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Originally posted by Sydney
Hate crimes recognise that social minorities exist and that they're often the subject of persecution. I think it makes perfect sense that the scum who prey on certain groups be judged according to their intentions.
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Another thing is religious discrimination. I think both things are hard to properly apply, mostly because there are hate crimes/"crimes" commited by people even in the executive branch.
There's a popular story on the CoS website of Satanists trying to get to Canada, being stopped and interrogated on the airport and accused of things they had no intentions of - nearly being arrested, if my memory does not deceive me. They were kept for quite a while. Can't remember if they missed the flight or not, but on the way back they made sure to make use of their right of a religious minority and threatened to sue the people at the airport. Which worked. *grinning*
In South Africa, there were a lot of corrupt boer policemen, even in the time I lived there. They would let their anger out on black people - even though law prohibited that. Yet most of the time no one said anything, and the one time they did, it was a nation-wide scandal... like it should be.
Oh well, it's like that with every law, I guess. There will always be gliches in the system, little corruptions, conspiracies... hey, remember, they're all after you and the government is hiding the fact they know of aliens... erm... lol.
- TyA