Posts in "Hate Crimes"

By Matt Ciepielowski at 6:54PM

Mar 24, 2010

Hate Crime Laws: A Savage Hypocrisy

In honor of the recent Oklahoma law that restricts the definition of hate crimes, I did a little searching and found this piece of brilliance from the world's most libertarian cartoon:

Obviously Oklahoma's law doesn't go quite far enough (and they probably passed it for the wrong reasons), but it's a move in the right direction.

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By Shaun Bowen at 2:58PM

Oct 14, 2009

The Hate Crime Slide

Using sleazy legislative tatics, Democrats have quietly attached the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill to the National Defense Authorization Act. This is a typical way for those who want questionable legislation to go through without much resistence. What better way to get your bill passed than attach it to the military budget bill for that year? You support the troops, right? For example the REAL ID Act was passed in the same way.