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Hate Bill Protest Very Small
By Rev. Ted Pike
Ted On The Political Cesspool
The Senate adjourned Friday afternoon without considering Sen. Kennedy’s hate crimes amendment to the military appropriations bill. But they will resume consideration of the bill on Monday. Freedom of speech in America is at the greatest risk in the history of our country. Yet, alarmingly, an NPN survey Friday revealed that relatively few calls of protest went in to Senate offices last week.
This is true although for two weeks I have been on total alert, warning that unless lovers of freedom protest loudly the hate bill could well slip through. On 15 radio interviews and www.rense.com I addressed close to a million patriotic Americans, yet during this period I was disturbed at how little feedback came in at www.truthtellers.org.
This lack of concern is largely a result of widespread agreement among many Christian/conservative leaders that Pres. Bush, by his promise to veto the hate bill, has neutralized its threat. Last week, my friend Guy Adams, who knows scores of new right leaders, found that most now consider the hate bill no longer an imminent danger. Their strategy is to praise and support Pres. Bush, confident that he will respond to their loyalty by remaining true to his veto promise. It seems as if, regardless of his intentions, the President’s promise has effectively destroyed most organized opposition to the hate bill.
On Friday, Sept. 14, Sen. Kennedy audaciously tried to attach his hate bill to the military appropriations bill, calling for a unanimous consent agreement from the Senate, omitting debate. Sen. McCain blocked Kennedy on Friday, but it is sobering that five days passed before any timely internet warnings came out from most of the largest leaders of the evangelical right — a period which might have seen victory for the hate bill.
















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