Reply #47: Agreed - a dangerous precedent [View All]

[Robson]

Honestly, I don't have mixed emotions at all on hate crime laws. I oppose them and see them making one class of citizenry as more important than another. That is not the way this country is supposed to operate under equal protection.

Law enforcement resources are finite and such laws will take investigative resources away other "more mundane" hate crimes to enforce crimes against those defined as special classes. Furthermore how does one determine the motive and thought process behind any crime without having the ability to read minds? It is a dangerous precedent.

We should punish all crime as appropriate. I agree that the rich are given prefential treatment and minorities, poor and the middle class are often shortchanged. The only class that regularly is given preferential treatment are celebrities and wealthy.