The Freedom to Hate

Now, hatred is by far

The longest pleasure;

Men love in haste

But they detest at leisure.”

— Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Last week in a federal courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia, the government of the United States of America successfully concluded a criminal show trial the purpose of which was to demonstrate the government’s supposed antipathy to the concept of hatred. This was the civil rights trial of the already convicted murderers of Ahmaud Arbery. 

The case against them in the federal courtroom was not for murder. Murder of a private person by another private person is not a federal crime. The trial was for violating Arbery’s civil rights while animated by hateful thoughts.

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Almost a month old, but still a good piece.