Reno and " hate crime "

My perspective on this " hate crime " controversy is truly

    LEFT WING LIBERAL even if THEY don't believe. Your columnist Terzian

    made sense on the issue. Bakst's comment on the utility of hate crime

    legislation was heartfelt but foolish. Will will Patinkin comment on

    the issue -or is just not fluffy enough ?

         I expect common sense from Bob Kerr and Froma Harrop. They rarely

    disappoint.

           Headline on page A6 : " Reno presses hate crime legislation ".

     I do respect this woman but she does have the cloud of Waco hanging

    over her head. Hate crime is intolerable in our society but it is OKAY

    to risk burning little children alive if they happen to be pawns of

    right wing crackpot fugitives from the law ?

        I suggest Reno read the piece in your oped page today : " Make torture

    illegal in the U.S. "  I did not know that it was legal ! I guess it is

    OKAY to torture a criminal exactly the way that Wyoming gay man was tortured

    - but it would not be a " hate crime " - just part of a judicial investigation.

    Perhaps the criminal was connected to the Aryan Nation conspiracy !

           One of the Kennedy kin MAY have been involved in the torture sex

    crime death of a young girl . But the man will get the best legal defense

    that money can buy. And after all - be he guilty or not guilty - it was

    at least not a hate crime !

         The mendacity of our laws !