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Originally Posted by Flyboy
I remember hearing about this at the time. I also remember thinking, "well...serves him blooming well right, ignorant git."
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I agree that it was an ignorant thing to do. But would you really consider it a "hate" crime?
We have laws for everything these days, and in the future there will be even more. What really gets my goat is that once laws are passed, rarely are they enforced in a manner keeping in line with the spirit in which those same laws were passed in the first place. In other words, regardless of what caused a law to brought into effect, once any given law is in place - it can and will be enforced to the letter. The underlying problem is, this isn't why we pass laws - we pass them to deal with a specific problem.
Sheeple have bl**dy short memory spans.
My feeling is that when laws were passed to deal with alleged "hate" crimes, the spirit of such laws didn't have anything to do with cracking down on people voicing their, abeit rather ignorant, opinions.
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His opening remark was: "If you are a black, vegetarian, Muslim, asylum-seeking, one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you."
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