HOMOCIDE | 2005-11-14
The Senate has passed Hate Crimes legislation.
What this means is that there a difference between homicide, and homocide, a much greater crime.
If someone goes on trial for homicide, it is very important that the person he killed was straight, and that the killer KNEW he was straight.
If the person is homosexual, the prosecutor is going to go for the much more stringest, and Federal, Hate Crime punishment. Even if you are acquitted by a local jury of homicide you can be retried for the same crime in Federal courts under the Hate Crimes legislation.
If the establihsment doesn't like you are routinely tried three times for the same crime. First there is the state or local trial, then there is the Federal trial, then there is the civil lawsuit. No matter how they come out the legak fees will break and the civil award will still on you.
We used to have a joke that under American law a man was innocent until he was proven guilty, under the Napoleanic Code a man was guilty until proven innocent.
Under Soviet law a man was guilty.
If American law is after you today, you're guilty.