Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Someone could commit a crime [on tribal land] and no one would be able to step in," he said...
Singer said Means would argue he should be treated no differently than non-Indians who commit a crime on reservation land...
Opponents of hate laws employ a simplistic and misleading argument: "All crimes are hate crimes," says Gov. Gary E. Johnson, the Republican governor of New Mexico, who has promised to veto any hate crime legislation that comes before him. No one would dispute his statement. But crimes based on hatred of an individual are different from crimes based on hatred of a whole part of our nation...
There can be no question of the deplorable nature of all hate-motivated crime, particularly violent acts as in the case of Matthew Shepard...
Unfortunately, however, the staff fails to realize that in mandating hate-crime legislation, they seek to punish not simply the illegal act of the given crime, but the ideas that motivate it, attacking the legally-protected right to free thought and expression...