A couple local blogs (here and here) are commenting on the hate crimes bill soon to arrive on President Bush's desk. Bush is threatening veto. The reason to veto this bill is not because hate crimes bills are bad (they are not) or that they include homosexuals (they should), but that this is not a federal issue. Not every good idea has to be turned into federal law. Let the states, which prosecute the vast majority of crimes, figure out what to do with crimes that specifically target discrete minorities in our population.
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