DID JEFFREY DAHMER COMMIT A HATE CRIME?
By Donald Hank Recently, senators put aside your objections and passed a defense authorization bill with an incongruous hate crimes addendum tacked onto it which would elevate several groups, including gays, to the coveted and lucrative status of victims. This is to make these groups safer, they say, since crimes committed by these groups would be handled by the FBI, not by those bungling local enforcement agencies who wouldn’t recognize a killer if they tripped over one. But in the event this bill somehow escapes President Bush’s promised veto, I want to know how they would handle a case like Jeffrey Dahmer’s. Jeffrey Dahmer had the ones he loved, so to speak, in more ways than one. His modus operandi was to spike the drinks of his victims with debilitating drugs, have sex with them and then kill them and eat their flesh, although not always in that order. Sometimes he would kill them before having sex with them. He killed 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Before you go categoriz
