Every time some mentally unstable person commits a crime by using a gun, the media mob, the anti-gun lobby and the softheaded liberals in congress spot a convenient bandwagon and take a mighty leap, shouting: "Gun control! Gun control!" - and law-abiding citizens are fearing for their freedoms -
Every time some smut peddler smears his filth across the Internet, the media mob and the softheaded conservatives start shouting for control of "dangers to our children" - and Internet Service Providers start losing sleep over Zundelsites and such -
Every time some backstreet abortionist botches an abortion, the pro-choice lobbies go hogwild and howl for state-financed abortions -
Every time some unwashed, illiterate redneck takes out his miserable life's frustrations on a person not his color, we hear these ringing shouts for ". . . hate laws to the fore!"-
Emergency is the cloak the tyrant always wears!
Mob action, media agitation, street demonstrations is what the Enforcers are after! That has always been their modus operandi to promote their agenda and push their harmful legislation through congress restricting decent people's freedom. They are prectictable.
Echoes in the US of what is happening in Canada?
Listen, and listen hard:
According to a press release, March 12, 1999, by AllPolitics - who are these folks? - the House and Senate are taking up identical hate crimes legislation designed to "help" state and local police ". . . battle racial, religious and ethnic violence, as well as violence motivated by disability, sexual orientation or gender."
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999 was introduced in the House March 11 with 118 co-sponsors. The Senate introduction is expected Monday, with 31 co-sponsors already signed on.
A similar measure in the previous Congress drew a total of more than 200 co-sponsors.
None other than Vice President Al Gore issued an ominous statement Thursday about hate crime that ". . . it is wrong, it is illegal, and we will catch you."
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told CNN the Justice Department recently found itself hard pressed to lend financial support to Texas authorities investigating the case of James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck.
"Present law is an anachronism that shackles federal prosecutors," Holder said, explaining that federal help is limited to hate crimes taking place within certain activities.
Holder rejected criticism that expanding the federal arm of the law would "overfederalize." He said the government would help in no more than 20-25 extraordinary cases each year.
Yeah, sure! Some people do believe in Easter bunnies.
A bipartisan letter asking senators and representatives to co-sponsor was signed by Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Charles Schumer (D-New York), Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) and Gordon Smith (R-Oregon), and Reps. John Conyers (D-Michigan), Michael Forbes (R-New York) and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Missouri.)
The letter cited support from the Clinton administration and more than 80 civil rights groups and law enforcement organizations. And just look who is clamouring for this legislation! Kennedy of Chappaquiddik fame? Schumer, whom his New York constituents felt was even better for Jewish causes than D'Amato? Specter, who is like a One Man Israel lobby group? A congress of which we saw and heard nothing but ignoble shuffling in the recent impeachment hearings?
And, of course, the ringing endorsement of the Clinton Administration. And so what else is new?
And soon we will be in a fix!
The other day, Cyber-Slade sent me a quote from Lord Acton, taken from "Freedom and Other Essays" , along with his comment:
"'Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.'
"That is why we fail every time we try to explain the ***purpose*** for Freedom of Speech. There is no such purpose. Freedom is the one valid political goal.
"When we subordinate Freedom to some other purpose, not only do we degrade Freedom, we invite suggestions as to how the other purpose can be met, bypassing Freedom altogether.
"Watch for it. You will be invited to make exactly that mistake.
That is the mistake Canadians made, causing them to trade Freedom for Domestic Tranquility - the Bovine Paradise."
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."
- George Washington
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