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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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Byron York, writing in the Washington Examiner:
Nothing, except that the National Defense Authorization Act, which will win final passage in Congress and be sent to the president’s desk this week, also contains the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which Democrats placed inside the defense measure over Republican objections.
The crime bill — which would broaden the protected classes for hate crimes to include sexual orientation and “gender identity,” which the bill defines as a victim’s “actual or perceived gender-related characteristics” — passed the House earlier this year as a stand-alone measure. But it’s never had the votes to succeed by itself in the Senate. So over the summer Democrats, with the power of their 60-vote majority, attached it to the defense bill.
Republicans argued that the two measures had nothing to do with each other. Beyond that, GOP lawmakers feared the new bill could infringe on First Amendment rights in the name of preventing broadly defined hate crimes. The bill’s critics, including many civil libertarians, argued that the hate crimes provision could chill freedom of speech by empowering federal authorities to accuse people of inciting hate crimes, even if the speech in question was not specifically related to a crime.
All of which gives me cause to wonder…
…what if the bill passes, and then the hardcore left-wingers persist in referring to tea party attendees as “teabaggers”? It has become quite a common practice of late. When you belong to the more adorable political party it seems you can be just as homophobic as you want, in front of as many people as you want, as often as you want. So that would all change right? Or am I just being silly and naive?
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Silly man, hate crimes only apply to white men, as long as they are not Democrats
- pdwalker | 10/13/2009 @ 09:43Show me a “love” crime, fer chrissakes!
Murder is murder. Plunder is plunder. Assault is assault. Who does these things out of love for their victims.
No, these are laws that can later be used to prosecute political enemies.
Like, suppose Gay Marriage gets legally called “Marriage”. Well, on the one hand, bug whup. On the other hand, if someone refuses to call it marriage or accept it as a marriage and says so or denies those persons access to some product or service he proffers to married folks — it opens all kinds of legal opportunities for persecuting those with politically incorrect views.
Since our public schools teach what is law in the “secular” state, and to the secular state, law is legitimacy, law is morality … what and how are you to teach your children your values?
Hate crimes my ass.
- philmon | 10/13/2009 @ 15:48I remember that everything said by a conservative against some militant homosexual (or member of some other protected class) is supposedly “hate” rather than valid criticism.
When the Larry Craig scandal broke, and it looked like some Republican senator was trolling for gay sex in an airport bathroom, however, suddenly the cry from the left was….
“Looks like we gots us a HOMO! Somebody get a rope!”
Filthy hypocrites.
- cylarz | 10/14/2009 @ 21:36[…] SO WHAT DOES a Hate Crimes Bill Have to Do With Defense? …. […]
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