HATE LAWS' NOOSE TIGHTENS AROUND COLLEGES
By Harmony Grant
20 Aug 08
We thought the summer would be a quiet time, legislatively. On Thursday
August 14, the President signed into law the Higher Education Opportunity
Act (HEOA). If you care about freedom, you’re not going to like
it.
HEOA modifies the Higher Education Act of 1965. Its 1,150 pages sit
about a foot high on senators’ desks. Maybe they missed the bad
stuff. Politicians’ websites focus on how this act is supposed
to make college more accessible. (You can read about some of its many
mandates at Inside
Higher Education)
The Jewish Telegraph Agency provides a more important detail. The
act “includes stricter standards for collecting campus hate crime
data.” Colleges who fail to apply the standards could lose federal
funding.
Institutions of higher learning have been required to report hate
crimes since 1998. But Jewish groups felt the standards of reporting
weren’t inclusive enough, says JTA; they lobbied for changes.
They wanted more and more things to count as “hate crimes.”
It’s obviously not a surprise that Jewish groups pushed this
change. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith is creator
of hate crime laws.
ADL
says this bill’s “important new campus hate crime
data collection mandate is an important step forward. ADL stands
ready to assist colleges and universities in providing education
and training for campus law enforcement officials on a range of hate
crime and extremism issues."
Yeah, you bet they do. ADL wants to infiltrate all authorities—state,
local, and academic—with their chilling speech bans, thought
police, and sensitivity training. Freedom is quickly eroded when students,
professors, police officers, journalists, and politicians are indoctrinated
to accept specific definitions of “bias,” “hate,” and
hate speech. Soon, a society’s elites become self-censoring;
certain forms of speech are outlawed and censored without police even
showing up.
This act will be used to further cement the myth of hate crimes in
the minds and lives of America’s future leaders. It empowers
ADL to further enforce the divisive, dangerous lie that some motivations
for crime (some thoughts and beliefs) are worse than others and that
some victims deserve more justice than others.
Hate crime data collection isn’t all. “The act also includes
new provisions for universities seeking federal funding for international
studies that include standards for "diversity," a salve to
some Jewish and conservative groups that charge that Middle East departments
are dominated by anti-Israel Arabists,” says the Jewish
Telegraph Agency. Basically, the feds will fund affirmative action
in the realm of ideas. As if Zionists were not powerful enough—saturating
our culture through media, Holocaust films, endless articles and books—they
need a monopoly in higher education, too.
In his 1991 book, Illiberal Education: The Politics
of Race and Sex on Campus, Dinesh D’Souza criticized the lack of true liberty
on college campuses. He writes that by many “it is considered
acceptable to censor sentiments regarded as racist, sexist, and homophobic.” This
argument could be used, he points out, to censor Plato, the Bible,
the Koran, Dostoevsky, and so many others. Seventeen years later, censorship
has turned to criminalization.
The ADL’s final goal is to criminalize “hate speech” throughout
the western world and the worldwide web. During this Congress hate
law advocates tried to sneak a federal hate bill into the defense appropriations
bill. This didn’t work, but the strategy will be tried again.
Thick, ponderous bills are perfect places to insert an innocent little
clause about criminalizing hate (criminalizing thoughts).
It’s significant that only the JTA and ADL are reporting on
the hate crimes content of the Act.
These Jewish publications know their Jewish readers will want to
know. Why aren’t Christian and conservative, or even mainstream,
news sources reporting? Apparently their readers won’t care.
You can’t win if you don’t even show up to fight. In this
case, pro-hate law Jewish groups are way ahead of pro-freedom Christian/conservative
groups. Shame on us.
We certainly don’t seem prepared for the battles that are coming.
The 2008 Democratic
platform vows, “We will pass the [NATIONAL] Local Law Enforcement
Hate Crimes Prevention Act, because hate crimes desecrate sacred spaces
and belittle all good people."
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
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