[per loin]

Did the Quigleys actually DO anything?

Are you asking if they committed any overt anti-semitic acts, other than private phone chats? I've not seen that they did.

[nathanbedford]

Exactly.

Nothing could better illustrate the potential danger to all our constitutional liberties from this Hate Crime madness than this wretched Quigley affair. Hate Crime legislation has so far proven to be a far greater actual threat and source of big brother abuse than the Patriot Act.

We all enjoy a constitutional right to be anti-semitic and not a few Jews exercise that right against semitic Arabs right here on this forum. Just because our birthright as Americans comes with a right to hate your neighbor on account of the accident of his birth does not mean that to exercise that prerogative is moral and right. But to prohibit its exercise, without accompanying action, is dangerous and unconstitutional.