| Re: Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland
Tom Keats wrote:
> As I understand it, "hate crime"/anti-hate laws were drawn-up
> to deal with KKK rabble disturbing peaceful neighbourhoods,
> incitors publishing & distributing propaganda with intent
> to stir-up hateful passions, vandals destructively targeting
> and desecrating places of worship & religion-specific cemeteries,
> and violent gay-bashers.
I don't think so. AFAIK, the KKK has always been able to
march pretty much where it wants to as a basic freedom of
speech.
Currently, there is a low down sleazy group that goes to
funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and demonstrate within
sight of the service itself with some pretty nasty signs.
So far, freedom of speech rights are protecting them from
any sort of prosecution.
I think they're more the result of a perhaps well intentioned
effort to penalize racist sentiment. How it is being used
as far as I've seen is ridiculous and may actually be promoting
racist thinking to some degree, because I too have noticed
that it always seems to be applied against Whites by a
victimized minority, whereas minority on white crime is just
considered crime.
Haven't seen any real statistics on it though. I do know
most Black crime is directed hugely towards fellow Blacks,
not Whites (which is natural since crime is largely a local
thing).
SMH
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