HR 254 Shatters Civil Rights

America's justice system requires proof of physical tangible damage before
an arrest can be made. Our English system of law evolved over at least
3500 years from both biblical and Roman legal precedent.

HR 254 is not based on this foundation. It seeks to establish a different "bias
motivation" justice system, which will be defined in courts by judges, as has
happened in Canada over the past 36 years. Closely advised and pressured
by ADL, 2 these federal and local (and mostly liberal) judges will establish
legal precedents-precedents that protect groups such as homosexuals not
only from physical bias-motivated violence but also from "verbal violence."
This will include the "hate speech" of Bible-believing evangelical Christians.
This is exactly what has occurred in Canada and the many European nations
who accepted hate laws' Orwellian chains.

HR 254 thus does more than violate states' rights in law enforcement. It also
leads inexorably to an end of free speech!

We Need You Now

The powerful Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith is determined to pass
the hate bill in their Democrat-controlled Congress. ADL has vowed it will
never give up until a federal hate crimes bureaucracy, like it established in
Canada, shackles the United States. ADL has weathered six rejections of
their hate bill by Congress since 1998. Their tenacity doesn't come from
concern for the emotions or safety of homosexuals. ADL is using the
powerful homosexual lobby as a tool to pass a law that will ultimately make
it a hate crime, punishable by prison or deportation to Israel, to criticize
Zionism or matters Jewish. (See,
< http://truthtellers.org/alerts/irvinginquisition.html>David Irving, like Galileo,
Victim of 'Thought Crimes' Inquisition)

I never thought I would see the day when legislation so enormously
destructive to freedom would be virtually unopposed by the religious right.
3 Incredibly, the many thousands of participants with the National Prayer
Network (< http://www.truthtellers.org/> http://www.truthtellers.org), through
massive calling and mailing of my hate crime flyer to Congress, have
delivered the primary protest against imminent passage of HR 254.

Yet, we desperately need assistance from the vast constituencies of
conservative evangelical organizations. These groups claim to protect
America and our freedom. Yet they have been virtually oblivious to a very
present danger that threatens to wipe away our freedom to fight all other
battles. If we allow the hate bill to pass, we will soon have no free speech
left with which to protest evils like abortion or the redefinition of marriage.
The present silence of Christian/conservative organizations is ensuring their
future death.

National Prayer Network can't win alone. Freedom of speech is America's
lifeblood. It is the precious birthright of all Americans. Many, many more
individuals-liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican, Christian
and non-Christian-must help us save this freedom now.

Endnotes:

1 This is mandated by ADL's Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of
1994.
2 ADL obtained such a mandate through passage of their Hate Crimes
Statistics Act of 1990. It gave them power to teach U.S. Justice
Department, FBI, and local police their twisted definitions of hate crimes
and how to report them. It is out of 25 years of such indoctrination that
ADL intends to create its national hate laws gestapo and police state.
3 As of Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007, important conservative websites where we
could find no mention of the David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act, HR
254, include:

American Family Association
Coral Ridge Ministries
Renew America
WorldNetDaily
Jerry Falwell Ministries
Christian Coalition of America
Family Research Council
Gary Bauer's American Values
Concerned Women for America (which has re-posted an excellent article
from 2005 but makes no mention of the current threat in Congress)
Traditional Values Coalition, while containing nothing about HR 254 on its
website, has emailed alerts concerning the bill.

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HR 254 is presently assigned to the House Judiciary Committee, but as a
streamlined version of a bill that previously passed in the House, it could
race forward to passage very quickly. Call all 40 members, available at
< http://www.truthtellers.org/> http://www.truthtellers.org and protest.

Also call your House member and two state senators at 1-877-851-6437.
Send them and their influential legislative aides Rev. Ted Pike's flyer,
"Anti-Hate Laws Will Make You a Criminal." All this information is
available at < http://www.truthtellers.org/> http://www.truthtellers.org.

TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Pike! Call 503-631-3808.

NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR 97015
http://www.truthtellers.org

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This is the primary text of HR 254, the David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention
Act of 2007. This is a much shorter version of S 1145 which failed passage
in the Senate last year. ADL, desperate to pass their hate bill, has deleted
many items and is concentrating in this new streamlined version on getting
what they want most: establishment of a bias-oriented justice system in
American and union of federal and local police powers (creating a police
state). With this foundation, ADL can then rely on federal and local judges
to expand jurisdiction from violent physical crimes to verbal violence against
protected groups.

