1.)THe question was do you need action alone to commit a crime, and your saying yes
2.)So then if you suggest that planing a crime is a crime, that's the equivalence to you breaking a premeditated law by the action of planning out the crime or what would be considered a cognitive action, an action of thought as opposed to a physical action
3.)If you assault someone your action of breaking the law by the action of assault, or a physical action.
4.)You have previously admitted that both of these are punishable actions, showing cognitive actions and physical actions are punishable by law
5.)So with that being established, a hate crime is the action of breaking hate crime laws by allowing your own personal bias to motivate you into the action of committing a crime. So the action of allowing your bias to motivate you on your crime is a cognitive action, considering personal bias is opinion and thought. Thus, in court, having to prove that this actually took place you must establish the fact that the person in question has a bias. Effectively putting his/her opinion in politics in terms on prosecution, or the additional punishment based on the persons politics. If you can't establish this, you can't prove the persons bias motivated the crime. So effectively, you are being brought up on charges based on your own personal political opinion.