Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Open Thread - Recent News

In the wake of the Holocaust Museum shooting, and a couple of other recent incidents, Attorney General Eric Holder believes there needs to be a stronger federal hate crimes law. Read the article consider whether the motivation for the crime makes the offense deserve a stiffer penalty
Attorney general urges new hate crimes law - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

North Korea is continuing to send out threatening signals - N. Korea warns of ‘thousand-fold’ retaliation - North Korea- msnbc.com

This applies to federal employees only, but I'm glad to see this: Obama to extend benefits to gay workers - White House- msnbc.com

PBS is, of course, run by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was created by Congress and sponsored in part by the federal government. So, is this the right move? PBS to ban new religious shows - Washington Post- msnbc.com

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree with attorney General Eric Holder that the federal state crimes law should be strengthed because of all these hostile actions taking place in oru nation. If these people are willing to take lives, they should be willing to take the toll of punishment which i think should be life in prison. That seems like a plausible solution to me, all the killing needs to stop.


Junior Jack
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Anonymous said...

I agree that new hate crimes should be created to properly charge all the wackos that are committing these insane crimes.
If these people are aware that they certainly can get serious punishments for their hate crimes than perhaps the amount of crimes would come down.
Maybe, but probably not although it doesn't hurt anyone who doesn't all ready deserve it to create newer laws in preparation to catch these people for whatever they have done.
K.A.
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