Eric Holder: Bloggers and People I Pick are Hate Group Members

Muffled Oar ^ | 10/14/09 | Isaac Muzzey

[mudblood]

The Muffled Oar has reviewed the text of an amendment to the Matthew Sheppard Hate Crimes bill which appears to be headed for law. It expands Federal power and allows the Department of Justice to criminally charge those who attack gays, but not preachers who are attacked for their religious views.

An amendment added in conference committee with the support of the Obama/Holder Justice Department radically expands the power of the Federal Government to target political enemies and those exercising their point of view on … blogs. The Muffled Oar broke the story how the DOJ Blog Squad is monitoring and targeting conservative blogs and whipping liberal blogs into line. Amendments to H.R. 2647 allow the Attorney General to designate anyone as a hate group. You read that right – anyone. It also allows the Federal Government to introduce evidence that if you are blogging or participating in an online discussion at a webpage with an arguably racist agenda, then you can be deemed a hate group.

[mudblood]

The website contains all the specific provisions listed, as well as a link to the actual text of the amendment.

[9YearLurker]

Whaddaya wanna guess FR is already on his list?

[unixfox]

Shhhh...that’s the “secret” list.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[ConservativeMind]

You would think this was Canada.

[massgopguy]

I bet the Knights of Columbus are as well.

[Texas resident]

Yeah the Knights are a pretty dangerous lot.
They carry swords.
sarc big time.

[Vendome]

Great! We are going to be famous!

To bad we are pretty good at kicking racists off this board. But, then again, that may be racist.

Racist, is such a useless pejorative anymore.

[pray4liberty]

The Good Lord can’t come back a day too soon.

[GeronL]

Is this the one that specifically exempts certain people from being protected against hate crimes?

[ConservativeMind]

I can’t see how this could stand in court. In the end, the whole “hate group” thing would need to be thrown out and whatever actual “crime” one did would remain.

[724th]

Hate crime is a misnomer. There is only crime. If one commits a crime, with malice towards another, that only speaks to motive. Having motive, a prosecutor sees a clear path to conviction. No special dispensation is required.

[ElayneJ]

Read later

[tumblindice]

Well whaddya know, yet another abuse and usurpation proposed by putative attorney general Eric “Chinless” Holder.

[mo]

https://www.torproject.org/

[Diogenesis]

"If you are stupid enough to be a Christian or Jew, hetero or white,
your precious freedoms died in their graves just last night!"

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan

[devistate one four]

Well that would include the White House and all the bottom feeders zero brought into the gobment, would it not?

[JimSEA]

Individuals known to be involved in online activities with a hate group, including being engaged in online discussion groups or blog or other postings that support, encourage, or affirm the group’s extremist or violent views and goals.

That is an extremely low threshold and could easily include this site as well as most other conservative sites. Holder can determine his own definition of "extremist". Jim Thompson clearly qualifies, I mean urging the "overthrow" of the O, how radical can you get.

[Waco]

BYTE me Eric.

[Kickass Conservative]

If they label you a hate group, the next step is to disarm you.

Bet on it. It’s all part of the plan.