Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  AMize writes:  in
response to cjones72:  (This comment was removed by the site
staff.)  Please don't mistake these people for animals. They are
not. Animals have more dignity and do not treat other animals in
this manner. You simply degrade animals with the comparison.
They aren't considered hate crimes because there's no evidence
that these crimes were directed at Christian and Newsom for
being representative members of a group, be it whites, college
age kids, heterosexuals or what have you. Their motivation was
car-jacking. It's appalling that they would value the lives of
these kids so little that they would kill them in order to get
their SUV, but that isn't inherently hate.