Great idea, right? No sane person supports the Klan and neo-Nazis. But here again we see the palsied hand of the Southern Poverty Law Center. When perfectly legitimate organizations are falsely classified as “hate groups” and lumped in with the KKK and neo-Nazis by that well-heeled hate and smear machine, against whom will “all available resources” be used? This resolution, which pointedly doesn’t name violent Leftist groups such as Antifa, is more of the Left using Charlottesville as its Reichstag Fire moment, to crush all dissent.
Remember: when this resolution refers to “hate groups,” the Southern Poverty Law Center doesn’t have any competitors. Its “hate group” list is the only one around, and the only one that government officials will refer to when they begin to put teeth into this resolution and shut down those “hate groups.” That means that groups opposing jihad terror and unrestricted immigration, and defending traditional values will be targeted and destroyed.
Trump shouldn’t be going along with this. But the swamp appears to have drained him.
“KASSAM: The Swamp Just Bounced Trump Into A European-Style Assault on Free Speech,” by Raheem Kassam, Breitbart, September 13, 2017:
Many Americans don’t seem to appreciate as much as outside admirers do, that the United States is the only country in the world with a commitment to free speech enshrined in the nation’s Constitution. Many nations do not even have codified constitution of which to speak.
Which is why it is almost more egregious to the outsider than the American that such protections are under assault, not just on the streets of Berkeley or Charlottesville, but in your legislature — and soon in your Oval Office.
This afternoon, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed President Trump would “absolutely” be signing a resolution drafted by Republican and Democrat lawmakers “condemning” hatred.
“He and [Senator Tim Scott] talked about that and discussed that and agreed that that was the appropriate place to be,” Sanders said. “In terms of whether or not he’ll sign the joint resolution, absolutely, and he looks forward to doing so as soon as he receives it.”
But the resolution is manifestly a ruse — the first line of attack in a new wave of assaults against free speech in America.
Let’s examine what the motion, passed by both legislative chambers early this week, says.
The preamble, in addition to expressing “support for the Charlottesville community,” demands of the President that he rejects “White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups” and urges him and his cabinet to “use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups”.
From the outset this is disingenuous and troublesome.
The President has already disavowed these groups, including Neo Nazis and the KKK. Why are elected members, alongside the White House, wasting time virtue signaling over it?
Perhaps because it backs POTUS into a corner, especially when you consider many establishment media organizations call his former Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon — who has mocked and derided ethno-nationalists — a “white nationalist” or “white supremacist”. This week, ESPN even let one of its hosts off with no more than a slapped wrist for suggesting the President himself was a “white supremacist”.
So by whose definitions are we going? And what exactly does “use all available resources” mean?
The President and his cabinet ostensibly have all resources available to them. The U.S. military, trillions of dollars, three and a half years of power. To what is the President subscribing?
Whatever happened to the old line by Voltaire, “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too”, or as it was paraphrased by Evelyn Beatrice Hall writing under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre in Friends of Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”?
Personally, I believe sunlight is the best disinfectant for hateful beliefs.
The U.S. Constitution is perfectly clear on this too. No matter how vile your views — as those of the KKK and Neo Nazi groups are — you still have a right to express them in America.
The fact the Supreme Court had to readdress this fact only earlier this year is harbinger enough of the assault on liberty we are about to witness.
In June, Justice Kennedy opined in the case of Matal v. Tam:
A law found to discriminate based on viewpoint is an “egregious form of content discrimination,” which is “presumptively unconstitutional.” … A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.
Justice Alito said at the time:
[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”
Obvious enough to you or me. But not self-evident enough for your representatives or even your President, if Ms. Huckabee Sanders is correct.
The five page document the President is now committed to signing refers to violence on the side of Neo Nazi protesters, but fails to mention Antifa, or any other leftist-inspired violence, including but not limited to the Bernie Sanders supporter who recently attempted to murder Republican congressmen.
