Posted by
Bob Siegel on Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:31:18 PM
Virtually nobody is talking about this,
not the major networks, not the cable networks, not even a whole lot of Talk Radio shows. Our country is pacified right now over important
stories such as Michael Jackson.
Well, let me tell you, folks, Jackson's death not withstanding, something a little more life changing is coming up. The latest version of a new upgraded Hate Crimes Bill has already passed our House of Representatives. Before you can say dictatorship the Senate will be voting on this same brilliant idea. I urge everyone around the country to call their senators and make it clear in no uncertain terms that they will be voted out of office if they pass this horrific piece of tyrannical legislation that shrouds itself with warm fuzzy rhetoric such as, "You don't believe in hate do you?"
FYI: Today "hate" is defined as anyone who disagrees with Political Correctness. Long before the first genius added the word hate to the word crime, it was already a crime to murder or do acts of violence against anybody, black, white, gay, or straight. Vandalism was also against the law. The motives for such actions were irrelevant. If my friend or loved one has been killed, the fact that he wasn't killed by a hateful person is not much of a consolation. A body has been buried either way. The very notion of increasing an evil butcher's penalty based upon some judge's arbitrary assessment of motives makes our justice system stand on its head and scream.
JUDGE: Miss Abigail, you have been charged with the murder of your husband. How do you plead?
ATTORNEY: Your Honor, my client did indeed kill her husband. But she didn't do it out of hate.
JUDGE: Is this true, Miss Abigail?
ABIGAIL: There isn't a hateful bone in my body, Your Honor. In fact, Your Honor, I'll go you one better: Not only did I not hate him; I loved him.
JUDGE: Hmm...Loved him, you say? In that case, your sentence is reduced to one year.
ABIGAIL: Your Honor, did I mention that I loved him a lot?
JUDGE: A lot? Wow! All right, three months of community service. Oh, and we'll also throw in this gift certificate for Bed Bath and Beyond.
Although a Hate Crimes bill was already passed a while back, this latest version, Hate Crime 3.0, adds a special new wrinkle, revealing the true agenda behind Hate Crime legislation which many of us have been warning you about for years. Long ago, we discussed the slippery slope. We tried to tell you: Discussions of intent in addition to actions could one day make the "actions" part of the equation archaic. If we opened up Pandora's Box, Hate Crime laws would, in the end, lead to Hate Speech laws. We told you time and time again. Now it is actually happening. This current bill makes it a Hate Crime to hurt homosexuals and other people with controversial choices of sexual expression. But wait! There's more! Yes, Johnny, under this latest looney law, any words, spoken or written that may have inspired a violent act against a gay person can also be viewed as a crime. This means exactly what we always feared it would mean: Your own pastor can now be arrested for merely teaching what the Bible has to say about homosexuality. If that sounds paranoid and far fetched, I remind you that in Canada, they are beyond the term, Hate Crime and have, instead, adapted a law that simply contains the term Hate Speech. This law forbids any critical opinion of homosexuality. By a thin thread, religious opinion is still protected in Canada but many believe that will soon evaporate as well. Besides, one should be entitled to their own view of homosexuality whether it is a religious based opinion or not.
The American bill does not go quite as far as Canada, at least not yet. Under our current potential rule, your pastor would only be arrested if somebody hurt or killed a homosexual and then claimed Rev. McDonald's sermon inspired him. See the trend? We went from crime, to motive for the crime, to some third party's speech inspiring the motive for the crime. What will be next? Next, Sweet Virginia, the violent act will no longer be necessary for a conviction. The pastor's speech in its own right will be against the law. I promise you, it will happen just exactly this way. You see, every time we pass such illogical legislation, we erode sensible law an inch at a time. Ambitious future goals never seem as far fetched when they are only one step away. People can get used to anything, even ridiculous rules. They become comfortable old leather and the frog gets boiled slowly. It will happen here as it already happened in Canada, mark my words. The only hope is for people to wake up and do the right thing. Protest this travesty even if you have to shout it from the roof tops. Your bending over backwards has not worked. Your rolling over and playing dead has not worked. Your apologizing for the right to believe what you want to believe has not worked! Your walking on egg shells to avoid offending people has not worked. Your shyness in hopes of avoiding the label "hate" have not worked! And now your beliefs are being outlawed right under your own nose because the nose of our nation with its ability to smell a rat DOES NOT WORK!!!
The agenda of successful Canadian activists is the true agenda with gay activists in America as well. They are not interested in stopping hate. They want their lifestyle affirmed by law. In the name of tolerance, they are completely intolerant of your own opinion. You are simply not allowed to have a view that contradicts theirs. Many courageous gay people have themselves spoken out against such laws and I applaud them for doing so.
Make no mistake: This is not about Hate Crime. It is about Thought Police.
Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.
Also by Bob Siegel:
If You Think Gay Marriage Will Not Affect You, Think Again!