PM - 20 Feb 2019


21 posted on 02/20/2019 12:54:41 PM PST by maggief
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To: blam

The concept of a Hate Crime shouldn’t exist in a free society. Don’t buy into Cultural Marxist Right-Think.


22 posted on 02/20/2019 1:08:12 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: blam

There are only two criteria to define a hate crime
:
White male vs any minority = Guilty of hate crime.

Straight White male vs any sexual deviant = Guilty of hate crime.


23 posted on 02/20/2019 1:26:55 PM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: blam

If the races were reversed in this same scenario with a white man coming up with a story that 2 black panthers jumped him, there would have been waling and gnashing of teeth when the story started to fall apart and suspected to be a hoax. That’s all you would hear from the media and celebs is that it was a hate crime. I hear crickets right now.


24 posted on 02/20/2019 2:52:52 PM PST by alabama_heart
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To: blam

This guy is DEFINITELY guilty of a hate crime - he put a noose around a black man’s neck!


25 posted on 02/20/2019 3:39:53 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr

I remember reading at some point that “the rope’” was clothesline. Reallly?? Smh.


26 posted on 02/20/2019 3:42:38 PM PST by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: 4Liberty

ROFL ..........


27 posted on 02/20/2019 4:11:41 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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"This guy is DEFINITELY guilty of a hate crime - he put a noose around a black man’s neck!"

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LOL ..... and he paid for the rope.

28 posted on 02/20/2019 4:15:12 PM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Beagle8U

Okay,
So,
Let’s review.
Hate the Hater but
Have a bad feeling
about murder?

No, that ain’t right.


29 posted on 02/20/2019 5:48:31 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: blam

No one should be - period.

Enforce the law objectiveky, impartially.


30 posted on 02/21/2019 2:29:54 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: blam

I’ll say it again, Hate is a Motive, not a Crime.


31 posted on 02/21/2019 2:31:19 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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