"Hate Crimes" in Our Future?--The ridiculous bipartisan case for codifying thoughtcrime.

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | November 17, 2003 | Robert W. Tracinski

[GeekDejure]

Dimwit Senator Orrin Hatch must be aborted !!!

Oh oh... Did I just commit a "hate crime"???

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[ClearCase_guy]

Different laws for different folks -- what a great idea! Say, why don't we scrap the whole "Republic" thing and just act like a Democracy? Maybe we can vote on how White people should pay not taxes. Classify Hispanics as White and I think we'd have a winner. So, Blacks can be taxed (and only Blacks) to pay for all social services and whatnot that the Fed government provides for all Americans. Great, huh?

Or ... would that be a bad idea that spits in the face of everything this country stands for?

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[The Great RJ]

Seems like Orwell's prediction of "thoughtcrime" in his book 1984 was about 20 years premature.

[LTCJ]

Kind of rocks the "equal protection" clause on its butt, doesn't it?

[glock rocks]

some are more equal than others.

[shteebo]

"Hate crime" legislation is far more frighteningly Orwellian than anything in the Patriot Act.

[meenie]

Why don't Hatch and Kennedy just incorporate the thought control programs including the building of gulags and indoctrination camps that the USSR and China have found so effective? Why slice off a slab of bacon when you can just as well take the whole hog? These two idiots don't have a half-wit combined.

[Arpege92]

"The ostensible purpose of such a law is to protect minorities from persecution."

Isn't this just wonderful. Aren't all Americans supposed to be held to the same standards....apparently not.

[xrp]

So what if a pale faced American of French ancestry beats up a pale faced American of German ancestry? Considering the history of war and violence between France and Germany, this should be dealt with very harshly.

What if an American of Haitian ancestry beats up an American of Jamaican ancestry?

How about if an American of Mexican ancestry beats up an American of Honduran ancestry?

Or maybe an American of Indian (Hindi [New Delhi area]) ancestry clobbering an American of Indian (Dravidian [southern India area]) ancestry?

What if old Viking era rivalries pop back up and an American of Norwegian ancestry pummels an American of Anglo-English ancestry?

The possibilities are endless. Government is just going to implement another mindless law and the lawyers will get rich off of it while the citizens of this country continue to get more and more divided.

[xrp]

Especially since, with the hyperactive hyphenation of Americans today, technically everyone is part of a minority if you toss skin color aside. Just find your niche and add (your ancestry here)-American to how you view yourself and anytime anyone speaks or looks at you wrong, file a lawsuit against them.

"Hey! You Danish-German-Americans didn't give me, an Italian-American, the correct change! You're trying to steal from me and that's a hate crime!"

[Desron13]

why can't he be tried simply for being a "purveyor of hate"?

Don't worry. Thats comming next. They are already doing it in Canada.

[RipSawyer]

"What if old Viking era rivalries pop back up and an American of Norwegian ancestry pummels an American of Anglo-English ancestry?"

My surname is an English one but is apparently of Norman origin which means I descend from Vikings, what if I beat myself up? What if I raid my house and carry off my wife? What if I force myself to pay Danegeld?

[from occupied ga]

These two idiots don't have a half-wit combined.

I disagree. You think they're stupid. I think they're evil.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

There was a thread yesterday about them trying to build a thought crime detector.

The nonsense about detecting racist thoughts.

He passed the lie detector, Your Honor, but we nailed him with the Hateful Thought Detector test!

[Onelifetogive]

The possibilities are endless...

You miss the point...The law does not apply to "minorities", it applies to "protected minorities." The possibilities do end...and they end way short of you and me!

[Sam Cree]

The surest way to encourage prejudice, discrimination and to cause "hate crimes" is to institutionalize the population into seperate groups, as this legislation hopes to do. IMO.

[xrp]

You miss the point...The law does not apply to "minorities", it applies to "protected minorities." The possibilities do end...and they end way short of you and me!

Well, at least this will apply to whitey when Hispanics grow to become 30% of the population, Asians are 10%, Blacks are 13% and whitey is 47% of the American population.