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>> Can he have read the law he's proposing? It specifically
increases
>> the penalties (by exactly 20 percent) for crimes motivated by
>> prejudice. What is prejudice but a state of mind -- of thought?
>> What we have here is a concept that George Orwell named in
>> 1984:

>"thoughtcrime.'' a thoughtcrime, as penned in 1984, is a crime
>that is not committed - only thought of being committed.
>in the book, They know how to detect such things.

And in the proposed law, apparerently "they" know how to detect
what the perpetrator was thinking when the crime was committed -
hence the 20% penalty surcharge.

>or, at least, they SAY they do - the book alludes to the thought
>that a
>thoughtcrime is merely an excuse to persecute those who the
>state wishes to
>eliminate for reasons it cannot justify in order to keep control of
>it's own
>power.
>an evolution of the stalinistic purges of the 1930's, if you will.
>somebody needs a quick lesson in reading comprehension.

>> "A person shall be subject to enhanced criminal penalties if the
>>person purposely selected the victim

>"purposely selected the victim" - this is not thoughtcrime
>legislation as
>committing the crime is a pre-requisite to being punished.

Once again, how do "they" know how the victim was selected.

 >i'm not going to bother with the rest, just pointing out that the
>author
>isn't exactly stephen hawkings. inri

Gee, since he doesn't meet your purist's criteria for interpretation of
literature, I guess we should all just lie down and enjoy being f**d
by reverse discrimination.

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