- They just create "Special categories of Elite People
!"
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- A crime is a crime -- Hate crime laws just make it a
crime to call "certain people" a derogatory name or punish the
perpetrators more for attacking a certain type of person.
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- In other words, if you Are Not One of those Special People
it is More OK to call you derogatory names or physically attack You than
the special People!
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- Is that what you want ? Do you want your group to be
okayed to be attacked?
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- (Read that white people)
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- Think it can't happen ?
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- You have already put up with it in institutionalized
government job discrimination for 38 Years. You score a 95% on a civil
service pre-employment job test but the job goes to someone who made a
75% on the test because they are the 'right' race or immigrated from the
'right' Country.
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- Now, do you want the police dispatcher (I used to be
one) to ask when you report a violent crime: Is it a 'valuable person'
who was attacked or just one of those low class people who don't fit into
a minority group?
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- Gay Hate-Crime Bill Dies
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- By Doreen Brandt
365Gay.com Newscenter
Washington Bureau
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- WASHINGTON - The Republican
leadership late Thursday killed amendments to federal hate crime laws that
would have protected gays and lesbians. The amendments were contained in
a massive defense department bill as add ons. They were stripped out during
conference, the procedure where different versions of bills in the House
and Senate are "rationalized" for a final vote.
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- The measure passed the Senate in June as part of the
$422 billion defense authorization bill. The House version did not contain
the hate crime provisions.
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- GOP leaders in the House refused to allow the bill to
move to a final vote with the hate crime add on.
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- "It's reprehensible that the GOP House leadership
demanded the removal" of the hate crimes language, Sen. Edward Kennedy,
a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement Thursday evening.
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- The Human Rights Campaign decried the removal of the
protections, which would have increased sentences for crimes motivated
by hate against gays and lesbians. It would have added real or perceived
sexual orientation, gender and disability to federal hate crime laws, thus
allowing the federal government the ability to provide assistance for the
investigation and prosecution of hate crimes based on these categories.
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- "Broad bipartisan support for this bill didn't stop
the House GOP leadership from ensuring its demise," said HRC President
Cheryl Jacques. "It's just five days away from the anniversary of
Matthew Shepard's death and another year will go by without adequate hate
crimes protections. That's shameful. Even worse are the political motives
behind it. Instead of promoting hate crimes protections, the President
is promoting discrimination. Voters will remember that on Nov. 2"
HRC and other LGBT civil rights groups have been trying to have gays covered
by hate laws since 1998.
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- Democrats say they will seek again to get the law passed
in the next session of Congress.
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