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Stark: Talk Show Hosts May Be Accomplices Under Hate Bill
Submitted by lpin_ed on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 08:35 |Robert Stark is a contributor to the Ron Paul Examiner from Los Angeles. You can see Robert's articles on Robert's Home Page.
LOS ANGELES, CA -- The Hate Crimes Prevention Act which has passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming margin is now facing hearings in the Senate. There are already similar hate crime laws in place, however, this bill imposes much stronger federal enforcement, which is a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment. It grants greater power to federal prosecutors to prosecute hate crime laws by prosecuting those who have been found innocent by local or state courts.
The current bill will extend special privileges to gays and transgender individuals that are currently only granted to ethnic and religious minorities. The most dangerous part of the Bill which is a direct assault against the First Amendment is that it allows for the prosecution as accomplices in a hate crime for talk show pundits that the person who commits the alleged crime claims to influence their actions.
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