POTUS Signs ‘Anti-Hate’ Resolution, a Major Assault on America’s First Amendment
... President Trump signed that anti-free speech resolution I warned about just a few days ago...
... it’s not just symbolic.
The resolution demands “the President and the President’s Cabinet… use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups” and requires “the heads of other Federal agencies… improve the reporting of hate crimes and… emphasize the importance of the collection, and… reporting to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of hate crime data by State and local agencies”.
As egregious and disgusting as many of the groups mentioned are, this is still — last time I checked — the United States of America. The only country that has enshrined in law its commitment to defending people’s rights to say whatever they want, no matter how nasty, depraved, absurd, or “deplorable”...
This isn’t just an attack on the KKK and fringe groups. It’s a veiled attack on anything the establishment considers to be a threat to its long-standing though swiftly diminishing hegemony over the political discourse in this country. If you’re on the political left — especially if you’re a Bernie supporter — don’t think they won’t try and apply this to you, too. This is real fascism.
As I said recently of the intentionally vague and sometimes meaningless terminology used in the resolution:
Today, a “racist” is someone who believes in legal immigration. An “extremist” is someone who doesn’t believe in mass, state-funded abortion. A “xenophobe” is someone who takes pride in their nation. An “anti-Semite” is — curiously — someone who supports the State of Israel, and “white supremacy” now occupies the Oval Office. The Overton window has shifted so far that even practicing Muslims are now decried by the most heavily quoted sources as “Islamophobes”.
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This is a heinous betrayal, and the fact no one seems to care about it is even more concerning.
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Congressional “Hate” Resolution Opened Door To Cultural Marxist Police State. Only Trump Resisted, James Kirkpatrick, VDare, September 18, 2017:
... It looked like it could have been written by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Perhaps it was. Needless to say, the Resolution did not condemn the Antifa terrorists who actually created the violence in Charlottesville...