71 Year-Old Grandmother Faces Life for Cane Attack

[ElNono]

On one hand:

Penalty-enhancement hate crime laws are traditionally justified on the grounds that, in Chief Justice Rehnquist's words, "this conduct is thought to inflict greater individual and societal harm.... bias-motivated crimes are more likely to provoke retaliatory crimes, inflict distinct emotional harms on their victims, and incite community unrest."

On the other:

Although there are fewer hate crimes directed against white people than against other groups, they do occur and are prosecuted. In fact, the case in which the Supreme Court upheld hate crimes legislation against First Amendment attack, Wisconsin v. Mitc , 508 U.S. 476 (1993), involved a white victim. Hate crime statistics published in 2002, gathered by the FBI under the au es of the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990, do ented over 7,000 hate crime incidents, in roughly one-fifth of which the victims were white people. However, these statistics have caused dispute. The FBI's hate crimes statistics for 1993, which similarly reported 20% of all hate crimes to be committed against white people, prompted Jill Tregor, executive director of Intergroup Clearinghouse, to decry it as "an abuse of what the hate crime laws were intended to cover", stating that the white victims of these crimes were employing hate crime laws as a means to further penalize minorities.

[Wild Cobra]

Admit it: you're not a big reader. Not on this forum. You expose yourself nearly every time.

You're almost as bad as DarrinS, but your excuses are much funnier. So hats off for that . .

If you want to believe that.

I come strait out when I jump near the end of a thread, or don't read long linked material. What you are accusing me of is flat out wrong. I went through and read this thread from the start. I don't know why your panties are in a bunch, or do you wish not to admit you jump to conclusions?

[Wild Cobra]

look, I can believe you read a little bit WC but goddamn. you don't even read the you post sometimes.

Actually, I understand why people may think that. I will sometimes post material that appears to say differently than the point I'm making. I guess you guys just don't see the material I do within such pieces.

[Winehole23]

my bad, WC. I was feeling uber cranky last night for some reason.

[Blake]

cranky crime

[Woo Bum-kon]

Some people just can't control their tempers.

[Winehole23]

welcome to politics