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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: flatsville who wrote (45293)	10/12/2000 8:35:58 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush's idea of gun reform is to have every kid in high school wear holsters!

To: flatsville who wrote (45293)	10/12/2000 8:36:38 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The prosecutors didn't have to charge them under any other law. They were able to go for the death penalty under the capital murder charge. Had they not been able to do so, the prosecutors intended to use the Federal Hate crimes law. However, that was not the point. The point was that we DO have a Hate Crimes Law on the books as claimed. You are right that Bush did not want to expand the current law to include specific groups. It is a very general law as it is now written.

To: flatsville who wrote (45293)	10/12/2000 9:16:29 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<I don't believe the Byrd murderers were charged under any law other than capital murder. Bush has turned a blind eye to hate crimes legislation.>> One will never breathe free air and the other two will be strapped down and injected with a lethal cocktail. What more will charging them under another law accomplish?

To: flatsville who wrote (45293)	10/12/2000 9:44:05 AM
From: Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush should do no such thing. There absolutely should be no such thing as hate crime legislation. What this does is says one person's life is more important than another's. Every "crime" is some form of "hate." Just punish the person to the fullest extent possible. If someone murders your daughter who may be white, and someone else murders the daughter of a black person, and it is determined it was racially motivated, we want to somehow punish one more. This is absolute lunacy. They are both murdered children. The problem lies in the leniency of the court system not punishing or wanting to punish someone to the fullest extent possible. bobp