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President Clinton and several liberal columnists have already likened Shepard's death to that of James Byrd, the black man who was dragged to his death by three white men in a pickup truck earlier this year.
You have to read a while in all the papers before you find out that no one thinks Byrd's motion will pass when he makes it.
But as the Washington Post puts it, "Byrd has been one of the Senate's toughest critics of Clinton's behavior in the Lewinsky scandal, and virtually every scenario for convicting the president has included the 81-year-old West Virginian defecting from the Democratic camp."
And to me, in a year when Matthew Shepard was crucified on a split rail fence because of his sexual orientation; when James Byrd was dragged to his death because of his skin color; and both a Filipino-American and a Korean graduate student were murdered because of the shape of their eyes--I cannot comprehend how some can argue that hate crimes are no different from all other crimes.
bed's head - In 1711 William Byrd was a delegate to the House of Burgesses of Virginia.