The Reason Why Society Never Improves

The blog written by Miquela S. explains her approval of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and how she feels with this new act the people of our great Nation will unify against hate crimes and learn to live together in harmony as implied in her blog http://www.thepenandthesworddrowsehtdnanepeht.blogspot.com/
This of course would be an excellent idea if all people were simple minded and when they were told not to do something they actually listened. Take murder for example; Murder is against the law and can even be punishable by death penalty, but you do not see our murder rate dropping any. The punishment for a hate crime is a prison sentence which in comparison to the penalty for murder is hardly equal. So with that in mind how would this Act even benefit our society? Truth be told, it doesn't benefit us at all. It simply adds another crutch for criminals to use against the innocent. Take for example child molestation. Say your at your local Catholic Church and your pastor decides to molest your son. In a fit of rage for his sinful and atrocious act you give him a black eye or two. After which you call the police and urge to press charges. Sadly though you are now the criminal because you beat him up and not only that it turns out he was a homosexual. So now instead of you getting your justice for his crime, he is filing a counter suit against you. Now the lawyers ammunition would be that you acted out of "hatred" toward his religious beliefs or because he was a homosexual. So where does that leave you. That will land you in prison with a hefty sentence, maybe six years or so, while our clergy pedophile friend gets off with a slap on the wrist and perhaps some community service to atone for his crime. So how is that fair to the American people? Criminals will continue committing crimes because they do not care for the well being of others nor do they adhere to the laws of man.

For my own personal opinion the Hate Crime Act is an ineffective way to fight this crime. The act was established during the the early 90s to stem the racism towards African Americans mainly, because the homosexual community was not added until recently. It is not fair to the innocent when we are not allowed to defend ourselves or our children when a crime is committed against us. They should turn it around, give the pedophile the six years to life for the crime and give the innocents some community service if they decided to beat the criminal up a little. After all, retaliation is a risk the criminal is taking when they decide to commit the crime. So in short lawmakers need to write laws that kill the problem at its root and not try to stop its progress.