HH: Codgers Need Protection, Too

At Remember The Roxy , OrangeTV posts this photo of what Kidd Island Bay looked like back in the 1950s. It has developed a little since then.

Currently, congress is in the process of adding yet another category to hate crimes. First race, then religion, now sexual orientation. To attach a “I hate you because,” (choose your own category)to the crime, in many cases raises the level of what normally would be a misdemeanor to the level of a felony. Not because the injury was egregious, but because your motives were politically incorrect. Why not add old people like me to these minority class distinctions? I certainly don’t want to get assaulted by someone half my age. Equal protection under the law, is perhaps the most important of all rights. Creating special categories of people such as these hate statutes violates that right to equality/ Herb Huseland , Bay Views. More here .

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