CATCHING ON TO HATE LAWS THREAT
By Harmony Grant
11 Aug 08
“The outrageous claims of the American Family
Association and other groups that [hate laws steal freedom] are nothing
more than false demagoguery and fearmongering. As groups that allegedly
promote morality, one would expect they would have more allegiance
to the truth.”
It’s a great day when freedom fighters earn a response like
this. Led by Rev. Ted Pike, groups including AFA and Faith2Action have
sounded the alarm against hate crime laws; liberal Jewish activists
aren’t happy.
The Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center (from
whom that quote was lifted) badly want the federal hate bill; and they
want state hate laws upheld (not repealed as in Pennsylvania). Pretty
much everyone else who looks closely at hate crime laws—with
any shred of honesty—knows hate laws have a sordid record of
stealing freedom. There has been increasing awareness of this danger.
SPLC's anxiety about opposition to hate laws is fretful enough to
feature on the front of their homepage and in their Intelligence
Report in the middle of the summer. Their legal director wrote “Religious
Right Lies about the Hate Bill,” then spoke
on a podcast about the “fear mongering” of groups like
ours. SPLC is probably on alert because they want the federal hate
bill reintroduced in only six months.
This is no time for anyone to relax about hate crime laws.
Hope for Canada?
In Canada, citizens are waking too late to the cold reality that these
laws freeze free speech. An Aussie
lawyer raked Canadian tribunals over the coals in his review of
recent events. He points out that, while the public is starting to
hate the commissions and their bogus indictments, it's a bit too late.
The thought police aren’t stopping. Their most recent victim
is comedian Guy Earle, who faced a complaint after responding in kind
to some heckling lesbians during his stand-up.
Earle
says, “This case has really struck a chord with people.
The greatest thing is…I’m getting right-wing, left-wing,
lesbians, straights, gays, everybody from all over the spectrum are
coming together on this. (They’re) going ‘I don’t
care that your comedy offends me…I’m going to donate
$20 to your cause anyway. We live in fricking Canada, it’s
supposed to be the freest country in the world. What’s going
on?”.
What’s going on is that the world’s freest citizens are
cowed by its most powerful liberal muscle organizations--Jewish "civil
liberty" organizations like ADL and SPLC. Secular activist Jews
seem to enjoy a no-criticism force field. There are some 70 million
evangelical Christians in the United States alone. The number of committed,
liberal activist Jews is minute. Yet fear of reputation bruising and
public shame gives tremendous power to this minority.
They already own staggering power. Establishment Zionist Tom
Friedman said these astonishing words about the Jewish neocons’ responsibility
for the Iraq war: “I could give you the names of 25 people
(all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this
office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and
a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened.” This statement
shows the awesome power of a tiny group of committed people in power,
especially when their actions are unscrutinized. Even today, Abe
Foxman can brazenly lie that recognizing the Jewish nature of
neoconservatism is “nonsense” and a “form of intimidation.” His
organization audaciously defies Christians' morals and religious
liberty; it is committed to Jewish supremacism, dual loyalty to Israel,
and freedom-stealing hate laws. (See, ADL
Elephant in Evangelical Parlor)
If only more mainstream Christian organizations would speak against
liberal Judaism’s opposition to Christian freedom and beliefs!
It could embarrass Jews in general into restraining their left-wing
brethren. What has happened to Truthtellers.org as a result of speaking
the whole truth about where hate laws came from? Basically nothing.
We are called names, just like Focus on the Family and every other
Bible-supporting organization are called. If these organizations told
a little more truth—about liberal Jews’ opposition to Christianity
or Israel’s apartheid persecution of Gentiles and Christians,
for example—they’d get called a few more names. Big deal.
Christ said, “If you belonged to the world, it would love you… you
do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
That is why the world hates you.” (John 15:19)
Every Christian group in America should aspire to the ADL and SPLC
blacklist.
Harmony Grant writes and edits for National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watchdog group.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they
have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal
it now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at video.google.com. Purchase
this gripping documentary to show at church. Order online at www.truthtellers.org for
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