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AUSTRALIA TO END INTERNET FREEDOM
By Rev. Ted Pike
12 Nov 08
Australia will now join China in blocking free access to
the internet. Responding to decades of pressure from the
Anti-Defamation League, the Australian government has
announced it will ban all "illegal" internet content
produced in or entering Australia. Under
ADL-orchestrated Australian hate laws, it has already
been unlawful to hold up homosexuals, Jews and Muslims
to "humiliation or intimidation" in the public forum,
including the internet. Incoming material on the
internet, however, has remained largely unregulated.
The government, projecting a comprehensive internet
filter, originally assured internet users that they
could legally receive banned content by contacting their
providers and circumventing such restrictions. Now the
government says they can't. All illegal content, which
should include everything from pornography to political
and religious speech violating Australia's hate laws,
will be forbidden. It will be illegal to create or
receive communication which the government disapproves.
Actually, according to Colin Jacobs of Electronic
Frontiers Australia, the National Internet Filter would
have little effect on such illegal internet content as
child pornography since it would not cover file-sharing
networks. We may conclude that politically incorrect
speech would probably bear the brunt of censorship.
(See, "[11]Australia to implement mandatory internet
censorship")
Meanwhile, ADL and its European arm INACH, the
International Network Against Cyber Hate, tirelessly
work to find legal resources and technology capable of
ending criticism of homosexuality, Jews and Israel on
the internet. ADL admits this is difficult through
conventional legal or technological means.
But it's not difficult when ADL can persuade governments
to ban "hate speech" outright!
Is America Next?
How could America, ostensibly protected by the First
Amendment, also lose free speech on the internet?
For starters, Congress could pass ADL's federal hate
crimes bill, the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention
Act, this winter. In 1971, Canada enacted ADL's very
similar federal hate law. Soon, it was extended to
criminalize "hate speech" originating on Canadian
websites. Sec. 13.1 of Canada's human rights statute
outlaws even such internet speech as is "likely" to
cause embarrassment to federally protected groups.
If the Obama/ADL hate bill is passed, internet
"homophobic hate speech" in evangelical media, as well
as in pulpits, will become illegal. ^1 The hate bill is
ostensibly directed only against violent hate crimes in
the States. However, a federal hate bill will quickly
overflow such limits, as prosecutors and judges broaden
it to protection of the "hurt feelings" of sodomites.
Hate crime laws, whether state, federal, or
international, are already showing an alarming tendency
to overreach existing legal definitions and restraints.
Hate gestapos indict, letting the tedious court system
catch up with them, perhaps years later. The main
objective of current hate law strategy is to press the
limits, seeing how much can be gotten away with.
Prosecutors hope to shape public opinion, frighten
opponents and set legal precedents that will provide
steppingstones to even greater assaults on freedom.
Free Speech Casualty in Canada
One evangelical casualty of Canada's hate law is Rev.
Stephen Boissoin. Canada's Free Speech Monitor: "For
writing a letter critical of homosexuality to the Red
Deer Advocate, he had been ordered by the Alberta Human
Rights commission to pay a $7,000 fine, apologize for
criticizing one of Canada's privileged minorities
(homosexuals) and never again, in any venue, criticize
homosexuals. He has thus been asked to renounce a key
tenet of the Christian faith. In times past, men and
women have died rather than knuckle under to political
correctness and renounce their faith. Rev. Boissoin is
defiant and has vowed no apology and is appealing the
outrageous decision. In a decision reminiscent of Red
China executing dissidents and then sending a bill for
the bullet to the victims' families, Rev. Boissoin was
ordered to compensate his persecutor to the tune of
$5,000 for the time and effort he had spent trying to
gag the pastor."
Quoting from LifeSite News ( June 9, 2008 ):
"On Friday [June 6], the Alberta Human Rights
Commission ordered Alberta pastor Steven Boissoin to
desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in
any sort of public forum. He was also commanded to pay
damages equivalent to $7,000 as a result of the
tribunal's November decision to side with complainant
and homosexual activist Dr. Darren Lund. The tribunal
has also called for Boissoin to personally apologize
to Lund via a public statement to the local
newspaper...
Lund made his complaint after Boissoin published a
letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate in which
he denounced homosexuality as immoral and dangerous,
and called into question new gay rights curricula
permeating the province's educational system.
"Children as young as five and six years of age are
being subjected to psychologically and physiologically
damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the
public school system; all under the fraudulent guise
of equal rights," wrote Boissoin in the letter. In an
interview, Boissoin told LifeSite News.com that he's
under attack not only for his letter but, more
significantly, for his beliefs.'The point I am trying
to make here is what's being attacked at the core is
what I believe, according to my personal beliefs and
my religious beliefs.' Most disturbingly, says
Boissoin, is that the ruling calls for him to'cease
publishing in newspapers, by email, on the radio, with
public speeches, or on the internet, in the future,
disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals.'
Boissoin wondered to what extent the right to freedom
of expression in Canada will be deteriorated,
stating,'I am not allowed to hold onto my views.'
...'Absurd beyond absurd--I will never make a public
apology; I stand by what I said.'"
Worse Could Come
Christians/conservatives, this and much worse are what
you can expect in the years ahead if ADL's federal hate
bill is passed this winter. Though discouraged by the
Obama/Democrat victory, you must rouse yourselves to
protest!
Two years ago, when ADL reintroduced their federal hate
crimes bill into the House in the first week of January,
the religious right did virtually nothing to warn their
constituents. Only after I alerted WorldNetDaily's Bob
Unruh of the crisis in mid-February and his crucial WND
article went out to millions did massive protest to
Congress begin. (See, [12]Killer Instinct Needed to
Defeat Hate Bill)
Free speech will not survive if Christian/conservative
America repeats such delay. From the moment the Matthew
Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act is reintroduced,
Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, American
Family Association, WorldNetDaily, and many evangelical
leadership groups must initiate a flood of protest to
the House, particularly members of the House Judiciary
Committee. We must respond as if our freedom depends on
it, or we will probably never get another chance to save
liberty. As in China, Canada, and now Australia, free
speech will become a memory, perhaps never to be grasped
again.
Endnote:
1. The original 1968 federal hate law, upon which
present federal hate bills greatly expand, criminalizes
speech. It says that if anyone's public speech
encourages another to an act of hate-motivated violence,
the original speaker can be tried as a federal hate
criminal along with the active offender whom he has
influenced.
Title 18, U.S.C., Sec. 2a says:
(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United
States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or
procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
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Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer
Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you
how they have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable
of persecuting Christians:
[13]http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants
to steal it now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted
Pike's [14]Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at
video.google.com. Purchase this gripping documentary to
show at church. Order online at [15]www.truthtellers.org
for $24.90, DVD or VHS, by calling 503-853-3688, or at
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