Why Don't We Have "Love Crimes"?

https://kfor.com/news/local/2-oklahoma-men-charged-with-hate-crimes/

 A federal grand jury unsealed an indictment Tuesday, charging two men with two hate crime counts for an alleged brutal attack against a Black man in Shawnee in 2019.

The indictment was unsealed in the Western District of Oklahoma.

A surveillance camera recorded the brutal beating. The camera captured one of the suspects yelling, “You’re dead” and a racial slur, following the attack.

Johnson previously accepted a deal, pleading guilty to aggravated assault and battery and malicious intimidation or harassment.

Killian and Johnson face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000 if they are convicted on the hate crimes. 

The concept of "hate" crimes are stupid. It's a manifestation of the incompetency of our entire system; a flawed system based on emotions and feelings.

When an assault occurs, the attacker is obviously filled with rage and anger. It goes with out saying that when people physically attack other people they aren't doing it because they love them. It makes the justice system look stupid to even suggest such a thing.

It's like they're trying to establish a legal statute based on the emotional hierarchy of crime. In other words, if you whip someone's ass because they owe you money, or had sex with your wife, that hatred is acceptable. But if they happen to be a different race that you don't like, that crime is actually a double-crime. 

Btw, how is that not double jeopardy? 

I honestly don't see how "hate crimes" were ever determined to be constitutional. Well, actually I do. It's not like our legal system is made up of geniuses or anything. 

Take the quoted incident above. This assault took place in 2019, and in 2022 they release a sealed indictment for "hate" crime charges after one of the defendants has already pleaded guilty and is serving a 5-year prison sentence. Why? He's already in prison serving time for the crime.

According to the article it's because one of the guys yelled a bad word while they assaulted him. It appears like they waited 3 years and decided to charge him with verbal assault. But what if they had yelled that they were sorry and he had pretty eyes? Would that be a "love crime"? Or what if they just whipped his ass and didn't say anything, but still had the same motive? Would that just be a normal crime?

If that sounds stupid, it's because it is. That's the point.

If the attack was particularly heinous, or brutal, just make the punishment harsher. Give them the maximum sentence. But to come out 3 years later and say: "These two white guys beat the hell out of this black guy and said a bad word in the process. We've pondered this for last 3 years and have determined they hated this guy. So we're going to charge them twice." 

Really?

When you have a justice system that tries to read people's minds in order to make a crime a double-crime then your justice system is flawed and failing. When your justice system is flawed and failing that means your justice system doesn't work like it was intended to work.

There is no room for feelings and emotions in the quest for justice. Justice is based on a set of tangible standards that were implemented by people who used logic and reason to set those standards. 

If I've said it once, I've said it 1000 times: neo-liberalism is a snake that eats its own tail.