Oppose HR 4200--the "Liberals Hate Conservatives" law (call Congress at 202-224-3121)

Research | 6/26/04

[Liz]

The U.S. Senate has passed the controversial "hate crimes" bill that could now lead to the criminalization of Christian beliefs and practices.

That means the next step for this legislation is the House, and it’s imperative that Christians contact their representatives urging them not to support such legislation.

The House defense authorization bill is H.R. 4200. Make sure your representative knows that you do not support any and all hate crimes amendment to H.R. 4200.

The outrageous passage of this legislation -- called the "Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act" and passed as an amendment to a defense bill -- requires every one of us across the nation to take immediate action.

BACKSTORY The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act sponsored by Uncle Teddy Kennedy was defeated in May 2002. But they're back and they've hurdled the first course by hiding the bill in the Senate's defense appropriation bill

LLEEA criminalizes the Orwellian concept of "hate" crimes: The bill would penalize some American citizens thoughts. Perhaps newspaper columnists would not be permitted to write on certain subjects.

Perhaps politicians would not be permitted to defend their party's principles.

(1) According to constitutional experts, the measure - establishes a dangerous constitutional precedent - allowing for two trials against a person accused of a crime, say, against homosexuals (among others). Possible scenario: A mother of a teenage boy molested by notorious homosexual priest Fr. Paul Shanley might rush up to him in a courtroom, punch him in the face, and say, "You are a no-good homosexual." This is potentially a hate crime. If this woman is charged in a state court with a Hate Crime and is acquitted, she can be tried again, a second time, in a Federal Court. Or, even if she is found guilty in a state court and fined $1,000.00, the federal prosecutors could feel this is inadequate and charge the lady with a crime under Federal law and she would face a second trial.

(2) The bill is Orwellian because it penalizes politically incorrect thoughts and feelings which the law labels as "hate". Big Brother is watching the beliefs you express, the books you read, the web sites you visit, the people you know, and the organizations to which you belong. It's all potential evidence of "hate".

(3) The federal government would get to define what "hate" is. The bill would expand the scope of the federal government to investigate and prosecute anyone who targets racial and religious minorities, gays, the disabled and other groups because of hate.

(4) Heeding the Bible would constitute a hate crime under this law. Opposition to abortion could be discerned as hate.Support for traditional marriage could be discerned as

hate. (5) This bill is an unwarranted expansion of Federal authority to enforce illegitimate laws implementing the flawed Orwellian concept of "hate" crimes.

(6) The bill attempts to codify Sexual Orientation but does not refer merely to homosexuality. Which bizarre fetishes will be included over time? Will these kind of laws make public expression of such orientation permissible or even legal by making former state laws and even prosecutions invalid as acts of hate by the state?

The hate crimes bill will provide cover for all forms of sexual orientation under the phony liberal rubric of tolerance and compassion: homosexuality, bestiality (will PETA support animals being used for sexual pleasure?), polygamy, pedophilia, S&M (will slavery become legal?), exhibitionists, incest, etc.

Call Congress' switchboard at 202-224-3121 to and ask your Congressman to oppose the bill. Do it as soon as possible.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR DISABILITY.--


Perhaps you can explain how any of this supports the prosecution of public Bible reading?


Let a Democrat get in office and see how fast this changes !!! ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR DISABILITY will mean a totally different thing twisted to politically correct views and you know they will do it !

[Liz]

Thanks for pinging your list to this important project.

Unless one's Congressman is a committeed Christian, letters and emails revolving around those arguments will fall on deaf ears. Most lawmakers need to hear the several Constitutional arguments that are included on the thread, such as the crucial one you excerpted:

"According to constitutional experts, HR 4200---Hate Crimes Bill--establishes a dangerous constitutional precedent - allowing for two trials against a person accused of a crime, say, against homosexuals (among others)."

Call your Congressman at 202-224-3121.

[Liz]

In case you haven't heard about the "Camel With His Nose Under The Tent" theory, please let me elaborate.

When the pesky camel puts his nose under the tent, we shoo him away at once.

If we wait to shoo him away, soon he'll occupy thr whole tent.

And while this bill does not yet "occupy the whole tent," that's what the eventual gameplan is.

[Humal]

Liz, I contacted both Rep. Delay and Rep. Dave Weldon regarding HB 4200. Thank you for the head's up on this.

[visualops]

I suggest reading the statement by the Republican Policy Committee.
http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/CRIMEcr071503.pdf

Traditional Values Coalition also has alot of info on this.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1697

[Liz]

Nice work. Pass the word to as many people as you can.

[Liz]

Just this week, A Senate defense bill was amended to include the "Hate Crimes" bill and was passed by the Senate on a vote of 97-0.

That means the next step for this anti-Christian legislation is the House. It’s imperative that Christians contact their representatives urging them not to support such legislation.

The House defense authorization bill is H.R. 4200. Make sure your representative knows that you do not support hate crimes amendment to H.R. 4200.

TWO VITAL ACTIONS ARE NECESSARY:

(1) Contact your Representative at the Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

(2) Contact House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, urging him not to allow this legislation to come to a vote. This legislation cannot move without his permission.

To reach DeLay's office:

202-225-5951 (phone)

202-225-5241 (fax)


You can e-mail DeLay at: http://www.majorityleader.gov/CONTACT.ASP?a=form

[PGalt]

Thanks. Information/Comments bump!

