- Last week, I announced that dominant Judiciary Democrats
might speed federal hate bill S. 909 directly to the Senate floor for a
vote, during their committee hearing May 12. This didn't happen. Discussion
was confined to federal aid to conventional police agencies, not takeover
of local hate crimes law enforcement.
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- I believe the Democrats decided to wait because of massive
protest this past week demanding formal hearings. Unlike two years ago,
this time they will not rush the hate bill forward to a vote in the Senate
by the end of the week. (In the previous Congress, Leahy dispensed with
hate bill hearings altogether, moving the hate bill to passage in the Senate.)
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- Leahy's delay is very good news. We have at least another
week to protest the "pedophile protection act" to the Senate.
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- When calling House or Senate, you may encounter pro-hate
bill staffers who argue that the hate bill poses no danger. To make your
calls even more effective, you must understand the deceptions and misinformation
that surround this devious legislation. The following are the most common
hate bill lies you may encounter, with suggested responses.
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- 1. "The hate bill does not threaten free speech.
It only gives the government greater ability to investigate and punish
violent hate crimes when states can't or won't."
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- Truth: The hate bill amends the 1968 federal hate law,
Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2a, which states that anyone whose speech "induces"
another to commit a violent hate crime will be tried as a principal alongside
the active offender. ("Whoever commits an offense against the United
States [a violent hate crime] or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces
or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.")
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- This bill threatens any speech from the pulpit, airwaves,
or even street corner -- which might be construed to have contributed to
a violent "hate crime."
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- 2. "This bill does not give special federal protection
to homosexuals. It only restores to them rights, privileges, and protections
enjoyed by other federally protected classes, such as race, gender, and
religion."
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- Truth: This legislation suggests penalties against those
who attack a homosexual out of bias be magnified by three levels. (1) This
means that under S. 909 a homosexual is valued and protected three levels
more by the law enforcement and judicial system than a heterosexual. The
police will respond three times levels faster to his cry, "Hate crime!"
The local DA will indict three levels more zealously. Federal investigative
services, trying to locate and apprehend the fleeing suspect, will also
pursue him pursue him with three levels greater diligence.
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- You say this doesn't mean special federal protection?
Get real!
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- 3. "Pedophiles are never mentioned in this bill.
Pedophilia is illegal, and nothing in this bill will protect them from
prosecution."
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- Truth: On the floor of the House, pro-hate bill Democrat
Rep. Alcee Hastings made a definitive statement. He welcomed under the
umbrella of hate bill protection all forms of sexual deviancy, illegal
or not. "This bill addresses our resolve to end violence based on
prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans, regardless of race, color,
religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity,
or disability, or all of these 'Philias' and fetishes and 'isms' that were
put forward need not live in fear because of who they are. I urge my colleagues
to vote in favor of this rule."
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- Yes, this bill does not forbid the justice system from
prosecuting and punishing pedophiles. But it does afford an accused homosexual
pedophile, from the beginning, extraordinary attention, services, and protection.
These privileges are not given the heterosexual rapist who cannot claim
victimization because of his "sexual orientation."
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- As Rep. Gohmert charges, if a mother assaults a homosexual
pedophile while he attempts to rape her child, and the pedophile and his
friends scream "Hate crime!" to the police, that mother faces
magnitude three penalties of up to 10 years in federal prison. She will
have to hire the best attorney she can find (with a minimum $10,000 retainer)
and may face several preliminary hearings, much publicity (possibly unfavorable),
and trial.
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- 4. "Democrats voted down Rep. King's amendment,
which would have required a statement in the bill excluding pedophiles,
because it's unnecessary and redundant. The Hate Crimes Statistics Act
of 1990 says "sexual orientation" means consensual sex. Pedophiles
are not involved in consensual sex so they won't be protected under this
bill."
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- Truth: A large percentage of homosexuals are pedophiles.
Sex with boy prostitutes, which is certainly consensual, is an enormous
fact of the gay scene, especially in large urban centers. NAMBLA (the North
American Man-Boy Love Association) is a powerful homosexual/pedophile activist
group which strongly asserts that all sexual relations they have with boys
are consensual. In fact, they insist boys often initiate sex, consenting
as much as do adult males.
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- Here's the real reason why hate bill defenders refused
King's amendment: They know the pseudoclass "sexual orientation"
is largely inhabited by homosexual pedophiles. But if they start excluding
"bad" homosexuals from "good" ones, Republicans will
come in for the kill, demanding that more and more of the 547 "paraphilias"
(sexual deviancies) listed by the American Psychiatric Association also
be banned from protection under the hate bill.
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- Lesbian activist Rep. Tammy Baldwin admitted in the House
Judiciary markup session two weeks ago that if that happens, "The
hate bill will be gutted."
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- 5. "Section 10 of the hate bill says, "Nothing
in this Act shall be construed to prohibit any constitutionally protected
speech" This guarantees the hate bill will never punish anyone for
speech."
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- Truth: Section 10 is a thin layer of icing on the heavy
hate bill cake -- poisoned at every layer to kill freedom. Think of the
hate bill as established on a silver platter, inscribed with federal law
Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2a. This inscription flatly states that any one
whose speech might "induce" commission of a violent hate crime
will be "tried as a principal." This edict destroys first amendment
free speech protection at the hate bill's most foundational level.
- On that silver substratum is the first layer of the cake:
empowerment of the government to unite federal policing authority with
local. This is the very definition of a police state -- stripping states
of their 10th Amendment rights in law enforcement.
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- The second layer of the hate bill cake is S. 909's requirement
of possible level three penalties against hate bill offenders. This gives
magnified importance to the rights and dignity of those, particularly homosexuals,
who claim victimhood because of bias-motivated crime. Such is a mockery
of the 14th Amendment which forbids government to grant some citizens special
rights, protections, and services over others.
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- The third layer consists of the hate bill's brand new
justice system for America. It is not based on traditional law, which says
that police must establish physical, demonstrable evidence that a crime
has been committed, before they can arrest. Under this new bias-motivation
justice system, mere suspicion of prejudice or bias behind a crime is all
the federal government needs to intrude into states' rights and law enforcement,
investigating, indicting, and convicting.
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- Do you see how the hate bill, on at least four levels,
takes away free speech, states' rights, and equality before the law? The
thin layer of icing proposed by Section 10 (claiming to protect free speech)
contradicts the freedom stealing intention of everything beneath. It is
merely frosting.
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- To learn more about the dangers posed by S. 909, read
the actual bill, posted <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/s909text.html>here
at www.truthtellers.org. Also, read my extensive comments on the longer,
previous version of it, S. 1145, located <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/s1145commentary.html>here
at www.truthtellers.org.
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- Rep. Steve King strongly suggests you call (not email,
fax, etc.) all 19 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Their names
and all Senate members are listed on the <http://www.truthtellers.org/actionplan.html>Action
page at www.truthtellers.org. Call today and tell them: "Please hold
hearings on the pedophile-protecting hate bill. If I and my friends hear
that the senator has voted for it, we will never forgive or forget!"
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- Hate laws are passed and hate bureaucracies remain in
power largely because of the idealism, naivety and ignorance of lawmakers
and citizens. When the truth is known, however, the hate law agenda is
in trouble. Let's all get educated and take action now! It will be too
late if the most dangerous and perverse bill ever submitted to Congress
is passed and, like hate laws in many other countries, becomes virtually
impossible to repeal.
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- Endnote
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- 1. The US Sentencing Commission, an independent consulting
organization in the US Justice Department, was instructed in 1994 to recommended
penalties for violent hate crimes be increased by three levels. (Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 [28 U.S.C. Sec. 994])
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