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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.
Critics stand in awe of this thousand-page enumeration and exploration of the crimes committed by Communist regimes around the globe: "an extraordinary and almost unspeakably chilling book … enormously impressive and utterly convincing" (Michael Scammell, the New Republic ). Published in France two years ago, it immediately created a stir, drawing criticism from the left and becoming an unexpected best seller.
The WP sums up discussions among alliance members concerning what to do about the failure to bring accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadzic to justice this way: "They refused to propose any changes in the mandate of the NATO-led peacekeeping force to hunt down Karadzic and others who are wanted to stand trial at the Hague war crimes tribunal."
Which leads back to the issue of why we ought to create a special category for what I'm calling intimidation or political terrorism: because these crimes are more deleterious to the social fabric than ordinary crimes.
Never mind that it's even more badly edited than High Crimes . Never mind that this flimflam is padded to book length with 100 pages of irrelevant stories about other addicts.
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