I appreciate Pratik Mehta's comments to the effect that Hate Crimes Legislation is being added on to a Defense Authorization bill - and amendments like these encourage pork items to be added on to legislation that has nothing to do with the larger bill.
Mr. Mehta seems to support hate crimes legislation that creates special laws and special Federal Government bureaucracies to prosecute special violent crimes that target special victim groups by criminal suspects who may have been motivated by special bias against special racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation "victim" groups.
I strongly believe most Americans think hate crime laws corrupt our judicial system. We feel that all violent crimes like assault, rape and especially murder are "hateful crimes" and see special "hate crime legislation" as pandering to special interest groups.
I am an NYU alumnus - Stern MBA '89, I lived in New York City in the very high crime era of the late 80s, early 90s where the city had over 2,000 murders in one year - more murders than the entire combined states of Wyoming, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Montana, Utah, Iowa - the supposedly violent, evil Red States were intolerance and hate crimes like the Matthew Shepard (gay hate crime martyr) murder supposedly happen every day and go unpunished.
I now live in Chicago - where our city led all American cities with over 650 murders last year (great job New York in bringing the city murder totals down since when I lived there), but few of these murders fall into the politically correct definitions of "hate crimes" so few Federal resources are allocated to address our local gang bangers doing murder and mayhem.
I urge other NYU students, alumni to resist the corruptions of our judicial system and work to prevent and punish all hateful violent crimes, even the 99% of violent crimes in America that don't qualify as official "hate crimes".
jack ellis
Oct 26, 2009
1:55 p.m.
I appreciate Pratik Mehta's comments to the effect that Hate Crimes Legislation is being added on to a Defense Authorization bill - and amendments like these encourage pork items to be added on to legislation that has nothing to do with the larger bill.
Mr. Mehta seems to support hate crimes legislation that creates special laws and special Federal Government bureaucracies to prosecute special violent crimes that target special victim groups by criminal suspects who may have been motivated by special bias against special racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation "victim" groups.
I strongly believe most Americans think hate crime laws corrupt our judicial system. We feel that all violent crimes like assault, rape and especially murder are "hateful crimes" and see special "hate crime legislation" as pandering to special interest groups.
I am an NYU alumnus - Stern MBA '89, I lived in New York City in the very high crime era of the late 80s, early 90s where the city had over 2,000 murders in one year - more murders than the entire combined states of Wyoming, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Montana, Utah, Iowa - the supposedly violent, evil Red States were intolerance and hate crimes like the Matthew Shepard (gay hate crime martyr) murder supposedly happen every day and go unpunished.
I now live in Chicago - where our city led all American cities with over 650 murders last year (great job New York in bringing the city murder totals down since when I lived there), but few of these murders fall into the politically correct definitions of "hate crimes" so few Federal resources are allocated to address our local gang bangers doing murder and mayhem.
I urge other NYU students, alumni to resist the corruptions of our judicial system and work to prevent and punish all hateful violent crimes, even the 99% of violent crimes in America that don't qualify as official "hate crimes".
Jack Ellis
http://bikers4freedom.com