Hate Crimes

What are hate crimes?

PC at its worst. Look we have a basic set of laws. You commit murder you commit murder. I don't care about your motivation. All I care about is that you are given a fair trial and hopefully convicted.

By creating various degrees of motivation you set up our government with the untenable task of having to define and punish criminal acts based on a populist judgement. Did the skinhead murder the black guy because of racist beliefs or because it was a case of self defence? Or was it a case of malice murder? Or was it because the black man was having sex with the skinhead's girlfriend.

So Do you try the case based on lust, racism, personal protection, premeditations, or what? And how does a defendant prove his motivation is not based on racism without incriminating his own defence?

Hate crimes is yet another PC agenda... sounds great and if your against it you are a heathen. But then just how did preventing usurping the 5th amendment become the advocacy of heathens?

If you continue allowing the passing of hate laws the end result is a large degree of governmental power determining how to prosecute a person. If the government has a weak case; throwing a hate crime rider onto the bill of charges may make someone plead guilty to avoid instead being labeled a hate crime commiter. Right now we have a government that I'm not to certain of. They may not prosecute in a malicious manner now, but what if there is a time when government agenda is served by tacking on hate crime prosecutions to otherwise ordinary crimes?

Sure, a normal murder conviction will net them 7 years, but if they tack on a hate charge you can get an easier conviction and get them put in jail for 20 years. Maybe one day the members of the Rainbow Coalition will be on the wrong side of the Governmental castle moat and the easiest way to get rid of the opposition is to label their actions "Hate Crimes".

At that point maybe then the PC faction will realize how greatly Hate Crimes legislation goes against the sound logic of the constitutions we live under in these United States.