Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >
> > At 3:52pm -0500 12/8/00, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> > >The way the hate crimes law is written here in Vermont it is essentially
> > >a thought crime law. Expression of any non-politically-correct statement
> > >in Vermont in earshot of a reporter or someone who may potentially take
> > >offense at your speech could get you charged with a hate crime. It is
> > >the most restrictive such hate crime law in the nation. Yet you then
> > >admit that there were a grand total of 48 of these sort of 'hate crimes'
> > >in Vermont in a whole year. Wellll SHEEEEAAATT. I'll be you could rack
> > >up that many offenses in less than a minute in a single square mile of
> > >any city in the US, if they used the same standards, so you are
> > >essentially proving my original point. Thanks.
>
> Saying something nasty about gays or any other group is not a "hate
> crime". It may be a despicable opinion but you can't get thrown in jail
> for it. A hate crime requires actual violence AFAIK.
>
Not in Vermont.
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