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To: Free ThinkerNY

If the DoJ can frame this as a hate crime, then the feds can get involved.


22 posted on 03/27/2012 3:43:06 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Kennard
-- If the DoJ can frame this as a hate crime, then the feds can get involved. --

But first, they have to have an underlying crime. It is not a crime to call people racist names. Doing so may provide a hook to elevate a crime into a hate crime, but racist attitudes on their own can't be bootstrapped into criminality.

49 posted on 03/27/2012 4:00:19 PM PDT by Cboldt
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