Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 5, 2009

By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone

Hate is hate. Crime is crime. Hate crime protection doesn’t protect anyone from squat.

In a recent Judiciary Committee hearing, Democrats voted against excluding pedophiles from hate crime protection in a new crime bill. At the same hearing, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) lambasted Republicans for trying to add protections for veterans in the same bill. No such outrage was voiced against the protection for pedophiles. Good grief, what is WRONG with these people in Congress?

Is this upside-down world? I remember that when soldiers returned from their service in Vietnam, many were spat upon in airports, had nasty names hurled at them, were pelted with garbage and stones, and were physically attacked by college-age mobs. The young veterans had already suffered terribly in the jungle war zone, only to return to a second war zone. America betrayed them.

While our nation’s treatment of military veterans has greatly improved since those dark days, these attacks still happen at the hands of hateful, anti-military zealots.

For what sane reason do pedophiles fall into this special “hate crime” category? There are already laws that protect them, and all the rest of us, if we are victims of violent crimes. Why do these twisted perverts get “extra” beyond that of regular citizens, and beyond that given to our returning troops who are targeted solely because they are in the military?

As I said before, hate is hate. Crime is crime. Hate crime protection doesn’t protect anyone from squat. There is no “extra layer” of security by merely escalating the name of a violent act. “Double dog dare” isn’t as bad as “triple dog dare”?

It’s utter nonsense. No sleazy thug thinks, “On second thought, I’ll rob this white macho guy rather than this black woman because if I’m caught, I don’t want be accused of a hate crime.” If a group of college students beat up the class egghead because they deeply hate him for ruining the grading curve, and the perpetrators and the egghead are all the same gender and white, is this not a crime of hate? By definition, no. Only if the victim is in a protected category, like pedophiles now are. Utter rubbish.

To me, “hate crime legislation” seems to create a two-tier justice system and wants to give a false, fairy-tale sense of comfort that is becoming more complicated.

Somehow it must be proven what the perpetrator was thinking at the time of the crime, that he or she was thinking about their hate. Not easy to prove someone’s thoughts, I’m sure. Certain groups of citizens are granted (at least on paper) special protection over other groups of citizens, which distorts our judicial system. That’s just my opinion.

Why should Congress stop with pedophiles… why not include released murderers, too? Why not convicted homeland terrorists, too? You can see the escalating nonsense of trying to measure “hate” and the terrible precedence it sets in the courts. If, God forbid, an Asian, gay woman was raped and murdered out of hate and this was proven in a court of law, and if the state in which this crime was perpetrated had the death penalty, no amount of “extra” hate crime legislation will change the final results: the woman is still dead and her murderer will still be executed by the state. There is no such thing as “extra execution.” Dead is still dead.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she thought it was belittling to other protected groups to request that hate crime protection be granted to members of our military (see the videos below). To grant hate crime protection to those who have put their lives on the line for our country upsets her. But she approved legislation that gives evil predators who have sexually assaulted and psychologically damaged one or more innocent children extra legal protection. No belittling there, apparently.

Sickening.

Hate Crime Protection for Pedophiles Passed, but Same Protection Denied to Military Veterans

Fox News: Sean Hannity Takes Issue Against Florida Rep. Wasserman Schultz & Her Bashing of Troops

More reading on this subject:
Moonbattery: Pedophiles Are Special, Our Troops Aren’t
Stop the ACLU: Something for the left to think about regarding hate crime laws
Mark Steyn, NRO: The Canadianization of American liberty
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Only the democrats – H.R. 1913 Hate crimes bill passes, democrats kill language excluding pedophiles from protection under the bill
Patriotic Resistance: Rep Wasserman-Schultz Hates the Military
A Conservative Edge: OBAMA Administration Begins To Show Its Contempt For Veterans, As Illegal Aliens Flood Hospitals
Robert Davi, Big Hollywood: Burnt Offerings: Teaching Our Children — Pride in Going Red, White and Blue
Bob Unruh, World Net Daily: Next on Senate agenda? ‘Pedophile Protection Act’

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