From Hate Crimes To Domestic Terrorism

By Kleinheider Posted on July 29, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Aunt B. has put the whole “hate crimes” debate to rest:

Pushing for “hate crime” legislation means we end up having to have these idiotic discussions about how all crime is based in “hate” and that punishing people for committing a hate crime is somehow tantamount to punishing them for their thoughts which is somehow different than any other case in which people pass judgment on why you commit a crime in order to figure out what you should be charged with. And frankly I’m tired of listening to the whining and the crying and the pissing and the moaning.

Click here for the final solution.

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A First Amendment Issue

By Kleinheider Posted on at 7:50 am

Katie Allison Granju seems to think that we should punish people for their thoughts:

The idea that hate crimes are not a real, distinct, particularly heinous type of criminal act is especially disturbing in post 9-11 America, where we should be even more grateful for and protective of our liberties. As that bastion of liberal philisophy, the FBI points out, “groups that preach hatred and intolerance plant the seeds of terrorism here in our country.”

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Tags: Are sociopaths even capable of "hate"?, First Amendment, Hate crime, thought crimes