When is a Hate Crime not a Hate Crime?

Well, for one, when a minority commits the crime it's not a hate crime. The sad case of Marine Sergeant Piertzak and his wife is a case in point. You don't hear about this in the news. Nor did you hear about the young couple in Knoxville that was raped and murdered by a black gang...not a hate crime, apparently. What you do get is headlines like this one in the Tennessean: "Obama Election Spurs Race Crimes Around the Country." Now I look at this video, where the woman holding a cross is beaten, and then her cross is stomped on by gay activists as a hate crime. But apparently, the same headline writer at the Tennessean (aka Pravda on the Cumberland) characterizes that behavior as "Gay advocates protest marriage ban across nation."

Look folks, it's all wrong, dreadfully wrong. But let's call it evenly on both sides. If a gang of whites beats up a black man or a Latino - that's a hate crime. Ditto if the Crips murder a young white Marine (who happened to be married to a black woman). If gays are storming churches and desecrating sacred services, that's a hate crime. Ditto if someon takes a tire wrench to a cross-dresser. The reality is this - we don't need "hate crime legislation." What we need is sanity on the bench that punishes wrong doing for what it is, not because the victims have a different tone to their skin or don't have the same sexual preferences. Violence to another human being is hatred, unless it is justified in self defense. Period.