Hate Crime Legislation - Back Door to Censorship

American Thinker ^ | May 10, 2009 | James Simpson

[neverdem]

An extension of the Hate Crimes law recently passed the House of Representatives which will essentially codify into national law the "speech codes" that are smothering academic freedom on college campuses today. This law is the back door method Obama and his fellow socialists will use to stifle free speech in this country, as explained in an informative article by Jerry Kane at American Daughter.

To heck with the "Fairness Doctrine." Who needs to limit censorship to the airwaves? This legislation will silence anyone who disagrees with them.

Hate crimes legislation has its roots in the communist-inspired, so-called Frankfurt School founded in Frankfurt, Germany by Bolsheviks in the 1920s. Its goal was to implement communism in the West quietly by gradually subverting popular culture -- a movement known as Cultural Marxism. One of its leading lights, Herbert Marcuse, opined that the prevailing Western social order is repressive by definition and discriminates against minorities simply by existing.

This creates a phenomenon he called "repressive tolerance" because even though other views are allowed within Western culture -- you know, by that insignificant little old thing called the First Amendment -- the Capitalist view is still permitted. It goes without saying that Marcuse considered that to be unacceptable.

Instead, he proposed what he called "partisan tolerance," i.e. tolerating the views of those "repressed minorities" only -- who Marcuse assumes share his partisan hatred for everything noncommunist -- while actively muzzling the views of the majority.

So now we have a word for Democrats' eye-popping hypocrisy when they wrap themselves in the mantle of free speech while simultaneously attempting to suppress non-Leftist ideas. We have a word for the Left's double standard in championing "repressed minorities" only when those minorities share their politics, while savaging principled, accomplished minorities like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell or Janice Rogers Brown. We have an explanation for why so many college campuses, supposedly the society's heart of open-minded intellectual inquiry, actively, even violently intimidate conservative speakers -- when they let them onto campus at all.

They have been practicing "partisan tolerance." That is, tolerance of the extreme Left and virulent intolerance of anything else.

Marcuse, among other Frankfurt School advocates, was brought to the U.S. in the 1930s by Edward R. Murrow who at the time headed a program to resettle intellectuals facing Nazi repression. According to Wikipedia, Marcuse worked at the OSS, the State Department and taught at Columbia, Harvard and Brandeis. Now doesn't that tell you something? He has been called the "Father of the New Left" and inspired many of the 1960s' young radicals, who now have tenured teaching positions at colleges throughout the U.S. It is easy to see his Frankfurt School influence in university speech codes - indeed it is largely the reason they exist.

In fact the New School, currently run by former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, counts the Frankfurt School as one of its main influences. Barack Obama has an indirect connection to the school, in that his father was offered a scholarship there. According to Wikipedia:

In the early 1960s, the New School offered the father of the US President, Barack Obama, a generous scholarship package that would have paid for his immediate family (including wife Ann Dunham and son, the future President; then residents of Hawaii) to join him in New York City, where he would complete his PhD. He declined and instead abandoned his family and departed for Harvard University, where he had a less-generous scholarship with no family allowance.

The Frankfurt School was dedicated to the destruction of the West. One of its founders, Willi Munzenberg, stated explicitly that its goal was to:

...organise the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilisation stink [sic]. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.

According to an article by Timothy Matthews in Catholic Insight, key strategies to achieve this goal were:

1.  The creation of racism offences.
2.  Continual change to create confusion.
3.  The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
4.  The undermining of schools' and teachers' authority.
5.  Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6.  The promotion of excessive drinking.
7.  Emptying of churches.
8.  An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime.
9.  Dependency on the state or state benefits.
10. Control and dumbing down of media.
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family.

Munzenberg stated flatly, "We will make the West so corrupt it stinks."

Today, his mission appears to have been largely accomplished. Assisted by American public education advocates, Frankfurt School proponents aggressively worked their way into our public education system to the point that today their priorities virtually define it. Their influence explains most of today's sick popular culture.

So this is the last piece in the Manufactured Crisis puzzle. It seems apparent that "Hate Crimes" legislation is the vehicle by which free speech will be permanently silenced in America. And after that, the thugs will be firmly in charge.

You need look no further for proof that Marcuse's "cultural Marxists" are in charge in Washington now. Since it is their intention to destroy this country, intellectual appeals to them will fall on deaf ears. The only recourse is to lobby Senate Republicans and those few remaining Democrats with a shred of integrity, if indeed there are any.

We are witnessing the death of our country.

[neverdem]

All of these blue dog & yellow dog rats, I call them mutts, should be attacked for not upholding the Constitution's First Amendment.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT for later!

[ChetNavVet]

The entire idea of hate crime legislation calls into question our first amendment rights. The Idea that anyone has the right to - not be offended - is an affront to freedom, no person has the right to not be offendeed. The other side of the coin is about harassment, just prior to hate crime legislation, we had in place sexual harassment policy - which (in my opinion) probably did a 50/50 job of punishing dolts, and screwing over inocents. Harrasment is something that the courts will deal with for a while.
But “hate Crimes”, I hate the leftie Socialists, come and arrest me! I think the current President is a complete doltic Marxist retard, come arrest me!

