The original concept behind **** crimes was to remove the organized intimidation and resulting fear for people of various backgrounds, creeds and other, clearly minority status. It would prevent people from ******* their right to freedom and right to assembly as an excuse to push up against the law, but not break it -- until it was too late, and then it was hard to prove.
Unfortunately, the politically correct non-sense has taken over. And once a legal precedent is set, we're screwed. It's happened with personal property (eminent domain, war on *****, etc...) and it's happening more and more with insults turned into allegedly organized, racial slurs.
This asshole pulled up aside of someone who pissed them off on the highway. The defense didn't deny it was road rage. But the PC machine went after an individual, a single individual, not an organized group or not a person who has a history of repeat offenses, and put him under the bus.
This is not what the law was designed for. Should he do time? Sure. He was clearly admitting guilt over road rage behavior. I mean, I can count on more than both of my fingers how many times myself and my wife have been threatened with racial slurs on the road because I refused to drive more than 5mph over the speed limit (and someone else was holding us up).
But apparently I'm a white male, and my wife a white female, and we're the problem. That's what pisses me the fuck off. We've gone beyond the "organized ****" issues, and now we're into "sensitivity" and it only goes one way! Where were the civil rights leaders for the Duke LaCrosse team?
And people think this doesn't happen the other way. I'm sorry, but the last 15 years, I've seen a shitload of discrimation the other way.
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