Oct 10
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“Hate killings” – What a joke?
Do you want to know how pathetic the concept of hate is when it comes to jurisprudence? So many leftists blather on about how some crimes need to be treated as more serious if there is evidence that they were committed out of “hatred” for some designated – politically defined – group of people. It might be race or “sexual orientation” or some other category.
The point is that such crimes should result in greater penalties than if, for example, you beat the tar out of your wife because you love her…
Well, leftists have already made a mockery of justice by repealing the death penalty for crimes such as murder. And now we see in the article below that two men have been convicted in “numerous hate killings.” And what punishment do they get? Life in prison. What would their punishment have been if these weren’t “hate” crimes? Probably the same.
If the correct penalty was in place – execution – then classifying the murder as a “hate” crime – would be irrelevant, unless it allowed for torture before the execution – something that leftists might support, but Christians don’t.
And with the correct penalty not being in place, the watered-down inadequate penalty for murder isn’t going to be any greater for a “hate” crime. So the whole classification of “hate” crime becomes a pathetic joke.
This illustrates well why it’s so dangerous to allow leftists to impact a nation’s justice system.
October 28, 2010
Moscow court convicts 2 men of numerous hate killings
Canadian Press Newswire
MOSCOW – A court has convicted two Russian men of racially motivated murders. The Moscow City Court on Thursday found Vasily Krivets, 22, guilty of 15 hate killings in 2007-2008 and gave him a life sentence. It convicted the 23-year-old Dmitry Ufimtsev of five murders in the same period and sentenced him to 22 years in prison. The two men were members of the White Wolves, a skinhead group that officials say was responsible for more than 30 killings.
Hate crimes, often targeting dark-skinned people from Caucasus and Central Asia, have been common in Russia. They peaked in 2008, when 110 were killed and 487 wounded, an independent watchdog says. The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights estimates 70,000 neo-Nazis were active in Russia – compared with a just few thousand in the early 1990s.