Every crime is a hate crime - Bryan Fischer

[TomSea]

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Every crime is a hate crime

This sad, sorry, tragic affair shows us that it's time to dispense with the category of "hate crimes" altogether. Even having a "hate crimes" category means we are establishing two tiers of victims, some of whom deserve more legal protection than other victims of the same crime.

If you're tortured because of your disability, yeah, we'll punish the perps but just wait until you see what we do to somebody who tortures your because of your skin color. We'll rap the knuckles of those who torture the handicapped, but we'll land like a falling safe on anyone who does the same thing because of race.

Having two categories of victims, some of whom get more protection than other victims of the same crime, is fundamentally, egregiously, and unconscionably unjust, unfair, and un-American. Crime is crime, and justice dictates that the punishment be the same for the same crime. That's equality under the law. Dispensing unequal justice based on some perceived special status is shameful inequality under the law, and a violation of the Pledge of Allegiance, which promises "liberty and justice for all," not just for the politically favored few.

It makes no difference to this young man whether he was forced to drink out of a toilet because he is disabled or because he is white. His pain and his suffering is the same.

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/170106