FBI Director Says New Agents Must Visit MLK Memorial

Cybercast News Service ^ | April 29, 2014 - 5:56 AM | Susan Jones

[Olog-hai]

FBI Director James Comey told the Anti-Defamation League on Monday that he will require new FBI agents to visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, just as they must tour the Holocaust Museum as part of their training. […]

Much of Comey’s speech on Monday was devoted to hate crimes, which are different from other crimes, he said, because they affect entire communities, not just the individual. …

[Ray76]

Neck deep in BS

[Second Amendment First]

I realize a double standard is often applied but you don’t fix it by applying a bad law equally.

I generally agree with you that hate crime statutes are bad. However I also believe that the law should be equally enforced; "equal protection under the law".

Firearms laws were Jim Crow era laws to prevent blacks from access to guns. Those laws started to be fixed when the cops started enforcing them against whites as well.

[Flick Lives]

Bingo!

[Second Amendment First]

That is only the largest by one man.

This is the largest and I have actually been there:

TwineBallCawkerKs.jpg ‎(640 × 426 pixels, file size: 46 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Photograph of Ball of Twine from Cawker City Kansas

[Olog-hai]

Since hate crime laws imply (if not outright create) protected classes, then they are inherently contrary to the fourteenth amendment’s “equal protection” clause.

And how does one apply such statutes equally since they legislate on thought rather than action?

[Second Amendment First]

Precisely! It creates the category of thought crimes.

[BobL]

It sure would be nice if the State Department would require Kerry to visit the Holocaust Memorial before calling Jews racist again.

[READINABLUESTATE]

“I realize a double standard is often applied but you don’t fix it by applying a bad law equally.”

The best way to force the repeal of a bad law is strict enforcement.

[FlingWingFlyer]

A bunch of spooky guys in suits and sunglasses standing around MLK. Some things never change. Even after you’re dead.

[chesley]

I realize a double standard is often applied but you don’t fix it by applying a bad law equally

This may be true, but you don't play at a handicap when the other team is stronger.

Besides, they need to be Alinskyed, and held to their own rules.

[Resolute Conservative]

Will they also cover MLK’s communist beliefs and his adulterous lifestyle?

[Night Hides Not]

Better yet, send them to Germany for a week, and have them spend a few days at Dachau and Flossenburg.

Museums are nice, but you get to experience the real evil that permeates the grounds on Dachau. Flossenburg was substantially rebuilt and rehabilitated, but I still remember the area where prisoners were shot.

[StonyBurk]

I am old enough to remember the man—and stubborn enough to resist any attempt to force me to pay homage to anyone .Such activity -as this requirement is the stuff of Tyranny. NO wonder the FBI/CIA—and NSA have been treated as a Joke of late.

[tumblindice]

That was thoughtful of the biggest ball of twine people to provide benches so visitors can sit and look at the twine and think about it.
But after pondering the twine, and all the nefarious uses to which twine can be put, it seems reckless as well, tempting visitors to commit mental twine crime.

[Second Amendment First]

Nefarious?
About 90 miles southwest as the crow flies is the barbwire museum.
http://www.rushcounty.org/Barbedwiremuseum/