Define ‘sectarian,’ kill three examples
5th October 2007
Read it. Bean counters in the service of silly ideology.
As a rule, the concept of hate crimes bothers me. I have trouble understanding why a criminal deserves a worse punishment because he or she is thinking a specific hateful thought than a person who commits the same crime who is not thinking that same specific thought. The legislating of which hateful thoughts are worse than others is another concept that bothers me.
Well, it bothers me too. Hate crime? As opposed to what, a love crime? Please. But that’s not the weird part.
Once again, officials are trying to figure out what people are thinking at the moment when they commit crimes. If a Sunni bandit kills a Shia merchant for money, is it a “sectarian” or “hate” crime? What if the same bandit kills the same merchant while screaming “die, apostate, die”? Is it a “sectarian” crime if he stabs the victim, but not if he shoots him?
Your tax money is paying for this nonsense, people. Enjoy.