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Title: ADL Battles Internet Free Speech
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Rense
URL Source: http://www.rense.com/general79/adk.htm
Published: Nov 28, 2007
Author: Rev. Ted Pike
Post Date: 2007-11-28 04:02:52 by robin
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Comments: 10
Canadian hate laws are now hitting their intended target: Christianity. On Oct. 26 a 21-year-old Canadian woman, Jessica Beaumont, was fined $1500 for posting online two Bible verses critical of homosexuality. She was also required to pay $3000 to professional complainer Richard Warman who brought charges against her. Her crime? She derisively called him "a Jew." Jessica posted these verses, which, of course, could be found on any Bible website: "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." (Lev.18:22) "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their heads." (Lev. 20:13) The court ruled: "Ms. Beaumont claimed, during her testimony, that she based this comment on her interpretation of a passage in the Bible, adding that she did not care if Jews would be offended by her ideas. However, irrespective of whether she 'cares' or not, s.13 of the Act dictates that the repeated communication via the internet of matter that is likely to expose targeted groups to hatred or contempt constitutes a discriminatory practice. Whether the person communicating the matter was in fact its author is immaterial. The mere act of communicating the material or causing its communication attracts liability under this Act." 1 Beaumont was ordered to never again post Scripture critical of homosexuals or any other specially protected group, including Jews. She faces prison if she disobeys. Jessica claims Nazi sympathies. Yet that should not distract us from the fact that Bible verses caused her conviction. As the world moves toward hate crimes persecution, hate law enforcers usually select victims with extremist views. They know society will not help these people but will probably rejoice at their conviction! But the free speech rights of every person are diminished by the legal precedents meted against extremists. Persecution of Biblically based "hate" (i.e., Christianity) is the ultimate goal of B'nai B'rith Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress, creators of Canada's federal hate crime law in 1971. In Canada, these extensions of ADL possess a powerful tool: federal law banning internet criticism of Jews and homosexuals. Section 13.1 outlaws communications "likely" to incite hatred or contempt of members of a federally protected group. ADL possesses similar statutory tools banning "cyberhate" in most European countries. Strategies to End Internet Freedom But in the U.S., ADL faces stiff First Amendment opposition to censorship. Here they try other strategies to end free speech in America: 1. ADL puts pressure on search engines like Google to filter out websites which criticize Zionism or homosexuality. So far, it has not succeeded. Recently, Google's Israeli representative, Meir Brand, flatly repulsed ADL requests to ban internet criticism of Zionism. (link to article) ADL has been similarly rebuffed in the United States. This means scores of videos critical of Zionism and homosexuality, including my four, still bring light via the internet into encroaching darkness. 2. Many teens using the internet are victims of online bullies. ADL wants to create a false mental link between "cyber-bullying" and hate speech. Through its new program against online bullying, ADL feigns compassion for these young people. What ADL really wants is to link cyber-bullying with cyberhate and gain power to advise government on "protecting" vulnerable teens from criticism of Israel, Jewish control of media or the accuracy of the six-million figure of Holocaust dead. 3. Through privatizing the internet, cable and phone companies sympathetic to ADL may be able to discriminate against, and ultimately help eliminate, "hate sites." These companies include Verizon and Comcast, headed respectively by ADL/Zionist sympathizers Ivan Seidenburg and Brian Roberts. Jewish recipients of ADL/Wiesenthal "tolerance" awards, they could provide a form of censorship without legislation. (See, Threats to a Free Internet). 4. ADL wants to re-define internet free speech as "home-grown terrorism." Already, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1955, designed to set up a federal commission to "eradicate" the "cyber-terrorism" which this bill alleges "streams" from the internet. This primarily alludes to anti-Zionist alternative internet talk radio. The federal commission, if approved by the Senate and the President, will construe politically incorrect speech on the internet as words that hurt, i.e., "verbal violence." H.R. 1955 says this speech incites extremists to "radicalization," i.e., acts of violence. Ultimately, as in Canada, such expression, in order to be prosecuted, need only be thought "likely" to cause intimidation of members of federally protected groups. (See, In Search of 'Homegrown Terrorists') 5. ADL also considers massive propaganda against critics of Israel or homosexuality as a weapon against "cyberhate." Some ADL cyber-experts, such as Christopher Wolf, head of INACH (ADL's worldwide "Institute against Cyberhate"), believe