RSSYou Say, “Hate Crime.” I say, “First Amendment.”
Gene Lalor | October 9, 2009
When you say potato and I say potahto, it doesn’t mean much. Same goes for tomato and tomahto.
When you say I can’t speak and write whatever I wish to speak and write–as long as it’s the truth and not likely to get people to stampede out of a non-burning theater–I say you’re trampling on my rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
On Thursday, October 8th, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to “strengthen” so-called federal hate-crime legislation to incorporate any and all criticism and attacks on homosexuals.
It was passed handily just a few hours ago as of this writing with all the sneakiness Democrats could muster, including attaching the hate bill to a defense bill to insure its passage: http://bit.ly/DP06X
Had it been proposed as a separate bill, the House probably still would have passed it over Republican opposition given the makeup of the new leftist, gay-friendly, Constitution-unfriendly Dem majority.
However, that party loves late night machinations almost as much as it loves spitting on Americans’ rights.
The legislation now goes to the Senate for a vote and then inexorably on to Obama’s desk for signature, inexorably since Democratic Senate ratification and the president’s autograph are foregone conclusions.
Obama had cautioned gays to hold fire as he diddled over revamping the Clinton “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy and repealing the pro-family Defense of Marriage Act, promising they would get their due. The first installment on their due has arrived, in spades.
Look, Americans, this is just a small portion of the change you voted for last November 4th.
The specifics of the House bill are as yet opaque. Obamaian transparency has a very limited range. Likewise, reading legislation before voting on it is a concept foreign to this ilk. To be sure, since Speaker Pelosi pushed it, the wording will be pleasing indeed to her San Francisco gay constituency.
If this hate-crime update merely attaches greater federal penalties to physical assaults on gays, I would endorse it even if I would disagree on such a narrow focus.
Why not increase penalties for crimes against pro-life demonstrators, anti-obamacare advocates and, for that matter, on gays who attack heterosexuals?
Those are foolish rhetorical questions. None of those groups have anywhere near the firepower or lobbying power of the newly-ascendant gay lobbies now infesting our nation’s legislative bodies, not to mention our school systems.
Gays now have one of their own as “school safety czar,” whose only interests are the safety of homosexual kids and indoctrinating straight kids into the sick, “gay” lifestyle. (See “Kevin Jennings, Obama’s ‘Man’ in Charge of Safe Schools,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1238.)
They say you get what you pay for. You also get what you vote for even if you have no clue precisely what you’re voting for.
In the post 9/11 immortal words of our president’s spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “The chickens have come home to roost!”
America’s chickens will deserve what they get if they don’t put a stop to this Washington insanity in 2010.
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