Hate Crime and Punishment

Source: The Council of Conservative Citizens

Hate, Crime, and Punishment

by Beauregard

(The victims’ names have been omitted from this article to protect their privacy)

This is a story about hate and crime, but not necessarily hate crime. Hate crimes, you see, are only committed by people who nurture a grudge against different races, religions, sexual orientations, or other variations of the species. If hate is suspected as one of the motives involved in a crime against a diverse personage, then extra time can be stacked on the prison sentence of the offender. Or a life sentence can become a death sentence. Whether or not a criminal act qualifies as a hate crime is decided by the courts, which are often prompted to determine hate crimes based on public opinion.

Hate crime, however, is not an equal opportunity phenomenon; but rather harbors the implication that whites are the perpetrators and everybody else the victims. Just as blacks are thought incapable of racism, so now all minorities are perceived as congenitally hateless.

So when do hate and crime become hate crime? Not in the case of a St. Louis couple who were savagely attacked, robbed and beaten by a gang of blacks a year ago. The husband and wife are both white, which means they are practically disqualified as hate crime victims anyway. They were walking to the grocery store through a black neighborhood when the robbery took place. Neither of the two can drive a car because both are mentally retarded. While on this weekly trip to the store they were surrounded by a gang of blacks who demanded money. Terrified, they handed over their cash. Then the beating commenced. The husband could do little to resist because he is also blind. Since the attack, the frightened couple rarely ventures out alone. If only this couple had been a pair of stylish homosexuals, the law would have come roaring down like the wrath of God…but only if the attackers had been white.

Though this case is a sickening example of a crime committed against two people because they were obviously defenseless (and white), no hate crime occurred. This is street crime, which is the coded term for lawlessness in predominantly black urban areas. Street crime is motivated by cynicism instead of hate, because the attitude towards street crime is that the victim ought to know not to be in dangerous areas at night. The nocturnal urban predators who prey on the weak and helpless are not guilty of hate because they are only following instincts bred in poverty. Lack of conscience and contempt for humanity are never hateful if society is to blame.

And what about rape? Rape is usually the violation of a woman by a man, which means that the gender of the victim is a factor in the crime. Yet rape is rarely considered a hate crime even when race plays a role in selecting a victim. According to Justice Department statistics, black men rape white women forty times more often than white men rape black women. Does this disproportionate race rape ratio mean that black men are actually committing love crimes against whites? Homosexual gang rape in prison typically involves a group of blacks sodomizing a lone white victim; yet hate never raises its ugly head in these circumstances. Perhaps laws should be enacted to prosecute love crimes, which would include rape, sodomy, child molestation and other deviancies involving sex which are not covered by hate crime statutes.

Most states have enacted hate crime laws, and the federal government may not be far behind. The message these laws send is quite clear: white people better watch what they say and what they think or else. Minority watchdogs like the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Anti-Defamation League are poised to pounce if hate crimes are not prosecuted to the hilt…but only if the victims are not white. To further boost hate crime statistics, Hispanics are non-white victims of hate crimes, but Hispanic perpetrators are classified as white. Hate crime laws may provide sanctuary for blacks, homosexuals, and other priority minorities, but ordinary laws will do for the weak and helpless who suffer abuse just because they are weak and helpless.

Meanwhile, somewhere in St. Louis, a retarded husband and wife are afraid to leave a small apartment in a poor neighborhood. They might wonder how a black gang could rob them, beat them, and torment them without hating them.