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CSPAN: Hate Crimes bill explained

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
This is Rep. Louie Gohmert explains how the Hate Crimes Act will create special groups that will be protected (including pedophiles), while opening up Ministers, Imams etc to criminal charges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmp-mZ_ZOkw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcreatingorwellianworld-view-alaphiah.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fs-909-547-democrats-obama666.html&feature=player_embedded
 

Mike

Well-known member
I heard some argument about whether to allow pedophiles under the auspices of the hate crime bill. Was ridiculous..............

Personally, I think the whole thing is silly. We have enough crime laws on the books.........Just enforce the ones we have. :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
These Democrats should have been tested on their knowledge of the First Amendment, equal protection of the laws (14th Amendment), and the prohibition of double jeopardy (no American can be prosecuted twice for the same crime or offense). If they had been, they would have known that this proposal, now headed for a Senate vote, violates all these constitutional provisions.

This bill would make it a federal crime to willfully cause bodily injury (or try to) because of the victim's actual or PERCEIVED "race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability" — as explained on the White House Web site, signaling the president's approval. A defendant convicted on these grounds would be charged with a "hate crime" in addition to the original crime, and would get EXTRA prison time.


The extra punishment applies only to these "protected classes." As Denver criminal defense lawyer Robert J Corry Jr. asked (Denver Post April 28): "Isn't every criminal act that harms another person a 'hate crime'? Then, regarding a Colorado "hate crime" law, one of 45 such state laws, Corry wrote: "When a Colorado gang engaged in an initiation ritual of specifically seeking out a "white woman" to rape, the Boulder prosecutor declined to pursue 'hate crime' charges." She was not enough of one of its protected classes.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff050609.php3?printer_friendly
 
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