- We thought the summer would be a quiet time, legislatively.
On Thursday August 14, the President signed into law the Higher Education
Opportunity Act (HEOA). If you care about freedom, you're not going to
like it.
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- HEOA modifies the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Its 1,150 pages sit about a foot high on senators' desks. Maybe they missed
the bad stuff. Politicians' websites focus on how this act is supposed
to make college more accessible. (You can read about some of its many mandates
at <http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/01/hea>Inside Higher
Education)
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- The Jewish Telegraph Agency provides a more
important detail. The act "includes stricter standards for collecting
campus hate crime data." Colleges who fail to apply the standards
could lose federal funding.
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- Institutions of higher learning have been required
to report hate crimes since 1998. But Jewish groups felt the standards
of reporting weren't inclusive enough, says JTA; they lobbied for changes.
They wanted more and more things to count as "hate crimes."
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- It's obviously not a surprise that Jewish groups
pushed this change. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is creator
of hate crime laws.
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- <http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Education_01/5345_01.htm>ADL
says this bill's "important new campus hate crime data collection
mandate is an important step forward. ADL stands ready to assist colleges
and universities in providing education and training for campus law enforcement
officials on a range of hate crime and extremism issues."
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- Yeah, you bet they do. ADL wants to infiltrate
all authorities-state, local, and academic-with their chilling speech bans,
thought police, and sensitivity training. Freedom is quickly eroded when
students, professors, police officers, journalists, and politicians are
indoctrinated to accept specific definitions of "bias," "hate,"
and hate speech. Soon, a society's elites become self-censoring; certain
forms of speech are outlawed and censored without police even showing up.
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- This act will be used to further cement the
myth of hate crimes in the minds and lives of America's future leaders.
It empowers ADL to further enforce the divisive, dangerous lie that some
motivations for crime (some thoughts and beliefs) are worse than others
and that some victims deserve more justice than others.
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- Hate crime data collection isn't all. "The
act also includes new provisions for universities seeking federal funding
for international studies that include standards for "diversity,"
a salve to some Jewish and conservative groups that charge that Middle
East departments are dominated by anti-Israel Arabists," says the
<http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109942.html>Jewish Telegraph
Agency. Basically, the feds will fund affirmative action in the realm of
ideas. As if Zionists were not powerful enough-saturating our culture through
media, Holocaust films, endless articles and books-they need a monopoly
in higher education, too.
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- In his 1991 book, Illiberal Education: The Politics
of Race and Sex on Campus, Dinesh D'Souza criticized the lack of true liberty
on college campuses. He writes that by many "it is considered acceptable
to censor sentiments regarded as racist, sexist, and homophobic."
This argument could be used, he points out, to censor Plato, the Bible,
the Koran, Dostoevsky, and so many others. Seventeen years later, censorship
has turned to criminalization.
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- The ADL's final goal is to criminalize "hate
speech" throughout the western world and the worldwide web. During
this Congress hate law advocates tried to sneak a federal hate bill into
the defense appropriations bill. This didn't work, but the strategy will
be tried again. Thick, ponderous bills are perfect places to insert an
innocent little clause about criminalizing hate (criminalizing thoughts).
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- It's significant that only the JTA and ADL are
reporting on the hate crimes content of the Act.
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- These Jewish publications know their Jewish
readers will want to know. Why aren't Christian and conservative, or even
mainstream, news sources reporting? Apparently their readers won't care.
You can't win if you don't even show up to fight. In this case, pro-hate
law Jewish groups are way ahead of pro-freedom Christian/conservative groups.
Shame on us.
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- We certainly don't seem prepared for the battles
that are coming. The 2008 <http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/8-15/news/national/13089.cfm>Democratic
platform vows, "We will pass the [NATIONAL] Local Law Enforcement
Hate Crimes Prevention Act, because hate crimes desecrate sacred spaces
and belittle all good people."
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