It demands signatories “speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and White supremacy” — laudable aims were it not for the fact that the political left has abused and debased these terms, effectively stripping them of all meaning.
Today, a “racist” is someone who believes in legal immigration. An “extremist” is someone who doesn’t believe in mass, state-funded abortion. A “xenophobe” is someone who takes pride in their nation. An “anti-Semite” is — curiously — someone who supports the State of Israel, and “white supremacy” now occupies the Oval Office. The Overton window has shifted so far that even practicing Muslims are now decried by the most heavily quoted sources as “Islamophobes”….
“Congress votes to call on Trump to denounce hate groups,” by Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters, September 13, 2017:
(Reuters) – The U.S. Congress passed a resolution late on Tuesday calling on President Donald Trump to condemn hate groups after Trump was criticized for his response to the violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a month ago.
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously adopted the resolution, U.S. Representative Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia, said in a statement. The Senate approved the measure on Monday.
“Tonight, the House of Representatives spoke in one unified voice to unequivocally condemn the shameful and hate-filled acts of violence carried out by the KKK (Ku Klux Klan), white nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville,” Connolly said.
The joint resolution, passed with the support of both Republicans and Democrats, will go to Trump for his signature.
Representatives for the White House did not respond immediately to an email seeking comment.
The Congressional resolution calls on Trump to condemn hate groups and what it describes as the growing prevalence of extremists who support anti-Semitism, xenophobia and white supremacy.
It also urges Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate acts of violence and intimidation by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups….
Frank Liso says
Modify it to say what trump wants it to say include BLM and ANTIFA
Shane says
Oh, there are so many more Muslim and Leftist hate groups: the ADL, SPLC, CAIR, BAMN, Nation of Islam, Muslim Student Association, etc…
Far Left Watch Investigates, Combats and Exposes Far Left Extremism: https://farleftwatch.com/ https://twitter.com/FarLeftWatchOrg
Left Wing Extremism, the Current Threat: https://fas.org/irp/world/para/left.pdf
todaytonight says
You forgot many Antichrist groups as well as the Same-Sex Marriage group that hates marriage and the Church.
Andy says
Trump Train-Where’s the conductor? We lost him!
“He lied to us”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIISBf9Vy20
Sue says
The 1954 Communist Control Act is still on the books; it’s never been repealed. Given that members of the Antifa group responsible for Charlottsville publicly proclaimed in court that they are “communists”, it’s time to actively enforce the provisions of that law!
David Munson says
I’m a Trump supporter and when you single out certain groups to demonize and leave out the rest who are demonizing other groups it feels like political targeting. That is very disappointing. Law enforcement will use this prey on more citizens.
Judy says
Law enforcement to what? They do not have enough man power.
John A. Marre says
There is a very big hate group that isn’t mentioned. It inspires people to throw gays off high buildings. It causes its members to bomb school buses in Israel, to set bombs in airports, to machine gun party goers in a night club, to fly occupied planes into occupied buildings, to burn buildings, and to cut heads off while yelling the slogan of the hate group.
Nothing said about that hate group. it should be banned and its members deported.
Carl says
? exactly. Biggest and most active hate group that, as yet has operated with impunity. The insignificant others should be condemned but,the threat they collectively pose, pales in comparison to ISLAM.
Judy says
Please do Not forget a big one here that George Looney just gave 1 Mil $ to the SPLC they caused a man to be shot. Head of group just sent 13 $Mil to Caman Islands.
epistemology says
Couldn’t agree more but nobody wants to be accused of Islamophobia which these disingenuous morons label as racism. Utterly rubbish. Islam is the same ideology as Nazism, the same anti-Semitism and the same supremacism.
One of my best friends is an ex-refugee from Southern Sudan, When I asked him why he had to flee his answer was very mundane: “I’m black and I’m a Christian”
I once witnessed – unfortunately I was the only witness – him being racially abused by a Muslim. That scumbag called him a slave and other things. The KKK is a bunch of choir boys compared to devout Muslims. Islam should be banned.
gravenimage says
This does not surprise me.
