Like the Anti-Defamation League, and New York Daily News columnist James Kirchick, Maggie Gallagher asks a key question: why won't the police call a politically motivated bias crime a bias crime?
"...So why hasn't the [FRC] shooter been charged with a hate crime?
The Family Research Council opposes hate crimes laws, but that should have nothing to do with whether a law on the books gets enforced equally. Bias crimes are based on the theory that the victims of a bias crime are not just the individual harmed, but all others in the class intended to be terrorized by the crime.
Is political pressure in liberal D.C. keeping the police from enforcing the law?
I ask this question in part for a personal reason. The FRC shooting came a week after a package addressed to me personally showed up in the National Organization for Marriage offices filled with feces and hate and used condoms. (I have stepped down from the NOM board, but apparently the guy who dropped off the package isn't keeping up with the latest.)
According to NOM office workers who were there at the time, the police wanted to investigate it as a potential hate crime. The police LGBT hate crimes division was called to the scene (odd, because obviously the hatred thus expressed against me and NOM was not directed at LGBT people) and told the cops not to investigate it as a hate crime. The cops tried to argue with them, but no deal.
In at least two instances, to my direct knowledge, a crime directed at a person or organization who opposes gay marriage was not investigated by D.C. cops as a bias crime.
A nasty package is a minor event. A shooter who intended mass murder is deadly serious.
Together they make up a pattern.
Do we have to wait for a third incident before the police of the District of Columbia, which is ultimately controlled by Congress, act to make sure the laws are enforced equally for all?" -- TownHall
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Okay I'll play the simpleton again.
They won't investigate it as a hate crime because the hate crime bill was personally designed and put into place to push forward and advance the agenda of the sexual-liberty movement and their promoters; otherwise known as the feminist-LGBT movement and their Wall Street, Western libertarian market economy promoters.
Their on the move! And their certainly not going to turn their own weapon against themselves.
We can call them out on it. But if they can get a civilization to say that woman-woman is the same thing as woman-man, then pulling the wool over the eyes of the people on this particular issue is a job they can leave to their intern.
And they sent the LGBT brigade to investigate you in order to intimidate and make those present feel uncomfortable; and to see if you were not simply trying to make the LGBT community look bad with false accusations. All things considered, you were lucky not to have been taken away in handcuffs.
But you're right, we have to call them out on it. So that the next time the opportunity for a chick-fil-a type of ground swell presents itself, the energy behind it will be even greater. For as arrogantly naked as the king is, he knows full well the tightrope that he's walking on. One good push from the people is all it would take.
That's the key: DC is controlled by Congress. Perhaps Congress will have to step in if the "LGBT Hate Crimes Division" is able to prevent police officers from registering hate crimes committed against marriage supporters.
Pretty disgusting to send a box full of feces and used condoms to anyone, I don't care how much you disagree with them. It helps to reinforce the common perceptions people have concerning the bedroom practices of gay men.
It's only a hate crime if you are white, a practicing christian and male.
The fact that the DC police have an LGBT hate crimes division is very telling in itself. No doubt every random crime against a person who identifies as "gay" will be treated as a hate crime, whether it actually is or not. What an incredible waste of police resources. And they have the power to decide what other potential hate crimes are investigated as such?
I wonder if the geniuses who sent the package to Maggie are aware that they just submitted DNA evidence of their hate crime?
Looks like Zach gets the gold star here.
Far more aggressive legal action must be taken against the terrorists and those who protect them in government.