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Originally Posted by ThePits
Once guilt had been established in court you could fine Tagger_X for being a self publicity seeking asshole and jail Hitlers lil helper for being a hate mongering bigot
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I don't know much about UK law, but in the US they BOTH would have got fined and released (if even arrested at all).
I'm a "less law the better" kind of guy, but people who were committing disproportional crimes were essentially getting off due to lack of
any type of law to describe their actions (and I still insist Tagger_X and Hitler's 'lil Helper did not commit the same type of crime).
surely UK law is decades ahead of us poor colonial types. it wasn't all that long ago that discrimination was actually encouraged by the state here (and apparently
still is in Louisiana).
besides, I don't think that we are seeing much abuse of the "hate crime laws" on the side of the police here. if they were, there would be a lot more nazi's seeking dates on
http://www.meet-an-inmate.com/ (as opposed to the
mostly black
male prison population).