Quote Originally Posted by Squirt View Post
Steve it's frustrating when you do a drive by post like this because when you're countered you don't respond with a second post usually. If you ~promise~ to keep responding in this thread until the issue is worked out I'll debate you on it. Feeling game?
Sure go ahead. I'll start by saying that increasing the number of federal crimes will do little if anything in protecting us from violent hate crimes. Federal criminal laws generally are badly prosecuted in an overworked court system already taken to the point of breakdown by federal drug laws.

The federal legal system would be as good at protecting us from violent hate crimes as it has been in prosecuting and stopping obscenity.

Most states have a hate crimes law - which is perfectly appropriate.

Are you a fan of the US Department of Justice and the Attorney General? If you have criticized them in the past, why do you think they will effectively prosecute these kinds of cases?

Steve