-Caveat Lector- Shouldn't that be 'whom'? Anyway, the hate crimes label is used to cover a variety of reverse-discrimination and race-baiting. If a person does something you do not like, one of the usual labels and names can be made to fit. Racist, Nazi, Anti-Semitic, homophobe, fanatic, extremist and on and on. I think it is time we take a much more careful look at those doing the name calling for Jesse Jackson has taught us much about the motives of those preaching this form of vicious and divisive behavior. We now have hate-group in charge of instructing law enforcement for the purpose of setting it against 'those whom we do not like' and making false charges and adding names of individuals or groups to 'lists' because of their religious beliefs or something said of which these groups do not approve. Is this America? ~Amelia~ WHO IS HATING WHO? UNFAIR HATE CRIME LEGISLATION By: Robert Moon Ever since Congress passed the Hate Crimes Statistics Act eleven years ago mandating the collection of data about transgressions motivated by an offenders bias against a victims race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, states have been enacting hate crimes legislation at a feverish pace. To hear the liberal media and the so-called civil rights leaders talk about it you would believe that heterosexual white males were the only perpetrators of these types of crimes. Al Sharpton even characterized white on black violence as "a national epidemic." Jesse Jackson asserts that blacks are not only "despised" but are actually "hunted for sport." Nothing could be further from the truth. Even the FBI's own statistics show that the average black is 1.6 times more likely to commit a racially motivated hate crime than the other way around. This doesn't even take into account the fact that a white on black crime is five times more likely to be categorized as a hate crime than a black on white crime is. This is one of the main problems with hate crime legislation. There is no clear standard used to make a classification. Law enforcement and the media are biased when it comes to classifying a crime as one of hate. When black on white crimes occur they get very little attention from the media and the majority of that is local coverage. Even when reported, race is usually omitted from the news story. Everyone has heard of the horror stories about the Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard's murder and the dragging death of James Byrd in Texas. Both received national coverage and around the clock headlines, as they should have. Unless you get most of your news from the Internet, I will bet you never heard of Ronald Taylor, a black man who gunned down five whites killing three. A black neighbor quoted Taylor as saying " I' m gonna kill all white people." The media when reporting this story went out of their way to avoid an appearance of racism. According to Larry Elder, news anchors cautioned that we don't know whether Taylor's alleged hatred against whites was the "primary" or "sole" reason for the shootings. Even the police failed to refer to this crime as a hate crime. Another story you may have missed happened on November 11, 1999 in Kansas City. An Ethiopian man shot and killed two co-workers and wounded a third person. All of the victims were white. The black shooter, who also killed himself, left a letter talking about "bloodsucker" whites. A total of only eleven newspapers even bothered to carry a story about this apparent race based shooting. Here again it was never officially categorized as a hate crime. Crimes like the ones mentioned above happen frequently but get very little attention from the national media or liberal politicians. According to an a August 1999 column by Dr. Walter Williams, the National Crime Victimization Survey for 1997 listed 1,700,000 interracial crimes; of those 1,276,030 involved blacks and whites. In 90% of the cases, a white was the victim and a black was the perpetrator. Another finding of the NCVS report is that of the 2,025,464 violent crimes committed by blacks 1,140,670 were against whites (56%). In the same time period whites committed 5,114,692 violent crimes. Of those 135,360 or only 2.6% were committed against blacks. Given these statistics who really hates who? You certainly won't find these statistics in the New York Times. Hate crime laws punish people for what they think and say, not for what they do. According to Lowell Ponte writing for Front Page Magazine "the rational for this is that those who commit a crime out of "hate" are terrorists deliberately causing fear among all who belong to the group-racial, gender, gender preference or whatever-of their victim." The problem is that hate crime laws are highly selective. "They have the effect of making the same crime against some citizens more subject to punishment than if committed against others." I am not pointing out these statistics to prove that blacks hate whites more than the other way around. My point is no one can really prove why a criminal chooses his victim in most cases. Most of the people in charge of making these decisions are under enormous political pressures to make the "right" decision. This is why hate crime laws are biased and should not be allowed. In addition they violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Making one group more equal than others. It is important that we resist these types of laws. I encourage all Americans who still believe in the US Constitution to write to your federal and state legislators stating your opposition to the enactment of these laws in the future. 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