Eric Holder when asked a hypothetical question about a proposed hate crimes bill was told that ministers and whites will not be protected. He went on to say that only traditional victims would be covered.
In other words, it has nothing to do with hate but providing extra laws for special classes of people. I have already explained countless times that if a crime is a crime the person who commits the crime should be prosecuted fully. It doesn’t matter what the person was feeling towards the victim, it’s still wrong. It’s similar to thought crimes at that point.
Jeff Sessions on the the judiciary committee asked Holder if a minister who talks from the Bible about homosexuality and is then attacked by a homosexual activist for these words, would the minister be covered? The answer as previously noted was that ministers and whites would not be covered. Can whites or ministers not be hated? It sure doesn’t seem that way to me. If this doesn’t tell you that the law has nothing to do with hate than nothing will.
Everyone should be protected the same, white, black, minister or lay person. Even if black people and non ministers historically have been attacked more, this doesn’t make sense. If this is still a problem it’s because current laws aren’t being enforced. If someone in a specially protected class is attacked and for some reason a law official won’t prosecute, will the victim then say “hey, hate crimes laws say you must prosecute” and then the person will fall in line? Not likely, the official is either racist or doesn’t care about what’s right and is not going to suddenly be moved to action. On the other hand, if a white minister is attacked, will he be told “hey, that’s what you get for spewing white minister hate but nobody hates you so you don’t get protected by either law?”
I fear the worst, but I know many people will see through this. I know that the answer is not to get whites or ministers protected under this law but for everyone to be treated the same regardless of race, beliefs, thoughts or whether or not they are chosen by God to teach (ministers.)
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He has also said that he cannot wait for this law so he can go after all the haters.
When I first saw the title I thought it was a joke.Is this really what he said?This man that BHO chose for attorney general says that whites and ministers will not have legal due process?I can't even think straight right now.How can that possibly be legal?
Remember the Demoncrats voted AGAINST including the brave members of the military in this POS bill. Then we see a radical Muslim shooting up a recruiting office!
UNREAL!!! I see alot of these stupid white people with their Obama bumper stickers. When I see them(YOU).. All I can think of is FOOLS...
I'm married to a black man(he's a Republican) and from past experience, I could have told you all that Obama don't give a CRAP about whites..
I'll take Smith and Wesson over the US government for protection any day. Hate Crime? Talk to me about it when the other guy is laying on the ground bleeding to death.
I don't need or want anything from my government.
A vote for Obama is a vote to end racism. Ha!
Since the libs tend to look to the world for their inspiration for justice, I would just point out that Christians are some of the worst victims of hate crimes still. So if we are going to protect only "traditional" groups, Christians should be right at the top of the list.
This is the most egregious, hypocritical double standard that I have ever heard of.
I call for the resignation/firing of Eric Holder.
The "race" war has begun. Holder has fired off the first blatant salvo. Prepare for much worse in the near future. This isn't America anymore. No longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. Arm yourselves now before it's too late.....
I agree with nceeno
I am an educated, liberal gun owner who lives in the rural South. Granted I am a minority but for the most part the people who live around here are laid back and not nut cases.
with that said
There are a few neocons who live here that spew their hate speech and make us all look bad. the fundie-neocons are always the first to hide behind the flag to justify their hate mongering. The bottom line is the founding fathers set up the system to so I can go about my life and you can go about yours without being interfered with. Hate speech is interference in another's life because the speaker is inciting action that impedes the freedoms of others.
What is comes down to is they want to spew their hate and nobody call bullshit on them or they whine about their rights being violated and how America is going down the tube.
Well I am not like them. I have a CC because I believe in the 2nd Amendment not because I am a paranoid hate monger.
BTW I am an Atheist too.
i should be able to hate or like anybody or anything i want. that is in my head only, though. i am free to do so. but, i should not harm anybody without punishment, hate or not. i hate anybody that harms another person. hating should not be against the law. it is not a crime. crime only, is a crime.
First Holder, next Sotomayor. It's ridiculous. Racism is WRONG and ANYONE can be a racist. We've elected the biggest racist there is to the presidency. Look at who his minister was. People need to wake up and realize it's JUST as wrong for blacks to hate whites as it is the other way around. God I hate to think what this country is going to be like in 3.5 more years.
Unbeleivable yet typically believable. Out of the mouths of a liberal come many strange things. Those of us who recognized racism long ago can still recognize it in the AG's comments. We are so far gone as a nation there are many who will agree with him. Hate-crimes are the most ridiculous laws on the books...intent should be considered in the traditional sense of the law and the crimes to which it pertains.
Hey Aerimus13, you are a hypocrite. Your whole statement is drowning in hate speech but you are too ignorant to realize it (so much for your "education"). Just by calling people who state a different position than you "neocons" and calling their point of view hate speech is intent on your part to incite action against them. You are also "whining" about them just like a typical liberal. It is liberals who are the first to complain. What are you going to say about them next "it's not fair"? Get a life.
AERIMUS13 TYPICAL LIB. THEY ALWAYS START OUT "I AM EDUCATED...", LIKE IT IS A QUALIFIER FOR WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO SAY IS IMPORTANT. THAT IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY. WE HAVE LET A BUNCH OF IGNORANT P**S ANTS TAKE OVER. A MAN IS NO LONGER JUDGED BY HIS CHARACTER, HONESTY, OR INTEGRITY, BUT BY THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN, SEXUAL PREFERENCE, AND RELIGOUS BELIEFS. DONNIEB YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.
I'M SURE ARTIMUS13 CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW, AMERICAN VERSION OF THE GESTAPO TO SHOW UP AT HIS FRONT DOOR SO HE CAN POINT OUT WHICH OF HIS NEIGHBORS NEEDS TO BE ROUNDED UP AND SENT TO THE RE-EDUCATION CAMPS.
A YEAR AGO IF I READ WHAT I JUST WROTE IN THE LAST PARAGRAPH, I WOULD THINK I WAS SOME KIND OF FRINGE WACKO. IT DOESN'T SEEM SO FAR FETCHED NOW. EVERYDAY I HEAR THE NEWS I FEAR WHAT FREEDOM THIS HATE MONGER OBAMA IS GOING TAKE AWAY NEXT.
I PRAY TO GOD THAT WE CAN STILL SALVAGE THE USA POST OBAMA. THEY SURE ARE RAPING US AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR COUNTRY. "DON'T TREAD ON ME!"
Hate is a terrible thing. Also we have a man in the White House who hates whites. This country is going down the tube and fast. I hope all who voted for him are happy. I am a Christian and I dont hate anyone but I do dislike what our idiots in Wahington are doing.
Thanks, Larry, for making us aware of this travesty; most of us knew nothing of it (somehow the Obama media failed to report it). Please check out my column tonite and this wkend on WorldNetDaily..I'm in total synch with you.It's titled MICHAEL JACKSON, SIDNEY POITIER, AND JUDGE SOTOMAYOR Q68
Thanks Pat,
I'll be sure to look for the column.
I think Americans will take only so much more and we'll take to the streets like in Iran. The difference here is the public has guns.
This is such a garbage article. If this exchange even took place, which you provide no reference for, then Holder either misunderstood the question or the answer was taken out of context because the rest of the answer should have been that RELIGION has been covered under the already existing hate crimes law since the 1970s! The Matthew Shepard Act doesn't cover the minister because the OLD law ALREADY covered the minister. Don't be underhanded Larry.
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