Democrats propose trolling media, internet for "hate
speech"
By Gina Miller
RenewAmerica.com
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As we know, leaders of the anti-freedom, Godless
Left would love nothing more than to outlaw speech
that is critical of their tyrannical agenda. We have
seen Barack Obama (or whatever his name is)
illegally use the Internal Revenue Service as a
weapon to hinder the political speech and activity
of Patriot groups that oppose him. We have heard
plenty of Democrats call for a return of the
unconstitutional "Fairness Doctrine." We have even
heard
moonbats call for the criminal prosecution of
those who speak against the hoax of man-made global
warming, "climate change deniers," as we're stupidly
called.
We have also repeatedly warned that unconstitutional
"hate crimes" laws would inevitably lead to laws
against what is labeled as "hate speech." Naturally,
those on the Left have ridiculed such warnings,
claiming that could never happen. As usual, the Left
is wrong.
A couple of weeks ago, two Democrats in Congress
introduced a bill titled, "The
Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014." It directs
the creation of a report on "the role of
telecommunications in hate crimes." The report would
be compiled by the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA), the Justice
Department, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and
others, and would:
... analyze information on the use of
telecommunications, including the Internet,
broadcast television and radio, cable television,
public access television, commercial mobile
services, and other electronic media, to advocate
and encourage violent acts and the commission of
crimes of hate, as described in the Hate Crime
Statistics Act...
The bill directs that the report:
... include any recommendations, consistent with
the First Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, that the NTIA determines are
appropriate and necessary to address the use of
telecommunications...
What would these people consider to be advocating
and encouraging violent acts and "hate crimes"? The
bill provides no definitions, so we are left to
presume this nebulous "hate speech," which is all we
can call it, is in the eye of the Justice Department
and other groups involved in compiling the report.
What do they mean when they direct the report
commission to make "appropriate" recommendations in
answer to its "hate speech" findings?
Recommendations (which they claim should be in line
with the First Amendment) for what? What they're
doing is already out of line with the First
Amendment. What is the point in searching for speech
in the media and on the Internet that might cause
"hate crimes" if you do not intend to somehow try to
crush it?
Don't doubt for a minute that this is yet another
move toward outlawing speech that the tyrants in
charge want silenced. Any speech that is critical of
the communist Left's agenda is in their cross-hairs.
They can make a "hate speech" case against any
sentiment they don't like. If you cite the biblical
admonitions against homosexuality, they can claim
that your words could cause someone to commit
acts of violence. They can make this kind of claim
about any speech that goes against their
anti-American schemes.
We already have laws against
making terroristic threats, and the
constitutionality of such laws can be debated, but
that's not what this bill is about, is it? No. This
bill is about targeting speech that could be
construed as advocating violence or the commission
of "hate crimes," a patently unconstitutional
concept that provides for unequal protection under
the law of specially protected groups of people. As
I already noted, these leftists in power, who are
masters of twisting the meaning of words, can easily
ascribe violent intentions to most any speech with
which they disagree, even speech that is purely
biblical. Thus, this bad bill should be strongly
opposed by defenders of liberty, because of the
intended consequences that are clearly discernible.
What starts out today as the compiling of an
"innocent" report on "hate speech," can tomorrow
morph into the official silencing of those in
opposition to the tyrannical agenda of the Godless
Left.