A brief breath of sanity

Hate Crimes Bill Dealt a Setback

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle swiftly pledged to bring the bill back to the Senate floor by year's end. "There is no argument that can be made that hate crimes can be left unattended," he said.

Sure there is: there's no such thing as a "hate" crime. ALL crime involves hate, to one degree or another. Unless you are making the mere emotion of "hate" itself a crime, and let's not go there. Upon that road lies controlling how and what people think. Hey, wait a minute....