"Know this: we are watching."
Who makes this kind of threat?
Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious SS general and chief of the Gestapo?
KGB head Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov?
Big Brother?
They all talked that way.
He and Dana Nessel, the new state attorney general, announced plans "to increase the documentation and prosecution of hate crimes and incidents" in the state.
Not just hate crimes.
Hate incidents.
What's a hate incident? you may ask.
The MDCR press release says, "Hate and bias incidents are those instances where an action does not rise to the level of a crime or a civil infraction."
Designating certain crimes as "hate crimes" was a bad enough idea, but expanding on the idea to target lawful actions that can be subjectively described as hateful goes too far.
Is crossing someone off your Christmas card list a hate incident? or instigating a social media mob to destroy your high school frenemy?
If a woman turns down a date with a guy because he supports Trump, is that a bias incident?
The problem with words like "hate" and "bias" is that they're far too easy to misuse.
...Nessel's hate crimes unit "will include a minimum of one prosecuting attorney and one full-time investigator" and intends to "review any groups identified in the SPLC list," in addition to those identified through the unit's "independent research."
But, as Nolan Finley points out in the Detroit News, "the SPLC list is widely discredited as a political tool used to harass and discredit conservative groups. ...Free speech is under attack everywhere, with speech codes on campuses, social media shutting down conservatives, the Democrats' phony "For the People Act," the current attack on Tucker Carlson, and kids being bullied at school.
With the arrival of Dana Nessel as attorney general, freedom of speech is officially under attack in Michigan, too."
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