Of course not. If I were you’d have your entire party trying to keep my feeding tube in.

But nice argument you’ve got there. When totally discredited what other reply could you use?

The reason you see hate crimes being faked is because the people doing it are trying to get a message out — that usually gets it dropped into “hate crime” categorization. It’s not that the mythical attackers beat me up because of who I am, but what I stand for and represent. Faked assaults are designed to be pinned on a particular person — that makes it harder to call it a hate crime. By trying to make the assault about ideals, the whackjob is getting their free PR.

People faking this kind of attack is nothing new — it’s just being called “Hate Crime” now. This nimrod still would ahve faked it, and it still would have got the right people in wingnuttia all up in arms, regardless of what the classification.

Are you really trying to say that the paranoids on the Right would not have run with a story about a good, wholesome Rightie being assaulted by those free-love Leftie Bastards without the Hate Crime designation? That if it were just an assault (if there were no hate crime designation) the Rightie wackos wouldn’t have cared? Or are you suggesting that the wackos would never had heard of it without the HG designation, since the story wouldn’t have made it into the media? If it’s the latter, since the kid staged it to gather sympathy for his cause, don’t you think he’d have called every wacko personally to spread the word? Doesn’t do any good to beat yourself up for sympathy unless you let people know how sympathetic you are?

And you calling other people brain-dead? For somebody who often is pretty rational that’s pretty moronic thinking.

This guy just saw a way of getting attention because of all the right wing blather about colleges and universities being “liberal bastions”. He’s just trying to please his brethren, show them they are right.

Brit Hume was “outraged” over this! Guess the student got what he wanted.

This is at least the 5th time since I’ve been blogging that we’ve had these staged “hate crimes.” My point stands; people are more apt to fake a hate crime in order to get publicity than they are eager to fake a run of the mill assault.

You can’t really be stupid enough to dispute that, are you?

I suppose this is what happens when you criminalize thought. That is, hate crimes receive an inordinate amount of attention compared to a run of the mill assault.

Ok….

So a wingnut poly sci student fakes an attack by non existant liberal black clad avengers.

And that’s why we should eliminate hate crime legislation?

I could get behind a movement to do away with “thought crimes”. So assuming you agree, let’s hope no one of any import uses this line of reasoning to do so.

OK?

People can think whatever they want. The hate crime comes when they terrorize, injure, or kill others as a way of sharing that thought.

I don’t see what a lying, attention craving crackpot, that imagines he is politically persecuted, has to do with insuring longer sentences for the lowest of scum.

Here is a perfect example of a justified charge for hate crimes, helping to make darn sure the perp never sees the light of day….

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260289,00.html

I’m going home to punch my mother in the mouth. Which would never have happened if the conservatives stopped pushing family values on everyone!