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They
should never have opened the asylum gates. The
insane are in control. How can we overcome this pestilence?
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NEW FEDERAL “HATE” BILL MEANS FUNERAL OF FREE SPEECH IN THE U.S.
By Rev. Ted Pike
NATIONAL
PRAYER NETWORK,
P. O. Box 828,
Clackamas, OR 97015
On
Sept. 14, the US House of Representatives passed, 223-199, the ominous
federal “anti-hate” bill,
the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005. It was
inserted as AMDT.2662 into the Children’s Safety Act. If approved
unaltered by the senate judiciary, this legislation is ready for the
President to sign into law.
Here is a summary of what the bill
would make law:
Although AMDT.2662 ostensibly empowers the government to assist states
in prosecution of violent hate crimes, its actual effect will be much
more far-reaching. AMDT.2662 will lead to enforcement of the working
definitions of “hate” and “hate crimes” which
are enforced by the many “anti-hate” bureaucracies in countries
throughout the western industrialized world. In such countries, it is
now a “hate crime” to criticize members of federally protected
groups such as Jews and homosexuals. Utilizing such definitions, “hate
crime” indictments have been made or are currently being pursued
by Canada, England, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.
AMDT.2662 builds a foundation for a “hate crimes” bureaucracy
in America, also ending free speech.
Here are some of the specially protected groups which AMDT.2662 defends:
Homosexuals.
Any public criticism of homosexuals will soon be considered a hate crime,
just as it was for 11 Christians under the Pennsylvania hate crime law
on Oct. 10, 2004. These Christians were arrested as “hate criminals” for
preaching during a huge “gay pride” rally and faced 47
years in prison and $80,000 fines each.
Women.
A woman who claims her boyfriend used a sexist word against her and raped
her the last time they had sex, can press charges for a “hate crime” of
rape. Punishment will triple the usual penalty, about 30 years in prison.
Jews.
Already the Dept. of Global Anti-semitism, being established in the US
State Dept., makes it “anti-semitic” to express “strong
anti-Israel sentiment” against Israel or its leaders. It also says
upholding the New Testament charge that Jews killed Christ is “anti-semitic.” Under “anti-hate” laws
in Canada and Europe, such statements are “hate crimes” punishable
by harsh fines and imprisonment.
AMDT.2662 will hasten such anti-Christianity in America as well.
ENDING FREE SPEECH RADIO
If this amendment
is approved, FCC restrictions will soon descend on American talk show
hosts, with lists of banned topics. Hosts will be fined or imprisoned
and stations will lose their broadcast licenses, just as in Canada,
if they violate these restrictions.
In Canada in Aug. 2004, “CHOI FM,” Quebec City’s
most popular talk show station, was dissolved by the Canadian government.
Its 33 employees were put out of work. Its offense? One of its talk show
hosts criticized African dictators whose children were educated in Canadian
universities. This was considered a “hate crime” against
blacks.
If AMDT.2662 is passed, exactly the same will soon happen to broadcasters
who stray from the new “politically correct” FCC guidelines.
AMDT.2662 will also invite pedophiles, witches, warlocks, Satanists and
even “sinners” to acquire special federal protection from
those who criticize them, including pastors. In England especially, Satanists
and witches are included under Britain’s new, stiffer “anti-hate” law.
If passed, AMDT.2662 will provide immediate special FBI, Justice Dept.
and local police assistance to protected groups that claim to have been
offended. As the nation saw last October in Philadelphia, on the slightest
evidence of bias, police will descend on Christians, pastors, talk show
hosts and station managers, indicting them with trumped-up “hate
crime” charges and exorbitant penalties.
FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
The
sovereign rights of states to enforce the law as they see fit has
posed a huge barrier to establishment of a federal “anti-hate” bureaucracy.
Until now, the government has had to prove that such abuses as jury
tampering, voter fraud, slavery, or crimes involving interstate commerce
existed in states before they could meddle in state law enforcement.
AMDT.2662 would legitimize as law several devious strategies to break
down all barriers to federal intrusion.
AMDT.2662 asserts that if a violent bias crime within a state in any
way affects interstate commerce, the federal government has
the right to invade state law enforcement. This means that if a homosexual
has been called a “faggot” and threatened to have his butt
kicked by a gas station attendant, and as a result does not patronize
that gas station whose products have come from across the state line,
the federal government can intervene. Or if the homosexual buys a Greyhound
ticket (vehicle of interstate commerce) to resettle in San Fransisco
as a result of such threatened “violence,” the federal
government has a green light to take over state hate crime law enforcement
in that state.
AMDT.2662 asserts that bias in states is a “relic” of
slavery. This bill contends that the presence of bias-motivated
violent crime within a state is proof that slavery still exists in
that state. This provides the same justification for intervention that
the federal government had in putting down slavery during the Civil
War!
Under AMDT.2662, the government can take over local law enforcement
if:
1. States do not have “anti-hate” laws. Sec. B (b)(2A)
2. States are not enforcing state and federal hate laws as zealously
as the federal government wishes. Sec. B (b)(2A)
3. States do not produce the kind of verdicts in hate crimes trials
that the federal government wants. Sec. B (b)(2D)
VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION
AMDT.2662
flatly violates the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits
government from favoring any particular group.
AMDT.2662 will give hate crimes bureaucrats control of the federal
anti-hate agenda. Very quickly, via enabling legislation and judicial
precedent, any pretext of respect for the rights of Christians
or dissenters will dissolve, as has happened under anti-hate laws in
Canada, and under Pennsylvania’s ADL hate law in Philadelphia
on Oct 10.
All criticism of protected groups via politically incorrect terms,
such as “homosexual” or “sodomite,” will become
a hate crime, just as it is under British hate law. A huge number of
legal precedents will continuously widen hate law jurisdiction. Courts
will quickly clog with federal indictments. Staggering backups of unresolved
cases will make the federal hate law, like Roe vs. Wade, virtually
impossible to repeal.
Canada provides a telescope to American legislators, warning them of
the legal confusion and financial exhaustion which comes to those who
run afoul of hate crimes bureaucracies. Members of the senate judiciary
committee are in a position now to insist that our time-tested legal
system be allowed to continue to do what it has done so well for centuries:
punish all crime, including “hate crime,” according to
physical evidence --- not according to the vagaries of “bias
motivation.”
"I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." - Edward Everett Hale