Bigot Watch... racist trolling!!!! Alert, Alert!!! Too Chicken to show his face.

I disagree. It is but one tool that we, as Americans, have to protect the civil rights of those whose rights need protecting.

@GipsyOfNewSpain Thomas Jefferson was concerned that delineating ANY rights via the amendments meant there would be "fundamentalists" refusing to recognize any rights not so delineated. And so it has become.

This now has become craziness with the "fundamentalists" refusing to recognize the rights of anyone not included in any of the protected class categories of the 60s. (eg lbgtq, atheists)

And now, the concept of "hate crime" (and hate speech) creates another series of classes that the fundies get to argue against if a particular group has not been included. This is not what we want.

So, what was the crime of this looney guy? He was threatening her civil right to a peaceful experience. He was menacing. He was annoying. And he should have been arrested immediately.

Hate cannot be legislated for or against. For, who decides what is hateful speech, and what is just stupid speech? Who is to be included in the class of those who are to be defended against "hate?"

Are we to have 1st degree hate crimes? 2nd degree? Inadvertent disdain?

This cannot be done without resulting in corruption.

The constitution has all the basics for equal rights for all. Everytime we have tried to specify who "all" is, has resulted in more fodder for the fundies.

It should not matter why a person commits a "hateful" act. It should only matter that a crime was committed and the person suffer the consequences.

Does anyone really think there is a way to legislate against anyone feeling hateful?

@Jacar Troll. Racist Watch.