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D.C. Council to Consider Making Attacks Against Homeless Hate Crimes: Maryland recently passed such a law, and now Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh has introduced a bill that would allow attacks on the homeless to be considered hate crimes in the District, the Examiner reports. The introduction of the bill is a testament to the lobbying of The National Coalition for the Homeless, which has long sought additional protection for D.C.'s most vulnerable residents. If the bill passed and a suspect was convicted of a hate crime against a homeless person, they would face up to 50 percent more jail time and 50 percent higher fines.
Are Ya Ready for Some Hotel Debate? After the Business Journal's big scoop on the possibility of issuing up to $750 million in public bonds to pay for the languishing convention center hotel, the Post follows up this morning with more D.C. Council reaction. The bottom line: despite stern warnings from Nat Gandhi about the debt cap, the Council appears to be at least sympathetic enough about the need for the hotel that we could be in for another Nationals Park-style debate on the financing of this project.
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Cheh is such a tool. Isn't any crime by definition a "hate crime?" You telling me if someone mugs me, then they get a lesser sentence than if they roll the drunk who lives on my corner?
Nice to see who Cheh values as important elements of our society.
I Rick Roll the homeless every chance I get, isn't that showing some love?
Good to know the guy who shoots me during a botched robbery attempt will get less time in jail than I will for strangling hobos. Aw, who am I kidding? Neither of us will ever see jail time. That's what makes armed robbery/hobo suffocation such a booming business in the City of Magnificent Distances. Now, hold still while I get my belt around your neck, you smelly bastard!
(sobs bitterly while strangling hobo)
Mommy! Why did you never love me?
Cheh never misses a chance to remind us that SHE's a lawyer. So is half the godforsaken city, toots. You're nothing special.
are certain types of assaults love crimes?
"you know i don't want to do this to you, baby... but it's for your own good"
it's all a crock.
Also, Lanier needs to be fired if Fenty wants to at least half-heartedly start delivering on all this accountability he promised.
So what happens if one homeless person attacks another homeless person? Is it still a hatecrime?
Or do you just sell the video online?
Last time I checked, there were plenty of hotels within a few blocks of the convention center. Why should taxpayers subsidize lardassed conventiongoers who can't walk four blocks without breaking wind?
DC's credit rating is screwed if they go over their borrowing cap. The $700 mil that went to the stadium was the second-to-last nail in the coffin. And just love how Jack Evans keeps pitching these deals that are going to "pay for themselves" but when it comes to actually break ground, we've just got to have some taxpayer-funded gewgaw or else we risk losing all that tax revenue to Maryland.
So long Class A rating, hello junk bond status. Good luck borrowing that $1.2 billion for the mayor's private gold-plated pudding pool and plushie passion pit pervert dungeon.
Oh my gawd.
"The District’s protected classes are: “race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibility, physical disability, matriculation, or political affiliation.”"
So does being a leftist southpaw count as a political affiliation or a physical disability or both?
Ha! Trick question! It's a physical affiliation!
ha
Say What?!?! Masochists aren't a protected class? Oh, wait...I get it. Ooooh, I want it. Give it to me. Hurt me.
I especially like "matriculation" as a protected class. I can just hear the thugs. "Let's go f*** up some under achievers."
You cut off the footnote:
FN1: Race does not include "White" "Caucasian" and/or "Honky". See: Rock Throwing Shaw Teens vs. Bike Riding White Gentrifiers
Yeah, this is my problem with hate crime laws in general:
Black kid beats up black kid--3 months jail
Black kid beats up white kid--6 months jail
I'll be the first to admit that beating a clown to death is a hatecrime because I hate clowns. And mimes. And the guys in metallic paint who pretend to be statues. Pretty much any street performer as well, with the exception of the organgrinder dude, but only if he has a trained retarded monkey in a vest and hat who cranks the hurdygurdy with his tail. That's the only exception I'm willing to make at this time.
Is the District government "Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls"?
Wow, hold on to pointless grudges much?
I wonder if it's possible to find someone who fits all of those categories.
It's easy, they're called "human beings." One need not be a member of a minority within the category to be covered by the category.
Isn't there a hotel 2 blocks away from the Convention Center? Why does there need to be a $750 one right across the street?
Because Jerk Evans' corporate necrophile masters want a convention center nearby. Who wants to walk more than two blocks with a drunk hooker on each arm, and two on each leg? They're like ankle weights that smell like Briney Spears.
Any excuse for Evans to show his true dildo bobblehead colors. Lookee here! Bobble, bobble, bobble! Bobble, bobble, bobble!
This table is about as sound as your underlying concept.
I don't know if Briney Spears was intentional, but that's fantastic.
She is a salty wench.
Don't look back!
Don't look back!
Don't look back!
Don't look back!
Really, that wasn't me four times; mods please pare down.
Really, that wasn't me four times; mods please pare down.
Attention Whore! ~ snap / snap
Is atttacking a CHUD considered a hate crime? In a way they're homeless, unless you consider the sewers a home.
