Posted by
KsReaganite on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:06:23 PM
I have said this before and I will say it again: victims of crimes are victims of crimes, glaring reminders of a law enforcement system that failed them and utterly deserving of swift justice that a free society can and must provide them. The race, religion, gender, sexual habits, or disability of the victim should be of no concern to the justice system whose task remains the identification, prosecution, and conviction of the perpetrator(s). We cheapen the horror of a crime and violate the principle of equal justice under the law when we decide that some victims of the same crime are less worthy than others.
By signing the so called ‘hate’ crimes legislation today, President Obama and his radical liberal allies have gone down that very path of creating two sets of victims: the preferred ones and the ordinary ones. On top of that, they have expanded the heavy hand of the federal government both into state jurisdiction and into free speech and free thought. Another proof that liberals are not really friends of, well, liberty.
Liberals and their middle class educated ‘moderate’ cohorts will rejoice today at the so-called Matthew Shepard Act. But no mistake about it, not too far in time from today the basis of that very law will be used to expand federal power to control the actions of groups and individuals with whom liberals sympathize; it will be perhaps a war time Republican president who will find it easy to expand his powers to consider anti-war speech to be a ‘hate’ crime. Moderates and liberals who cheer today will be shedding tears that day; tears that they will very richly deserve.
This despicable law is another effort to raise money from San Francisco donors, muzzle religious speech, and provide federal employment graduates of second class law schools and third class gender studies programs.