re how many homosexuals are there in article apr news acns nwu edu dmeier casbah acns nwu edu douglas meier writes in article apr isc br isc br com steveh thor isc br com steve hendricks writes in article apr news acns nwu edu dmeier casbah acns nwu edu douglas meier writes if someone beats up a homosexual he should get charged for assault and battery why must we add gay bashing to the list isn t this a sort of double jeopardy or am i just being a fascist again to deter an epidemic of gay bashing that has not been deterred by assault laws so we ought to make beating up a homosexual more illegal than beating up a straight silly me thinking that the issue was that we are all people to be treated equally thanks for straightening me out wrong if a bunch of faggots from the tenderloin decide to go straight bashing and they selectively target a heterosexual man and beat the bloody fuck out of him they would get charged as well under all the federal laws that exist about violation of civils rights the focus of their intent is his sexual orientation and so the law applies to them as well the national government retains the right to make any laws necessary to sufficiently deter and punish any crime against someone s civil rights until that behavior becomes so well punished that nobody even tries it the fact is that at last count gays were not beating straights for their sexual orientation thus the law is getting applied only to the straights who indulge themselves the federal government or judiciary has the right to enforce the th amendment guarantee of equal protection under law even if it takes possible charges against people who would violate them go read your constitutional law we broke the back of the kkk s harrassment campaign with the same strategy in the early s so many went to jail and for so long that it cut the heart out of the kkk rsw no it is not double jeopardy a single act may lead to multiple charges and multiple crimes i think what you meant to say here was with the current mutation of the us constitution under the current police state someone may be charged multiple times for one act if the victim in question is of the right shade a single act should never merit more than on charge that s almost like if four cops got acquitted from cruel and unusual punishment charges and the country went and tried them again and again until they oh never mind this mutation as you call it protects your little butt too if you happen to be somewhere where you re the wrong shade for somebody else s taste if it can be shown that the motive for the assault on you was racially motivated then the full power of these extra laws that bring more charges and punishments will come against those who harmed you the first use of such laws was well over a hundred years ago and constitutional scholars of all conviction recognize that this right reserved to the federal government is well established and not just some short lived peculiarity too go read some constitutional law for awhile maybe you ll get it rsw douglas c meier dmeier casbah acns nwu edu richard steven walz rstevew deeptht armory com maple street without safe and free abortion women are santa cruz ca organ surrogates to unwanted parasites real men would never accept organ slavery and will protect women