Judy says
Isn’t what he’s saying writing to do with here in the USA!?
todaytonight says
Do you mean – groups that roam civilised cities and chase women and girls calling them ‘sluts’ and ‘bitches’, only because they are not covering their knees and shoulders? While those ladies work hard and pay taxes I mean hefty jizzia ..
Smarty says
You mean the one Trump couldn’t mention on 9/11? Yet he can point out kkk groups which at this point barely exist in this country.
gravenimage says
True.
Pete says
“white nationalist”
Interesting term…….Really what does it mean?
What do “they” the controllers/handlers want it to mean?
Yet another weaponized term to confuse and distort most everyone
A term to be used to invoke guilt so you can be made to kneel
I’m white, Christian and I’m “for” the basic foundational belief of my nation as per the Bill of Rights
I guess by default I’m a “white nationalist”?
Is a white nationalist a more sell-able term for white supremacists?
Dangerous times for good people
Drink the Kool-Aid, keep your mouth shut
Oh Yeah?…. keep paying taxes and let the immigrant-invaders conquer your future
Warmac9999 says
Almost everyone who comments on this site will be declared guilty of a hate crime.
Ullr says
During the election, the options were nationalist or globalist. Yet when the term ‘globalist’ is used, one never sees black globalist or hispanic globalist. The Cambridge Dictionary defines globalist as “someone who believes that economic and foreign policy should be planned in an international way, rather than according to what is best for one particular country”. “White” is just thrown in as a slur. Democrats wonder why they lost.
Japetto Donatelli says
Resolutions can be used to declare war. And that’s exactly what’s happening here, it’s a formal declaration of war against conservative opinions. It’s always the same tactic to destroy our 1st Amendment: Use some vague, imprecise terms like “hate” or “extremism” or “racism” in a kkk context, but then count on their mooshy connotation to include legitimate and worthy groups like Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs. I’m still pi$$ed off about Paypal, the nerve of them. If Pam and Spencer want to compile news on any subject and offer commentary in their own forum then they are a million miles away from that gray area of free speech abuse. The suggestion that these two hard working humanitarians are somehow a “hate group” is a slander that threatens our 1st amendment at the deepest level. If we let voices like these good folks go under then we all go under. We should protect them with everything we got because everything depends on it. If we can’t even voice our opinions about a religion that threatens murder and terror against unbelievers then the religious Nazis have taken over our nation. We can’t let that happen, it’s too crazy an idea to even imagine without getting sick to ones stomach. This is what the left and the bleeding heart liberals are fighting for, the destruction of our nation and the diminution of the world’s best human rights. And they do this for a religion with violent political aspirations against our nation’s security and our freedoms. I love my country too much to let that happen.
Matthieu Baudin says
“… The five page document the President is now committed to signing refers to violence on the side of Neo Nazi protesters, but fails to mention Antifa, or any other leftist-inspired violence…”
This failure to acknowledge violence and intimidation from the left of the political spectrum may act as a green light to the New Left ‘Brown Shirt Reincarnations’ who are currently being cheered on by their ’70’s generation parents/grandparents. The kid gloves need to come off; all those violent anarchist, socialist and radical environmentalists who regularly vandalise and create mayhem at International Economic Forums at European and other capitals should have been put on public trial years ago for their unrestrained hooliganism.
Unfortunately an opportunity was lost for cleansing the political atmosphere by the failure to put on trial some of the surviving Soviet leadership for their crimes against humanity. An opportunity still exists however for the Chinese people to put on trial, in an International Court, some of their political leadership, particularly from the Maoist era, when they become brave enough to reckon honestly with their own past.
Joe says
Who were those people dressed in black and running around destroying Washington DC during Trump’s inauguration? Shouldn’t that direct attack be condemned?
jewdog says
Sure, but way too much intellectual subtlety for the Trumpster.
