- In response to my weekend emergency alert "More
Hate Bill Hearings This Week" the offices of House Judiciary Republicans
today all reported "lots of calls" protesting ADL's four new
hate crimes bills. Staffers repeatedly told callers "we already know
about the four hate bills." Their response could not be in greater
contrast to last Thursday when I called ten Republican Judiciary offices
and found them nearly oblivious to the threat of new hate bills.
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- This proves there are still many lovers of freedom who,
despite hate bill passage in the House and Senate this spring and enormous
distraction of healthcare reform, are willing to speak out in the most
effective way - telephone protest.
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- Today's response helps ensure that the Megan Meier Cyberbullying
Prevention Act and the Safe Schools Improvement Act will meet stiff resistance
in the Crime Subcommittee hearing this Wednesday at 3 PM EST (You can watch
the webcast at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/calendar.html.) Its
five Republicans, Reps. Gohmert, Goodlatte, Forbes, Lungren, Poe, and Rooney,
are all fighting Republicans, who have battled the hate bill heroically
in the past two Congresses.
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- On the other hand, although scheduled last week the Safe
Schools Improvement Act may not be considered on Wednesday. Its radical
agenda of banning any "repeated or persuasive" criticism of homosexuality
in the public schools, defining such as "violence," may be too
hard a sell. Instead, the House Judiciary website now only schedules a
new companion bill to ADL's cyberbullying bill, the AWARE Act (Adolescent
Web Awareness Requires Education Act), HR 3630. Introduced last Wednesday
by Jewish activist Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, AWARE provides federal
grants to school, educational and civic groups, and "civil liberties"
fronts like ADL and Southern Poverty Law Center to educate our nation's
youth against the dangers of cyberbullying, i.e., criticism of homosexuality,
over the internet. It also empowers education of youth against websites
and blogs which ADL considers "hate sites," those critical of
homosexuality, Zionism, or the establishment figure of six million Holocaust
dead.
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- Introduction of AWARE is a last-minute strategic move
by Democrats. Unless Judiciary Republicans are warned on Tuesday, they
could well be overwhelmed by the seemingly high-minded arguments of AWARE
supporters.
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- Call House Judiciary Republican offices, particularly
those of Gohmert, Goodlatte, Forbes, Lungren, Poe, and Rooney, at 1-877-851-6437
toll-free or 1-202-225-3121 toll. Tell them: "Please encourage the
Congressman to oppose the AWARE Act, HR 3630, in the Crime Subcommittee
hearing on Wednesday. It is a companion bill empowering the cyberbullying
bill to teach school children that cyberbullying means criticism of homosexuality
on the internet."
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- The upheaval of protest today gives new hope not only
of holding the battle line in the Judiciary but of giving courage to other
Congressional Republicans. The great value of a heated, controversial
hate bill hearing is that word of it resonates throughout Congress. It
inspires and focuses Republicans while making Democrats more cautious.
With Democrat caution comes the possibility of delay and error; such includes
indecisiveness in strategy, the granting of more hearings, and attaching
hate bills as amendments rather than standalone legislation.
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- The more delay we can generate, the greater the possibility
these bills cannot proceed forward fully this fall. As winter and spring
approach and Democrats come uncomfortably near mid-term elections, there
is an excellent chance they may consider these pro-homosexual bills counterproductive
to the "family values" image they must project to elect enough
Democrats to stay in power.
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- Good job, lovers of freedom! Keep up the calling --
also to Senate Judiciary Republicans who will soon face the same hate bills
(names <http://www.truthtellers.org/actionplan.html>available HERE
on the Action Page at <http://www.truthtellers.org>www.truthtellers.org).
Your efforts prove there is still a Gideon band of American heroes out
there who have not bought into Dr. Dobson's big lie that there is nothing
we can do but pray.
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- As for me, I've only begun to fight.
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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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