Hate Crimes and Liberalism

On January 6th 2007 a Tennessee couple went out for dinner and a movie at a friend's house.

They would never make it.

Instead they were assaulted, sodomized, tortured and mutiliated for 4 days before being killed and then burned.

The assailants were a gang of four African American men and one woman.

Given the horrific nature of this crime you would think it would garner national media attention.

Instead, the media focused on stories like the Duke Lacrosse case and later the so called "Jena 6" in Louisiana.
But you see there is a catch.

The victims, Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian where white, and as every good liberal knows only "minorities" can be the victims of hate crimes.

Where I wondered, were the crusading activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to help and console the victims families?

Where was the FBI Hate Crimes Unit to collect evidence?

The ACLU was coincidentally too busy that week to bother.

After all, arguing for the legalization of Child Pornogrophy, and suing public universites to install Muslim foot baths while conversely attacking Chrisitan worship in public is difficult work. They can't be expected to intervene in something so trivial as racially motivated gang violence.

They can still help though, perhaps they can organize a fundraiser to pay for the murderers defense team!

The whole thing made me wonder, what is a hate crime?

The answer is a series of laws designed to give minorities special rights and protection under our Federal judicial system.

But just like affirmative action these laws actually encourage more racism by endorsing the idea that people should be treated differently based on race.

The result being that when a white couple is viciously attacked, tortured and murdered by a black gang it is not considered a hate crime.

But imagine the uproar if the same thing had been done by a white gang to a black woman, hispanic or any other racial minority.

The truth is that everyone should be treated and punished equally based on the severity of their crime.

Did Timothy McVeigh or the unabomber "hate" the goverment when they bombed and killed people?

Did the VT Tech killer "hate" the students on the campus that he murdered?

Why would we not use hate crime legislation in these cases as well?

RICO statutes can and have been used to prosecute racist criminal organizations.

Premediated crimes should all be prosecuted under the same criteria.

And if not, then these laws should be extended to everyone.