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The ADL Wants To Outlaw Christians
(National Prayer Network) -- by Rev. Ted Pike --
Few familiar with the 97 year history of the Anti-Defamation League would deny its ambition to destroy the Christian/conservative right. ADL's first great step was passing its federal hate crimes law last fall. The next stage was indicated last week by national director Abe Foxman. He said 80 million Americans are "anti-Semitic"-40 million "seriously infected" and 40 million "mildly" so.
What is Foxman's reason for ensnaring so many in such a preposterously wide net? He is spinning a mythology that anti-Semitism in America is a "serious national problem"-one, like the "epidemic" of hate crimes, to be met with federal legislation.
Foxman is moving us toward a federal "anti-Semitism" law - probably under the expanded jurisdiction of ADL's Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. If Foxman has his way, it could become a federal hate crime to engage in speech he considers anti-Semitic: alleging Jews have too much power in government, finance, or media, as well as voicing "strong" criticism of Israel. It would also include the New Testament claim that Jews killed Christ.
To understand the future, know the past. Over the last 25 years, ADL has persuaded liberals that hate crimes had indeed escalated to the point of crisis-a crisis that only a federal hate law could cope with. ADL thinks big-the bigger the lie, the bolder ADL states it as fact.
But ADL does more than distort facts. It turns upside down the most fundamental terms and values that govern civilization.
In 1988, ADL sponsored a national competition to create a model anti-hate law for America. At the time, few outside Canada and Sweden had ever heard of a "hate crime." From the beginning, ADL lassoed its conceptual hate crimes noose around the largest number of people. It redefined a characteristic we all possess for good or bad: "bias." ADL blackened the reputation of all bias (except bias against Christian/conservative values). ADL made bias equivalent to "hate." It then relentlessly conditioned police, educators, the media, etc., that prejudice and intolerance (i.e., hate) were so evil, especially when motivating a crime, that a biased criminal act should be punished with at least triple penalties.
Quantifying "Hate"
But did hate crimes of the magnitude ADL claims really exist? No. ADL had to create its own hate crime reality. In 1990, it persuaded Congress to enact its Hate Crimes Statistic Act, empowering the federal government to require annual reporting of hate crimes from the states. ADL also instructed police in America on its twisted definitions, permitting them to report to the FBI as a "hate crime" any altercation, name-calling, or accusation which police believed was motivated by bias. As a result, ADL was able to "document" about 7500 hate crimes annually. At least 95 percent were never determined to be an actual crime in a court of law. Even when so ludicrously inflated, such "crimes" constitute 1/15 th of 1 percent of actual, documented annual crime in America.
Yet the sleight of hand worked. After sensitizing America to the threat of "hate," and stacking up an annual 7500 "hate crimes," ADL was able to dramatize the "epidemic" of hate enough to put President Obama's signature on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2010...MORE...LINK
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