Posted on 04/29/2014 4:38:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Neck deep in BS
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.
Bingo!
This is the largest and I have actually been there:
Photograph of Ball of Twine from Cawker City Kansas
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?
Precisely! It creates the category of thought crimes.
It sure would be nice if the State Department would require Kerry to visit the Holocaust Memorial before calling Jews racist again.
“I realize a double standard is often applied but you dont fix it by applying a bad law equally.”
The best way to force the repeal of a bad law is strict enforcement.
A bunch of spooky guys in suits and sunglasses standing around MLK. Some things never change. Even after you’re dead.
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.
Will they also cover MLK’s communist beliefs and his adulterous lifestyle?
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.
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.
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.
Nefarious?
About 90 miles southwest as the crow flies is the barbwire museum.
http://www.rushcounty.org/Barbedwiremuseum/
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