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There are no legal foundations whatsoever for conservatives to object to enhanced sentencing on Constitutional grounds.
Then why is it, I wonder, that so many conservatives DO object to hate crime legislation? Anyone care to hazard a guess? I'll take a shot ...
Because they FAVOR picking on the weak and helpless, humiliating the less fortunate and generally conducting themselves along the lines of the true, authoritarian personalities that so many of them have. The last thing they want is for the government to cut through to one of their favorite pasttimes and punish them more for engaging in it because it is so much more reprehensible tha similar conduct that is not directed against the less fortunate merely because they are less fortunate or weaker.
How can anyone argue AGAINST hate crime legislation and not be FOR the committing of hate crimes?
All right, cons . . . . bring it on . . . .
don't be stupid, george.
assault, murder et al are already crimes
hate crime legislation, especially the one referred to in the OP are just sops to various interest groups.
do you think making it a hate crime to beat up a homeless guy is going to make the police try any harder to catch the responsible person(s), and if so, would you like to buy some waterfront property in kansas?