- Three weeks ago, during the stimulus bill controversy,
I queried House Judiciary aides if anyone was calling to protest the two
federal hate crimes bills. No one was! Ten days ago, the news was better:
four or five concerned people called every day. Last Friday, I called all
39 members to ask the same question. The results were even better!
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- Rep. Lamar Smith's office said 25% of all callers were
protesting the hate bills. Rep. Issa's office said the hate bill issue
replaced the stimulus bill in number of calls! Many Democrat offices also
reported their phones ringing with this issue. Some had received no calls
but others heard from as many as 10 or 15 people by early afternoon.
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- Six Judiciary offices said they are aware of NPN's video
How to Kill the Hate Bills. Before I could finish telling them about where
the video was, the staff of Rep. Conyers, Wexler, Johnson, and Schiffs
finished my sentence with "at truthtellers.org." Two said they
had watched the video.
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- One aide objected, "The Anti-Defamation League says
the National Prayer Network is an extremist group!" I replied that
ADL is the biggest name-caller on the planet. They call anyone who disagrees
with them, or is critical of Israel, an "anti-Semite."
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- Rep. Issa's spokeswoman also knew of the video, as did
the spokesman of Rep. Chaffetz. He said their office is very much against
the hate bills and is delighted that even "five or six calls are coming
in every day." He told me that calls, not emails, are the most effective
way to impact Congressional offices.
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- Although the number of calls is still low, I am very
encouraged and I want to thank each of you who have already called. Just
two days after my recent e-alert, "Let's Flood Congress with Hate
Law Video," Judiciary offices are learning of our website and its
grave warnings about the hate bills now moving through their committee.
This video could spread like a benevolent virus through the halls of Congress!
This is a strategy that must be pursued until no member of Congress is
ignorant of the truth about hate laws! Hate crime laws can't stand up to
scrutiny. Under examination, the "statistics," supposed need
for these laws, and their freedom-destroying potential and record immediately
invite ridicule and contempt. The last thing wanted by the Anti-Defamation
League, architect of such laws, is accurate education about their hate
bills to permeate Congress. If that happens now, these bills could possibly
die in committee!
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- Right now, HR 262 is in Judiciary subcommittees and HR
256 has not yet been considered by the Subcommittee on Crime. But it could
be approved in minutes by that committee's dominant liberals. The same
could be true in Judiciary. The best news we could have over the next few
weeks is no news-that the hate bills are not moving out of the House Judiciary
subcommittees.
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- If you haven't yet called your members of Congress, plus
the crucial 39 members of the House Judiciary, you must join us! You are
the vital freedom-saving torch-bearer who can bring truth to the darkness
that prevails in Congress.
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- Christian "Watchdogs" Don't Bark Loudly
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- This responsibility is especially yours because most
large Christian/conservative "watchdog" groups remain agonizingly
unhurried to effectively warn against HR 256 and HR 262.
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- Focus on the Family has nothing current on its website,
nor does Family Research Council on its homepage. (FRC did recently announce
creation of fighthatecrimes.com, a site which encourages you to sign a
petition to oppose all hate crimes bills. But the site doesn't mention
HR 256 or 262 nor does it encourage petitioners to call Congress!) Concerned
Women for America has nothing on its website except older articles. Like
a number of other watchdog groups, it erroneously urges protest of S1105,
the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act which was defeated in the
last Congress.
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- As detailed in my recent article "<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/christiansilencebeforehatebill.htm>Christian
Silence Before Hate Bill Threat," these presumed guardians of
freedom still don't urgently warn that it's now or never to save liberty.
They don't make vivid that our freedom-to evangelize, criticize government,
speak for the unborn or against immigration, or do any other Christian
political activism-is on the block beneath the guillotine of impending
federal legislation.
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- What if your local PBS station said the least possible
concerning its need for public financial support? What if they posted their
financial requirements in the recesses of their website? PBS knows no funds
will come without in-your-face pledge drives night after night to passionately
emphasize their need. All Christian leadership organizations could easily
do this now, dramatizing that freedom from hate laws is as crucial to the
survival of their ministries as oxygen to an athlete. Incredibly, they
don't.
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- The relatively low numbers of calls to Congress prove
how ineffective Christian/conservative groups remain. I phoned members
of the House and Senate to see if Congress in general was receiving many
calls. They weren't. Congressional offices said they were receiving no
calls, or at most one or two, against "anti-hate" legislation.
This reveals that the new right's modest invitations to action are having
little effect. But 15 or more calls (including emails, which one office
said exceeded calls) are coming daily to members of the House Judiciary-showing
that the vast majority of protest is being generated by the National Prayer
Network.
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- You Can do More!
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- Thank you, to every listener who has heard my urgent
pleas and taken action. We carry the torch for every American who ever
gave their life, liberty, or time to preserve our Republic. Please don't
stop fighting.
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- Call other members of the House and Senate (listed at
truthtellers.org) and encourage them to vote against any hate crimes legislation.
Especially encourage them to watch NPN's video at <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org.
Also, come to <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org
for the list of the highly influential Congressional aides to all members
of the House Judiciary Committee, both local and federal, and call them.
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- Veteran political strategist Jack Ellis asserts from
long experience that calls to such aides, both local and in Washington,
is the most effective way to impact members of Congress.
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- It is sobering to realize that hundreds of thousands
read my e-alerts or hear me on the radio, yet only several hundred actually
pick up their phone to call. That's one tenth of one percent. Many of us
are tirelessly fascinated by conspiracies and events marking national decline,
but are victims of apathy and fatalism. Even when God and the people defeated
six Orwellian bills in the last Congress, most can't believe their efforts
can help make it happen again.
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- The greatest problem facing America is anti-Christ Jewish
supremacism. But our apathy is a close second. Pick up your phone now!
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- Call 1-877-851-6437 toll-free or 1-202-225-3121 toll.
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