Hate Crimes - Sources Select Resources

Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
The Hate Crimes Bill: How Not to Remember Matthew Shepard
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The problem with the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is that it creates a thought crime and also categories of crime victims for disparate treatment. Goodbye to equality under the law.
Unintended Consequences
Beware the Hate Crimes Bill!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
It will prove difficult to separate speaking against members of protected classes, or criticizing their practices, from hate. The two things are easily conflated. Once enacted, hate crimes will become independent of specific violent acts. An eventual likely outcome will be that speaking against members of specially protected classes will itself become a violent act of inciting violence.

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