double standard??

beating of 13 year old kid

just so im clear:
a gang of white kids beating up a single black kid = hate crime
a gang of black kids beating up a single white kid = misdemeanor

personally, im not a fan of 'hate crime' laws. a crime is a crime regardless of what your motivation is for doing it. whats the difference between a gang of douchebags beating up some punk because they dont like the color of thier green hair... or beating up some black kid because they dont like the color of thier skin? nothing, at least in my book. it sucks either way. and its "hateful" either way.

and while im at it, why should someone get a harsher penalty for killing a cop, as opposed to killing a civilian? if someone killed my family member..and then only got 30yrs... but someone else kills a cop, and gets life in prison- does that mean the cop's life has more value than my family member? sure seems that way.

/end rant

Gun Control

is requiring a background check before buying a hand gun concidered "gun control"???
my co-worker thinks anything more than walking into wal-mart with a fist full of cash & walking out with a gun is stepping on his freedom.

im all for the "right to bear arms"... but i have absolutely no problem with background checks & some limitations... and yes, that mean's no uzi's.

discuss.

libertarian's view on minimum wage....

recent changes in NH to raise min wage...

Skilled, experienced workers make high wages because employers compete
to hire them. Poorly educated, inexperienced young people can't get
work because minimum wage laws make them too expensive to hire as
trainees. Repeal of the minimum wage would allow many young, minority
and poor people to work.

It must be asked, if the minimum wage is such a good idea, why not
raise it to $200 an hour? Even the most die-hard minimum wage advocate
can see there's something wrong with that proposal.

The only "fair" or "correct" wage is what an employer and employee
voluntarily agree upon. We should repeal minimum wage now.