The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #122690   Message #2702530
Posted By: akenaton
17-Aug-09 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hate laws
Subject: RE: BS: Hate laws
Bearded Bruce printed this in his first post, and I have seen

nothing written here that would make me question it.


"For the most part, hate-crime legislation is just a sop for politically influential interest groups -- yet another area in which liberals, traditionally sensitive to civil liberties issues, have chosen to mollify an entire population at the expense of the individual and endorse discredited reasoning about deterrence."