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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 10:10:09 AM   
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You might have missed the wonderful hate crime thread earlier this year....Here is the problem with your way of thinking....It would mean tht every crime would be punishable the same....Defiling a church or a mosque...Or writng some offensive racial slur on someone's garage would just be considered to be petty vandalism...When in fact the perp is waging a much deeper battle than the kid who blows up Old Lady Hagerty's mailbox with a M-80.

Capiche?

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 10:12:14 AM   
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And I guess we can just ignore Hillary Clinton's remark to Dick Morris; "you no good fucking Jew!"
"Hate speech? Hillary Clinton? "Nah!"

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 10:19:55 AM   
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Your post makes no sense.

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 10:44:51 AM   
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Last night i saw the perfect example of misuse of the hate crimes law. This was a UK TV show much like " Cops ".  In Bradford UK, a town with a high Muslim population, four drunken white guys were caught on CCTV in the town square hurling abuse at passing Asians. Eventually a group of Asians turned on the guys and beat them up. ( Ok the baseball bat was a little over the top )  The guys flagged down a cop car and reported the beatings, the cop told them that 4 guys had been seen on CCTV and they fitted the descriptions of those hurling abuse but he would investihate and report it as a hate crime.
Here is the rub, the Asians will be charged with such, even though they were clearly provoked into the action. No way would this be fair. The white guys got what they deserved.

No one has answered my earlier post that if the girl was already seeing the guy, the attack was most likely revenge motivated and not racially motivated.

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 10:58:50 AM   
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Argo:

It appears from here that you are against the death penalty.  How can you sympathize with this scum?

It`s not the scum I`m identifying with.It`s the innocent men and women,on death row and who have already been exicuted.
Google around a little,and you`ll see case after case of mis-justice and wrongful prosicution.
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What kind of evil must lurk in your heart to oppose justice? 
Why I are you concerned about their rights.  Us freedom loving Americans have nothing to fear.  Oh, just maybe we can get it wrong and convict an innocent man?
 
  Yup,happens all the time.Unless you`re willing to forfeit your own life,when an innocent man is executed,you have no place commenting of the death penalty,and it`s illogical,problematic nature.
 
  Well, unless you or the government can read thoughts 100% of the time with 100% accuracy, isn't it possible you could get a hate-crime conviction wrong? 
 
  It`s only in death penalty cases,that 100 % accuracy is necessary.Death is 100% permanent.
Criminalizing thought requires an omnicient judge - someone who knows at the time of the crime what a person was thinking and feeling.  If you can't do that, you have no grounds for passing judgement. 
 
Nope,jurys and judges do it all the time,and aren`t gifted or all-knowing.If something can`t be proven,or isn`t known,it doesn`t get presented in court,and really doesn`t count.


ORIGINAL: Owner59
Can I get some clear answers?Something w/ some meat on it?

Is it a gut reaction,that`s hard to explain?Or something more concrete.Is it that you also want to hate,and don`t want gov.interference?


I could throw you a side of beef and you still couldn't get the meat I think.  We have handed you many many reasons, all of which you fail to comprehend. 

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I`d prefer answers and debate ,over personal comments and fluff.
But,that`s just me.


LOL I literally laughed out loud when I read this.  Let's find some of your greatest non-fluff non-personal comments:
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Are we going to have the usual upset ,and ranting by conservitives,that charging them w/ a hate crime is  "thought policing",and somehow,"un-fair"? It`s usually scum like this,that get all the simpathy from anti-hate crime crowd.

Did I ask anyone personally?
Did I say this in a reply to someones post?
Or did I just throw out a question,for whoever wanted to respond?

I don`t believe that calling republicans,neo-cons,anti-Constitutionalists,ditto-heads and cool-aid drinkers, on their shit, is getting personal.If someone wishes to associate with them,well then you`re kind`a on there "team",so to speak.
and you end up being an oppolgist for the worst president in American history,or defending 5 hooker scandles,in DC,or "Scooter Libby`s treachery,and bush`s colution in "Plamegate".If you can`t stand the heat,get out of the kitchen.(neo-cons,...you can just get the fuck out)

 
Not once did you say neo-conservative in all of your little snarky comments above.  But, that's fine.  You hate neo-conservatives.  That's cool.  

 
Samantics...call me guilty,I`ll plede no-constest.
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Nope, it was an attempt to be clever though.  Sorry it didn't work with you.  I always need to remember the audience, I guess.
 
Small request: Could you make sense?btw,the two ?`s,were because the comment didn`t make sense.Re-read it.Now this comment is not thought out.What gives?
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Aye, that be the rub right there.  It is just yet another example of the loss of freedom in America,
 
   Nope,once you`re doing crimes,you lose your right to hate,IMO.Of course, Americans who are convicts,by law,don`t have all the rights law abiding citizen`s have.
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and folks like you don't seem to care. 


