This is really kind of mind numbing and demonstrates what is wrong with Congress.
During a House Judiciary Committee meeting, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) offered up an amendment to the hate crimes bill to exclude pedophiles from being a protected category under the hate crimes legislation.
Every single Democrat voted it down.
In the same meeting, Congressman Tom Rooney (R-FL) offered an amendment to include veterans as a class protected under the hate crimes bill. Not only did the Democrats vote it down, but Cogresswoman Debbie Waasserman Schultz attacked the Republicans for even thinking veterans might need protection under hate crimes legislation. After all, who but Democrats in Congress hate veterans?
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Hey Erick,
Jim Tomasik (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 4:44PM EST (link)It still says Peter King in the tags under the video… (I see you fixed it in the body.).
Are any of the beloved Blue Dogs
TxCon (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 4:47PM EST (link)on this committee?
Unconstitutional
1stRichard (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 5:01PM EST (link)“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men” any RINO voting for this needs schooling on the constitution As for the comment on veterans every republican should have walked out. Shame on both sides….
Actually have to agree with this one...
fmaidment (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 9:24PM EST (link)…there should be no special protections for any group or class.
“…Nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
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barney frank
secondpatriot76 Monday, May 4th at 5:02PM EST (link)This kind of thing happens when you have people like Barney Frank and Barbara Mikulski in elected office.
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Did Cohen vote against adding the Vets afte rhe voted
Jim Tomasik (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 5:04PM EST (link)to keep the sicko’s on?
Excellent 2010 campaign fodder
WarEagle01 (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 5:33PM EST (link)Which should be used against every Dem who voted no. Brilliant strategic moves by Rooney and King.
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So, some murders are greater than others?
penguin2 (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 5:39PM EST (link)I thought we were supposed to have equal protection under the law.
Hate crimes against veterans is okay, but not against pedophiles?
I am sick to death of the attack on regular American citizens-we are an endangered species.
Isn’t anything that the Dems are doing unconstitutional?
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Word error?
pa Monday, May 4th at 6:02PM EST (link)Isn’t EVERYthing that the Dems are doing unconstitutional?
Fixed that for you.
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Thanks, I was so riled up, I got carried away.
penguin2 (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 6:19PM EST (link)“Everything” is absolutely the correct word.
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Absolutely correct
fmaidment (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 9:27PM EST (link)The 14th Amendment specifically prohibits selecting any group or class from discrimination–or any special privileges.
After all, you can’t be equal under the law if one group gets special treatment, no matter the color of their skin, economic status or lifestyle.
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But we're stuck with it because the Ds are running things.
itrytobenice (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 8:50AM EST (link)Trench warfare (ala Erick’s proposal of making great conservatives honorary members of the Macon Board) means diluting their stupid rule until it means nothing.
We should add one group after another until everyone can claim some sort of protected class. Then we have equal protection. e.g. If anyone has so much as one drop of blood from any protected class or has a close relative that is a protected class, they are considered to be a protected class.
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That's like curing the disease by killing the patient
fmaidment (Diary) Thursday, May 7th at 8:48PM EST (link)While it makes for a good show and highlights the stupidity of the Left, it’s counter-productive.
Rather than adding more protected classes until only white middle-aged billionaires are the “unequal” equals, why don’t we just make everyone equal under the law and be done with it?
Oh, wait, we did that back in the late 1860s… We just forgot.
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I guess "love crimes" are legal
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 1:57PM EST (link)And I thought this was just a whimsical ditty
Marcus?
Karina (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 5:55PM EST (link)Was that guys name Marcus Darby? The former Special Forces guy who dog was killed and was threatened on his property in Texas last month. That wasn’t a hate crime? No one is speaking out for him. The hypocracy of the left lives on.
The Perverse Logic of Hate Crimes
melvinwinter Monday, May 4th at 9:19PM EST (link)This newspaper satire illustrates the perverse logic of hate crimes legislation (and picks up on the Rooney amendment):
http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/05/perpetrators-of-viscious-hateful.html
::puke::
Amy Miller (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 9:27PM EST (link)There is no honor amongst thieves…
We must protect the pedophiles from the nasty, judgmental, fanatical religious right, didn’t you know?
Those veterans are violent products of a broken, imperialistic system. They can fend for themselves.
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Democrats coddle criminals, except those non-PC ones
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 9:29PM EST (link)the whole issue is that Democrat are soft on crime PERIOD! If they would be for tough/stiff sentencing we might keep some of these criminals in jail. Criminal law and punishment is just another Political reward/punishment system by way to lock in votes. Amazes me how some folks think that letting criminals out over and over back into the community is viewed as a sensible/good thing.
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what percentage of democrats are pedophiles
Old_Crow (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 9:35PM EST (link)compared to how many are veterans?
The numbers might shed some light on the motivation behind the legislation.
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fmaidment (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 9:55PM EST (link)…that’s a dangerous assertion to make.
I’d say I recommend a poll.
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redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 9:58PM EST (link)What % of pedophiles are democrats?
We don't need no steenking hate crime legislation
Erick Brockway (Diary) Monday, May 4th at 10:02PM EST (link)But if we DID, it’s OBVIOUSLY not a problem when military members are attacked. After all, they volunteered for the job, right?
What an idiot she is. Worse actually, but after deleting multiple possible (probable) profane adjectives…
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Legislating Hate = Buffoonerism?
cookcountyconservative (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 10:18AM EST (link)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBYhkQpcQxY
Honestly, why is Congress wasting time on this stuff. Can’t this just be reserved for an Oprah episode and leave it at that?
I guess most hate crime
Warrior (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 12:53PM EST (link)is racial in nature, rather than sex/gender/orientation – based, i.e. in terms of shear numbers.
But since most inter-racial crime, by a vast percentage, is black on white, which is not considered a “hate crime” using the Dems twisted English, it follows then that most actual hate crimes are not covered by this “Hate-Crimes” Act.
Brilliant.
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