Re: Alleged Wyoming hate crime

[Robert Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 11:11 AM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>While I deplore the sorry event in Wyoming, I do not perceive how
>including the federal government would have changed anything.  
>
>Wyoming already has laws against assault and battery (and murder).  What
>difference would another layer of legislation have provided?
>	Bob Probasco
>
>
>On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Scott Dredge wrote:
>> I believe that we should enact federal legislation to uniformly enforce
>> punishment across the nation in cases involving hate crimes.

What difference did Civil Rights Legislation of the 1960's make?
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