You know we do.
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
CHUD attacks a hate crime? That's a tough call. You should contact the DC Office of Humanoid Rights. Unless the hate crime is gender related, in which case you should get in touch with the DC Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Underground Dweller Affairs.
I wouldn't bother if the victim is a Morlock. Morlocks are from the future. They don't count.
CHUDS may be homeless but defenseless they are not. They ooze a protective slightly radioactive gel that adheres to living tissue. The ooze is relatively harmless when a CHUD is in a restive state, but once provoked the gel becomes toxic. Shooting or stabbing one will only cause its acidic blood to spurt out. With each CHUD being once human, their blood chemistry will have several mysterious qualities that baffle today's geneticist. So if you attack a CHUD, you are asking for a bio/mutagenic raffle.
A CHUD sex crime is another matter. The female CHUD has an insatiable ravenous sexual appetite that can only be satisfied by the most skillful and abundant lovers. I was lucky to escape from the musky sex dens of the infamous
Chinatown CHUD Mama Sue. Rehab was painful. CHUD sex can be very very addictive.
Fair enough, Cheh. But most of the crimes against the homeless are self abuse. We've all seen some homeless dude tuggin' it, leering at some skirt on the bus or in the park. So who do you charge with the hate crime? The makers of Thunderbird? The innocent woman who was just walking by? The dude who was caught doing the exact same thing in the front seat of his Smart Car while waiting for his triathlon bike to be fixed?
Something tells me Hizzoner doesn't need to do his own tugging.
That WJLA story missed the tree that crashed on a metro bus on Maryland Ave. NE...
Indeed they did. You can see pix on this twitter stream
I've seen that twitterer (tweeter?) before, indeed on the X8. I took a pic of the bus under tree too around 9:30p, right before I got dumped on by the second wave of monsoon.
Our entire block (Thomas St NW) was flooded last night. The drain in front of our basement apartment had storm water flowing out of it like a geyser. The water went from the ground to chest deep water in less than 5 minutes. Every house was bailing out the water.
FYI. The city spent $16 million to replace the sewer and water lines on our street less than a year ago.
Dear District Resident,
In accordance with the Deluge Management, Emergency Revenue, and CHUD Protection Act of 2009, your basement has been declared an "emergency adjuct sewage transit, water storage, and CHUD relocation facility" and will be taxed at the rate of $1,000 per cubic gallon of water/sewage stored. Your property tax bill will reflect these new revenue enhancements.
Thank you and have a nice day.
I can only hope he died in the arms of a hooker.
Auto-erotica.
Gotta wonder if the five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique did him in.
The ropes were found around his neck and groin.
I think it was more like autosodomite.
Alone in a Bangkok hotel room. You know, that is exactly how I imagined David Carradine dying.
+1...first thing I thought of too
I guess Cheh hasn't walked along 14th in a while, or into the park at Franklin Square. My mom (visiting from out of town) was treated to some choice words while she and I were walking through this park. What are Cheh's plans to crack down on the aggression these folks spew onto folks just strolling through a public venue? Maybe she should help repopulate some of these folks to Manhattan, where they can now live like royalty: http://gothamist.com/2009/06/04/luxury_condos_being_turned_into_hom.php I actually like Cheh, but this is just stupid.
And by Manhattan, I of course mean Brooklyn. And by "these folks" I mean I'm a jerk. But I do have a point.
It's important for residents of pricey neighborhoods to feel good about themselves by protecting the human rights of the homeless.
Of course those same homeless who would wander around Cheh's neighborhood harassing people for money would quickly find themselves being arrested by MPD. And MPD would have been summoned by the same hippy-dippy residents who support the human rights of the homeless. So long as they stay downtown.
Bingo. Cheh also supports the right of people to protest...just not in Ward 3.
Is it a hate crime if you give them a little loving before you come down on them for refusing to accept the sandwich you so willingly offered them.
I thought it was "touching" the way the christian kids were handing out sandwiches to the guys at the McPherson Square Metro station. This tween girl says "want a sandwich?" The homeless guys says "wanta fuck?"
Touching indeed.
Why..that..dirty..rat! That homeless guy is using my line!
Sounds like an apocryphal story to me. None of the homeless people I know would ever ask a sandwich, "wanta f**k?" They'd just go ahead and f**king do it. Particularly if it's a cheese sandwich. Because the cheese stands alone.
Hate crime == thoughtcrime
Enough with this gratuitously pandering legislation already.
Here's an idea, city council: how about focusing your energies on getting the "homeless" off the street?
Here's an idea, city council: how about focusing your energies on getting the "homeless" off the street?
HATE CRIME!
(BLOWS RAPE WHISTLE)
Agreed. "Homeless is a pejorative term. The preferred label is "residence challenged."
LOOPHOLE ALERT!!!
DC's protected classes do not include "mentally challenged" or "species expression." Let the retarded monkey bashing begin.