On the murder of Angie Zapata

This case is a perfect example of three maxims, 'if it bleeds it leads', 'half a truth is a lie' and the best one of all, 'never spoil a good story with the truth'.

I suggest watching the excellent movie, 'To Wong Foo with love, Julie Newmar'.

The mob wants to believe that Angie was killed because she was a Shemale when in fact she died because she lied. This fact is no excuse for the killer, there is no excuse for murder. (I do make a clear, even biblical, distinction between killing and murder but that is another story.) So the cold facts are not that the murderer decided to act because he hated the trans-gendered but because, believing he was with a woman, he reached down while they were fooling around and found the girl was a boy down below. Me, I would have jumped up and run. This thug defaulted to his cultural biases and beat her to death, thereby reaffirming his machismo.

So tell me, where's the "hate" crime? It was just another collision between stupid people that only one walks away from. Happens everyday.

I think the whole 'hate crime' concept is evil because it is a reversion back to the old feudal concept of tying the worth of a life to the persons social class and status. Kill a serf, pay a fine; kill a noble, hang.

So now, with the supposed deep desire for equal social justice, a system of levels within the category of a particular crime has been instituted. To paraphrase a wise man, 'all murders are crimes, but some murders are more crime-y than others'. Consider this, a straight man murders a straight man, crime; a straight man murders a gay man for any reason (even road rage) OMG hate-crime! White murders Black = hate-crime (HC), Black murders Vietnamese = mere murder (MM); man murders woman = HC, woman murders man = MM.

Even more destructive to equal justice is the often blatant fact that any self-defined victim class (SDVC) is automatically treated as if they have an innately higher level of justification for their actions (no matter what those actions are) then any member of the victim-class defined oppressors (VCDO).

Now that we have our acronyms in a row we can move to equations, venn diagrams and syllogisms.