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NEWS ‘Hate Speech Police Are Coming For You’ – Lawyer Speaks Out About Impending House Legislation (Michigan)
Michigan News Source ^ | 5 Jun, 2023 | KATIE HEID

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: 1a; demonicrats; freespeech; gaystapo; hatespeech; homofascism; homosexualagenda; michigan; misgendering; nazis; neopronouns; pronouns; savewomenssports; trans; transagenda; transgender; tyranny
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1 posted on 06/12/2023 6:02:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I would have expected this in California first.


2 posted on 06/12/2023 6:02:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

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.....................


3 posted on 06/12/2023 6:07:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MtnClimber

We’ve lost to the communists, and this is how they control the masses.


4 posted on 06/12/2023 6:10:41 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Red Badger

I know.


5 posted on 06/12/2023 6:11:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Michigan has an incredibly active communist insurgency going on right now.

MI-GOP fecklessness is the major cause.
6 posted on 06/12/2023 6:13:14 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


7 posted on 06/12/2023 6:13:53 AM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: MtnClimber

Will they also prosecute anti-Christian and anti-conservative “hate”? I did not think so.


8 posted on 06/12/2023 6:21:32 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: MtnClimber

[[“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?


9 posted on 06/12/2023 6:25:21 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: Red Badger

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.


10 posted on 06/12/2023 6:26:35 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: farming pharmer

Its Canada next door.


11 posted on 06/12/2023 6:26:36 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: MtnClimber

Hey, no problemo. It’s simple. According to Demoncrats ... I mean Democrats hate speech is any speech that contradicts their narrative.


12 posted on 06/12/2023 6:27:46 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (AS )
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To: farming pharmer
MI-GOP fecklessness is the major cause.

The MI-GOP is hopelessly ineffective. They are the Keystone Cops of state parties.

13 posted on 06/12/2023 6:33:37 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MtnClimber

The sponsors of this bill are deserving of meeting a rubber hose...


14 posted on 06/12/2023 6:46:45 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MtnClimber

Well that is one way to strip people of the second amendment rights.


15 posted on 06/12/2023 6:53:34 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: logi_cal869

Or better still, a rope...


16 posted on 06/12/2023 6:55:08 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: brownsfan
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17 posted on 06/12/2023 7:09:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

I expected this in HELLINOINS first. We’re dangerously close to it now.


18 posted on 06/12/2023 7:12:03 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: farming pharmer
MI-GOP handed the state to the Michigan Mean Girls over the last three election cycles.

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.

19 posted on 06/12/2023 7:37:10 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Rural_Michigan

Michigan has been rigged in the last three “elections” - 2018, 2020 and 2022.


20 posted on 06/12/2023 7:38:02 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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