RE: Alright Moscow...Your Dark Little Secret Is Back

["Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>]

Dale writes in perplexion:

>those on the far-left somehow think
>that someone's motivation for murder makes the murder even worse. So
>what they have are "bad murderers" and "really bad murderers" -- as seen
>by the degrees of punishment that they would require.

As one who resides on the farthest shore of Left, and loves it there, may I 
respond?

Our criminal justice system makes all kinds of distinctions about murder, 
depending on the circumstances in which the murder was committed.  For 
several hundred years, at least, we have distinguished in court between the 
premeditated murder and the unplanned, the murder for gain and the *crime 
passionel,* the drunken driver who kills and the person stung by a bee while 
driving who slams into another car.

Is it really so hard to understand that there is a peculiar horror in an act 
of murder which finds its genesis in the desire to harm someone--anyone--who 
belongs to a particular group?  Or that as a society, we might want to 
acknowledge the very specific damage done to the body politic when a 
lynching or a gay bashing takes place?  Such acknowledgment doesn't diminish 
the seriousness with which we react to other kinds of murders; it simply 
notes the difference.

Or at least that's how it looks from here, where even the sky is pink(o).

Melynda Huskey

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