Conservatives warn Trump that “hate speech” resolution is tool of Left to silence dissent – IOTW Report

Conservatives warn Trump that “hate speech” resolution is tool of Left to silence dissent

Jihad Watch: The Left is working hard to destroy the freedom of speech and silence all those who dissent from the globalist, internationalist, socialist and pro-jihad agenda. Leftist politicians already maneuvered Trump into signing one measure against “hate groups,” when the Southern Poverty Law Center’s manipulative and propagandistic “hate group” list includes legitimate groups along with the KKK and the neo-Nazis, in an attempt to destroy them.

This whole concept of “hate groups” and “hate speech” is contrary to the freedom of speech. If “hate speech” is proscribed by the government, a tyranny will be established in which Leftists can simply outlaw and deny all platforms to those they hate by labeling them in this way. It’s coming, unless enough people wake up in time.

“‘War on free speech’: Conservatives warn Trump of ‘hate’ measure,” by Art Moore, World Net Daily, October 6, 2017:

A collection of conservative leaders have written to President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan expressing “grave concern” about a joint resolution approved by the Senate and House targeting “hate speech.”

Hastily enacted Sept. 14 without public debate, Public Law 115-58, the leaders write, could “lead to unconstitutional suppression of freedom of expression aimed at silencing those smeared by political opponents as, for example, ‘haters,’ ‘racists’ or ‘bigots.’”

“Many of us have been slandered in this fashion, falsely characterized as ‘white supremacists’ or some other, similarly disparaging epithet simply because we support, for example, traditional marriage, civil liberties rather than Sharia, secure borders and the enforcement of our immigration laws and/or effective counterterrorism policies,” they write.

Even worse, they say, the name-calling is “just the leading edge of an aggressive campaign to ruin the financial condition and prevent the widespread dissemination of the work of individuals and groups being targeted for what amounts to unrestricted political warfare.”

The statute “urges the President and his administration to speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and White supremacy and use all resources available to the President and the President’s Cabinet to address the growing prevalence of those hate groups in the United States.”

The letter calls upon the attorney general, the secretary of homeland security and the heads of other federal agencies to engage in such activities as investigating “thoroughly all acts of violence, intimidation, and domestic terrorism by White supremacists, White nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and associated groups” and to improve “the reporting of hate crimes and to emphasize the importance of the collection, and the reporting to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of hate crime data by State and local agencies.”

The problem, the leaders say, is that the statute does not define terms such as “hate group,” “white supremacist,” “extremist,” “anti-immigrant” and “xenophobia.”

“These open-ended mandates, they argue, “invite abuses of power by the state.”  MORE

17 Comments on Conservatives warn Trump that “hate speech” resolution is tool of Left to silence dissent

  1. Why do the Leftists criticize Trump as being a “Hitler”…
    that’s exactly the type of government they desire.

    Oh, wait. they want THEIR Hitler.

    Never mind. I’ll go back to watching the movie “Drag Me To Hell” on Lucifer’s big-screen Satan-Tron. 👿

  2. One can not help but wonder if Nikita Kruschev’s proclamation was/is accurate:

    “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”

    It is unfathomable to believe that nearly 50% of Americans are either stupid, mis-lead, duped or otherwise devoid of common sense to allow the horrendous hate against America/Trump that would lead to the total demise of the most freedom/ liberty oriented country on the planet.
    These liberal, sadistic, narcissists are beyond reproach. Their ignorance knows no bounds, their resolve is unmovable despite their future spiraling towards the unavoidable abyss.
    With gleeful heart I stand safely aside and silently thirst for their demise.

  3. The left has been very effective in controlling speech. They did it by labeling almost anything that may offend anyone as “politically incorrect.” That is, of course, unless they say it. Sadly, much of the public has succumbed to their bullying. Certainly some words are rude or inconsiderate but politically incorrect? I maintain limiting free speech is the most politically incorrect thing that can be foisted on any human being and this country.

  4. Citizens in Europe are doing hard time for “hate speech” when all they are doing is complaining about the destruction of their society by the Muzzie immigrants. I know I don’t want that here.

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