FREE SPEECH: Hate crime = thought crime
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July 3, 2024 1:00 AM
Yesterday, Coeur d’Alene’s mayor and city council debated whether they should create a new category of municipal crime: “Hate Crime.”
When anyone’s rights are restricted, everyone’s rights are diminished. While a person’s actions should rightly be subject to law, a person’s motivations should not.
“Hate Crime” laws place motives under legal scrutiny. Advocates contend that a person who beats a victim while shouting racist epithets is guilty of a fundamentally different crime than a person who beats a victim for adulterously sleeping with his wife.
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