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Rutgers Student Ravi Convicted of Bias Intimidation and Spying
In 2010, Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi used his computer's webcam to spy on the activities of his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi, and commented about it publicly on Twitter. Days later, Clementi committed suicide. Ravi was indicted on 15 charges, going to trial last month. Now, reader doston sends word that the trial has ended, and Ravi has been found guilty on all 15 charges, though the jury returned a not guilty verdict on aspects of certain charges.
"After less than three full days of deliberations, the five men and seven women of the jury found Dharun Ravi, 20 years old, guilty of invading the privacy of his 18-year-old roommate, Tyler Clementi, and his dorm-room date. They also found that Ravi was motivated by bias under a New Jersey hate-crime law that had been largely untested so far. ... The jury had been asked to decide Ravi’s motivations when he trained his webcam on Clementi and his date on two separate occasions in September 2010, in a case that set off a national conversation about cyber-bullying and treatment of gay youth. ... Ravi faces up to 10 years in prison on most serious bias intimidation convictions, but is likely to receive a lesser sentence based on sentencing guidelines because he is a first time offender. The India-born Ravi, who has spent most of his life in the U.S. as a permanent resident, faces the possibility of deportation as a result of his criminal conviction. He rejected a plea deal in December that would have kept him out of prison and offered him assistance with immigration authorities."
Oh, if a lack of gay sex experience is his problem, jail time will finally teach someone something that, if he knew it before, would have avoided the jail time and thus ensure he won't commit the same crime again.
The system works!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There is this 'hierarchy of protected classes' in American federal and state civil rights jurisprudence based on 'historical factors'. It goes something like this:
1 LGBT, any ethnic any gender
2 Black female
3 Black male
4 NAPI (Native American / Pacific Islander) female
5 NAPI (Native American / Pacific Islander) male
6 Hispanic female
7 Hispanic male
8 Asian female
9 Asian male
10 Unassimilated ethnic white female
11 Unassimilated ethnic white male
12 White female
13 White male
14 Evangelical Christian, any ethnicity, any gender
Within this scale, if one's worldview is perceived to be more hostile to historic Western values, said individual is granted more 'protection'. Basically, the more 'different' one is perceived by those assumed by reason of history to have power (i.e. white males), the more 'protection' one is granted. According to this model, it is absolutely impossible for the Black female gay (orientation overrides ethnicity and gender to the positive because we are carefully instructed that it is BIOLOGY) to be accused of a hate crime. In the contrapositive, the white male that attacks even another white male who espouses a worldview that is less tolerant of Western values (excepting Judaeo-christianity, of course!) than that of the attacker, that attacker has committed a hate crime. Therefore it stands to reason that anyone who attacks an evangelical Christian (faith overrides gender and ethnicity to the negative because we are carefully instructed that it is a CHOICE) is not merely not guilty of a hate crime, rather (s)he is doing enlightened humanity a favor by ridding society of such a pest. There are so many possible combinations of perpetrators and victims in these situations that adjudication of said cases requires the skill and judgment of one holding a terminal law degree and decades of experience.
Like any system, this one can be hacked. Be perceived as gay and *presto* instant top-level protection (cf Tyler Clemente). No evangelical of any ethnicity and/or gender will try to pull that stunt because his/her faith prohibits such behavior.
You can't get any more Asian than Mr. Ravi and you can't get any more gay then Mr. Clementi. Now if Mr. Ravi were Muslim, the jury would have been pressured by the US State Department to acquit for obvious GEOPOLITICAL reasons.