Thread: Democrats Try End Run With Pedophile Protecting Hate Bill

Democrats Try End Run With Pedophile Protecting Hate Bill

By Rev. Ted Pike
6-11-9

In a major strategic shift, Senate Democratic leaders will push the federal hate crimes bill to the floor of the Senate as another amendment to a "must-pass" bill (Washington Blade, http://www.washblade.com www.washblade.com, June 8, 2009, http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thel ... g_id=25698 Senate to Pass Hate Crimes Bill as Amendment

Widespread Christian/conservative protest has destroyed the bill's chances of going forward as standalone legislation Â* as happened on April 29 with passage in the House.

Democrats say there will be no hearings and no amendments allowed. There will undoubtedly be a minimum of debate on the floor of the Senate, probably no more than an hour. Clearly, they are in dread of allowing the hate bill to be opened to public scrutiny and Republican attack as the "Pedophile Protection Act." They will not allow Senate Judiciary Democrats to be asked the same formidable question Republicans put to Democrats six weeks ago in the House Judiciary: "Will you allow an amendment expressly forbidding pedophiles special protection under the hate bill?"

The only answer Democrats then or now can reply is, "No." As pro-hate bill Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings boldly asserted, all members of 547 paraphilias (sexual deviancies) listed by the American Psychological Association, including pedophiles, will be given special treatment under the hate bill, "so that they will no longer have to live in fear because of who they are."

Democrats have chosen to despise the intense concern and hate bill protest from heartland America. Many concerned citizens assert that S. 909 is very dangerous legislation, poorly understood by Congress; it must be discussed in the open public forum of Senate Judiciary hearings!

Instead, since the Matthew Shepard Prevention Act is so shaky, so unable to withstand scrutiny by the normal legislative process, Democrats now resort to their habitual, under-the-table method of passage: attaching it as "pork" to the underbelly of some (probably unrelated) bill.

Last Congress, Sen. Edward Kennedy attached his hate bill to the Defense Authorization Act. Yet, The Washington Blade tells us Rep. Barney Frank has problems with repeating that scenario: "You get kind of cognitive dissonance," he says, "when you put [a] liberal amendment on a conservative bill" That "dissonance" comes from the fact that one and a half years ago rebellious anti-war Democrats and anti-hate bill Republicans refused to grant final passage to the hate bill. Despite approval by both House and Senate, it was ultimately defeated. Frank says memory of that humiliation precludes attaching the hate bill to an arms bill again.

What other pending bill would Democrats consider to host the hate bill? Democrats are not saying. Yet, with mid-term elections next year, they want to pass the "Pedophile Protection Act," with its nasty stigma of specially protecting rapists of little boys and girls, as soon as possible.

How soon could Sen. Kennedy propose his new hate bill amendment? As soon as Democrats decide on its host legislation. That could happen anytime, with passage of the hate bill within a week.

Also, with today's shooting spree in the holocaust museum by alleged "racist and anti-Semite" James Von Brunn, Democrats could exploit this or some other horrendous hate crime to hasten passage.

Of one thing we are sure: Senate Democrats, especially in the Senate Judiciary, are bone weary of hearing popular criticism of their "pedophile-protecting hate bill." They are apprehensive of the rising sophistication of criticism against it and possible declining Senate support. If I were Sen. Patrick Leahy or Sen. Harry Reid, I would try to move it through sooner rather than later. This means YOUR calling of the Senate right now is crucial. Since calling has declined in the past month as a result of Senate Judiciary indecision, it must resume with a vengeance. We must head off the Democrats, moving more quickly than they, prejudicing the entire Senate against this blatant disregard of the will of the people.

Call your state's members of the Senate and all Senators http://www.truthtellers.org/actionplan.html names on the action page at www.truthtellers.o http://www.truthtellers.org/actionplan.html
1-877-851-6437 toll free and 1-202-225-3121 toll. Say, "I am calling to protest refusal by Senate Democrats to hold hate bill hearings on S. 909. Instead, they are underhandedly attaching the hate bill as a rider. This shows how weak the pedophile-protecting hate bill is. It can't withstand normal legislative scrutiny. Please reject this end run around honest due process. Vote NO on S. 909!"

http://www.rense.com/general86/demos.htm

This is a very dangerous bill on many counts, one of which is that is sets it up so that some people have more value under the law. As an example: If a white pregnant women is brutally beaten up, the perpetrator of her crime will get less time and consequently her case is given less time and concern then a case involving a perpetrator that beat up a Asian Gay man. This is clearly a violation of the Equality of law.

Another Example:

Also, if a child is taken out of a public school by his parents because the school is pushing a curriculum (and a national curriculum is being proposed now) that insists on pouring out a particular brand of acceptance and perhaps encouragement of a Gay and/or Alternative life style starting in elementary school, the parents can be charged with a hate crime. If the judge decides that the parents “hate Gayâ€

Congress and the Obama Administration appear to be a hate group in their own right. The SPLC needs to watch them. But wait, they don't! These law makers protect the illegal component of society.

The Obama Admistration is either protecting someone with this bill or helping out "Uncle Barney Frank". God help the parents and children who are victims of this insane law.

"Since calling has declined in the past month as a result of Senate Judiciary indecision,"

Can someone clear this up for me? There was "indecision" regarding what? I was doing quite a lot of calling but then took a vacation for about ten days.

We do need to keep up the calling of Republican Senators and any conservative Democrats on the Judiciary (which by my count is "none"). Leahy has also got his fingers in the pie with the misleadingly named "Uniting American Families Act", a double whammy of gay marriage and immigration.

Instead, since the Matthew Shepard Prevention Act is so shaky, so unable to withstand scrutiny by the normal legislative process, Democrats now resort to their habitual, under-the-table method of passage: attaching it as "pork" to the underbelly of some (probably unrelated) bill.

In keeping with my own principles of being honest and criticizing Republicans/conservatives when I think they deserve it, I have to point out one thing: the author of this article accuses Democrats of doing what Republicans also do, and in fact did just recently. Republicans managed to include an amendment (or whatever the technical term is) in some legislation that allows guns in national parks. The bill it was included in had nothing to do with gun legislation or national parks. The Dem-majority Congress passed it anyway, even though many Dems are for gun control.

I am in no way comparing the content of the amendments, I'm just addressing this author's criticism of the political game of getting legislation passed this way. They really all do it. Doesn't make it right. It just would have been better if the author had acknowledged this.