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Susan



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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 55
Sign: Aries

City: Fairfield
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/20/2006
Monday, July 20, 2009 

Category: Life
This is friend of my daughter Jamie.  She was a victim of a hate crime in San Diego, Ca.  This video is both heartbreaking and beautifully done.  Why are people so filled with hate?  There are no words for this.  I have watched this video over and over and every time I see it I choke up and just want to embrace this child and tell her it is not her fault and that I am so sorry she had to live through this pain.  What happened to her will never ever go away.  This will stay with her for the rest of her life.  I want everyone to see this to educate the people out there that are naive enough to think these things don't happen or who turn their backs on these crimes.  We all need to take time out and have empathy for those who aren't exactly like we are, who have different views, different race, sexuality, etc. 

 
Tom

 
What happened was a terrible crime and no one should EVER be subjected to such treatment- even more so at the hands of a deranged person who also hates Christians since he has so grossly misrepresented what they believe. I hope he fries for a very long time.
 
But I confess to having great difficulty with the concept of "hate crimes." EVERY crime is a hate crime, or done in such total disregard for the consequences that it exhibits a lack of caring equal to hate. When you try to punish hate crimes, what you are really punishing is thought. I believe that establishing hate crimes as an additional category of crime underlying the basic crime - in this case felonious assault and battery - puts us on a very slippery slope. What will the "thought police" want to punish next? As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Civil Rights laws can't make the white man love me, but they can keep him from lynching me, and I consider that pretty good progress." We cannot, should not, and should never even TRY to stifle thought. Each time we do we accept another limit on our God-given freedoms. I find that unacceptable.

 
Posted by Tom on Monday, July 27, 2009 - 9:36 PM
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