'hate crimes' are phony PC left wing bs

[eagle7_31]

Blog: 'Hate crimes' are 'thought crimes'

 

[DiamondDave]

I'll accept a 'hate crime' when they show me a corresponding 'kindness crime'

The racial aspect or 'hate' aspect can go to show motive, etc... but it does not change the crime

Murder is murder, assault is assault, robbery is robbery, rape is rape

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

American Thinker?

You’ve got to be kidding.

Otherwise, Leo Pusateri succeeds in only exhibiting his own ignorance of the law, and the ignorance of conservatives who agree with him.

Laws authorizing enhanced sentencing with regard to crimes motivated by race, gender, religion, etc, are Constitutional and do not constitute a ‘thought crime,’ nor do they violate the right to free expression:

The First Amendment…does not prohibit the evidentiary use of speech to establish the elements of a crime or to prove motive or intent. Evidence of a defendant's previous declarations or statements is commonly admitted in criminal trials subject to evidentiary rules dealing with relevancy, reliability, and the like.

Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 47 (1993).

 

[eagle7_31]

I'll accept a 'hate crime' when they show me a corresponding 'kindness crime'

The racial aspect or 'hate' aspect can go to show motive, etc... but it does not change the crime

Murder is murder, assault is assault, robbery is robbery, rape is rape

Exactly.

 

[eagle7_31]

American Thinker?

You’ve got to be kidding.

Otherwise, Leo Pusateri succeeds in only exhibiting his own ignorance of the law, and the ignorance of conservatives who agree with him.

Laws authorizing enhanced sentencing with regard to crimes motivated by race, gender, religion, etc, are Constitutional and do not constitute a ‘thought crime,’ nor do they violate the right to free expression:

The First Amendment…does not prohibit the evidentiary use of speech to establish the elements of a crime or to prove motive or intent. Evidence of a defendant's previous declarations or statements is commonly admitted in criminal trials subject to evidentiary rules dealing with relevancy, reliability, and the like.

Wisconsin v. Mitchell, 508 U.S. 47 (1993).

If the person intended with forethought to visit bodily harm resulting in the death of an innocent person for reasons not related to self defense, that perpetrator committed murder. Period. It is immaterial whether the perp is a racist or whether the perp is Mother Teresa.

Anything beyond that is pure bs


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[American_Jihad]

Eric Holder, Hate Crimes and Double Standards

November 11, 2013 By Colin Flaherty

Attorney General Holder seems determined to prove his chief critic, J. Christian Adams, right.

Adams is the former Justice Department lawyer who told Congress that the Attorney General treated cases of racial bias against white people with “open contempt.”

Most famously, Adams noted the case of electoral intimidation against two members of the New Black Panther Party who brandished weapons and issued threats at a Philadelphia polling booth the day Barack Obama was elected president.

This is the same New Black Panther Party that issued a $10,000 reward for the capture of George Zimmerman, dead or alive, for murder of Trayvon Martin. The same party leaders who said they wanted to mobilize 10,000 black men to bring Zimmerman to justice.

One of the 10,000 men, apparently, is Holder. Holder recently told several national news outlets he was still trying to figure out how to indict Zimmerman for hate crimes

Even though local, state and federal official have been trying to do just that for more than two years – before and after Zimmeman’s acquittal.

...

Some are hate crimes because they use the language hate crime laws require. Some are not, but are still explicitly racial. Either way, it is a target rich environment for a Justice Department that so far, seems oddly unwilling to follow federal hate crime laws — if that is, the victims are white.

And the perpetrators are black.

Just like Christian Adams said.

Eric Holder, Hate Crimes and Double Standards | FrontPage Magazine