- Canadian hate laws are now hitting their intended target:
Christianity.
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- 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."
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- 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)
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- The court ruled:
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- "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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Strategies to End Internet Freedom
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- But in the U.S., ADL faces stiff First
Amendment opposition to censorship. Here they try other strategies to end
free speech in America:
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- 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, <http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/12/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Internet-Hate.php>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.
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- 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 <http://www.adl.org/education/no_bullying.asp>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.
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- 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,
<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/threatsfreeinternet.html>Threats
to a Free Internet).
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- 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, <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/insearchofhomegrownterrorists.htm>In
Search of 'Homegrown Terrorists')
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- 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 <http://www.adl.org/main_internet/INACH_2.htm>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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Ray of Hope
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- 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, <http://www.southernvoice.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=15272>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.
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- 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 <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/newvideoexplainshatebill.htm>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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Endnotes:
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- 1. CRHT Decision: Warman vs. Beaumont, October 26, 2007,
Para.68, cited in "Free Speech Monitor" from Canadian Association
for Free Expression Inc., <http://cafÈ.canadafirst.net/>http://café.canadafirst.net,
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