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Re: Re: Hate Crime Legislation
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Originally posted by BBtB
Are you really? Thats so cool.
I also think hate crimes are totally bogus. [...] I think we are making a large assumption to say that everyone who kills someone else of a differn't race, because of race or whatever, did it for the sole reason to scare other people of said race.
In the end my opposition to hate crime laws boils down to two things. First, they are completly unnecessary. I mean what are we going to do? Kill them twice? I mean if all we did was unforce current laws we would be fine. We will in no way help the seperation of the races by staying that the death of a black man by a white man is some how more "Bad" then that same white man killing another white man. Secondly, even if I was to approve of them as a whole I would still have to be against them because of the ease of misuse of them (I.E. Anytime any body of another race kills someone else or kills a gay man it will be a hate crime)
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No offense, but there is some ignorance of the way police do business here. Police never assume that 'anytime anybody of another race kills someone else' it is automatically a hate crime. This comes out from the nature of the crime, confessions of the defendant, witness statements, etc. Intent is something quite hard to prove, right up there with pre-meditation, no matter how easy it looks on Law & Order. So please don't assume that these sort of killings will be somehow 'rubber-stamped' through the judicial process because of a labelling of 'hate-crime'.
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