Hate Bill Holds America Hostage

By Rev. Ted Pike

For six months (until April 2006), the Senate inexplicably delayed passage of the Children’s Safety Act, a bill created by conservative Republicans to protect America ’s children from pedophiles. Concerned leaders including Kathy Lee Gifford, John Walsh and Bill O’Reilly grew impatient and perplexed. Why wasn’t Majority Leader Bill Frist, a passionate supporter of the bill, moving it forward to easy passage in the Senate? Heated criticism of Frist mounted.

Virtually no one knew that Sen. Edward Kennedy was blocking Frist. Kennedy wanted to attach his hate bill, S. 1145, to this very popular child-protecting legislation. Frist delayed in order to deny him the chance. (See, How Kennedy and His Pedophiles Weakened the Child Safety Bill)

Finally, I sent out an e-alert informing the nation and media that the Children’s Safety Act was held back for one reason: Kennedy wanted his pro-homosexual hate bill attached as a rider. Kennedy was depriving America ’s children of protection from pedophiles in order to provide homosexuals and transvestites special federal protection. 

The day after I sent out my alert, all hell broke loose from FOX News. O’Reilly repeatedly vilified Kennedy on national television for preferring passage of his hate bill over the safety of America ’s children. A national uproar ensued with over 12,000 angry calls besieging Kennedy’s office. Overwhelmed, Kennedy backed down, abandoning the hate bill and allowing the Children’s Safety Act to quickly pass.

Kennedy relented, but has he repented of putting the hate bill before the wellbeing of the American people?

Right now, Kennedy, along with Sen. Gordon Smith, is again attempting to attach the hate bill as a rider to a piece of large, sure-to-pass legislation. This time, it’s the Defense Authorization bill H.R. 1585.

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Anti-War Republican Ron Paul Is Tops With Military Contributors

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Congressman Ron Paul has defined his Republican presidential candidacy with a staunchly critical stance on the Iraq war, saying during the June 5 debate in New Hampshire, for example, that it was a “mistake to go and a mistake to stay.”

Paul has often reiterated his views that US security has been worsened by its military presence in Iraq, and that Bush’s pre-emptive war doctrine represented one of his administration’s greatest moral failings.

One might think such criticism of the war and the Commander-in-Chief’s leadership would make Paul a pariah to the military community, however, the latest figures indicate the antiwar Republican is receiving more donations from employees of the US military than any other Republican candidate.

The Presidential campaigns just released their quarterly campaign finance reports, leaving much of the mainstream media remarking on Paul’s surge in online donations from his healthy Internet following, though the $2.3 million he raised still has him trailing far behind the front runners.

But a closer look at the reports reveals a less obvious but more remarkable development–the antiwar Republican received nearly one third of the money donated by employees of the US military.

Based on the July 2007 Quarterly Finance Reports to the Federal Elections Commission, Ron Paul is the most supported candidate in terms of financial support by Military Personnel and Military Veterans. (more…)

Caught Red-Handed: Media Backtracks on Iran’s Anti-Israel “Threat”

By Arash Norouzi

For close to two years, the media has stubbornly clung to a long discredited story about the Iranian President’s alleged threat to “destroy Israel” with nuclear weapons Iran doesn’t have and denies any intent to acquire. ‘Wiped off the map, wiped off the map,’ they bleat incessantly, even though his actual words, “The Imam [Khomenei] said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,” were paralleled with the fall of regimes like the Soviet Union and Iran’s former U.S.-installed monarchy [see: “WIPED OFF THE MAP” — The Rumor of the Century  for a thorough disassembly of this claim]. From the start of his Presidency, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rhapsodized regularly about the demise of the ‘Zionist regime’ in various metaphorical terms. He and his associates in the Iranian government have compared its fate to the Pharaohs of Egypt and the former apartheid regime in South Africa (which they also did not recognize), but never have they threatened to start a war with any country.

Yet the rumor persists. Top respected journalists, advocates for peace and dialogue with Iran, and individual Iranians themselves bring up the misquote regularly, as do noted Iranian-American scholars. The media’s constant drumbeat has even duped top world leaders into believing the myth. On October 29, 2005, the false quote was officially condemned by all 15 Security Council members in a United Nations statement, just following Israel’s prior demand that the Security Council expel Iran from the UN due to the remark.

The effect this misquote has had on American policy towards Iran is undeniable. The majority of 2008 Presidential candidates in both parties have repeatedly mentioned the alleged threat in speeches and interviews, obviously influenced by media reports.

And yet suddenly, after all this hoopla, at least two of the biggest media titans, the BBC and the Associated Press, appear to be backing away from the incorrect “wiped off the map” quotation they’ve been drilling into people’s minds for so long. It’s happening quietly and undemonstratively, but some recent subtle changes in their presentation indicate a tacit acknowledgement of their previous misreporting.

The details of how this reversal came to be, their curious handling of the subject in some of their recent news items, and contradictory arguments defending their work, is a story in itself. Let’s begin with the legendary British Broadcasting Company.

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Emergency!
Hate Bill Moves Forward In Senate

By Rev. Ted Pike
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Hoping to avoid detection from opponents in the religious right, Senators Edward Kennedy and Gordon Smith have quietly moved the federal hate crimes bill into the Senate. The Senate will vote, perhaps as early as this Tuesday on whether to include it as a “rider” on the huge federal defense bill, HR 1585. Now designated SA 2067, the new Senate hate bill is about half the length of the House version which passed the House earlier this year. But it gives its primary supporters, the Anti-Defamation League and the homosexual lobby, everything they need to end free speech in America, establishing a mammoth federal “thought crimes” bureaucracy as in Canada.

Lovers of free speech may have only one day, Monday, to persuade the Senate not to include the hate bill as a rider. If you value freedom for yourself and your children you must give top priority to calling your Senator first thing Monday morning!

Call (1-877) 851-6437 toll free or (202) 225-3121 toll and tell your Senator: “Please don’t attach Sen. Kennedy’s hate crimes bill SA 2067 to the arms bill S 1585. Hate laws have taken away free speech in Canada and many European countries. If you do vote for the hate bill, I and my friends will do our best to defeat you in the next election!”

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