Ron Paul gets it.
So if I call somebody stupid, who in fact has done poorly in school, does that constitute as a hate crime?
If so, get the handcuffs ready because I have an explosive mouth.
Wake up America — this atrocity of a bill is typical of the way the radical left wants to CONTROL YOUR LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMS — by making everything that they do not want said about their criminal and corrupt ways a crime.
Wake up now!!! Thank God that Bush will veto this freedom-destroying crap of a bill. Your socialist left at work.
I have asked several proponents of such “hate crimes” legislation the same questions - and have NEVER received and answer - not even a stupid answer:
1. If someone murders me because I am in the way of a robbery, and someone else is murdered and the murderer has expressed hatred for a race - does that make the one murdered by the racist any more dead than me?
2. Someone gets in a fight with a homosexual after having sendt an email against gay marriage - does that make them more guilty than someone in a fight with a straight person?
3. Why stop at protecting gays? how about enhanced penalties for those who victimized old people? How about those pro-abortion folks who assaulted the peaceful anti-abortion protesters outside of an abortion clinic? How about teachers who are assaulted because a “student” really hates his teachers? How about the school shooter who takes a gun to school and murders his classmates because of his “HATE”? How about the gang member who shoots up a house because a member of a rival gang (who he of course, hates) lives there?
4. So - doesn’t all crime involve some form of hate? If we loved one another - then we would not commit crimes against each other...
The truth is - hate crimes legislation is 100% a tool to silence views that are contrary to the liberal worldview.
Ron Paul for POTUS!
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Good for Ron Paul. I’m not going to vote for him in the primary, but I respect him for this.
No? Then what they heck do we need hate crime laws for?
But...but...Ron Paul is a Libertarian kook, he always votes no...this can’t be < /Paul haters >
We can’t win against terrorism unless we put a stop to the machine that generates and approves stupid, unconstitutional legislation, be it anti-hate thought or cutting off military funding. It’s all linked.
Again, worthwhile hate crimes laws do not create new crimes -- and that's my chief objection to HR 1592. It creates whole new federal offenses. Under local and state hate crimes laws, someone who's beaten up leaving a gay bar and someone who's beaten up leaving a sports bar would have their crimes investigated by the same cops and tried in the same courts. Under this bill, the people who beat up the guy outside the gay bar could be investigated by the FBI and tried in federal court.
So while I don't agree with the first amendment "tought police" argument, this is clearly an overreach into areas of criminal law that are properly, constitutionally, left to the states.
Basing one's argument on a foundation that has been completely destroyed, at the behest of both Parties, is not a good idea.
SARCASM!!!