AG Holder urges new hate crimes law

[babsbunny]

AG Holder urges new hate crimes law

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-16-holder_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that recent killings show the need for a tougher U.S. hate crimes law to stop "violence masquerading as political activism."

"Over the last several weeks, we have witnessed brazen acts of violence, committed in places that many would have considered unthinkable," Holder told the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

He cited separate attacks over a two-week period that killed a young soldier, an abortion provider and a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Federal agents and prosecutors are already involved in the local investigations of each attack.

The violence, he said, "reminds us of the potential threat posed by violent extremists and the tragedy that ensues when reasoned discourse is replaced by armed confrontation."

[derby378]

1. We'd all love to see the plan

But if it only focuses on punishing lawbreakers after the fact and ignores the factors that feed these hate groups, it'll be largely ineffective.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. race relation legislation needs to be beefed up

why are groups such as the KKK/neo nazis groups even allowed to practice? Also some TV personalities are racialist.

[ThomWV]

3. I'd like to see him enforce the fucking laws we already have.

[Toasterlad]

4. Just As Long As You're Not Gay. If So, You're An Incestuous Pedophile Who Deserves What He Gets.