AG Holder urges new hate crimes law

Associated Press ^ | June 16, 2009 | DEVLIN BARRETT

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder says recent violent attacks show the need for a tougher hate crimes law.

Holder, speaking Tuesday at a luncheon for civil rights lawyers, noted the recent killings of an abortion doctor in Kansas, a soldier in Little Rock, and a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

He called the attacks brazen acts committed in once-unthinkable places, and said it is past time for Congress to strengthen hate crimes laws to prosecute violence based on gender, disability, or sexual orientation.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[exist]

I hate that guy.

[madison10]

Oh, shut up, Holder.

[skeeter]

If hate were indeed a crime, Eric Holder is guilty as sin.

[OCCASparky]

Funny, your fellow ‘Rats in Congress didn’t seem to feel it was appropriate to give our men and women in uniform those same protections. Wonder why, Eric?

[RexBeach]

What? Like a new law to prevent assaulting gypsies?

Dance, gypsy, dance!

[lula]

ALL crimes are “hate” crimes....Do you think they commit them because they love you????? When are we going to stop this idiocy?

[phormer phrog phlyer]

Liberal Solution to all problems make more laws, that will stop the already criminal behavior.

[Servant of the Cross]

Eric, you mean like this "hate crime"?

[avacado]

No mention of the US soldiers shot and one killed by an Islamic radical terrorist!

[shankbear]

This idiot should read the law a bit. There are thousands of laws on the books to take care of criminals who hurt people, kill people, rob people, bugger people and otherwise commit mayhem on people. He wants to make everything race based. That is racist.

[verity]

We desperately need a hate czar.

[goodnesswins]

Didn’t we already get this in the new PERVERTS law?

[handy old one]

Every crime committed has hate as a basis because someone has something you don’t have, or that you want and can’t afford so !!!

[Enoughofthissocialism]

Holder fills me with disgust. I am still incensed that he called America a nation of cowards. HE’S the filthy stinking coward, spewing such a slur while hiding behind government power and protection of his worthless little hummingbird a$$.

I’d like to challenge him to a duel, but since he is only half a man I could only challenge him to half a duel.

[a fool in paradise]

This from a thug who saw nothing wrong about the New Black Panther thugs with batons intimidating voters at the polls on election day.

Shades of Iran.

[Gator113]

“Rats in Congress didn’t seem to feel it was appropriate to give our men and women in uniform those same protections.”

Excellent response.

Mine might have gotten me into trouble, so I will just say, “ditto”.

[reagandemocrat]

Slow going at the abortion mills, huh Eric?

[highnoon]

Mimes’ really bother me....will they be arrested too??

[GeronL]

A socialist pagan shooter clears the way for more identity politics

[a fool in paradise]

Ayers and Doran hate HATRED of this country and parents in their hearts when they engaged in a terrorist bombing campaign on America.

But the Left defends them and champions them. No investigations of those who pay to bring them in on speaking tours either.

[Puppage]

to strengthen hate crimes laws to prosecute violence based on gender, disability, or sexual orientation

Ok, I'll bite.......which category does the abortion doc fall under?

[Lorianne]

How would a hate crimes law based on gender, disability, or sexual orientation be applied to the George Tiller or William Long murders?

[RexBeach]

You bet.

“Whadayya want?”

“No mimes.”

“When do you want it?”

“Now!!”

Just say “no” to mimes.

[handy old one]

We need to forgive the crimes of the past! SARC//

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Clueless....

[The Toll]

Robbing white folks at gun point is “nothing personal”.

[Cheetahcat]

Go away Holder you racist Loon.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually the reference to Little Rock must mean the soldier killed by the American-born Muslim convert. I’m surprised Holder included that one since the killer didn’t fit into his template of bad guys.

[Gator113]

I just noticed, those are rubber nightsticks.

That’s what the Germans use, or at least they did 30 years ago.

You can hit a guy on the side of the head and in the same blow break his nose. I never tried it, but I suspect it works.

