Anglican Mainstream » The SORs with a vengeance: The ominous US ‘Hate Crimes’ Legislation

Anglican Mainstream » The SORs with a vengeance: The ominous US ‘Hate Crimes’ Legislation

Here we go, the assault on the First Amendment begins in Congress.

I wonder though, do you think that burning the Flag will be considered a hate crime if this legislation passes?....no neither do I. The only flags that will be protected is the rainbow one and probably the Mexican and Green banner of Jihad.

If this gets to far we might as well shut down our blogs, redact The Bible, especially Leviticus and crawl under a rock. Probably any criticism of Congress will be considered hate, so anyone speaking out against them will be jailed and they will be able to systematically gut the Constitution unopposed.

The left tells us that the "Patriot Act" is to intrusive and unConstitutional, at least it targets legitimate enemies of the Republic, this hate crimes bill is more oppressive than the Sedition Act.

I am sure that the crew in the TEC are all about helping to get this past and will dance for joy if it becomes law. Odds are that if it is ever passed that it will have its day in the Supreme Court and will probably be struck down by the Justices as unConstitutional. But while that process happens, many people will be hurt by it.

So call your Representative, your Senator and the White House and made it known how you feel about this.

Update : The President has already threaten to veto the measure - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_go_co/hate_crimes

Text of the Legislation : http://www.rules.house.gov/110/text/110_hr1592.pdf

Senate Version : http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN01105:@@@P

Well contacted people in Washington - One of my Senators and my Representative are co-sponsors of the measures in their respective chambers of Congress