Government Wants To Make Murder Victims Unequal Under The Law

This article discusses congress debating expanding hate crime legislation (as if we really need even more worthless laws) and points out the total dichotomy of the Holocaust Museum killer having yet to be charged with a hate crime.

My problem with this is the same problem I have with any hate crime law. The article says it’s intended to stiffen penalties. Yet the article points out that Von Brunn will face the death penalty for the murder. So, where is the stiffer penalty? What are they going to do, execute him twice?

Hate crimes are a bad, bad, bad idea. They are intended to criminalize thought, not deeds. That by itself makes it Orwellian. However, hate crimes go the additional step to Wrongsville by intentionally making some murders worse than others. By it’s definition, a hate crime law says killing this person is worse than killing that other person. It places more of a value on certain lives, and that value is based solely on race, gender or some other trait that we are supposed to be ignoring.

When it’s not murder, hate crimes are even worse. Hate crime supporters believe that if a person is mugged, they deserve X punishment. However, if the victim is black or gay, then punishment should be X + Y. Why is that? They can’t be saying that punishment can be a deterrent. We know that because they have insisted for decades that capital punishment is not a deterrent. Why are you placing more value on a black or gay victim than a victim in general?

Sotomayor Says Capital Punishment is Racist

It appears that Sonia Sotomayor left out a potentially controversial memo from her official response to the Senate questionnaire for her confirmation hearing.

Written while she was working for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund (can you imagine the uproar from the lefties if Scalia had belonged to the Sicilian Legal Defense Fund?), Sotomayor’s 1981 memo called the death penalty “racist” and a violation of the present “humanist” society.

The memo held that crime was too “complex” to expect capital punishment to be effective as a deterrent. However, the same memo did not find it too complex to draw a straight line between the racial proportion of people executed and overt racism. A little bit selective reasoning, if you ask me.

The memo also held that in the two years prior to the memo, nothing could be found in any publication that challenged the opposition to the death penalty. I am quite sure they did not look very hard, and probably ignored the writings of Frank Carrington.

One Of The Best Arguments For Capital Punishment

This 21 year old punk deserves to die. He has forfeited his right to life. He is an abomination and an affront to decency.

After fighting with, and beating, his girlfriend and her 3 month old baby, he took the baby in his car, drove on the interstate and tossed the infant out of the window while driving at a high rate of speed. After being arrested and asked how could he do something like that, he replied, "It's just a game."

UPDATE - the article has been changed. Now his comment is quoted as "it's a dirty game." He is also quoted as saying, "I'm not a monster." Yes, you are, punk.

There is your argument for capital punishment. I don’t care to discuss deterrents, or anything else. This punk flat out deserves to have his life extinguished.

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This is becoming a trend

The fertility doctor who implanted 8 embryos into the mom who already had 6 toddlers, creating the octuplet mom, is now involved in a second case.

This latest one is a 49 year old woman with no health care that he implanted with 7 embryos. The woman, now pregnant with quadruplets, has been hospitalized and you and I are paying for her stay.

RIP Dirtbag

A 49 year old dirtbag has mercifully and rightfully been executed in Alabama.

This total waste of oxygen raped and strangled his 12 year old stepdaughter. His 26 years on death row living on our tax dollars amounted to more than twice the amount of time she was alive before her brutally killed her.

Good Riddance. If you think you spent a long time on death row, you’ll love eternity in hell. Say hello to Gacy, Bundy, and Dahmer.

What’s The Rush?

Funny, isn’t it? The huge ‘stimulus’ package, the Confiscation Of Your Hard Earned Money To Be Given Away As A Reward To Liberal Cronies Ac t of 2009 had to be rushed through. That was the excuse we were spoon-fed by the lefties and their media lapdogs to explain why promises to give everyone time to look it over were broken and the vote was pushed through almost as if they were embarrassed by it.

Remember PBO making that campaign promise that no bill would be signed until after it had been posted on the web for days, giving the public time to look it over? Broken.

Remember the standard for Congress to post a bill and give the members time to look it over before they vote on it? Broken.

Well, it just had to get done, right? No time to waste letting people actually know what they were voting on, right?

So, it gets voted in. What next? Well, just toss it on the desk, the President will sign it. After his three day weekend, of course.

Sooooooo glad they rushed it through, with no chance of anyone finding anything to not vote for.

You idiots who voted for the lefties slamming this socialism on us – again, let me thank you for your actions.

Supply Side What?

Oregon wants to raise the tax on beer by 1900%. One Thousand Nineteen Hundred Percent.

The tax on a barrel of beer would rise to almost $50. This would be the single largest tax increase on beer in American history. Opponents warn the price of a pint of beer could rise from $4.50 to $6.00. Many small breweries could be forced out of business.

Read into the story, and you’ll notice this passage. “Brewers say it’s that low tax that makes Oregon such an attractive business climate for crafting beers, though.”

What’s that? When you lower taxes, it encourages spending and growth by businesses? Raising taxes would discourage companies from relocating to Oregon, and force others to close their doors? Higher taxes might result in less business, less jobs, and less tax revenue?

Where have we heard that before?