New and ‘improved’ legislation will offer ‘protection from hate’

The Washington Post today gushes over the amazing new and "improved" Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of 2007. 

Under the current hate-crimes law, federal prosecution is permitted only if the offense occurred while the victim was engaged in a federally protected activity, such as voting or going to school. This bill would eliminate that requirement. To ensure that the law would be used only in exceptional circumstances, the U.S. attorney general or key senior Justice Department officials must certify in writing that state and local law enforcement were consulted and that the state lacked jurisdiction or did not intend to exercise it, requested federal assistance or did not object to federal intervention. And the bill would provide financial assistance to local law enforcement agencies investigating hate crimes under their own laws.

Can we all get serious for just a minute here? I don’t know which of the retarded quorum members over at the Post wrote this editorial.  Maybe it was generated in their hive mind. Who cares? They actually titled it "Protection From Hate" as if the federal government protects Americans efficiently. Since when have they done that? This fine, fine piece of garbage legislation ensures our land will grow kinder and gentler (yeah, right!) When that nice young gay man in your neighborhood is murdered by having his head beaten into pulp with a brick the protections from hate kick in as follows:

. . .the law would be used only in exceptional circumstances, the U.S. attorney general or key senior Justice Department officials must certify in writing that state and local law enforcement were consulted and that the state lacked jurisdiction or did not intend to exercise it, requested federal assistance or did not object to federal intervention. And the bill would provide financial assistance to local law enforcement agencies investigating hate crimes under their own laws.

It’s so simple. So clear. Everyone will feel safer at night. More people will be holding hands in public again, secure in the knowledge that should something bad happen nearby, a member of Congress will appear at their moment of need brandishing a freshly minted copy of a modern day knight’s sword AKA the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Act of 2007. I look forward to the miraculous reduction in crime that is about to become a reality.

Remember criminals and those who aspire to crime - the next time you are going to pistol whip someone, have them fill out the simple survey first. Get them to sign an affidavit stating that they realize you are not committing the crime based on ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY. That way you’ll catch a break at the sentencing. And by the way, all those words were capitalized because that is how they are written in the bill. They must be important!

Someone remind me how our social and political lives have improved because of Congress? I can’t think of anything.

This is the kind of garbage that does nothing to improve our daily lives but complicates our legal system to the point that people see it as a joke. The only people who benefit from this type of junk legislation are the legislators who make their living writing this trash.