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Originally Posted by VaSteve
Hate crime is spraypainting a swastica on someone's garage or church, burning a cross in someone's yard, etc.
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I view that as no more than vandalism. I don't care what the reason is. Same as flag burning. You can't just go around starting fires in public or on someone's front lawn. Reason doesn't matter. Fires are bad. Vandalism is bad. It's arson and probably reckless endangerment. Lock em up for as long as that will allow. Hate should have nothing to do with the sentence.