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 254

To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 5, 2007

Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL

To enhance Federal enforcement of hate crimes, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `David Ray Hate Crimes Prevention Act of
2007' or `David's Law'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress finds that--

(1) the incidence of violence motivated by the actual or perceived race,
color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability of the
victim poses a serious national problem;

(2) such violence disrupts the tranquility and safety of communities and is
deeply divisive;

(3) existing Federal law is inadequate to address this problem;

(4) such violence affects interstate commerce in many ways, including--

(A) by impeding the movement of members of targeted groups and forcing
such members to move across State lines to escape the incidence or risk of
such violence; and

(B) by preventing members of targeted groups from purchasing goods and
services, obtaining or sustaining employment or participating in other
commercial activity;

(5) perpetrators cross State lines to commit such violence;

(6) instrumentalities of interstate commerce are used to facilitate the
commission of such violence;

(7) such violence is committed using articles that have traveled in interstate
commerce;

(8) violence motivated by bias that is a relic of slavery can constitute badges
and incidents of slavery;

(9) although many local jurisdictions have attempted to respond to the
challenges posed by such violence, the problem is sufficiently serious,
widespread, and interstate in scope to warrant Federal intervention to assist
such jurisdictions; and

(10) many States have no laws addressing violence based on the actual or
perceived race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or
disability, of the victim, while other States have laws that provide only
limited protection.

SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF HATE CRIME.

In this Act, the term `hate crime' has the same meaning as in section
280003(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
(28 U.S.C. 994 note).

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN ACTS OF VIOLENCE.

Section 245 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--

(1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e),
respectively; and

(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:

`(c)(1) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, willfully causes
bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, or an
explosive device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of
the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any
person--

`(A) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in accordance with
this title, or both; and

`(B) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or fined in
accordance with this title, or both if--

`(i) death results from the acts committed in violation of this paragraph; or

`(ii) the acts committed in violation of this paragraph include kidnapping or
an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit
aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill.

`(2)(A) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any
circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully causes bodily injury to
any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, or an explosive device,
attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or
perceived religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of any person--

`(i) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, or fined in accordance with
this title, or both; and

`(ii) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or fined in
accordance with this title, or both, if--

`(I) death results from the acts committed in violation of this paragraph; or

`(II) the acts committed in violation of this paragraph include kidnapping or
an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit
aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill.

`(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the circumstances described in this
subparagraph are that--

`(i) in connection with the offense, the defendant or the victim travels in
interstate or foreign commerce, uses a facility or instrumentality of interstate
or foreign commerce, or engages in any activity affecting interstate or
foreign commerce; or

`(ii) the offense is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce.'.

SEC. 5. DUTIES OF FEDERAL SENTENCING COMMISSION.

(a) Amendment of Federal Sentencing Guidelines- Pursuant to its authority
under section 994 of title 28, United States Code, the United States
Sentencing Commission shall study the issue of adult recruitment of
juveniles to commit hate crimes and shall, if appropriate, amend the Federal
sentencing guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements (in addition to the
sentencing enhancement provided for the use of a minor during the
commission of an offense) for adult defendants who recruit juveniles to
assist in the commission of hate crimes.

(b) Consistency With Other Guidelines- In carrying out this section, the
United States Sentencing Commission shall--

(1) ensure that there is reasonable consistency with other Federal sentencing
guidelines; and

(2) avoid duplicative punishments for substantially the same offense.

SEC. 6. GRANT PROGRAM.

(a) Authority To Make Grants- The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice shall make
grants, in accordance with such regulations as the Attorney General may
prescribe, to State and local programs designed to combat hate crimes
committed by juveniles.

(b) Authorization of Appropriations- There are authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION FOR ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL TO
ASSIST STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT.

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Treasury
and the Department of Justice, including the Community Relations Service,
for fiscal years 2007, 2008, and 2009 such sums as are necessary to
increase the number of personnel to prevent and respond to alleged
violations of section 245 of title 18, United States Code (as amended by this
Act).