Posted on 03/18/2021 7:55:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new bill introduced by California State Assembly Member Ash Kalra in San Jose would prohibit police officers from serving if they have used arbitrarily defined “hate speech” or are affiliated with a “hate group.”
The bill, known as the California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act (CLEAR Act), claims to combat “the infiltration of extremists in our law enforcement agencies” and would mandate a background check for all officers who have “exchanged racist and homophobic messages.”
Kalra claims that AB 655 is necessary to prevent “the apparent cooperation, participation, and support of some law enforcement” in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
The bill defines hate speech as “as advocating or supporting the denial of constitutional rights of, the genocide of, or violence towards, any group of persons based upon race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.”
Pacific Justice Institute Senior Staff Attorney Matthew McReynolds said this broad and purposefully arbitrary definition could give way for Christians and conservatives to be classified as “hateful” based on the premise of rejecting abortion or supporting Proposition 8 in California, a same-sex amendment that passed in 2008.
McReynolds also questioned how this would affect those of the Muslim faith — since many religious mosques and followers have taken a stance against homosexuality.
“Under the guise of addressing police gangs, the bill at the same time launches an inexplicable, unwarranted, and unprecedented attack on peaceable, conscientious officers who happen to hold conservative political and religious views,” wrote Reynolds. “Indeed, this is one of the most undisguised and appalling attempts we have ever seen, in more than 20 years of monitoring such legislation, on the freedom of association and freedom to choose minority viewpoints.”
The California GOP currently states in its platform that it believes in traditional marriage and does not believe that Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court case on same-sex marriage decided in 2015, can “coerce a church or religious institution into performing marriages that their faith does not recognize.”
According to this new Democratic bill, disagreeing on moral or religious grounds with homosexuality would technically mean the state GOP is espousing hate speech.
“Should the state now ban from public service qualified, fair-minded people who happen to hold religious or political views that conflict with controversial Supreme Court decisions on marriage and abortion?” asks Greg Burt, Director of Capitol Engagement with the California Family Council. “This is a blatantly unconstitutional violation of religious liberty and freedom of speech. It is also a tyrannical abuse of power from a politician seeking to ruin the lives of those he disagrees with.”
On April 6, AB 655 will head for a vote before the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
Twisted becomes the new normal.
Democrats making conservative thought illegal: my boy! Such a keen grasp of the obvious.
Every cop you interact with will be a social justice warrior.
It will have precisely the opposite effect, forcing all law enforcement to be PC-correct implementers of the current Democrat Party orthooxy. Which, is its intended effect. A political police.
Let’s see.
A state government passing a law discriminating for religion and political beliefs.
Sounds like a First Amendment violation to me.
Leftists fear us, so they are creating a leftist military and police force to protect themselves from us.
The purge is underway.
Reading list (before they’re banned):
1984
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Atlas Shrugged
Could someone please tell me what we should do about this?
For that matter, what *can* we do about this?
Article VI, section III
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
So no Muslims, right?
They don't want law enforcement officers who serve the people.
HELL TO THE NO!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QeZYtApatY This YouTube link gives a prime example of the law enforcement/military of the future.
That means that all muzzy cops will be fired, right?
In Commiefornia you cannot buy or sell or hold a job unless you have the mark of the gay beast.
“Reading list (before they’re banned):
1984
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Atlas Shrugged”
Add:
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
The Federalist Papers
Declaration of Independence
US Constitution
Gettysburg Address
The Way Things Ought to Be (Rush Limbaugh)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
The Road to Serfdom (Frederick Hayek)
Holy Bible - King James Version
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
Intellectuals and Society - Thomas Sowell
Free to Choose - Milton Friedman
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams (John Adams)
When PC speech code first came to be back in the 80s I saw this coming.
Eliminate all officers with a strong moral background.
What could possibly go wrong?
So this would only be aimed at white male officers, as it’s been determined minorities cannot be racist. The only problem is many minorities are quite religious to a large extent.
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