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Political Blogging as Hate Crime

Another Day in the Empire | Political Blogging as Hate Crime

If Rev. Ted Pike is correct, this blog may soon be illegal.

“For the past eight years, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has tried unsuccessfully to pass its Orwellian federal ‘anti-hate’ bill. It has failed largely for one reason: Republican control of Congress,” writes Pike. ... ADL’s federal thought crimes bill, ‘The Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act,’ will be reintroduced soon after January 1. Since no Democrat in Congress has ever voted against the hate bill, it will pass.”

According to Rabbi David Saperstein of the Interfaith Alliance Foundation, Americans “cannot stand idly by while our brothers and sisters, parents and children, live in fear that racism, bigotry, homophobia, misogyny, and xenophobia continue to go unchecked....

According to Saperstein, hate crimes are not restricted to violence. Hate crimes “are more than murders, beatings, and assaults.... They seek to tear us apart from within, pitting American against American, fomenting violence and civil discord.”

If we buy into this line of reasoning, the First Amendment of the Constitution not only allows but encourages hatred and violence....

Simply criticizing Israel is now considered anti-Semitic. According to the ADL, the scholarly article criticizing AIPAC, authored by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, is “a classical conspiratorial anti-Semitic analysis invoking the canards of Jewish power and Jewish control”...

Posted by Alan on November 15, 2006 03:41 PM |