Expansion of hate crimes laws

by Walter Olson on April 25, 2010

States have begun to add the homeless as a protected group. Hans Bader offers a critique.

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1 Jay Markowitz 04.25.10 at 3:24 pm

I am pretty sure that the guy who lives in the dumpster behind my apartment building made his own choice to remain there and “homeless” as numerous folks from my building have tried to assist him but he has refused, my guess being that he is in love with the large hyacinth bush back there as I have seen him make love to it.

Just what defines homeless? If you make a decision to live on the street amongst the dangers that recide there, why should you be offered a protected status? And what about ‘homeless’ attacking other ‘homeless’ which is the most common type of violence?

2 BL1Y 04.25.10 at 4:55 pm

I don’t sleep outside, but I also don’t have any sort of legit right to stay in the place where I do sleep. Does this make me homeless?

3 Justin 04.26.10 at 12:03 am

I think the real issue here is that prostitutes are not protected by hate crime laws.

Think about it. Who is it that the serial killers always go after? That’s right. Prostitutes.

Of course, prostitutes have a good deal of political clout. All a prostitute needs to do to get a law changed is phone up a senator and threaten to release the photos of her, him, and the goat with a banana up its nose. Even with that, though, I still think prostitutes are worthy of protection.

Please, think of the whores.

4 Jack Wilson 04.27.10 at 8:20 am

Eventually everyone will be in a protected group. Then true equality will have been reached at last.

5 Anonymous Attorney 04.27.10 at 9:49 am

I’m still waiting for the false reporting of a hate crime to itself be deemed a hate crime.

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