Word: hatefully
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...crime - Auschwitz, say, or the entire Holocaust - is a crime, surely it is an insult to the principle of law, and to the universality of the horror, to trivialize the deed by stipulating that it was a "hate crime." Further, suppose the people who did the daily work of Auschwitz really were "just following orders"? Was Adolf Eichmann executed in Jerusalem for the state of mind in which he pursued the Final Solution? No doubt quite a few Nazis could honestly claim that they were not anti-Semitic. Who would care to blaspheme by saying, "It's not so much...
...President is adamant in supporting a federal hate crimes law, and his wife, running for the U.S. Senate, is just as passionately unthinking on the subject, and so is Al Gore. And now, in New York, the Republican establishment (including Governor George Pataki) has caved in to this corruption of legal process, embracing a hate crimes bill for the admittedly sound political reason that - in a world governed by simple-minded sound bite - to come out against a hate crime law is to seem guilty of (anti-gay, anti-minority) hate oneself. The retreat of principle before political correctness...
...another, or die." He expunged the line in later editions, judging, rightly, that it rang false, sentimental. I do not think it is the business of the law to tell us, "We must love one another, or else." Nor is it the business of law to forbid us to hate one another...
...engaged in diagnosing the perpetrator's state of mind, then we may need an infinitely more complex system of laws than what we have now. If we assign, say, 12 years' imprisonment for a crime motivated by hate, then we must presumably work out a calculus of penalties for crimes committed for reasons of jealousy, or of lust, or of compassion (the Kevorkian assist, e.g.). I would like to see an entire new branch of law developed to deal out sentences for crimes committed for reasons of sheer stupidity...
...what exactly are the motives of those pushing hate crimes laws? These activists and their political allies need to spend a year or so refreshing themselves in study of the meanings of freedom, and of the principles...