education against homophobia and anti-Semitism is the best solution. We should remember that, as we are seeing in Canada, it is not skinheads and Nazis whom the ADL really deplores; it is evangelical Christians. ADL has already smeared Traditional Values Coalition as hateful and implies that other new right websites, such as Focus on the Family and Family Research Council, which "portray gays and lesbians as subhuman in the guise of promoting so-called 'family values' " should be removed from the internet. By far, ADL's greatest hope for ending free speech on the Internet is the federal hate crimes bill, now passed by both houses of Congress and awaiting approval or veto by Pres. Bush. In Canada, ADL/B'nai B'rith persuaded Parliament to pass their hate bill in 1971. It was a small matter a few years later, with arrival of the internet, to also pass Section 13.1, extending it to internet control. The same will happen here if the hate bill becomes law. Ray of Hope With both Republicans and Democrats dissatisfied with the National Defense Appropriations Act, H.R. 1585, to which the hate bill is attached, there is a growing inclination within Congress to reject this arms bill and create a new one after the first of the year. (See, article by Lou Chibbaro Jr.) Then the hate bill, either as an amendment or on its own, would probably have to be approved again by Congress. Such approval is certain if new right leaders and the American people remain confident of a Presidential veto and do as little as they did to protest hate bill passage by the Senate on Sept. 27. (Watch Pike's Video Report Betrayed: How New Right Leaders Helped Pass the Hate Bill) Yet if we learn from our mistake and demand the arms and hate bill be voted down, we may yet redeem this second chance to save freedom. It is unbelievable how close we are to losing liberty! The hate bill, as no other legislation in American history, will accomplish that. Since the arms bill may be overdue five months or longer, primarily through Democratic opposition, this will almost certainly require Pres. Bush, desperate to supply funds for the military, to cancel his promise to veto the hate bill. This means that right now we have no real hope of a Presidential veto. It is up to you and me, not the President, to save freedom. Call your members of the Senate and House immediately saying: Please reject the National Defense Appropriations Act, HR 1585, with hate bill attached. Don't vote for any hate crimes legislation. And, of course, call to God. We face sinister and devious political maneuvers from Democratic leaders which could yet make possible hate bill passage. But God is ready and willing to help save America. That is, if enough Americans are ready and willing to turn from sin and trust in His mercies. Endnotes: 1. CRHT Decision: Warman vs. Beaumont, October 26, 2007, Para.68, cited in "Free Speech Monitor" from Canadian Association for Free Expression Inc., http://café.canadafirst.net, PH: (905) 274-3868
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#1. To: All, Eoghan, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, noone222, richard9151, JiminyC, wbales, Peppa, TwentyTwelve (#0)
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Christopher Wolf legally represented Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson until they dismissed him without explanation. I wonder what was really going on there.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
These actions are absolutely appalling and anathema to our constitution and the principles on which this country is based. The referenced bill, HR 1955, is the most horrifying piece of legislation since the Patriot Act, and equally abhorrent to a free society. We have a simple concept: Free speech trumps your personal need to feel free from anyone saying anything which might offend you. Don't like it? Then don't read it or listen to it! This is the point at which there is a chance to politically split the agents of fascism by splitting off the fundies from the Zionists. My read on America is that many of the fundies who support Zionism because it is Bible based would not support restricting their ability to condemn in strong language others, such as homosexuals or those who reject Jesus. The fundies can stop this kind of legislation, because they have enough stroke with enough US senators to block the legislation.
I wasn't aware Canada had fallen into this trap already. And we are about to join them. Call your members of the Senate and House immediately saying: Please reject the National Defense Appropriations Act, HR 1585, with hate bill attached. Don't vote for any hate crimes legislation.
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thanks for the ping. In the new Canadian newspaper there is an article about how they will have rfid chips in their licenses and it will be linked to a database. i kept a copy of the paper
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" Paging ACLU! Paging ACLU! Seriously folks, can't this legislation be successfully challenged in the courts? Unlike the situation for Canadians and the Europeans, our visionary Founding Fathers were smart enough to protect Americans from this very sort of Brown Shirt gov't implemented high-handedness, and therefore our right to FREE SPEECH is a constitutionally protected RIGHT.
