10/27/2009
Rev. Ted Pike reported last night in one of his indispensable e-alerts that the Hate Crime bill signing, supposedly set for Wednesday, is still in jeopardy because Congress also attached the $100 million F-35 jet engine project to the defense bill, despite Obama’s threatened veto.
Personally, I find it hard to believe that Obama would choose budget restraint over throwing a bone to his coalition of crazies, although he did show commendable irritation when harrassed about playing basketball with CongressMEN (”I gotta say I think this is bunk”). But you never know.
As I pointed out after the Holocaust Museum shooting, this legislation will certainly metastasize into an attack on political speech. Two recent atrocities from Britain show how it will be done:
Grandmother who objected to gay march is accused of hate crime, by Andrew Levy, London Daily Mail, 26 October 2009.
(She wrote a letter to her local council objecting to its permitting a Gay Pride parade and was investigated by police).
Motorist told flag could be racist, by Charley Morgan, Wiltshire Times, 23 May 2008.
(He had the England flag — the red cross of St George — inside his car and was told it ”might be offensive to immigrants” by police.
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