Then the press unthinkingly adds to this perception by parroting the claim that hate crimes are increasing at an astronomical rate. Perhaps the most common lament of the garden-variety homophile activist revolves around a supposed tidal wave of anti-gay hate crimes occurring in the United States. 2 The very survival of these groups depends upon their convincing the nation that homosexuals are helpless victims in need of constant help and protection. Nearly two decades later, we can add to this list numerous homosexual groups, including GLAAD, ACT-UP, P-FLAG, the Human Rights Campaign, the Equality Federation, the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, and dozens of others, whose combined income exceeds a billion dollars a year. In his 1997 book The Watchdogs, he criticized the “industry” of such groups “whose identity and livelihood depend upon growth and expansion of their particular kind of victimization.” He singled out for special attention groups whose income depends upon keeping their constituencies in a continuous state of fear, naming specifically the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, Political Research Associates and the Center for Democratic Renewal. Investigator Laird Wilcox has been collecting information on hoax hate crimes since the early 1990s. This mentality has become so ingrained that if some people have a grievance that they do not believe is being addressed to their satisfaction, they actually victimize themselves-by perpetrating hoax hate crimes. In the United States, we reward victimhood-lavishly.
There are already laws against that.…The real reason for the invention of hate crimes was the emergence of special interest groups which need boutique legislation to raise funds for their large staffs and luxurious buildings.Įvery parent knows that they will see more of a certain type of behavior in their children if they reward it. The real reason for hate crime laws is not the defense of human beings from crime.