Hate Crime Law Voided by Court
In response to “Hate Crime Law Is Struck Down,” June 23:
For the first time in all of my 70 years I feel anguish and despair about where our government is going. I have always felt that no matter what, we had a Supreme Court that despite its makeup would stand up for certain rights that make us the great country we are and have been. But when it becomes OK to burn crosses and swastikas on the property of our fellow Americans and to say that it is done with freedom of speech in mind, I am horrified. Interestingly enough, I have always sided with the American Civil Liberties Union when it came to marches, whether in Skokie or in Alabama. But when a hatemonger is permitted to burn a swastika on my lawn, my home is no longer my castle. My home is my jail. It is no longer the American dream. It is the American nightmare.
MARJORIE L. SCHWARTZ
Los Angeles
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