[KarlInOhio]

Holder, speaking Tuesday at a luncheon for civil rights lawyers, noted the recent killings of an abortion doctor in Kansas, a soldier in Little Rock, and a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

All of the "suspects" will be up for either the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Does Holder want to add a few extra volts or a few extra years to those penalties? Maybe the lethal injection can be done with a really dull needle to show that we're serious about hate crimes.

[kingu]

Is there a law against murder? Last time I checked, there was. If the penalty for murder isn't enough, increase the penalty.

This inanity of ‘hate crimes’ just piles on more onto a very simple concept: You commit murder, you get punished. There shouldn't be any special circumstances - my life is of the same value as a policeman, a fireman, a mailman, etc. Is there any evidence that ‘hate crime’ additional penalties do anything to prevent crime? What was that? None?

Let's get to the truth of the matter - this is simply an end run to circumvent freedom of speech. It is to make giving an opposing opinion from the common liberal ideal as being a crime. It is to make the following statement evidence in a future trial: Marriage is for a man and a woman.

It has nothing to do with previous crimes, it has nothing to do with crime prevention, it has everything to do with making everything written and said which does not conform to the extreme liberal ideology a crime.

[VRWCmember]

said it is past time for Congress to strengthen hate crimes laws to prosecute violence based on gender, disability, or sexual orientation.

And why is violence based on those factors any worse than run of the mill violence?

[Anima Mundi]

They have made so many laws that I have started calling them “rules” isntead. Why not make “Envy Crimes” as well and we can note how the leftists promote envy and cause the crimes in their rants.

[Kryptonite]

... killings of an abortion doctor in Kansas, a soldier in Little Rock, and a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
...
prosecute violence based on gender, disability, or sexual orientation

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one has absolutely nothing to do with the other. The recent killings were not based on gender, disability or sexual orientation (i.e., sexual choice).

[a fool in paradise]

There will now be protected professions as well.

Or maybe because he was killed in a apostatic church, it’ll be claimed to be religious discrimination.

[Uncle Hal]

Holder is an idiot.

[rjp2005]

Great - let’s include a hate law against hating Christians!

[dirtboy]

Attorney General Eric Holder says recent violent attacks show the need for a tougher hate crimes law. Holder, speaking Tuesday at a luncheon for civil rights lawyers, noted the recent killings of an abortion doctor in Kansas, a soldier in Little Rock, and a guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

And what do those three perps have in common?

That no stupid federal hate crimes law would have deterred them.

[SERKIT]

Didn't this clown “make his bones” at a law firm that was hired to be defense attorneys for the fine folks visiting Club Gitmo? How did he feel defending jerks who hate America? He continued to defend them when he became Barry's AG and helped release the Gitmo vacationers and return them to the jihad.

[RC2]

How about the “disability” of the administration?

[JrsyJack]

Under Holder a hate crime would be “anything done by someone I disagree with against someone I agree with.”

[freekitty]

Get lost Holder.

[avacado]

Thanks. I read it too fast and missed that.

[Sister_T]

I’ll bet it pained him to even mention the soldier in his demand for “tougher” hate crime laws.

[Bon mots]

I hate that guy.

HATER!
Report to the nearest FEMA re-education camp.

[Oldpuppymax]

Damn right. Nobody should be permitted to express an opinion the left doesn’t agree with!

[Czar]

Holder appears to be the--by now fairly standard--minority bureaucrat; bigoted, chip-on-the-shoulder, hate whitey fan of the Jeremiah Wright/Michelle Obama/Barack Obama view of America.

Like most of the minority whiners, Holder pushes more hate crime legislation because it feeds his ideological appetite and makes it easier for him to intimidate and silence Obama critics while simultaneously punishing loyal American conservatives.

In other words, a perfect Obama appointee who fits in quite well with the rest of his anti-America rat pack.

[Arrowhead1952]

Great - let’s include a hate law against hating Christians!

If we were to force that to be added, I know you'd never hear about a new hate crime law again.

[Nachum]

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