Pre-Emptive Crimes = Bad/Pre-Emptive War = Good

ThinkProgress has this post on the conservative effort to sabotage the new Hate Crimes Act where House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) says:


I’ve got to tell you, I really don’t understand it. We’re going to put into place a federal law that says, not only will we punish you for the crime that you actually commit — the physical crime that you commit — but we’re also going to charge you with a crime that if we think that you were thinking bad things about this person before you committed a crime.


I just — I just really don’t understand it. I’ve been opposed to this for a long time and I remain opposed to it.

I mean, it’s a crime on what people were thinking when they were committing an act of violence. How do you walk into court and make a case for a crime because someone was thinking something bad. I just think it takes us down a path that is very scary.


Yeah, that's kind of like starting a war with a country because you think they're bad, or because you think they have weapons (but you don't have solid proof).

Someone needs to ask Mr. Boehner why the pre-emptive strike on Iraq was the right thing to do, but to preform pre-emptive strike on criminals (which this act doesn't do, BTW) is so gosh-darn wrong.

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