10.07.2006
It does not add up. Hate crime verses violent crime.
The racist Neil Martin who posted obscene comments on a website in the memory of black teenager Anthony Walker was given almost 3 years in prison. He also got 6 months for child pornography. Now Martin clearly is an evil shitbag, but this does not seem to add up. You can stab someone and get considerably less than this. Teenagers can beat and kill middle aged men and get less than this. You can be drunk and in a stolen vehicle, kill some promising young person and get less than this.
Now let me be clear: 3 years for this hate crime is fine, but if you get 3 years for this then I want to see 10-20 years for stabbing someone (but not killing) and 20 for the teenage killer and 20 for the drunk vehicle-thief killer. It makes sense! Logic must dictate. Words cannot harm people, especially so clearly immature and stupid-sounding, but stabbing can; which I'm pretty sure really fucking hurts and with that rather nasty possible side effect of death too.
The law is an ass.
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It could be that a good reason why he was given the higher sentence is that he might have INCITED a violent act, which is different than just being a sick pervert and flouting that perversity on the internet. There's no endangerment of someone's life in the latter case.
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