John Hawk says
Trump has no moral compass, so he shifts with the winds. And the prevailing winds at the moment are favorable for swamp life. Trump won’t betray his core principles, because he has no core principles to being with. When everything is negotiable, then nothing is really certain. Trump makes it up as he goes along.
Agent Rose says
This is a catastrophe. He is not condemning Antifa by name! The armed revolutionaries who declared “Everywhere a Battlefield.” https://farleftwatch.com/2017/09/04/antifa-groups-declare-solidarity-with-foreign-communist-soldiers/
Battlefield is the Senate, House, White House and YOUR MIND!
https://farleftwatch.com/2017/08/29/austin-antifa-group-declares-everywhere-a-battlefield/
Judy says
It states & OTHER HATE GROUPS ! Some are jumping the gun wait to see what it says, so emotional sounding. We say NO to DACA & he is letting it go through I bet
I wonder about leftists says
Who started the destruction and hate and terror, a lot of government people and leftists should be put on trial. Who do they think they are, that you can just smash your Constitution and laws aside when it is convenience for you out of cowardliness or God knows what Crime pays big, and the black supremacists were invited to the white house, heroes he, but you can’t honour your soldiers, white children have to lay on their mats to pray in the morning, ordered by islam and Japetto and Mathieu and all the others are right, we have become white nationalists, stripped from free speech, threatened, poisoned and no one seems to care, until some of the high up “elite” is murdered or raped. Will that also stay under the carpet.
I am lost for words, but it all what you have in mind, will not happen.
Nothing is so unpredictable as human beings, Where is Trump and where are the European M.P.
The EU President Mr. Juncker has told the people that he is so happy at the moment, the EU is moving forward and they want to pull Roemenie and Bulgary with the EU. and have free travel for them all over Europe, That is it, AND NOW THE END IS NEAR, AND WE MUST FACE THE FINAL CURTAIN, don’y be too happy, it is not going to happen !!!
I wonder about leftists says
How come you don’t do or say anything about or against the biggest hate group there has ever been in
this world? Islam’ s full attack. At least tell and explain WHY? Are you scared, afraid of civil war, what is it,
or you just agree with Sharia Law and live conform Islamic Laws.
Tell us,open your mouths at least.if you can spare the time, pls enlighten us and state then that you want to live conform Sharia law.
Judy says
It stated KKK, Neos, White N. and OTHER HATE GROUPS SO WHY GO AFTER HIM Wait & see dang almighty jumping the gun & I did not like him but voted for him as anybody better than the Hill ol Beans Have a good day.
Sam says
VERY DISAPPOINTING AGAIN. FREEDOM IS GETTING SUFFOCATED SLOWLY BUT SURELY!!!!
mortimer says
The Muslim Brotherhood is a FASCIST COPY of Mussolini’s fascist party. Most MB members praise and admire Adolf Hitler.
Does the SPLC condemn the FASCIST MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD? It is the equivalent of a Nazi Party of Egypt.
Guest says
Every time the Republicans and democrats ‘compromise’ people lose rights. This would not happen if we elected Cruz
AnneM says
Problem with Cruz is he lacking leadership skills and experience to be able to lead.
Guest says
I already know the KKK and the Neonazis are evil. But Trump was right the first time. Both parties were at fault not just the far-right
Lydia says
As someone said above, I caught it too, it states “and OTHER hate groups,” whichever ones are convenient for their label (and libel) at the time.
Do they list islam, isis, and the SPLC? I venture to surmise… that they don’t.
Yet those are the biggest hate groups around.
As others have mentioned also, most of us are listed on someone’s hate group list just for being a righteous citizen. As I mentioned many times, the yellow brick road to their ‘final solution’ is being paved, one brick at a time, and we are in their cross hairs. Another brick has just been laid…
TassieR says
He’d better sign his resolution about getting the criminal Clinton clan behind the bars (along with all their leftist cronies and Islamist thugs)! Alas, there is absolutely nothing (even in his tweets, to tell nothing about resolutions) about this really dangerous army of America-haters…
todaytonight says
It is almost islamophobic putting the hating West groups under the OTHER hate groups.
gravenimage says
I would not assume that groups that hate the West are included here at all.
