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No special laws or special judicial proceeding will be applied to crimes categorized as hate crimes. Crimes are crimes and should be punishable within appropriate ranges and jurisdated the same upon everyone. Maximum or minimun sentencing can be determined or influenced based upon intent of the perpetrator and relevent mitigating circumstances. This in itself should be satisfactory to deal with crimes of hate. There is no need for a special set of laws or double jeopardies at different government levels invoked by hate crime classifications. Besides, if general existing laws are not being enforced then how will writing more laws supposedly protect us from crimes of hate? |