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping

[Tennessee_Bob]

Actually - I don't see a need for any sort of hate crime legislation. A crime is a crime, regardless of who commits it against whom. If a heterosexual kills a homosexual, for whatever reason, it's murder - same as if a homosexual kills a heterosexual. To pile on additional punishment because the the crime is committed against someone because of their ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, or anything simply gives that class more status than the person who committed the crime. In other words, to say that a heterosexual should have more jail time for killing a homosexual, than he or she would for killing another heterosexual is simply wrong.

As far as it turning into a thought crime issue, it's already happening in Europe. A Swedish pastor served jail time for preaching against homosexuality. Canada is in the process of adopting similar laws, if they haven't done so already. It's not far down the road for the US.

[Liz]

Ok....pass the word to as many as you can.

[muawiyah]

Actually, the biggest problem with "hate crimes" legislation is that it ends up providing two different penalties for the exact same act ~ the difference resting on what the criminal said about the victim, provided, of course, that the "victim" be in the protected class of people about whom such things cannot be said.

What this does is CONFER A TITLE OF NOBILITY on the protected class.

I thought we got over that Medieval class stuff a long time ago. Apparantly we didn't, but there it is. No doubt Teddy "Fitzgerald" Kennedy wants the class system returned to what he believes to be it's rightful place.

Remember, in the bad old days the "upper class nobles" got to murder whomever they wished without any question.

People who support the return of an old fashioned European class system should probably be horsewhipped and ridden out of town on a rail.

[Liz]

Just this week, A Senate defense bill was amended to include the "Hate Crimes" bill and was passed by the Senate on a vote of 97-0.

That means the next step for this anti-Christian legislation is the House. It’s imperative that Christians contact their representatives urging them not to support such legislation.

The House defense authorization bill is H.R. 4200. Make sure your representative knows that you do not support hate crimes amendment to H.R. 4200.

TWO VITAL ACTIONS ARE NECESSARY:

(1) Contact your Representative at the Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

(2) Contact House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, urging him not to allow this legislation to come to a vote. This legislation cannot move without his permission.

To reach DeLay's office:

202-225-5951 (phone)

202-225-5241 (fax)


You can e-mail DeLay at: http://www.majorityleader.gov/CONTACT.ASP?a=form

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PLEASE NOTE In order to get this message out to as many as possible, you may have been pinged more than once. Sorry about that.

[Liz]

Nice deconstruction.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

http://thomas.loc.gov/

50 Bills from the 108th Congress ranked by relevance on"Hate Crimes ".

17 bills containing your phrase exactly as entered

Listing of 17 bills containing your phrase exactly as entered.

1 . Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2003 (Introduced in House)[H.R.80.IH]
2 . Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2004 (Introduced in House)[H.R.4204.IH]
3 . Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2003 (Introduced in Senate)[S.966.IS]
4 . Expressing the sense of Congress in support of the ongoing work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in combating anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, discrimination,... (Introduced in Senate)[S.CON.RES.110.IS]
5 . Expressing the sense of Congress in support of the ongoing work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in combating anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, discrimination,... (Introduced in House)[H.CON.RES.425.IH]
6 . Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States Postal Service should issue a postage stamp commemorating Anne Frank. (Introduced in Senate)[S.RES.169.IS]
7 . Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service should issue a postage stamp commemorating Anne Frank. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.273.IH]
8 . Condemning the recent increase in acts of anti-Semitism in member countries of the European Union, and for other purposes. (Introduced in House)[H.RES.616.IH]
9 . Equal Rights and Equal Dignity for Americans Act of 2003 (Introduced in Senate)[S.16.IS]
10 . Community Security Act (Introduced in Senate)[S.2459.IS]
11 . To establish a Department of Peace. (Introduced in House)[H.R.1673.IH]
12 . Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 (Reported in House)[H.R.2799.RH]
13 . Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)[H.R.2799.EH]
14 . Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 (Received in Senate from House)[H.R.2799.RDS]
15 . Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)[H.R.2799.PCS]
16 . Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 (Introduced in House)[H.R.247.IH]
17 . Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)[H.R.2673.ENR]

[nothingnew]

"Liberals hate conservatives" bill? At 97-0, I guess there are no conservatives in the senate.

The only way to stop this and all the other crap that comes out of Washington is thru civil-disobedience, and the best way is to cut off the money flow. You can write/call/e-mail/fax all you want. Until their pocketbooks are hit, you will gain very little if nothing at all.

It's a shame there are so few willing to risk (unlawful) prosecution to stop the usury and the illegal monstrous spending of this government.

Until we stop the flow, unconstitutional laws will continue to be enacted.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Brandon]

I agree with pretty much all of your first paragraph. I don't see why someone beating another person with a tire iron while screaming "dirty n-----!" should get a more severe penalty than someone beating another person with a tire iron "merely" because of marital infidelity or a bad debt or whatever.

What I was objecting to was the hyperbolic claims in the original post, such as the idea that this legislation is particularly aimed at Christians, or that it would outlaw public Bible readings.

[Liz]

We understand your cynicism.

Recall that this same bill was defeated in 2002. Its backers are like the ghouls in the George Romero cult film classic, "Night of The Living Dead." You beat them back but they still keep coming.

The reason for the 97-0 Senate vote is b/c the "hate crimes" bill was sneaked into a defense appropriation bill as an amendment. There was a lot of stealth politics being conducted by the bill's backers.

[nothingnew]

I understand. We need line item veto badly.

Any thoughts on the rest of my reply?

FMCDH(BITS)

[muawiyah]

I don't understand why you think the claim is hyperbolic.