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Thousands of people march around the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2007, during the "March Against Hate Crimes" to protest hate crime issues. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) WASHINGTON (AFP) - Almost 10,000 people in the United States were victims last year of hate crimes targeting them because of their skin color, religious belief, sexual orientation or ethnic origins, the FBI reported Monday. Sixty percent of the 9,642 hate crimes reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted individuals or a collective of people, such as businesses or institutions, the statistics showed, while 39 percent were directed at property,...

HATE CRIMES BILL The Senate voted to attach hate crimes legislation to the pending defense authorization bill. Legislation to help states prosecute attacks on homosexuals will now be voted on in conjunction with funding the war in Iraq. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/27/AR2007092700126.html?hpid=moreheadlines Opponents say that it will ultimately fail, as Bush threatens to veto. Republicans say that the matter of hate crimes legislation should be left to the states. The better response is that hate crimes legislations not only criminalizes thought, it also sets up different classes of victims. Example: Some people say I look a bit like Idaho Senator Larry Craig. Not...

Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:23 PM Subject: Here's where it is going  Pacific Justice Institute PRESS RELEASEFor Immediate Release - May 23, 2007Contact: President Brad Dacus (916) 857-6900  Opposition Mounts to “Thought Crimes” Bill Sacramento, CA – Opposition is mounting to HR 1592, the federal hate crimes bill that PJI president Brad Dacus testified against in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago.  In response to a PJI alert, petitions are pouring in from concerned citizens who want Congress to know that they oppose this effort to penalize and even criminalize the expression of moral viewpoints.  The PJI petition is now...

MAYOR GIULIANI ANNOUNCES HATE CRIME INITIATIVE TO REDUCE HATE CRIME AND ENHANCE HATE CRIME INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS Joins With City's District Attorneys, Bias Victims To Unveil Hate Crimes Task Force New 24-Hour Hate Crimes Hotline Established Mayor Renews Call For State Legislature, Congress to Pass Hate Crimes Legislation Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today joined with anti-hate crime groups, Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari, and the District Attorneys of Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island to unveil a new initiative that will help reduce the number of hate crimes and enhance hate crime investigations and prosecutions in New York City. The...

MAYOR GIULIANI DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT 'LIBERTY FOR ALL' - THE 1999 LOG CABIN NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Mayor Renews Call for State to Pass Hate Crimes Legislation Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today delivered the keynote address at 'Liberty for All' -- the 1999 Log Cabin Republicans National Leadership Conference, the largest gathering of gay and lesbian conservatives in the nation. This year's annual conference held at the Roosevelt Hotel featured leading gay and lesbian leaders, writers, elected officials and activists from around the country, including Tempe, Arizona Mayor Neil Giuliano. In his keynote address, the Mayor highlighted New York City's...

At least another 75 students have been suspended from school in California for wearing shirts that expressed their biblically-based opposition to homosexuality, and the district that, as WND reported, has been imposing the punishments, says those quotations aren't necessarily acceptable because they are from God's Word. That's the verdict from San Juan Unified School District Superintendent Steven Enoch, according to lawyers for the Pacific Justice Institute, which is working on behalf of the students. The suspensions were begun on April 18 when the homosexual lobby-supported "Day of Silence" was observed in public schools in California – and across the nation....

'Hate Crimes' Bill Moving to Full House By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor April 26, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - The House Judiciary Committee passed a "hate crimes" bill Wednesday night, all 23 Democrats in favor, all 17 Republicans opposed. Every Republican attempt to amend the bill was defeated. Critics call it a "thought crimes" bill. The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R. 1592) would expand the federal definition of hate crimes to include violence against a person because of his or her "actual or perceived" sexual orientation or "gender identity." Under the bill, people who attack others...

Police said Tuesday a Minnesota State University Moorhead student’s claim that he was the victim of a hate crime was a sham. Deputy Police Chief Bob Larson said Paul Marquardt, 23, had recanted major parts of a story he first told police Friday and as a result, “It is no longer believed that a bias-motivated crime took place.” A local gay rights group that organized a march and rally in the wake of Marquardt’s claims said late Tuesday it had canceled its plans. Marquardt told police Friday he suffered a mild concussion, bruised ribs and a separated shoulder after he...

Sensitivity Lesson You better watch what you say in today’s Britain. 19 January 2007 Here is an interesting little slice of contemporary English life. The police go to a pub in a small town in Devon, looking for a suspect. They see a man there who they think resembles the suspect, and approach him. He becomes abusive and they arrest him and take him down to the station. He is drunk. After a couple of hours in a jail cell, he says he feels sick and demands a doctor. The police call the police surgeon. When he arrives (he is...

BRITISH National Party leader Nick Griffin told a crowd that Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith" and Asian Muslims were turning Britain into a multiracial hell as they tried to conquer the country, a court heard yesterday. Griffin urged the gathering in Keighley, West Yorkshire, to vote BNP to ensure "the British people really realise the evil of what these people have done to our country". The 47-year-old BNP chairman and fellow party activist Mark Collett face a series of charges arising out of speeches filmed by BBC journalist Jason Gwynne, who posed as a BNP supporter in Bradford, for...

