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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2855)	10/17/2000 12:12:07 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 10042

I am not the final arbiter. Whoever tried the hate crime cases- up the ladder of the legal system is the final arbiter. I am merely giving you my opinion. I never finally arbitrate anything- do you have the power to issue such binding fiats?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2855)	10/17/2000 12:32:37 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10042

Re: A violent crime is a violent crime. Everyone has equal rights to protection under the law. Making some kinds of crimes more special negates that equality. Equality?!? What equality are you talking about? Over here in Europe most "Yank-bashing" intellectuals point to the U.S. criminal statistics and then expose the racial/social bias that goes throughout the American judicial apparatus.... I seem to remember that over 60% of all US inmates are poor and black, most of the lifers and those queueing for the "hot seat" are minorities, etc. etc. So I think the problem is that the so-called US justice is not impartial in the first place. The case of a white woman raped by a black man will not lead to the same trial as, say, a black girl raped by a white man --at least not south of Mason-Dixon line.... Is that right? Furthermore, there's the didactic function of any verdict/trial: as a crime is qualified as a hate crime, it helps stress the racism, the bigotry and the sexism that pervade the social fabric. By doing so, it helps public opinion to nurse its inner, repressed racism/intolerance against specific groups.... I think the laws and the judicial proceedings must have a pedagogical outcome as well....