Anyone remember the Paul Begala comments about Blue vs. Red America? Where he said that Red America was responsible for the murders of Matthew Shephard and James Byrd? I wrote back then in another website "What about Blue America, and its responsibility for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, how about the woman almost killed in Central Park many years ago?" Begala's argument is similar in tone to the last page of Animal Farm, where it says, painted on the wall of the barn: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" The mentality of hate crimes says that some victims are more worthy than others. Some crimes are more egregious than others. The case in Kansas of Jonathan and Reginald Carr comes to mind as a particularly gruesome case. Was it a hate crime? Of course it was, just as all murders actually are, but since the victims were white it will never be mentioned as one. We can judge according to our laws, but when we start judging based on someones' merit as a member of a victim class, our legal system has lost its sense of justice. It's up to God to judge the hearts of man.
Posted by joelfuhrmann at November 6, 2002 11:18 PM