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'Hate Crimes' and Thought Control
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"Hate Crimes" Law Undermines Protection of Individual Rights
by Robert W. Tracinski
(November 16, 2003)
The creation of a special category of "hate crimes"--should be resoundingly rejected. It is an attempt to import into America's legal system a class of crimes formerly reserved only to dictatorships: political crimes. Instead, we should insist on the one principle that forms the foundation for the protection of all rights, i.e., that the purpose of law is to punish criminals for initiating force against others--not for holding bad ideas.
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Hate is not a Crime
by Carter Laren
(October 24, 2002)
Government and university officials (and activists) around the globe can casually slap the label "hate speech" or "hate crime" onto almost any event and win instant support from mobs of rabid "hate" haters. "Hate speech is not free speech," the president of San Francisco State University repeatedly reminds the campus. Why not?
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Is hatred on the rise?
by Larry Elder
(July 9, 1999)
The FBI records approximately 8,000 hate crimes annually, half involving racial hatred. Out of over 30 million violent and non- violent criminal acts each year, this represents a tiny fraction of 1 percent.
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Hate Crime Laws Will Spawn Thought Police
by Chris Wolski
(April 1, 1999)
A proposed federal "hate crimes" law would give the government authority to declare certain ideas to be against the law, and should be rejected, said an Ayn Rand Institute senior writer.
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 Recommended Reading:
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand
Whether you are one of capitalism's alleged champions (Conservatives,
Libertarians, etc.), or actually one of its defenders (a rarity in today's
culture), or a part of the "humanitarian" lynch mob that seeks to burn a straw
man, or just a curious observer -- read Ayn Rand's
Capitalism: The Unknown
Ideal -- and then judge for yourself. |
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