- In mid-March, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Democrat
leaders would soon strategize to pass the federal hate crimes bill. Their
strategy is now clear.
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- House Judiciary head John Conyers would introduce hate
bill HR 1913 into Judiciary in the last minutes before spring recess April
3. No one would know of it until Congress reconvened nearly two and a half
weeks later, when Judiciary Democrats would rush it to easy House passage.
Meanwhile, Sen. Edward Kennedy would have introduced his Senate version
just before House victory. Early the following week, Sen. Patrick Leahy's
Judiciary Democrats would speed it to triumph on the Senate floor. With
no difference between the two bills, conference would not be needed. A
quick final vote by House and Senate Democrats would bring it to the President's
desk, where it would become law as early as May 14. The hate bill would
be a done deal long before a lethargic religious right could gear up for
effective opposition. Hate bill architect, the Anti-Defamation League,
would then be ready to inspire prosecution of any pastor, talk show host
or ordinary citizen whose criticism of federally protected groups (homosexuals,
Muslims, Jews, Latinos, etc.) might be blamed for inciting a hate crime.
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- But the above agenda was challenged and slowed. (Read
this account in my article, "<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/actionnotjustprayercankillbill.htm>Action,
not just Prayer, Can Kill the Hate Bill," May 18, <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org.)
Democrats made a critical blunder by defending the hate bill's protection
of homosexual pedophiles. Their strategic error awoke the religious right
while re-energizing the protest of listeners to alternative right-wing
media. Many followed Rep. Steve King's advice to call the 19 members of
the Senate Judiciary Committee and protest the "Pedophile Protection
Act."
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- It's been more than two weeks since the hate bill could
have been passed in the Senate.
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- Yet the situation remains grave.
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- In 2005, the vote for hate bill passage was 65-33; about
17 Republicans voted for it. In 2007, the vote was 60-39; about 11 Republicans
voted for the bill and 2 Democrats voted against. Today, hate bill forces
include 60 Democrats as well as liberal Republicans like Susan Collins
(co-signer), Michael Crapo (longtime supporter), Richard Lugar, Olympia
Snowe, and others. Lovers of freedom have a heavy lift in bucking this
hate bill majority in the Senate! In fact, this time we cannot approach
the numbers necessary to filibuster it.
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- So why are Judiciary Democrats dawdling? I will repeat
what I said in my latest e-alert: The last thing Sen. Leahy wants is to
publicly open the hate bill issue. He doesn't want Republican Judiciary
members asking the now-red hot question: "Will you also refuse to
exclude pedophiles from special protection?" Leahy may be at an impasse.
If he bulls the bill through Judiciary without hearings, he will appear
to be short-circuiting legislative due process- proving to Congress that
the hate bill can't face scrutiny. But if he waits much longer, he risks
losing support from Democrats, increasingly leery of being branded "pro-pedophile"
in the upcoming midterm elections.
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- Hate bill advocates have two choices. They can wait and
hope the furor from the conservative right dies down. Or they can boldly
amend the bill in Judiciary to say: "Nothing in this bill may be construed
as protecting, under the class of "sexual orientation," any illegal
activity." Then they can trumpet to all wavering politicians that
S. 909 will not protect pedophiles.
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- Defeating the Amendment
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- How can we argue against this almost inevitable amendment?
Remember, by creating a special, federally protected pseudo-class called
"sexual orientation," the hate bill must include all homosexuals.
These include a large percentage who are pedophiles, preying on young boys.
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- Of course, homosexuals already have equal rights and
protection against any crime along with all Americans. But under S. 909,
penalties three levels higher are recommended against those who victimize
homosexuals out of bias. As a result, homosexuals are automatically considered
roughly three times more important than other crime victims. Federal and
state law enforcement will be triply diligent to aid anyone, including
a pedophile, who claims to be victimized because he is a homosexual. This
heightened attention by the government to the cry of "Hate crime!"
from a homosexual pedophile has nothing to do with whether he is guilty
or innocent. Instead, his status under "sexual orientation" guarantees
initial federal and state delivery of services which a heterosexual rapist
or child molester cannot enjoy.
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- No one can deny that the hate bill gives at least preliminary
special rights, services and protections to a homosexual pedophile. It
also gives him the privilege of making life a living hell for the person
he accuses. Anyone accused of a hate crime, facing possible years of imprisonment,
must prepare to defend himself with the best lawyer he can afford and possible
extravagant court costs.
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- To amend the bill saying it won't give such privileges
and protections is simply a contradiction. Like Sec. 10 of S. 909 (which
claims the hate bill will never threaten free speech), this possible new
amendment would only thinly frost the real threat of the bill.
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- Hit Democrats Where it Hurts
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- This amendment could be sensationally effective propaganda
if adopted by the Senate Judiciary Committee immediately before floor action
in the Senate. We can help prevent that by widely discussing and arguing
against it on talk radio, internet, etc.
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- But right now we must impact politicians not intellectually
but on a primal level: their instinct for political survival. They must
know that with midterm elections coming soon for some, a substantial number
of their constituents unalterably associate the hate bill with protection
of pedophiles. Any Senator who votes for the bill will face their wrath
at election time.
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- Is the hate bill in trouble? It depends how much trouble
YOU make for it by calling members of the Senate and Senate Judiciary Committee
at 877-851-6437 toll free or 202-225-3121 toll. Tell them: "If the
Senator votes for the pedophile-protecting hate bill, I and my friends
will never forgive or forget."
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- Watch the dynamic 10-minute educational videos, Hate
Bill Lies: Exposed! and How to Kill the Hate Bills, at <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org
which explains how the hate bill, S.909, ends freedom. Please tell the
offices of members of Congress to watch it! Also at <http://www.truthtellers.org>www.truthtellers.org,
watch our gripping 82-minute documentary <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/watchpikesvideosgoogle.htm>Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians.
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- Let the Anti-Defamation League teach you how they have
saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians, and
spearhead attempts to pass the federal hate crimes bill: <http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp>http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
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- TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Ted Pike on this subject.
Call (503) 631-3808.
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- NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR
97015
- www.truthtellers.org
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