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Crime is crime
The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act has been introduced by one of Liberaldom's most pompous parsers, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. A hate crime bill sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2001 died in conference. The resurrected measure allows federal authorities to help local law enforcement agencies investigate "hate crimes" that cause death, bodily injury or those in which a firearm or bomb is used.
Evidently these acts are far more serious than, and should be considered separately from, those run-of-the-mill crimes that result in death, bodily injury, etc.
What we have, once again, is a weak-knee rationalization that some crimes are worse than others because of the inclusion of the victim's race, religion, national origin, color or sexual orientation.
"The country will never rise to its full potential until there is an end to crimes motivated by hatred," says Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer of California. As opposed to crimes that spring forth from the milk of human kindness?
A violent crime is a violent crime, regardless of the orientations of the victim or the perpetrator. All demand swift justice, not qualifiers. To do otherwise opens the door to a double-standard where there is room for only one.
