From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 09:56:37 MDT
mail@HarveyNewstrom.com ("Harvey Newstrom") writes:
>My point was that hate-crime laws are not equal-rights laws. They do not
>give extra positive things to minorities. Instead, they give extra negative
>things to criminals. It would be more direct to argue whether criminals
>deserve these harsher sentences rather then to argue whether minorities
>deserve the "perks".
I.e. they could never be used against someone who was merely picketing
scientologists?
The statute that Keith Henson was convicted of violating is a statute
that I would call a hate crime law.
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