British National Party leader Nick Griffin told a crowd that Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith" and Asian Muslims were turning Britain into a multiracial hell as they tried to conquer the country, a court heard today. Griffin urged the gathering in Keighley, West Yorkshire, to vote BNP to ensure "the British people really realise the evil of what these people have done to our country". The 47-year-old BNP chairman and fellow party activist Mark Collett face a series of charges arising out of speeches filmed by BBC journalist Jason Gwynne, who posed as a BNP supporter in Bradford, for...

Just in time for the holidays, the gang over at YouTube has added a new flag to their videos to assist their “community” in determining “inappropriate” content. Our friend at Ms Underestimated has created the following capture of the new screen being put into effect: Frankly, this is every liberal YouTuber’s dream: the ability to flag a video as inappropriate due to it containing “Hate Speech”. After all, what we have seen from Google and YouTube lately quite suggests that hate speech is anything that speaks out against terrorism.

LOS ANGELES — A stunned Hollywood debated the future of one of its biggest stars Sunday as a sheriff's watchdog launched an investigation into a possible cover up of a leaked report that quoted Mel Gibson unleashing a tirade of anti-Semitic remarks during a drunken driving arrest. One media expert said Gibson irreparably damaged his career with his "crazy" behavior following his arrest by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in Malibu early Friday. Charges of anti-Semitism were also leveled against the actor-director with the release of his 2004 blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ." "It's a nuclear disaster for him,"...

Roman Catholic Robert Smith is fired from an appointment on the Washington Metro transit authority board by Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich for the crime of saying that he doesn't approve of homosexuality. Journalist and author Oriana Fallaci cannot visit her native country of Italy for fear of being thrown in prison because of a lawsuit brought against her by the Italian Muslim Union for the crime of "defaming Islam." British neo-Nazi David Irving is sentenced to three years in prison in Austria for a 1989 speech in which he committed the crime of Holocaust denial. College Republican Steve Hinkle...

Abolish foolish law Canada has real hate crimes to worry about By Ezra Levant Calgary Sun Mon, June 12, 2006 David Ahenakew's criminal conviction for "spreading hate" was quashed last week by no-one less than the chief justice of Saskatchewan. The septuagenarian aboriginal leader isn't free to go just yet. He wasn't acquitted. His conviction has been set aside. The province may have at him again. Already, a chorus of "human rights" groups clamoured for a retrial, forgetting freedom of speech -- even foolish, wrong or hateful speech -- is a human right, too. Ahenakew should not have been...

There's a famous joke that goes like this: What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a Jewish mother? Eventually, the Rottweiler lets go. Now, some Jews may find that joke offensive. I don't. But if you're insulted, and you live in Boulder, you're in luck. Soon enough, you may be able to report me to the authorities. Tuesday, the Boulder City Council will take up the matter of allocating public funding for a "hate hotline," which would give residents an opportunity to report incidents in which Boulderites use tactless language. "Our concern - and there are many - is that...

Is this a Seattle that looks familiar to you, or does it feel foreign? In the University District, two white men yell, "Look at the chinks!" from a balcony and spit at two young Asian Americans. In Fremont, a white man in a pickup truck drives by an African American cab driver, yells out an obscenity and then comes back flashing a gun.In Belltown, near the Space Needle, a Hispanic man rams his vehicle into a car containing two young South Asian men, referring to them as "Arabs." In Pioneer Square, a man approaches another man standing at a bus...

Promoting 'No Calling Names' at Brooklyn's School of Global Studies (from l.): Kalisha, Tiffany, Principal Lisa Gibbs, Jessica and Luis. Teachers at a Brooklyn school handed out stickers emblazoned with anti-gay epithets, the N-word and other derogatory terms to kids as young as 11 - as part of a campaign to stamp out name-calling. A top City Hall official yesterday backed the program at the Global Studies School in Cobble Hill, but some parents said they feared a confusing message was being sent. "It's frustrating to know they're putting these words into their mouths," said Jose Rodriguez of Red...

ITHACA—A contributor to Cornell University’s “premier liberal voice” has been charged with stabbing a black student on the university’s campus after using “racial epithets” toward him.According to the Cornell Daily Sun, Nathan Poffenbarger [Class of] '08, a regular contributor to the campus magazine, “Turn Left” was charged with second-degree assault, a class "D" felony, after allegedly stabbing a visiting student on West Campus during an altercation on Saturday (February 18).Police said the attack stemmed from a racial incident.“Witnesses told police Poffenbarger was yelling racial remarks at someone else, when the victim, a black male student, stepped in to stop him....

Last week, I reported on the move by China and its authoritarian-minded cohorts in the General Assembly to stop UN staffers from talking to the press without their approval about matters under investigation that might impact the "reputation" of the United Nations. While that is certainly bad enough if you believe in freedom of the press, it is nothing compared to what the Islamic fanatics are trying to ban--and using the United Nations to do it