Politics | July 13, 2009 | 6 comments

Hate-crime legislation would backfire

source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0710/p09s02-coop.html

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Interesting op-ed on why hate crimes is not necessary and could possibly encourage copy-cat criminals from those seeking to immitate so-called "hate criminals."

Prosecute violent criminals for their actions, not their ideas.

Congress seems intent on passing new hate-crime legislation. It may sound like a surefire way to tamp down on hate crime, but it won't work.

There are two problems with the proposed law. First, crimes motivated by racial animus, misogyny, or homophobia are already recognized as atrocities and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. No new law is needed.

Second, making the ideology of the perpetrator a centerpiece of the trial doesn't deter like-minded extremists; it encourages them.

A smart prosecutor would not go down the road of a suspect's approved and disapproved motivations to kill someone. Murder is always murder most foul. If you try extremists or domestic terrorists for their actions, not their ideas, they are no longer martyrs. No longer heroes, freedom fighters, nor revolutionaries. They are criminals.
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6 comments // Hate-crime legislation would backfire

  • unclecharlie
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    • If the folks on current had their way, I'd be thrown into the klinker for "hate speech". Why? Simple. Anytime you disagree with these brainwashed leftist drones, any time you question their pet causes, you don't disagree with them- no- according to them you "hate". And how do you silence dissent? By ramming through some "hate crime" legislation, specifically targeting opinions that go against GroupThink. I disagree. I don't hate. More proof that those who preach "tolerance" and "diversity" believe in neither. This is an attempt to silence dissenting opinions. The folks (all democrats) who are coming up with this crap figure, "It worked in China, it worked in North Korea, it worked in Cuba, it will definitely work here! Lets just come up with a clever euphemism- any time someone speaks out against government encroachment or government legislating morality, we'll call it "hate speech." Yep- socialism on the march.....

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