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

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (240007)	3/20/2002 12:36:51 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

However, on your comments on hate crimes. If you were beaten up by anti-Christian thugs, would you consider that a hate crime? Of course the thugs are doing it from hate. If they're beating me they don't love me. That's my point. The law doesn't recognize it as a hate crime, or prosecute it as a hate crime if I'm being beaten for being a Christian, or being fat, or ugly, or whatever. It would just be an assault. But if it was a homosexual being beaten or a black being beaten then the law adds a charge of "hate crime". But not for the Christian or the fat and ugly. All assaults are hate crimes, so why the added emphasis for certain types who are singled out to have more protection under the law?