Not exactly new to them, and not a good angle for protest, IMO. They invented it, after all. It was once useful against Christians, of great help for advancing porn and rap. Now that those are firmly established, that simple critique is no longer useful, and may be discarded for a more useful policy.
#2. To: robin (#0)
5. ADL also considers massive propaganda against critics of Israel or homosexuality as a weapon against "cyberhate." Some ADL cyber-experts, such as Christopher Wolf, head of INACH (ADL's worldwide "Institute against Cyberhate"), believe education against homophobia and anti-Semitism is the best solution.
#3. To: robin, all (#0)
4. ADL wants to re-define internet free speech as "home-grown terrorism." Already, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1955, designed to set up a federal commission to "eradicate" the "cyber-terrorism" which this bill alleges "streams" from the internet.
#4. To: Paul Revere (#3)
creators of Canada's federal hate crime law in 1971. In Canada, these extensions of ADL possess a powerful tool: federal law banning internet criticism of Jews and homosexuals. Section 13.1 outlaws communications "likely" to incite hatred or contempt of members of a federally protected group. ADL possesses similar statutory tools banning "cyberhate" in most European countries.
#5. To: Artisan (#0)
#6. To: robin (#0)
Call your members of the Senate and House immediately saying: Please reject the National Defense Appropriations Act, HR 1585, with hate bill attached. Don't vote for any hate crimes legislation.
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#7. To: robin, All, Paul Revere, aristeides, ghostdogtxn (#0)
#8. To: Paul Revere (#3)
We have a simple concept: Free speech trumps your personal need to feel free from anyone saying anything which might offend you. Don't like it? Then don't read it or listen to it!
 | “There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.” -- Calvin Coolidge, "Whose Country Is This?",Good Housekeeping |
#9. To: robin (#1)
bump. www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Gal/Gal004.html#29 ...... see also: 16 Nov 07 - We Can Still Kill the Hate Bill http://www.truthtellers.org/aler...nstillkillthehatebill.htm
We should remember that, as we are seeing in Canada, it is not skinheads and Nazis whom the ADL really deplores; it is evangelical Christians.
#10. To: robin (#0)
here's another recent article from Ted Pike's site..good read...don't know if it has been posted...i'm not keeping up: HATE LAW FOLLIES By Harmony Grant 26 Nov 07 Demonstrators led by Al Sharpton recently marched on Washington to demand justice through federal use of hate laws. Seeking justice from hate laws is like seeking weight loss at McDonald's. Sharpton said every noose-hanging should be prosecuted. Would that include attention-getting incidents like when a black student hung a noose on her dorm room door in an attempt to get out of university? And if every word or symbol of racial or religious hatred is to be prosecuted, when will lawyers file briefs against those who cuss in Jesus' name or call Christians' moral beliefs "homophobic?" Along with blasphemous art like the crucifix hung in urine, these words certainly seem like symbols of “religious hatred” of Christianity. But—as we’ve pointed out innumerable times—hate laws aren’t an instrument of justice. They are a political tool designed to privilege certain social groups and silence others. They end up as instruments of oppression for those in power, eventually silencing the very groups who may have once sought their protection! Unfortunately, this is still not well understood. Students in West Virginia also recently rallied. They said hate crime laws "should have protected" Megan Williams, victim of days' long horrific torture allegedly at the hands of six white people. (Their logic is flawed. Shouldn't existing laws against horrific torture have punished Megan's attackers—regardless of her skin color?) Hate crime laws are so complicated that the prosecutor on the Williams case still hasn't filed these charges, despite the marches and protests. That should tell us something. A number of Jewish skullcaps can be seen on the news video from the West Virginia rally. Jewish groups, particularly the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, have always led the charge toward hate crime laws. ( Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians) Police from 15 European nations just met in London to be trained in hate crimes response by Paul Goldenberg of the American Jewish Committee. The seminar was organized by the ADL-led Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Goldenberg said OSCE will launch a hate crimes information-sharing network on Friday, Nov. 23. It will “facilitate the exchange of information and intelligence on hate symbols and organized hate groups.” This will pave just another dangerous curve in the highway toward international censorship of organized Jewry’s critics.....
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