Posted on 06/12/2023 6:02:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A Michigan House committee plans to hold a hearing on Tuesday regarding two bills that would amend the penal code and make vaguely defined “hate” speech a felony subject to severe penalties.
House Bills 4474 and 4475 state, “A person is guilty of a hate crime if that person intimidates or harasses another individual; causes bodily injury or severe mental anguish to another individual; uses force or violence on another individual; damages, destroys, or defaces any real, personal, digital, or online property of another individual; or threatens, by word or act, to do any of the above described actions, if the person, regardless of the existence of any other motivating factors, intentionally targets the individual or engages in the action based in whole or in part on any of the following actual or perceived characteristics of another individual.”
Among other things, the bill covers anything that could disparage a person’s race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or age.
“Under this amended criminal statute if you speak out against abortion, teenage transgender males showering with females and taking their spots on women’s teams, illegal immigrants flooding our nation, or simply refuse to use a person’s preferred pronouns, you will be prosecuted for a felony and can receive up to 5 years in prison and be fined $10,000.00,” attorney David Kallman wrote over the weekend. “But rest assured this law will not be enforced equally. If you want to attack pro-life pregnancy centers, assault others, or burn government buildings like Antifa, BLM, and other leftist groups, feel free to continue with your lawless behavior. This law is not meant for you.”
(Excerpt) Read more at michigannewssource.com ...
I would have expected this in California first.
Eventually, sites like Free Republic and several others similar, will be shut down because of ‘Hate Speech Laws’.
Not because they are Constitutional, but because the owners of the sites will not be able to keep them up and running due to the high cost of litigation necessary to fight the Government.....................
We’ve lost to the communists, and this is how they control the masses.
I know.
The dems took majority in the legislature and they are not wasting any time is commiefornicating the state.
Elections have consequences. Which is too bad because Michigan is not a hard core leftist state; yet that’s what the citizens will get.
Activists should be banned from running for office.
Will they also prosecute anti-Christian and anti-conservative “hate”? I did not think so.
[[“A person is guilty of a hate crime if that person intimidates or harasses another individual; causes bodily injury or severe mental anguish to another individual; uses force or violence on another individual; damages, destroys, or defaces any real, personal, digital, or online property of another individual; or threatens, by word or act, to do any of the above described actions]]
So they are gonna lock up all blm and antifa terrorists then, right?
We saw this in Vietnam. They were called “County Fairs”. Here is the description: “County Fair was a combination of military, civic and psychological warfare actions to reestablish the Vietnamese government control over the populace of a given area. It was designed to flush the Viet Cong from the community in which they were a parasite, while at the same time insuring that the populace was not alienated towards the government. Military actions were accompanied by a vigorous civic action program which attempted to convince the population that the government was interested in the welfare of the people and that a governments victory over the Viet Cong was inevitable.” From 2nd Battallion, 9th Marines Website. A Psy-ops is being carried out throughout the entire country.
Its Canada next door.
Hey, no problemo. It’s simple. According to Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats hate speech is any speech that contradicts their narrative.
The MI-GOP is hopelessly ineffective. They are the Keystone Cops of state parties.
The sponsors of this bill are deserving of meeting a rubber hose...
Well that is one way to strip people of the second amendment rights.
Or better still, a rope...
I expected this in HELLINOINS first. We’re dangerously close to it now.
On purpose.
Because governing is icky.
No worries, though! Ed McBroom, who took a dive on the Michigan election fraud, got re-elected in his Senate district with 70 percent of the vote.
He'll move on to another lucrative position after this term - grifting his way through life, with a SWEET Michigan government retirement at the end of the road.
Michigan has been rigged in the last three “elections” - 2018, 2020 and 2022.
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