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Originally posted by geep
I think that it's interesting that the supporters of hate crime legislation are usually critics of anti-terrorist legislation. Isn't terrorism a hate crime? Wasn't Moussaui planning a hate crime? Would he get the same attention from the ACLU if he were planning to bomb a Baptist church?
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I'm no defender of the ACLU (a favorite conservative punching bag), but the problem with your point is that hate crime legislation is about beefing up punishments. I'm all for anti-terrorist legislation that has longer, harsher sentences, but where I draw the line is when it starts infringing on basic human rights like due process and habeus corpus.
Big Difference.
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