Manufacturing Hate Crimes

I liked this passage from this Mike Adams Column about people who try to get offended or make up hate crimes...

In 1999, after a UNCW faculty member falsely accused a chair of sexual harassment, she too tried to invoke the language of hate crimes to garner sympathy from the university community. I tried to convince one of my liberal colleagues in the Faculty Senate to press for the punishment of faculty who manufacture false claims of harassment and “hate criminality.” This fell on deaf ears as he suspected that such measures would deter people from making real claims when actually victimized. I stopped short of asking him whether counterfeiting U.S. currency should be made legal lest it deter people from doing their jobs at the U.S. Treasury Department.

A small sampling from one source

Crime did not fall in England after handguns were banned in 1997. Quite the contrary, crime rose sharply. In May, the British government reported that gun crime in England and Wales nearly doubled in the last four years. Serious violent crime rates from 1997 to 2002 averaged 29% higher than 1996; robbery was 24% higher; murders 27% higher. Before the law, armed robberies had fallen by 50% from 1993 to 1997, but as soon as handguns were banned, the armed robbery rate shot back up, almost back to their 1993 levels. The violent crime rate in England is now double that in the United States.

 
 

Pasted from <http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/NationalPost61504.html>

 
 

FBI Crime statistics:

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

 
 

Canada Statistics for last 5 years:

http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/legal02.htm

 
 

John Lott's website: Author of "More guns, less crime" and "The Bias against guns"

http://www.johnlott.org/

Current Issues Blog:

http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/

Op-Ed's

http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/list.html

Academic Papers:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=16317

 
 

Confessions of a political junkie: How often do candidates do stuff like this without the press around?

Here's an interesting story I came across today:

Today I got an email via my dad that he got from an old high school friend of his. This friend, from Murray, Utah, was forwarding an email from her friend in California, specifically San Diego where fires raged just a short while ago. Apparently, a certain Reed Fisher, whose home and property were damaged by the fire, got a call from someone in the local LDS Church offering to help clean up. After telling them about a burnt tree with 20 year old roots that he had been unable to remove, the brother showed up at 7 AM on a Wednesday morning, along with his father, who turned out to be none other than Mitt Romney...minus the press corp.

Here's the link to the original story:
Confessions of a political junkie: How often do candidates do stuff like this without the press around?