GOP attempts to BURN FREEDOM for political gain

[fossten]

In NO WAY does hate crime legislation attempt to "police" your thoughts. It is the point of time when those thoughts cross the line into ACTION where hate crime legislation kicks in. [who measures that point of time? YOU? Is there some sort of meter or device that can detect that? Hmmm?]

Did I hear somewhere that you were studying to be a lawyer??? :bowrofl: :runaway: :facesjump :bowrofl: :runaway: :facesjump

Good luck!

Boy do you really need a brain transplant.

HATE CRIME: A DEFINITION

Generally speaking, a hate crime is:

a criminal act or attempted act
against a person, institution, or property
that is motivated in whole or in part by the offender's bias against a
race,
color,
religion,
gender,
ethnic/national origin group,
disability status, or
sexual orientation group.

The part in bold is sometimes substituted with the words "because of."

The problem with "because of" is that there's really no way to judge exactly what someone was thinking while they were committing a crime. The only way to call something a hate crime is for a group of subjective, human people on a jury to GUESS at it. That involves subjective thinking and violates the principle of Justice being blind and impartial.

Hate crimes attempt to regulate thought because they attempt to impose higher penalties for what someone was thinking, over and above the usual punishment for the crime. That is not only policing thought, it is punishing thought, and that is completely contrary to the freedoms of this country.

Let's get real here, Johnny. We all know that if it were published in the newspaper what you thought about every day, the Secret Service would have wrestled you to the ground by now. The only reason you are still a free "man" is because there are no laws against what you think. Hate crime legislation is an attempt to attach a thought-policing codicil to existing law.

*owned*

 

[biglou71]

Yet you want to make it a crime to non-violently express free speech? What a bunch of double-standard, hypocritical load of conservative pussy crap.

Nope, Im just using my limited liberal thinking paterns. Burning flags offends me, Therefore it must be banned. Afterall, in America today if something is offensive it gets banned or you can be sued over it.

But I guess that rule doesnt apply to me since I am a middle class heterosexual white male eh? I think that eliminates all the favored classes of the self loathing liberal elitists.