Hate-crime push rings hollow
It's the crime that matters -- not the motivation
By IAN ROBINSON
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Robinson_Ian/2007/12/09/4715308-sun.php

As the Alberta Hate Bias Crime Committee urges creation of a province-wide team to investigate and prosecute hate crimes, it occurs to me that if somebody hit me in the face with a two-by-four, I'd bleed just as red as a transsexual ethnic minority in a wheelchair.

YEah, but how likely would that hit in the face be?
This is to prevent attacks just based on who you are.
Straw argument. Next...