Every time Mr. Baldwin leaves his house is a hate crime.

And what happens
when your "hate crimes"
are declared a violation of
the First Amendment?

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

- If you´re a white, conservative, straight, christian male, otherwise it´s a hate crime.

Why should anything happen to him. A pair of fools harass him on the street and he lets loose with a few choice words. So what. How can this even be considered a crime. I´ve seen no mention of assault.

At least he wasn´t drinking water.

After claiming he´d self-deport if Bush was reelected, it would be really embarrassing if he had to flee to avoid hate crimes prosecution under Obama.

Boo-hoo. To consider the possibility that this uber-liberal will hoist with his own petard is utterly delicious.

"Hate crims task force"--sheesh. The only good thing in all this is it´s happening to a particlarly smugly arrogant liberal.

no crime here.

Ah yes, the tolerant left. It´s only a hate crime if it´s linked to a conservative.

He´s a giant jerk and an idiot but the whole idea of ´hate crimes´ is never applied equally and is bogus.

Who is Alec Baldwin?

Hey, it may have been hate, but where is the darn crime? Is there now a law against telling someone off or calling them names? If that were so, every leftist would be guilty of hate crimes. Come on... we are turning into a nation of thought police and making criminals out of ordinary citizens. This has to stop!!! I don´t like Baldwin, but I will not go along with these thought crimes either. This is unConstitutional.

I say hang the bast@rd

Could this mean that "hate crimes" are no longer such a serious sort of illegal activity, or is this law going to be selectively enforced, only upon people who are unpopular and/or "not politically correct"?

Alec Baldwin is certainly deserving of all the censure that would be heaped upon the head of some poor unsuspecting fool who happened to be overheard by a hostile witness, but it just is not going to happen.

Capital One is engaged in slow suicide by keeping this piece of trash in their advertisements. I wouldn´t take a Capital One card if they paid me to do so. Talk about poor judgement!!!

Only white CONSERVATIVE males can be found guilty of a hate crime. Liberals are immune from prosecution of most laws. They can hold an illegal gun magazine in their hand on national television in Washington, DC and be immune from prosecution. They can confess to perjury on national TV ("I didn´t have sex with that woman, Monica...") and not suffer a penalty.

Liberals are immune from prosecution.

Mr. Baldwin, of Gotham City´s East Village and Studio 54´s most famous former busboy, may have a legitimate excuse here. He was recently quoted as noting that..."There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time."

Mr. Baldwin verbally abused his daughter. Shouldn´t that be a hate crime?

Speech is now a crime?

So what if he called the guy coon and crackhead. So what if he said to the reporter I hope you choke. He could have tossed in the N word, flipped them off, added a few four letter words and there´s still no CRIME. How can you have a hate crime if there´s no crime.

What law did he break. Do you want him prosecuted for bad language, honestly? So he´s a jerk, so what. Is that the new criminal standard. Sorry sir you didn´t break the law but you´re a jerk so we´re taking you to jail.

Just like the Old Bolsheviks, lefties are finding out that the revolution eats its own. You don´t have to read Orwell on Koestler to know that.

There was no crime. This is a really bad law, however, considering Baldwin is such a staunch liberal - i would say enforcing a bad law as strictly as possible might do some good.

Perhaps then it might be reconsidered or reppealed. When these things happen to us common folk, it won´t get nearly the attention it deserves.

First mistake: Alec forgot he isn´t a Kennedy.

So now we have a Liberal v. Minority fight. And the NYPD won´t want either to lose. What to do?

My guess - the NYPD will try to hand off to the DOJ for review and possible federal action.

Hate Speech laws will almost always lead to only political prosecutions.

I hope juries will refuse to convict people for disagreeable language and a listener´s hurt feelings. I expect otherwise.

I thought he moved to France

As much as I despise him, this is certainly no crime and I welcome the court challenge that would come from his prosecution.

And this illustrates just exactly how unconstitutional hate crimes are.

To tell someone "I want you to choke to death," is a threat.

I wonder how his studies for his master´s degree in political science are going? Ha, ha, ha. Dreadful buffoon and detestable dunce though he is, that wasn´t a crime. I suppose it´s too much to hope that the left sees how wrong establishing the ´hate crime´ designation was.

That´s some real first-class reporting there, FoxNews.

The "rep"? Not once, but TWICE that idiotic and lazy term is used.

Baldwin is an idiot, however, no crime was committed here. If you are not allowed to speak on a public street then where are you allowed to speak? Alex needs to learn to control his moronic behavior in public. His speech, however, is protected.