What really bothers me about hate crimes is that you have to be a total victim before you get any benefit of the law. If you aren’t beaten to the point of spending a long time in the hospital or killed, then it doesn’t seem to be a hate crime. How nice that you can enjoy at leisure as you recuperate, if you do, the thought that the little schmuck that tried to kill you was punished more severely because it was a hate crime /snark.
Love this article. If more people would learn to and be capable of defending themselves, then the little perps would be a lot less likely to inflict the damage they do. All hate crimes do is increase the penalty and in most cases they are plea bargained away. Useless laws except to the liberals who can pat themselves on the backs that they are doing so much for this or that minority – and that is something that I as a gay man am more than sick of. If they were truly interested in the gay community they would be trying to figure out a way to get rid of DADT without damaging either side of the issue. It didn’t bother me that I DADT the whole time I was a sergeant in the Army and with a security clearance to boot but not all are able to subliminate that part. I wish I had not had to but it was the law and I worked within it. I have yet to see any of our liberal lawmakers actually do anything to solve the issue although they tell us every election they will, but what else is new.
