Chicago Lawyer vs Marines.

Originally Posted by yguy

After caught in the process, the man told Mike, "you think you can do whatever you want with Department of Defense license plates and tags".

What I'd like to know is why this doesn't qualify as a hate crime. Is it because it springs from a hatred of something as trivial as America rather than something really important like Islam or homosexuality?

I had a serious answer completed (regardless of my feelings on 'hate crimes'), but then I considered the one asking the question and decided to give you all due consideration:

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Finished!

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by Adam

What I'd like to know is when "[individuals with] Department of Defense license plates and tags" became synonymous with "America".

It's not a hate crime because being a Marine isn't one of the protected groups; being a Marine is not a race, a religion*, a sexual orientation, a disability [necessarily], ethnicity, a nationality (see immigrants being offered citizenship for serving), an age, a gender, gender identity, or a political affiliation.


*Their code, "Unit, Corps, God, Country" kind of puts it above religion.

[yguy]

Originally Posted by Uthgar the Brazen

I had a serious answer completed (regardless of my feelings on 'hate crimes'), but then I considered the one asking the question and decided to give you all due consideration:

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Finished!

"Gold and silver I have none, but such as I have I give unto you", said the apostle. Likewise my adversary, though too intellectually impoverished to find substantive fault with anything I say, generously drops into my tin cup the widow's mite , which in his case consists of impotent and vacuous derision.

Who says atheists can't bubble over with Christian charity?

I don't. But then, I know better than to believe your little story about being an atheist. Poor, poor 'bot. Deception was your only cover, and how rudely it is stripped from you.

[yguy]

Originally Posted by Uthgar the Brazen

I know better than to believe your little story about being an atheist.

What the devil are you talking about?