Rick Siegel Prespectives on Freedom and Liberty

In a recent article from the New York Times on “civil rights protest” in Louisiana for a group called the “Jenna Six”, a glaring thematic problem with the protest stood out in the articles slant. Here were some 10,000 people gathering in a small hamlet in the South to protest civil rights and the only thing they were protesting was the lack of “hate crime” enforcement. Hate crimes are a fallacy. Hate crimes are really thought crimes in drag.

Tens of thousands of “people of color” marched through the streets, proclaims the article. Displaying many remarks from the youthful participants excited to feel what it might have been like fighting the oppressive white oligarchy of the 60’s south. It reads more like Woodstock III than a real protest of any depth. The message of ignorance was lost defending the same type criminal acts that incited the 60’s protest – violent crimes against “people of color”. The colors of those who were assaulted changed but the message and cause remains the same.

This writer sees no color in people. Fred is Fred and Sam is the man and the people I know are either respected for who they are or left by the side. But I am not blind to hate. I hate some people. I know the reader hates people. I am not so ignorant to think people will not hate for reasons of race, creed, color, sex or idiocy. Freedom demands this because hate is natural.

The exposure of “hate crime” as excuse for subsequent violent criminal acts comes at the end of the NY Times article as a conclusion. This enforces and embeds the concept that an individuals hate is criminal because it causes crime, therefore hate must be made a crime. It is now embedded in the psyche of the people that hate is bad and hurtful and the powers and religious leaders urge us to allow them to criminalize “hate.” Hate is not the crime.

Hate is not physical. Hate is emotional and a thought. It is a private matter and when you relinquish your right to hate you also relinquished your right to love. Once you allow outside arbitration to determine the criminality of your thoughts you have agreed to a fascist states mind control. It was the way of the Catholic Inquisition of the Dark Ages and the dream of empires. The state will tell you what is love and what is hate. Hate will be punished and love will be rewarded. The definition of each determined by appointed individuals and arbitrarily administered through agents with immunity for their actions as seen in Florida earlier this week.

The criminal case is about a grievous assault on a single boy by six others. Six boys beat and kicked a single boy close to death. There is a crime. The authorities have decided to pursue “attempted murder” based on the alleged fact that the six met, made a decision to do harm and did it with malice.

To defend the criminal actions of these six boys for reason of the inbred racial tension in a small town obscures and relieves the real perpetrators. In fact the blame for the attack is laid in the display of a hangman’s noose on the front lawn one morning at the local high school. Is a rope on a tree any more justified to violence than the color of skin?

On its own one might wonder who pointed what where, but it is obvious that someone has racial hate and displayed it. There are no criminal acts in the display of your hate if it did not harm someone. Nazi’s are free to march the streets in Jewish Skokie, Illinois. In fact the act of putting the rope up was anonymous but I am sure a “leader” of this idiocy was at hand and most likely attacked. However the hate and idiocy at hanging this noose on a tree is not a crime, it is morally repugnant, but it is not a crime. It is no more a crime than the fact I hate the car mechanic who ripped me off in France. It is a crime if I bomb his gas station or beat him up or steal his money, but a crime for hating a French mechanic?

It would be bold to bring light to the horrible government education system working with local religious leaders, whom created and nourish this racism. Show those responsible - the parents whistling encouragement from the side. Blaming government for not making hate illegal is flawed. The people are being duped into endorsing thought crimes rather than address deep issues of abandonment to parental responsibilities. The family is nowhere to be found

If the six boys beat the other so bad they must stand for their action. The provocation is only relevant in the sentence dealt. The rampant ignorance breeding in this town will grow as the government and “civil rights groups” work in tandem to maintain and cultivate the divisions that feed the flames of bigotry rather than broach the real responsibilities of the parents, who allow and encourage government and religious structure to breed and stock the pond with bad fish.

Source Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/us/21jena.html?hp

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