This is a stupid bill and honestly I think South Park handled this situation the best early on in the show. They pointed out that what society and the government are doing is tacking hate crimes specifically to crimes of discrimation mainly picking out ethnicity and/or sexual orientation but the truth of the matter is EVERY crime is a HATE crime because any crime attacking/harming someone is due to hateful thoughts, hateful spirit or whatever the case. Unless it's all violent crimes then hate crime shouldn't be thrown around. So what you're telling me, is if a white guy decides he wants to beat me up because he doesn't like me, that isn't considered a hate crime?? Sure sounds like a crime of hatred to me...... Furthermore, all this does is continue to drive a wedge between people,whether it's racial segregation or because of someone's job you are then singling those groups out turning them into a minority. There is only 1 race we should be concerned...