Posted by
Bob Siegel on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:30:18 AM
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" has 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.
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If You Think Gay Marriage Will Not Affect You, Think Again!