I'm in broad agreement with the opinions stated in the last few posts, the crime is what should be punished.
- with one caveat that I do believe motive should be taken into account when sentencing, but racism, in my opinion shouldn't be 'weighted' so highly.
- to try & explain what I mean, the 'racism' card, I believe, is in danger of detracting from the actual crime, so a 'racist' attack is being punished for the racialism, not the attack???
However, I don't mean it is ok to be racist, so long as you don't attack anyone ...
