FBI: Hate Crimes and Anti-Religious Offenses Declined in 2009

Wow, after reading the posts I guess I missed the whole point of the article. I took it as a positive that even though we are stressed to the hilt we are apparently not turning on each other and attacking "THEM". Whoever THEM might be.

Hate crimes are a two way street. If I hit a gay over the head and steal his wallet it is a hate crime. I hit a straight white guy over the head and steal his wallet it is not a hate crime. A crime is a crime and each should be dealt with as a crime to add the word hate to get the crimal more time for the same crime.

Hate Crime legislation is anti-white. For the most part, violent crimes (by minorities) against White Americans go unreported in the main stream media. The reports are either not considered news, or are suppressed. I stand by this assertion. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves over this. All hate crime laws need abolished. Hate crimes are subjective, arbitary, and unconstitutional. I have seen a strong trend in this country (by the left) to even suppress thought and turn thought in to a crime. This happened before in 1917 Russia. It led to the death of over 20 Million Russians over a period of 50 years.

Walter and Nancy should get a life. In Germany during the regime of Hitler and Nazis, there wasn't one black african alive in Germany so forget about using Obama as a stereotype. Jesse Owen stood out at the Olympics as the token athlete as the Naxis treated the Jews the same way the bigots treat the minorities here. Try looking at Rush Limbaugh, Beck, or Palin, because they follow the propaganda route like Hitler did. Attack whoever is at the top and create frenzy among the people, so they will welcome anything and anybody that is on the same wavelength.

The hate crimes and Anti-Religious Offenses didn't decline in 2009. They just went to the Internet as those posting comments and were joined by the bigots and racists as well. If you want to see real hate, read some of the postings.

Brian Levin, head of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University has a business and career interest in exaggerating hate crime statistics. Levin makes baseless claims that unsuccessfully undermine the "cold" unadulterated, verifiable statistics quoted by religion reporter Gibson. There is no need to include the unsubstatiated reports by Levin. The fact that reporter Gibson includes them in what at first glance appears to be an "objective fact based" article gives proof to Gibson's not-well-disguised left wing liberal bias. A left wing bias has become the de jure posturing of the fast deteriorating business model of AOL. This kind of "journalism" will only exacerbate its decline among literate users.

You can call it a Hate Crime or what ever name the medi chooses to fullfill the need ofr media arises. Most of the hate crimes out of resentment which does have its merits. i came to this country and adopted western culture and way of life instead of bad mouthing America for every small thing. I did not fell any discrimination but a few isolated incidents here and there. But I also felt the same kind of discrimination in my owm country. Hinds hate muslims and sikhs in India. They kill each other in hundreds during riots. Is it m=not a hate crime then? My advice is shut up and try to learn goodness in this culture and adopt to the values for the common good.

The whole concept of "hate crime" is arbitrary, unneccesary and unconstitutional. If you hit me in the head and steal my wallet because you want the money, or because you don't like where I'm from, the result is the same and you should be prosecuted the same. The very idea that the government can enter your head and access special penalties because it deems your motives are somehow impure is orwellian and sets us all up for tyranny based on what some secular humanist decides is moral. Check out for example how many times the FBI charges people with hate crimes when the victim is white or Christian, and the assailant is something else, versus the other way around.

Why is it not considered a hate crime for these people to berate a fallen soldier in front of his/her family and loved ones. This is as anti-Christian an act as anything I have witnessed in my life time. Shame on them, and shame on us for allowing it to happen. This is not freedom of the press, it is invasion of privacy and treason.

I have to agree with Patrick. So called "hate crimes" are never ever reported when the victims are white and the perpatrators are of any other color. It's just not right. Crime is crime it doesn't matter if the person is colored or white. The government likes to fuel the flames of one group against another. If you check out the stats of crime against one color and another on the FBI crime page you will see that whites are the victims in most cases even though they count hispanics as whites to make it look like whites are more evil than anyone else. Its just a mess and terribly confusing. Go figure.