My last word on the subject is this: I have yet to even hear of anybody outside of the Hetro/ male/ caucasian/ Christian persuasian/ have any defense against the extra penalties that this ludicris peice of idiotic law would impose.
Hate crime legislation is an affront to true and fair law.
No person within any public place should be harrased.

[ChicagahAl]

"We are witnessing the death of our country."

Only if we let it die.

[Gator113]

They can write this junk up until the sun burns out, I’ll still go by the Constitution and......... common sense.

I do have a bit of a warning I should give.

I am 60, I consider 60 old, I have had heart surgery and a few other health issues.

These issues mean that I can no longer count on my ability to defend myself in a fight.

I can no longer risk taking the first hit, I might not survive. I want to survive, my will to live is stronger today than it was in years past.

I consider my life more important than those that may make me feel threatened. I have been trained for most of my life on how to survive.

I have every intention of wining any conflict, so I am perfectly willing to jump directly to the one weapon that I know will stop any threat dead in it’s tracks.

Oops, I went off on a ramble. LOL

These hate laws won’t work on me... I say what I think and these pencil heads won’t be changing any of that.

If somebody is dumb enough to become a victim of my actions, then they had placed me in fear of losing my life.... so they won’t be filling a report, I will.

[nathanbedford]

Is not surprising that this very important article has been served up to us by neverdem who consistently delivers the most thoughtful and provocative pieces.

I do not see this article as a piece limited to the issue of hate crimes. It is an introduction to The Frankfurt School and the chilling implications for our entire way of life of this Marxist think tank. One can draw a straight line from the millionaire who founded the Frankfurt School and endowed it for the express purpose of paving the way for the Bolshevik revolution in Germany in the early 1920s to the oval office today. He assembled a group of intellectuals who concluded that the institutions which held back Bolshevism, the family, the church, the school, the courts, etc. must be undermined so that the resistance to communism could be undermined. They succeeded brilliantly.

One can draw a straight line from the Frankfurt School to Saul Alinsky's school. We all know that one does not have to extend the line to incorporate Barak Obama into the Saul Alinsky school. He was more than an acolyte, he was a teacher.

We thus have an unbroken line from The Frankfurt School to Barak Obama.

There is another chilling parallel: the millionaire who established The Frankfurt School is a George Soros like figure. If one is given over to conspiracy theories one can see the Goldfinger in action in both of these men.

Speaking of conspiracies, the left will laugh the analysis off as right wing conspiracy nut- ism. The problem for the left is that The Frankfurt School was quite explicit in its goal which was to introduce communism into Germany, and by extension into the USA. Equally, Saul Alinsky in his book, Rules for Radicals, is explicit in his desire to crash the system and impose socialism. It ain't a conspiracy when it is openly admitted.

If you want to understand the why of leftist politics read the following article by Dr. Atkinson. It is the best I have found on the subject. If you are just waking up in America and drinking your morning coffee, pee first, the article is complete, not long for it contains not one more word than necessary to convey the author' s message but it is complete. If you understand the legacy of the Frankfurt School, you will understand Barak Obama.

Don't miss it:

http://www.newtotalitarians.com/PsychicIronCagePartII.html

[MaxMax]

Censorship is nothing, they'll use the same excuses to take Guns.

It's in the works, and this is the trial run.

Middle class RAT's won't tolerate gun-grabbing, but it will be tried.

[Travis McGee]

None dare call it treason.

[RoadTest]

This is a good article. Hate Crime Laws will eventually be used to destroy the Christians who stand by The Word of God, which they call “hate”, as they were destroyed in the first century (and all the following centuries).

“32: This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33: His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34: Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35: Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.” (Daniel 2:32)

The humanoid image is prophecy, to be read chronologically as an outline of a period of history, starting with the head of gold, Babylon, then the silver, Persia, then the brass, Greece, and finally the iron for the Roman, both original and revived, empires. The legs are the Eastern and Western Empires and the feet are the revived, modern Roman Empire. The stone is The Lord Jesus Christ, who will come and destroy this empire and rule the world forever.

The United States is nowhere mentioned here, because the likes of the Obamanians are busy folding it into the New World Order, something Satan’s children have been working on since Adam Weiskaupf in modern times, and since The Tower of Babel throughout history. It’s the age-old conflict between God and Satan, with the majority of mankind siding with Satan.

[Entrepreneur]

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[calex59]

What ever happened to “Congress shall make no law?”.

[JavaJumpy]

AmeriCorps volunteers will now be going into the schools to supervise physical education teachers in the elementary and secondary levels (Kilroy, D-Ohio, #6 on reference link below). It’s safe to assume that reports will be sent back to the government on findings, is it not? Will they stop at physical education, or will they move on to history? Will the school in Minnesota be the only school renamed an Obama Service Learning Academy?

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/40?&sid=ITLUMXs1VQ&l_f=1&l_file=list/cp111ch.lst&hd_count=50&l_t=81&refer=&r_n=hr039.111&db_id=111&item=40&sel=TOC_0&;

[SuperLuminal]

bttt