Posted on 05/29/2014 7:02:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A pro-family organization is warning that "hate crime"-related legislation introduced on Capitol Hill could potentially squash free speech and create a "thought-controlled society."
In mid-April, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) introduced a bill authorizing the government to monitor and analyze speech online, on television, and over the radio, with the aim of classifying it as hate speech under the government's own vague guidelines and then possibly charging the "offenders" with a hate crime.
The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 (S. 2219) would create a comprehensive report of Internet and other telecommunications speech regarding gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. It would also create recommendations to address such crimes.
If S. 2219 becomes law, it would be "a really big step toward a police state," says Patrick Vaughan, general counsel for the American Family Association.
"What they propose to do is capture and monitor everything that's said on broadcast or everything that's said on the Internet; they're going to grab it all," the attorney describes. "Then they're going to analyze it to see if there might be something going on that would lead to a crime in the future."
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I hate the government.
"Democrat" is just another word for fascist.
How can they manage the backlash, when emails are dropped for snail mail?
How can they manage the backlash when folks write on postcards, again?
How can they manage, with the sale of so many writing instruments, both for use and collecting, whether that be in hand or mechanical?
How can they manage, when a regular pen and ink journal cannot be electronically mined, nor could they decipher the language, syntax, slang, and symmetry used by an individual for their own reference?
We don’t need a second “Sedition Act”. John Adams, another Bay-Stater, tried it and it did not work out well.
This should be easy.
Just go to any site where liberals congregate.
There they will find unlimited hate speech towards, Christians, Jews and white people.
Go to any site frequented by blacks. There you will find hatefilled speech and even OPEN THREATS towards white people.
(but they are not talking about THAT kind of hatespeech, are they? no no no)
NSA gets another department?.
First they made ham sandwiches, bananas and watermelons hate speech. Then they said sports teams names were racist. Now anything and everything that a White Christian male says or does, or doesn’t say or doesn’t do, is classified as hate speech.
So then this is just a logical development.
They think they’ll have a Holder to back them all the time. heehee
Claire Wolfe’s ‘Awkward Phase’ is officially over. It’s really time to start.
> When the left proposes laws that are ripe for abuse (like this one), the left is tacitly using the ethics of the right against them.
In other words taking advantage of our good nature and sense of fairness while being a snake in the grass about it. Yep. I get that.
Sorry - I lapsed into a momentary bout of diplomacy! LOL
If we comment on Obama's ambiguous and possibly undefined gender, is that a hate crime? What about that communist's ambiguous race, which is also a mix of the two most obvious guesses? The same for his religion, which he claims is Christian although for some reason few people believe his claim. As for sexual orientation, is there anyone alive who believes Obama is straight, and will it become a hate crime to wonder whether Obama even has an orientation?
Some locales are already monitoring what you say online:
Don’t we all?...lol
That is disappointing.
> Bill was sponsored in Congress by Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, representing New York’s 8th congressional district in Brooklyn and Queens.
Ahh one if the Muzzies and the white guilt ridden RINOs are probably siding with him for “solidarity” (votes). Hakeem is just setting the net for a spike to protect the Muzzie religion of Satanism later when they are lopping off body parts ad inifintum and don’t want anyone “blaspheming” their god and religion of pieces.
> The fact that they’re even trying this indicates that they are worried that they are losing the debate online, and thus need to terminate discussion.
BAM! Nail on the head...
“Go to any site frequented by blacks. There you will find hatefilled speech and even OPEN THREATS towards white people.”
If they pass this law, fine. The ACLJ can go after Malik “kill cracker babies” Shabazz. When the racist POS Eric Holder throws out the case again, the actual news outlets can show the people he is nothing but a modern negro nazi.
Foxnews was the ONLY one to carry the ‘08 NBP voter intimidation case.
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