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Friday, February 16. 2007

Thought Crime

Good old Moonbattery informed us about HR 254, sponsored by the esteemed Shirley Jackson-Lee. HR 254 proposes to create federal "hate crimes."

HR 254 is creepy. The bill fits right in with the Cultural Marxism piece posted yesterday.

What makes it worse to assault someone for their sexual proclivities than to assault someone just because you hate their guts? The proposed bill, as Moonbattery points out, could be extended to "hate speech" laws, such as they endure in Europe.

For the record, we hate this bill, and we hate the perennially enraged Shirley for having the horrible, oppressive, and idiotic idea. Furthermore, we will hate anything and anybody we feel like, and we will happily say so until someone hauls us off for regrooving.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, Politics at 07:01 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I despise any law that circumvents the Tenth Amendment - which is 90% of the stuff Congress does.
#1 NJSoldier on 2007-02-16 07:56 (Reply)
The Tenth Amend. is like the 4th Commandment. Often forgotten.
#2 The B on 2007-02-16 08:50 (Reply)
We must all keep in mind that in no way is our Constituion going to inhibit our current form of government.
#3 Habu on 2007-02-16 11:23 (Reply)

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