Wake Up, America - Hate Laws Begin At www.ADL.org

As national concern over impending passage of the federal anti-hate bill heightens, an increasing number of new right organizations are writing articles in opposition. I am delighted!

However, since these organizations are pro-Zionist, they feel that in order to protect the Jewish people they must obscure the role of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith as the culprit behind hate laws worldwide.

To do this, they are creating the mythology that "the homosexual lobby" is the great Satan behind hate laws and the sinister attempt to end free speech.

Truth is the best way to deal with incipient mythologies. The issue of who is behind hate laws can quickly be resolved by going to www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp

where you will find a very detailed, 14-page article explaining how ADL's model anti-hate statute works and is the template upon which all state and federal hate laws are constructed.

Yes, evangelicals, it's time to fight hate laws as if our lives literally depend upon it. Yet, let's not turn to half-truths and lies, thinking such are necessary to protect God's chosen people or to solicit the broad support we need. The fact is, a century of half-truths and lies concerning matters Jewish has brought us to national crisis.

Why not give the whole truth a chance and see what it can do to save us? For the whole truth behind hate laws, go to www.adl.org!

"Anti-hate," hate crimes legislation now before Congress is touted as a sincere attempt to end violent crimes of prejudice. Yet nearly identical laws in Canada and some European countries have led to a virtual ban of public discussion on certain "taboo" topics. Also, public criticism of some "identifiable groups" can be a crime, subject to large fines and years of imprisonment.








Hate Laws Making Criminals out of Christians

Two years ago, Luxembourg tried to use its EU presidency to push through legislation to unify legal standards for Holocaust denial but was blocked by Italy, Britain and Denmark on the grounds that the proposed rules breached freedom of speech and civil liberties.

British historian David Irving, who was expelled from Austria to London last December after spending 13 months behind bars for challenging the Holocaust, could freely speak in the UK where freedom of expression is guaranteed by law.

Such legislation requires unanimity among the 27 EU member states.

Jail sentences

Under the new legislation, pushed by the German presidency, offenders will face up to three years in jail for stirring-up racial hatred or denying acts of genocide, such as the Holocaust.

The latest draft text to be submitted on Thursday to the ministers in Luxembourg foresees an EU-wide jail sentence of at least one to three years for "publicly inciting to violence or hatred, directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin."

The same rules would also apply to people "publicly condoning, denying, or grossly trivialising crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes" as defined by international crime courts and in the charter of the Nuremberg court.

In France, retired literature professor Robert Faurisson has been several times convicted for Holocaust denial by courts. In October 2006 he was given a three month suspended prison term and also fined 7,500 euros over remarks he made on Iranian television.

According to press reports, the text wording has been carefully chosen to only include denial of the Holocaust during WWII, as well as the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, but would not criminalise denying mass killings of Armenians during the Ottoman empire in 1915, something that Turkey, a EU membership candidate, strongly opposes.

"The draft is the lowest common denominator which respects the national legal systems relating to freedom of expression," diplomats said.

British officials quoted Wednesday in The Independent newspaper said that the text would require no legal changes in the UK, which has long punished incitement to racial hatred and last year passed a Religious and Racial Hatred Act. They say that academic freedom to question aspects of the Holocaust or other historical events would not be compromised in Britain.

Current situation

Holocaust denial is already punishable in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France and Spain, while Britain, Ireland and the Scandinavian states it is allowed under freedom of speech rules unless it specifically incites racial hatred.

Poland and the Baltic countries continue to hold on to their demand that "crimes under the Stalin regime in the former Soviet Union" become part of the new legislation, something which is opposed by many countries.

Despite repeated appeals by EU leaders to fight it, anti-Semitism has been reported as being on the rise in Europe in the latest years, especially in France, the UK and Germany, the countries with the largest Jewish communities.

According to the latest study published on Monday by the Tel Aviv university, the sharpest rise in anti-Semitic incidents in 2006 was registered in Britain, with a 60 percent increase in overall attacks and a 37 percent increase in violent attacks against individuals, a 20-year peak.

The report by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of anti-Semitism and Racism attributed the dramatic rise due mainly to Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon last summer and repeated statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioning the Holocaust and calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.

'Hate Crime' Legislation
Sends Grandmas To Jail
National Television Campaign Launched to Expose Danger

WASHINGTON (Christian Newswire) -- On Tuesday at the terrace of the Cannon House Office Building, Faith2Action began a national television campaign to fight so- called "hate crimes" (H.R. 1592)-legislation which has already sent grandmas to jail at the state level for the "crime" of sharing the Gospel on a Philadelphia public sidewalk. The announcement came as part of a press conference led by the Traditional Values Coalition, a linking partner of Faith2Action.

"This is the most dangerous bill in America," declares Faith2Action President, Janet Folger, host of a live, daily, nationally syndicated radio program, and writer of a weekly column for WorldNetDaily.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House began hearings on the bill that would expand the definition of hate crimes to include "thought crimes" against the homosexual agenda. "HR1592 is about hate - hating free speech, hating equal justice, and hating grandma", said Folger.

Faith2Action began running ads Tuesday, April 17th, featuring Philadelphia grandmothers who were thrown in jail for simply sharing their faith. They were accused of violating Pennsylvania's "hate crimes" law and faced the possibility of 47 years in prison. (The ads can also be seen on the internet at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=7xet85bab.0.49giz5bab.tuqepibab.1558&t
s=S0243&p=http://www.stophatecrimesnow.com/

www.StopHateCrimesNow.com) They are scheduled to run on FOX news nationally and in the D.C. Market.

"We must stop it," Folger states, "before they send your grandma, your pastor, or you to jail for sharing your faith or speaking the truth about an agenda that seeks to silence us." Folger's recent article "Conyers' 'Hate Grandma' bill introduced in House" can be found at: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp? ARTICLE_ID=54879.

Janet Folger is available for interviews this week and can be reached through Wanda Sanchez at 209.534.0335.