Fine. Let them try to terrorists in federal court. But try them for federal hate crimes, as they should, if they are not too craven to avoid making the charge (they will be too craven, of course).

So long as we have hate crimes laws on the books, they need to be applied with some pretense towards objectivity, right? Disturbing comments by our Attorney General aside, the powers-that-be of the hate crimes movement promised us that these laws would apply to all incidents of hate, no matter the victim. Or the offender. Only the bias will count, they told us. All bias will count, they claimed (except towards women, and white men, it has turned out in practice). This will not be a bill revisiting historical prejudices, but fighting prejudices that arise today, they said.

So why aren’t the 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 being counted as victims of ethnic/nationality based hate?

Why aren’t those 3,000 memorialized in the all-important hate crimes statistics, the raison d’etre for the entire movement?

Except, because the last thing the hate crime activists want to admit is that hating Americans is the most dangerous, virulent form of hatred — by a gap of thousands of lives — threatening innocent people in our country today.