Hate crimes legislation = Special victims = Unequal justice
As it stands, the bill criminalizes any violent act perpetrated against someone because of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
In doing so, it makes crimes of things that are already crimes. Like murder. Is one person’s murder worse than another’s if the suffering is the same? This only creates special victims out of certain classes of people, a perverse form of reverse discrimination.
The hate crimes legislation people are going for it again. I thought we were entering a new era of equality and racial justice, of freedom and liberty, and uh, you know, hopenchange? I didn’t believe them. Did you?
This violates major swaths of the Constitution. It certainly twists the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause beyond recognition. And it likewise impinges on First Amendment’s guarantees of freedom of speech and thought. And subjecting those guilty of state crimes to additional federal prosecution is double jeopardy.
The very idea of a “hate crime” is a sickening echo of the “thoughtcrime” for which people could be tortured or executed in George Orwell’s dystopian classic, “1984.” This is what Hitler and Stalin did — make victims of whole classes of people.
Wake up folks. Time grows short.
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