Admitted: "Hate Crimes" an "Invention"
By Rick Pearcey • May 15, 2009, 10:15 AM
"The real reason for hate crime laws is not the defense of human beings from crime. There are already laws against that -- and Matthew Shepard's murderers were successfully prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in a state with no hate crimes law at the time," writes Andrew Sullivan at his "Daily Dish."
So what's the real reason for "hate crimes" law, according to Sullivan? "The real reason for the invention of hate crimes," he writes, "was a hard-left critique of conventional liberal justice and the emergence of special interest groups which need boutique legislation to raise funds for their large staffs and luxurious buildings."
Here's a report from WorldNetDaily.