AnneM says
And that also includes ANTIFA and BLM.
Lorensacho says
Maybe Trump is declaring his disdain for white nationalists and their Nazi brethren to get the corporate community back in his corner following their jumping ship after his insensitive Chalottesville remarks, But don’t worry, he has balanced this out by once again saying that some of the Nazi demonstrators were really good people.
gravenimage says
Of course, that is not what Trump said at all.
Patk Morrison says
Who will identify the hate group or haters ? As a Christian I am opposed to hate in any form but I am required to forgive and forget the hater. I am aware of the unbelief of others yet I do not hate them.
gravenimage says
Trump to sign resolution condemning “White nationalists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups”
…………………….
Would that include Jihad terrorists? Not so you’d notice…
underbed cat says
I think racism is universal trait, found in all countries and races. I don’t think it always implies that a person who likes his race, would never accept another, unless it was his behavior or affect that turned you off. Affect could be something so benign as too loud or aggressive, too controlling or threatening, or cultural customs that seem to sexually aggressive…of just any part of anothers’ personality that just is peculiar and causes no harm or threats. To make Trump sign a document stating he will not support hate groups should only be for violent behavior, or a stated doctrine that is followed or brutality. All people have rights to expression, but their expression should not be calling for the death of another, destruction of property and organized to disrupt communities with any type of physical attack. If President Trump signs this controlling document, i am certain some will go out of their way to send labeled hater to President Trump, to get the picture and smear or slander. I think it is a dirty trick due to mislabeling or sabotage, something that some Dems are masters of the trade. This haranguing to disavow violence or hate has already been done signing a document is a setup. In my opinion.
Brian Hoff says
You far rightwing can be so supid at time. Than rightwinger at fox new attack superman comic book for stop than white man armed with than submachine from murdering some people who the gunman though where here illegally. People are attack back at fox new.
Elcid says
Freedom of speech means freedom to speak and write about whatever you like.
So President Trump should not sign anything as the Supreme Court will dismiss it!
After reading the valid Medina part of the Koran ( recitation),that abrogated the older pious Mecca part,Sira ( biography of Muhammad)and Hadith ( tradition of Muhammad),the three ” Holy” books of Islam( Submission) and reviewing the >1400 year criminal record of Islam ( it destroyed many civilizations and killed >270 mil in Asia, Africa and Europe),it is clear Islam is a militant ,totalitarian, misogynistic ,POLITICAL IDEOLOGY (islamofascism)of desert arab MALE supremacy (>80%) ,DISGUISED AS A RELIGION( 15 mil in the extermination camps,Japanese Shintoism that killed millions in occupied China,in the bloody WW II, isolated USSR Communism , that starved millions in the Ukraine and sent millions of dissidents to the Gulag camps of Siberia for forced labor,until it collapsed in 1989 and now its time all of us 6 billion Kafr-infidels ,past, present and future victims of Islam to unite and defeat the tyranny and terror of Islamofascism and eliminate Islam.When this is achieved ,the exorbitant security costs saved, could fund green energy, fight pollution and diseases,promote education world wide and colonize Mars.
For more info on islam go to YOU TUBE for: Ayan Hirsi Ali ,Bill Warner,Politicalislam,Pamela Geller, , Jihadwatch,Barenakedislam,Glazov gang,Nonie Darwish etc.Also Google: wikiislam, The religion of peace , Geert Wilder,Citizen warrior,etc.
ISLAM IS A LIE ,CANCER, DARKNESS,TYRANNY AND TERROR AND TRUTH WILL KILL IT!
ISLAM IS ,AS ISIS DOES!