From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 17:45:29 MST
> I could do some research, but off the top of my head there was a case
> across the river in White River Junction, VT just a couple months ago
> where a black police officer was called n_____ by a drunk woman he
> arrested for D&D. At the station he also pressed charges for a hate
> crime, and won in court over her innocent plea. The woman insisted she
> never used such language when sober and did not conciously intend to use
> that epithet.
Sounds fair enough to me. Drugs/alcohol shouldn't get you out of social
responsibility, especially when voluntarily self administered.
> Given that drugs like alcohol act to suppress the ego and
> allow the id more liberties (i.e. reduces inhibitions) this is as close
> to a thought crime as I think it is possible to go.
id? Isn't that a games development company? Why are you spouting Freud on
the cusp of the 21st century?
Really, it's not a thought crime at all. She really said it, the real
person.
> Its tantamount to
> putting a right wing republican under the influence of sodium pentathol
> and asking them if they'd like to off Pres. Clinton if given the
> opportunity, then charging them with violation of federal law.
>
If the right wing republican took sodium pentathol of his/her own accord,
then wandered up to a policeman and told them that he/she would like to kill
the President, the analogy would be more accurate.
Emlyn
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