  Well,not entirely true.I have no problem with the level of freedom that  the KKK has.Dave Duke,John Birchers,CCC members,the gay haters,white supremacists,nazis,neo-nazis,Nation of Islam types,the lunatic fringe ,Ann Coulter,all have the right to spread hate and malice,  fear and loathing,all they want.
Through the web,in print,on TV,where ever they can get an audience.And I would die for their rights to say those ugly,disease ridden thoughts,though I don`t agree w/ them.
 
It`s when hate speech is involved in a crime,that it crosses the line.
 
For example,one can spew hate for a lifetime,and be un-molested.
But if you insight someone to kill,or something less,btw,you are now liable.
 
Thoughts,words,....  do count.Google  Tom Metzger. Though you may feel justified,you wittingly or un wittingly are saying that Metzger shouldn`t be in jail.

Could you square that,for me?

 
   As long as it is happening to someone else - aka 'that scum' - why should we care?  Why should we care that they torture terrorists, what freedoms have we Americans lost?  THey are the worst scum alive, so it's ok.

 
 It`s not ok to torture terrorists, for a number of reasons.
 
1st off,it doesn`t work.Some of the main intel that bush used to justify the Iraq invasion,came from a tortured prisoner,we had "renditioned "to Egypt.And the info was bogus.The guy was eventually released,or escaped(can`t remember).and said he would have said anything,to stop the torture.After weeks of being tortured in Egypt(on our behalf),the guy learned what answers were affective at stopping the torture.
 
 
2nd,is the morality and the Geneva Conventions.They also protect our soldiers,as well as our enemy POWs.When bush threw out the treaty,he doomed our soldiers to possible torture.That`s why the army made a fuss over it,when bush withdrew us from the treaty."Quaint",was the neo-cons description of the Geneva Conventions.

The 3rd reason we don`t torture,is we become what we`re fighting against.That`s a tough concept for supper patriots/neo-cons to comprehend.
Still,that`s true all the same.



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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 11:17:24 AM   
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OK, I give up.  Criminalize thought, have fun with it.  I think you are wrong, and I just hope that more people realize that it is wrong before it is too late.  Obviously, you are one of those people that feels it is ok to give up on freedoms as long as we are really socking it to them bad old boogie men.  Regardless of how exactly 'hate' is defined, or whether it systematically sets up classes of individuals who are more protected than others, whether you can never really prove hate, any of that. I will not be able to change your mind.  You are against the death penalty because you might put to death an innocent man.  Great, same here.  But at the same time you have no problem adding years onto a sentence for something that you cannot prove - thought and emotion.  Hate is an ugly, ugly human emotion.  Hate speech is an outpouring of that emotion. But hate speech in and of itself should not be illegal.  As much as we may hate the message, unfortunately it is our burden to deal with the crap for the greater good of a free society.  And if it is said in the commission of the crime, so what??? 

I need to really clarify, because I thought it was funny, and it gave me a chuckle.  When you responded:
"?? <chuckles>  Is that an attempt to be cleaver?"

I said nope, I was trying to be clever.  LOL get it?  Ugh.  My brain hurts. Gonna take a pass on this thread from now on. 

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 11:59:00 AM   
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And I guess we can just ignore Hillary Clinton's remark to Dick Morris; "you no good fucking Jew!"
"Hate speech? Hillary Clinton? "Nah!"


I wouldn`t give any credence to what Fox News contributor/whore monger,Dick Morris has to say.

I don`t think Hillary said that.

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 12:04:22 PM   
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Your post makes no sense.



Popeye`s just a little upset that the republicans,are getting beat up,by a girl.lol

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/14/2007 1:50:02 PM   
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Your post makes no sense.



Popeye`s just a little upset that the republicans,are getting beat up,by a girl.lol


Owner, that would be impossable.
I'm an "equal opportunity hater", I despise the Republicans just as much as I do the Democrats.
Any casualty to either of those two partys is welcomed by me!

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/15/2007 7:21:02 PM   
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quote:

1st off, thank you for the polite and thought filled reply.


You’re quite welcome. I hope I have a repeat performance.

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I don`t think so.A racist can rant and spew all over the place all they want,and they do,with full protection from our Constitution.
It`s when that is mixed with crime,that it goes over the line.

You can`t yell "FIRE" in a crowded room (unless there really is a fire)legally.
Words that incite violece(hate speech),or cause a riot,or a deadly stampede,are not acceptable.

