Eminent Domain Stuff
New London Update (2/24/06)
Bad NLDC!
Coverage of the Rally at New London's City Hall (w/ pics)
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Satanist Beaten...
...and the beaters might be charged with a hate crime. Ok, so we're going to make up this thing called 'hate crime' to protect those that PCism demands we pay special attention to. Well, were does it end?
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"If the accusation was that he was black or Asian or Latino or Jewish, it's one thing," he said. "They see this as a religious practice. It's a dispute between kids, the same way you have the nerds, the jocks, the artsy kids and the teacher's pets. What's next? Someone being accused of attacking a preppie, or a nerd?"The second part of that question is great, it asks where does this stop?. However, the first part simply takes as a matter of course that attacking a "black or Asian or Latino or Jewish" individual is somehow more hateful than attacking, oh I don't know, ME. Calling any attack a 'hate crime' implies that other crime is less hateful. This is not something that a fair and open-minded society does.
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