[Soothesayer]

Whoever said freedom would last forever? Someday we’re all going to be screwed. All we can do is try and hold it off for as long as possible.

[omnivore]

“National origin” as race, now. I saw this last weekend on BookTV (CSPAN-2), some leftard was claiming that the anti-French comments in the US around the time of the Iraq war runup were due to “racism.” My jaw dropped, since when are the French a “race?” This is part of the leftard balkanization of everyone into small enough groups to count as some kind of “victim” needing their socialist succor.

[Lexington Green]

Conservatives read Orwell’s ‘1984’’ and took it as a warning. Liberals read it and used it as a blueprint.

[Old Sarge]

Behold The Future.

[Van Jenerette]

"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world."

- Daniel Webster, 1851

[angkor]

the bill seems to codify the concept "race" -- i.e., "members of certain religious and national origin groups were and are perceived to be distinct 'races'."

Try these on for size:

The Methodist race, the Quaker race, the Voodoo race, the Greek Orthodox race. Hmmm.... doesn't seem to work.

OK, national origin: the Australian race, the American race, the Italian race, the Kenyan race, the Qatari race, the Nepali race, the Chinese race. No, not those either.

OK, what about "the Muslim race"? "The Arab race"? "The Palestinean race"?

Yes, there we go. Those fit perfectly.

Thank you United States Congress for redefining Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary.

[RC2]

Does this mean that Keith Olbermann could get arrested?

[timco77]

Of course race exists. Open mindedness shouldn’t extend to the level of liberal political correctness and pushing evolution propoganda. Non-whites should not be treated to preferential treatment because of their skin color (something that is all too common nowadays). I’m glad President Bush will veto this anti-white racist bill.

[zip]

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