At some point I wrote a rant about hate crime legislation and how it is really thought crime, because if I murder someone in cold blood, it shouldn't matter if I did it because that person was gay or if I did it because the victim just happened to walk by when I felt like killing. Either way I should go to jail and be punished the same. Plus, what if the victim was just walking by the wrong place at the wrong time, so I murder, and then the victim turns out to be gay, so everyone decides it's a hate crime, even though it was just random coincidence that the victim was gay.

Now we got that shooting at some Jewish center in Seattle. Of course the first reports I heard were that an American citizen from Pakistan who is Muslim did it, then I hear the knee jerk "We do not believe this was religiously motivated," which you hear everytime a Muslim does something bad in this country, and then I hear that the guy said something like, "I am killing you because I am angry over Israel," which pretty much makes it an open and shut religiously motivated slaughter. Now the question is, does this guy get charged with a hate crime? Doesn't it seem silly at this point? He killed several people, and should never see freedom again. Why waste our time adding on a few mroe years because he did it out of hatred for a minority group?