I think we(the US),strikes the right ballance,between a racist`s rights to spew hate,and our rights to be protected from the harm those words cause.


Point taken but I would contend that speech, while it may be an expression of thought, is an action. So speech that incites violence is an action that is inciting violence

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Unless the bigots and thug racists are going to take over,this really isn`t a concern for me.


I’m not sure they haven’t. That aside, it is a philosophical belief of mine (this one heavily influenced by Frank Herbert) that the only constant is change and therefore every power must ultimately fall to a greater power. Sooner or later, somebody else always takes over.

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Not completely true.The gov. recognizes that there are certain groups that are more vulnerable than others.Old folks,children,religious folks and people who are singled out because of race,creed,religious preference,etc.This is not out of the norm.


I’m not disputing that society does place more value on some people than others, only whether it should. It is true that some people are more vulnerable to violence than others and your underlying argument seems to be, "hurt anybody and we’ll punish you, hurt anybody in these particular groups and we’ll punish you even harder." I understand the motivation. Any time I hear about some sick fuck raping and killing a child my blood boils and I briefly forget that I am against the death penalty. My contention is that we should use the "punish you even harder" standard for the murderers of all victims.

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What if a life isn`t taken?What if someone`s cripled or maimed,or loses a limb? Or beat up,and slabed,and raped?Like the poor child,mentioned in the OP.


Same principle applies. There is a penalty attached to the crime and it shouldn’t matter if the victim is young or old, etc.

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What`s the big deal,about giving the scum,more jail time?
Please,I`m truly interested to know.Whats the rub,here?Why are people(ok,some conservatives) so concerned,with criminals?


I can’t speak for the conservatives (or the liberals for that matter) but in my case it is not concern for the criminal but rather concern for a principle. Do people have a right to their own thoughts? If a right doesn’t apply to everybody then it is not a right – it is a privilege.

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I so agree with that. These blood thirsty conservatives,wouldn`t give an ounce of faith in government.But they are so fucking sure they can figure out who killed who,and what the truth is,in death penalty cases.


Ya know, I’m beginning to suspect that you don’t like conservatives.

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/15/2007 9:33:25 PM   
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Did you see those ugly M...r F.....rs?
They look like the Beverly Hillbillies ugly cousins.


well, rampant incest usually doesn't result in beautiful (or none too bright) people lol.

Getting back to the OP, I have a couple things to say.  I am a native West Virginian, born and raised just a few counties north of Logan County where this happened.  I happen to know that the ignornant stereotypes that group all poverty-striken, trailer-dwelling rural white folks together as vicious racists are bullshit.  I don't believe that this attack was even racially motivated as from all I've read, the couple dated for quite awhile.  Somehow I doubt that was all some elaborate ruse of some kind.  The guy obviously had no racial issue with his black girlfriend.

What they did was horrible and they all seem to have quite the criminal background.  That's the problem.  Not that they are "ugly" or look the "cousins" of the "Beverly Hillbillies."  There's no indication that these folks or any other typical West Virginian engages in "incest."  Those are thoughtless stereotypes that reflect the exact ignorance and bigotry that everyone is trying to say these folks are full of.  Their looks and social status have nothing to do with what they did.  Please don't assume that just because they're poor, rural, and "ugly" that they are incestuous or typical of other West Virginians.  Somehow I don't think that if they were poor blacks living in a housing project that the same type of slurs would be leveled at them.  Racism and bigotry works both ways folks...............luci

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/15/2007 10:45:54 PM   
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Well Sha-ZAA-AM!"
I just got "Jethro'd!"
Luci, I'll have to go out by the cee-ment pond and do me some CYFRIN' about that there fancy talkin!"

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RE: Police mull hate crime charges in WV attack - 9/16/2007 3:15:31 AM   
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Well Sha-ZAA-AM!"
I just got "Jethro'd!"
Luci, I'll have to go out by the cee-ment pond and do me some CYFRIN' about that there fancy talkin!"
 
As usual, Popeye, your sense of humor makes the things you say so much more palatable even if I do disagree totally.   I know you see my point and I'm sure you also know that I meant no disrespect toward you or prop.  I guess it's just one of my big pet peeves and a sore spot since I've lived a lifetime hearing the people and home state I love diminished by the incorrect perceptions of people who don't really know anything at all about either of them.  Plus, it just ticks me off that these fools just happen to be poor white, holler-livin' folks because then people all over the country jump to the conclusions that that's "typical" behavior for a bunch of backwoods inbreds.  Not at all.  All of the backwoods folks I know and love aren't cruel or inbred at all.  These people are aberrations and not at all representative of the race or social class they happen to be members of.  That's all I'm sayin'.  Thanks for the smile.............luci

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