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| Yes | 47% | 93 votes | Total: 197 votes | |
| No | 53% | 104 votes |
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by Lawson Stone
I believe that hate-crimes bills in general do violate free-speech rights. The law often does take cognizance of the motivations of a person in commiting a crime. Thus if you ki...read more
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by T. M. Beeker
Yes, clearly if saying something is protected by the Constitution then a label of hate or not is truly meaningless. Does it bother me when those morons in the Klan gather and sp...read more
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by Stoneheart
Hate-Crime laws create socially acceptable criminals and victims as well as socially unacceptable ones. Robbing a person because they're rich is bad. Robbing a person because th...read more
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Hate crimes legislation actually does limit freedom of speech, an ideal held dear by many Americans and the founding fathers. The Hate Crimes Bill is a multifaceted legislation ...read more
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Grassroots lobbying reform' attempted to tie certain grassroots groups up in so much red tape it would hamper their efforts to inform the public about what's going on in DC. Th...read more
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by Phil Hill
Free speech does not men you are free to say whatever you want whenever and wherever you want. It means you are free to express a view that is not offensive to a sane-minded per...read more
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Hate crimes legislation is more about trying to legislate the morality of thought and speech for the purpose of gaining political points for political correctness. We have laws...read more
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by Rex Coker
I was watching the news the other night on FOX News and they had a Senator on there talking about his experiences about eating in a Harlem restaurant. I think the interviewer ma...read more
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So, in other words, a hearing impaired mute can get beat up by some racist calling him the "N" word and it isn't a hate crime because he didn't hear it? Or, on the flip side, a...read more
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by Behnam
The answer is a yes, and I hope it will be so for all times. Before we got to the lobbyist promoting the Hate Crime Bill, we had other things happening which must be set in sco...read more
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The biggest problem with a bill such as this is that it exacerbates the core issue of discrimination. The more Political Correct the United States becomes, the more we conti...read more
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The Hate Crimes Bill, or any bill labeling actions of certain individuals as "hate crimes," motivated by the creation of victims to describe "deplorable" actions as being racist...read more
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It is often becoming more humorous on how ignorant the American people are becoming. This country was founded on freedom of religion. Along with that great escape that we made f...read more
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by Duane Kuehn
The hate crimes bill has little to do with free speech. Mitigating circumstance has always been a factor in deciding the punishment for crimes. Motive being a major...read more
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I think its about time there is a hate crime bill. We wonder what it happening to our children? Our children cannot say the pledge of allegiance in the classrooms, we have take...read more
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The Hate Crimes Bill is designed to discourage hate crimes. Free speech has nothing to do with it. The Hate Crimes Bill is attempting to limit some of the most destructive attit...read more
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The Hate Crimes bill has nothing to do with speech. People who have a problem with this bill are either entirely ignorant of its provisions or simply don't like the government t...read more
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by Brett Miller
Criminal acts do not fall under the umbrella of free speech, so the question is spurious. Murder is not expressing one's ideas, more like expressing one's feelings. There is no...read more
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by JR Lewis
Hate crimes. What IS "Hate Crime"? The dictionary defines it as "any of various crimes...motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group which is based on color,...read more
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by Erica Koenig
If a person intentionally harms another human because of the color of their skin or their religious beliefs, do we, as Americans, consider that free speech? Do we consider the...read more
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by Don Richards
The Hate Crimes Bill does not invade anyone's right to free speech. It does something worse: compromise freedom of thought. The very idea of hate crimes is offensive to me. ...read more
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by Donald Moore
The Hate Crimes Bill does not violate the right to free speech. It is NOT free speech to burn a church. It is NOT free speech to drag a man to death behind a pickup. It is NOT f...read more
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There is nothing in the Hate Crimes Bill which addresses SPEAKING badly of a targeted group of minorities. Only VIOLENCE against a minority group is prohibited and punishable....read more
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You can do or say whatever you want as long as you don't hurt anyone else.That is the spirit of free speech rights. Why should anyone have the right to spread hatred agains...read more
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by Cricket Ross
We often forget what free speech is according to constitution. It reads " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...read more
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by Ms. D. Bleu
I love conundrums, and this issue is truly an interesting one. In this country, we are endowed with rights that most citizens of other countries scoff at. And yet, people from...read more
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