Something for the left to think about regarding hate crime laws
We read:
“As a libertarian, I find Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s comment that Matthew Shepard’s death was a ‘a hoax that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills’ as reprehensible as anyone on the left ever could. Although she’s now apologized for the remark, she’s yet another good example of why the Republican Party continues to lose elections.
However, some of the well-meaning arguments used by the left regarding hate crime legislation make no sense to me, either. Most of my progressive friends are fairly bright people — and they are certainly smart enough to know that they probably won’t control Congress and the White House forever. It seems that the progressive movement is promoting a slippery-slope issue which will ultimately be used to target the left side of the aisle should the social conservatives ever take over…..
If you don’t think social conservatives will do everything they can to define those in opposition to their agenda as hate-mongers, think again. They already call folks opposed to the Iraq War or the Patriot Act part of the “Hate America” crowd. With control of Congress and the White House, it would be easy to expand the definition of hate crime to suit their purposes.
The writer above appears to be some sort of Left libertarian who has swallowed the media hokum about the Shepard death. Shepard’s cruel death was drug related. His homosexuality was incidental to his murder. See here, for instance.
The writer does however have more insight than most Leftists in that he apparently sees the hate in Leftists and thus realizes that they could be tripping themselves up with this legislation. Thinking ahead is not a Leftist talent, however. The emotion of the moment is all that matters to them. But a GOP President who is less of a gentleman than GWB is not at all hard to imagine. GWB even endorsed Arlen Specter! A less kindly President might find much in Leftists that he could prosecute. Obama seems keen to prosecute former Bush officials so a future GOP president might resort to prosecutions of political opponents too. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Posted by JonJayRay on May 5, 2009 9:29 am
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