A Bustling Hate-Crime Industry

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Author(s) George F. Will
Source The Washington Post
Date May 13, 2007
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR2007051102133.html
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Quotes-start.png "This draws government steadily deeper into stigmatizing certain thoughts and attitudes, which incites more and more groups to clamor for inclusion in the ranks of the especially protected. And Timothy Lynch of the Cato Institute notes that prosecutors of supposed hate crimes must pry into defendants' lives -- books and magazines read, Internet sites visited, the nature of his or her friends -- to uncover evidence of unsavory thinking." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007.