[August]

Another thing about this that bugs me is the shear subjectivity of it. Any crime can be cast as a hate crime if the perpetrators and victims happen to be from different races, religions, cultures, creeds, genders or any other, as mookie puts it, "humanistic" difference.

I just hate this piling on of charges. A crime like assault or murder for some reason is no longer worthy of prosecution on it's own, it must be buttressed by an entire host of secondary charges.

There's the crime itself, the conspiracy to commit the crime, the conspiracy to commit conspiracy, the location of the crime, who the victim was, where the perp came from and now the motive itself becomes a crime as well?

It's just fodder for lawyers. It does nothing to deter crime or provide justice for its victims.