Hate-crimes law = fascism

All violent crimes are hate crimes, and all crime victims deserve equal justice. This law [Hate Crimes Prevention Act] is a grave threat to the First Amendment because it provides special penalties based on what people think, feel, or believe.

~ Eric Stanley, Alliance Defense Fund

Chelsea Schilling, my colleague at WorldNetDaily, I thought did an excellent job in her recent article on this administration’s latest act against America, “Obama signs ‘hate-crimes’ bill into law.”

Hate-crimes bill? How can this be? I thought the Constitution said that Congress shall make no law against religious freedom or the right to hold political opinions and express them.

The Democrats were Machiavellian enough to link this hate-crimes bill to their new $680 billion bill called the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act which many Republicans felt compelled to support to stand behind our troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Why the urgency for a hate-crimes bill?

President Obama said, “After more than a decade, we’ve passed inclusive hate-crimes legislation to help protect our citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they love, how they pray or who they are.” Obama, by the passage of this hate-crimes bill, has succeeded in fulfilling the 1960s countercultural dream of normalizing the abnormal and morally perverse while concurrently denigrating the normal, the good and the godly.

This hate-crimes bill should have been named the ACA – Anti-Christian Act – for this legislation in essence will put a muzzle on ministers and rabbis and forbid them from preaching against the homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgender lifestyles dominating our culture at pain of civil rights lawsuits, fines, arrests and even imprisonment.

Are we living in America or in Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin?

Of the many constitutional problems with hate-crime laws, one of the most venal, surreptitious and reminiscent of George Orwell’s “1984″ is the fact that these fascist laws punish our very thoughts. It is not so much a hate-crimes law, but in reality a thought-crimes law, for (absent an invalidation by the Supreme Court) people, particularly Christians, will be severely punished for speaking out against what they consider to be immoral behavior expressly prohibited in the Bible.

The great Austrian economist and writer Friedrich Hayek, in his book “The Road To Serfdom,” said, “Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people. … The collective freedom (the Tyrant) offers us is not freedom of the members of society but the unlimited freedom of the planner to do with society what he pleases.”

Hayek was right, and though this book was first published 65 years ago he could have easily been speaking about President Obama today, for with these new, expansive powers Obama will have under the hate-crimes laws, like tyrannical regimes of the past, he can go after his No. 1 enemies – the Christian right and conservative media, including Fox News, alternative media like WorldNetDaily and talk radio like Michael Savage.

Once he has silenced ministers, rabbis and conservative media from speaking out against immorality, and once Obama passes the health-care reform bill and the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty in December 2009, he will have de jure (legal) and de facto (unofficial) control over every American from cradle to grave.

Remember, America’s enduring symbol of the rule of law, Lady Justice, wears a blindfold. Why? To demonstrate that Lady Justice is no respecter of persons; Lady Justice cares nothing about wealth, race, creed, color, gender or sexual orientation. All that Lady Justice cares about is Veritas – truth. There can be no truth in law without morality. There can be no morality in the law without God and the Bible.

On Oct. 27-28, Ann Fishman, an attorney and founder of the Liberty Legal Project International, put on a timely two-day legal conference at the Congressional Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on Freedom of Speech and Religion at which I was one of the invited speakers. After the conference, one of the politicians who spoke, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, the de facto House historian, was magnanimous enough to offer a group of my colleagues a personal tour of Capitol Hill. In the House of Representatives stands a famous life-size painting of our first president, George Washington, who once said, “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”

Obama recently remarked with uncharacteristic clarity about the role of government. He said, “It’s an argument that’s gone on for the history of this republic, and that is, what’s the right role of government? How do we balance freedom with our need to look out for one another?”

America! When Obama says, “Our need to look out for one another,” he is speaking with the voice of Marxism and ideas of communism. Obama has forced on us diabolical policy initiatives that violate our freedom-of-speech rights by enshrining into the law under the cap-and-trade bill the Marxist aphorism, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The $787 billion stimulus bill amounts to the redistribution of wealth from “We the People” to Obama’s Wall Street buddies at AIG and Goldman Sachs. Now, under the recent hate-crimes legislation, America’s sacred First Amendment rights will in essence become a dead letter. I consider that a gross perversion of the rule of law, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

Hate crimes or thought crimes? – Either answers amounts to fascism. The essence of Obama’s fascist policies pushes America into the abyss of the New World Order or WORld Management System (WORMS). Obama and his dozens of czars believe in management by social engineers, rather than government based in Natural Law and a written Constitution.

Only God and the Supreme Court can save us now. Will they act before it is too late for America?

© Ellis Washington

Ellis Washington, authorized biographer for the conservative intellectual Dr. Michael Savage (see www.MichaelSavage.com), is former editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute. He is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law” (2002). See his law review article “Reply to Judge Richard Posner.” Washington’s latest book is “The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust.”

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