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- From: dxxb@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barts)
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- Subject: Special Rights (was: Wanted: Post election comments on Prop. 9)
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.174318.16475@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:43:18 GMT
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- Most hate crimes laws involve mandating the police to keep statistics
- on things which are already crimes that are committed against
- certain people or in certain circumstances. These no more involve
- special rights for gays/blacks/whatever than laws against burglary
- confer special rights on homeowners (after all, to commit burglary,
- one must first commit trespassing; thus burglars could be simply
- prosecuted under laws against trespassing).
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- Such laws also might mandate special punishments for offenders;
- again, I see this as no more of a threat than there being punishments
- for burglary which are more severe than those for trespassing.
- (Although IMO there's too much emphasis on our society on punishing
- people for things and too little emphasis on preventing the crime
- in the first place. But I digress.)
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- Laws/policies/regulations which involve speech codes are an entirely
- different matter. The less said about them (and the less of them there
- are), the better. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (uh-oh, did I just formulate
- a speech code here? :-) ).
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- David Barts N5JRN UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
- davidb@ce.washington.edu Seattle, WA 98195
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