Posted on 07/05/2009 12:23:39 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
Alcee Hastings has offered an amendment that would keep "hate groups" out of the military. The Attorney General would get to define what a "hate group" is, and it wouldn't just include those who are violent but "extremists" who are "engaged in online discussion groups or blog or other postings".
(Excerpt) Read more at 24ahead.com ...
Would that include freerepublic?
The second we allow bureaucrats to start judging what is or is not proper speech, either public or private, we have lost the Republic. We might as well begin to refresh the tree of liberty with a little blood, to borrow a sentiment from Jefferson.
They are afraid. People pass laws against that which they fear. Alcee and his ilk are sending a clear signal regarding their fears.
You use McCarthy as if it were a bad word.
So members of Jeremiah Wright’s church would be banned from the military then, right?
Sounds like something a disgraced and impeached former 'RAT "judge" would do.
These people are outright seeking a totalitarian regime. This cannot be tolerated and they are crossing a line where a Republic needs to take action from wannabe tyrants like this. They think they will keep the public ignorant, but they need to be confronted and in the harshest terms possible. We need Republicans in Congress to turn up the heat on these items and use the proper language in identifying this because there is no civility with enemies like this.
No, but it would (and should) include muslims.
We're not all that far from a dictatorship ...
Good. Alcee is a disgrace to the Congress, as a former federal judge he was impeached for corruption and convicted in a Senate tril and removed from the bench. That doesn't happen to often. To has a scum-sucking worm like him fearing the strength of the true words of the men of the right (whom this is surely aimed at) is a badge of honor! Legislate away, you pathetic weasel!
Response: Agreed. They mean to rule.
“So members of Jeremiah Wright’s church would be banned from the military then, right?”
I’m afraid it’s just the opposite. The Libtards (Demonrats) (Demwits) (Dimbulbs) have things backwards and upside down. Hate is love and love is hate. Got that?
I agree he is a disgrace. What does that say about those who elected him?
[... In 1981, (FEDERAL JUDGE)Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. He was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court. . .In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed, providing five votes more than the two-thirds of those present that were needed to convict. The first article accused the judge of conspiracy. Conviction on any single article was enough to remove the judge from office. The Senate vote cut across party lines, with U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont voting to convict his fellow party member, and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter voting to acquit.[1]
The Senate had the option to forbid Hastings from ever seeking federal office again, but did not do so. Alleged co-conspirator, attorney William Borders went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.[2]
Hastings filed suit in federal court claiming that his impeachment trial was invalid because he was tried by a Senate committee, not in front of the full Senate, and that he had been acquitted in a criminal trial. Judge Stanley Sporkin ruled in favor of Hastings, remanding the case back to the Senate, but stayed his ruling pending the outcome of an appeal to the Supreme Court in a similar case regarding Judge Walter Nixon, who had also been impeached and removed.[3]
Sporkin found some “crucial distinctions”[4] between Nixon's case and Hastings’, specifically, that Nixon had been convicted criminally, and that Hastings was not found guilty by two-thirds of the committee who actually “tried” his impeachment in the Senate. He further added that Hastings had a right to trial by the full Senate.
The Supreme Court, however, ruled in Nixon v. United States that the federal courts have no jurisdiction over Senate impeachment matters, so Sporkin’s ruling was vacated and Hastings’ conviction and removal were upheld. . .Hastings was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1992, representing Florida's 23rd district.]
Absolutely! America has zero to fear from the likes of us. The only ones who should fear conservatives (and are showing it) are the minions of the evil, illegitimate Marxist regime that is now usurping our White House and Congress.
..."against all enemies, foreign and domestic".
So sworn...
My thoughts exactly. These motards keep sending these crooked idiots back to the Congress time after time. Says something about their electorate doesn’t it? :(
That is already in the UCMJ. You can kick out members of hate groups.
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