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Preceded by a vehement “Jesus Christ!” (not meant to be recorded), House Judiciary chairman Rep. John Conyers began the hearing he had tried to prevent. Predicted by homosexual leaders not to hold hearings on his federal hate crimes bill, HR 1913, he was forced to expose his bill to congressional and even worldwide scrutiny.
By profaning the name of his Creator, Conyers, with twisted appropriateness, introduced the first round of systematic efforts by Obama and the Democrats to pass Christian-persecuting federal hate crimes legislation. This is the same kind of thought crime laws that increasingly are taking away free speech in the western world. It will not be just Christians who will suffer under the jackboot of this Orwellian bill. This legislation will ultimately silence all whose independence of mind and speech offends the new world order.
But pugnacious Republican Judiciary members fought back hard! They responded with powerful argumentation and through many amendments, attempting to de-fang or water down HR 1913. Through these amendments, they were able to focus discussion on all aspects of hate bill flaws and potential abuses. In doing so, they attempted to sway Conyers and closed-minded Judiciary Democrats and effectively enlightened a very large international audience. Because I was able on Tuesday’s “Point of View” broadcast to direct listeners to the Judiciary website, many thousands today undoubtedly received a tremendous, first class education from these Republican legal experts.
Here are some of the Republican heroes of the day and what they said.Hate Bill Hall of Praise
Rep. Bob Goodlatte began the Republican offensive, calling HR 1913 “misguided legislation.” His first amendment proposed that, if we are going to grant special federal rights and protection to homosexual victims of crime, why not afford the elderly, also widespread crime victims, the same privilege? Goodlatte also proposed an amendment providing a special “bar of protection” statement in the bill absolutely ensuring that this legislation can never be used to threaten free speech. He suggested the bill should give pregnant women and their unborn children special protection — a request vigorously countered by Rep. Robert Scott who said the Supreme Court had declared an unborn child is not a human and has no rights.
Rep. Louie Gohmert also rose to the occasion. He emphasized that the original 1968 hate law, which HR 1913 amends (Title 18 USC, Section 2a), stipulates that anyone who verbally induces commission of a hate crime “by a nut” can be tried as a federal hate criminal along with the active offender. He criticized Conyers for not allowing the bill to first be subjected to vigorous analysis by the Subcommittee on Crime. Rather, he said it “was pushed forward to markup without proper preparation.” So hasty was this hearing that the usual witnesses from both sides of an issue, a necessary part of the legislative fact-finding process, were omitted. This was not true in Judiciary hearings on Conyers’ previous hate bill, HR 1592, two years ago.
A dramatic moment was provided when Gohmert, backed by Goodlatte and Rep. Darrell Issa, proposed that a federal hate law be implemented only when states which do not have state hate laws fail to enforce justice against hate criminals. The Democrats loudly protested (correctly) that his amendment would destroy federal sovereignty of the hate bill in all states.
Reps. King, Forbes, Franks, Issa, and Rooney presented a variety of other provocative amendments. Rep. King was especially powerful in argumentation for several amendments he proposed. He told Conyers he had a total of 10 amendments prepared and was just getting started! Reluctantly, Conyers agreed to schedule another hearing on Thursday, April 23. Tune in on Thursday, April 23, 10 o’clock a.m. EDT at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/caltoday.html.
The convergence of adequate, last-minute warnings, public pressure on Conyers and Judiciary Democrats to hold hearings, plus a very prepared Republican contingent in Judiciary has resulted in the outbreak of tremendous truth about the danger of hate laws. This truth undoubtedly is even now reverberating through Congress and the internet worldwide. Every lover of freedom can be enormously proud, at least on the hate bill issue, of our fighting Judiciary Republicans!
Watch the dynamic 10-minute educational video How to Kill the Hate Bills at www.truthtellers.org which explains how the two hate bills, HR256 and HR262, threaten freedom. Please tell the offices of members of Congress to watch it! Also at www.truthtellers.org, watch our gripping 82-minute documentary Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians.
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