One of the more powerful tools in the hands of those waging war against Christianity is "Hate."

“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. [John 15:18-21]

Hate is something that Bible believers understand will become more prevelant in our world as we near the end of times. Indeed, as John 15:18-21 pointed out, it is something Christians should not be surprised at as non-believers scramble to try to erase the knowledge of sin in their lives.

“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other..." [Matt. 24:9-10]

What the Church is experiencing today might be the preparations being made to fulfill Matthew 24:9 as we draw near to the end. It is a process being refined by those that reject God and will likely be perfected in the hands of the antichrist (Rev. 13:16).

The first step in the progression toward persecution of persons is identification. The second is marginalization; the third, vilification; the fourth, criminalization; and finally, persecution. This was the tactic Germany used against the Jews, and it is now the same tactic being used by liberals in America against the Christian church.

IDENTIFICATION
On April 23, 1990, Republican President George Bush signed the "Hate Crimes Statistics Act" into law. The legislation mandates that the Department of Justice compile and publish "hate crimes" data as part of the Federal Uniform Crime Reports.

Later, when attorney General Janet Reno released FBI statistics showing thousands of hate crimes in America during 1996, she pulled the classic hat trick - cook up a crisis, expand its scope, and call for expansive federal solutions.

First, the definition of what constitutes a "hate crime" is murky. Over half of the "hate crimes" reported were either "intimidation," or "simple assault," neither of which necessarily involves even being touched. Even the FBI report concedes that "hate crime is by its very nature often difficult to identify."

Still, Reno wanted to expand the scope, if not the clarity, of the definition to include sexual orientation - potentially making public disapproval of sodomy a crime. She also called for expanded federal powers to accompany the newly expanded definition of a "hate crime." This included 93 new "hate crime coordinators" nationwide whose jobs will depend on hyping the "hate crime" crisis.

Why expend resources on "crime" that is difficult even to identify? Real crimes involving violence, credible threat, or vandalism are already covered by state and local law enforcement, and identifying them is easy enough.

But, as we know from John 15:18-21, crime is NOT really the issue. What these anti-God people want is an efficient way to tell the difference between those who follow the teachings of the Bible and those who don't.

In the report, "Hate Crimes Today: An Age-Old Foe in Modern Dress," published by the American Psychological Association, Dr. Jack McDevitt stated, "Hate crimes are message crimes. They are different from other crimes in that the offender is sending a message to members of a certain group that they are unwelcome."

MARGINALIZATION
President Clinton dialed into a radio call-in program from Air Force One in June 1994 and unleashed an unusually bitter, 23-minute attack on the press, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, conservative radio talk show hosts in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular.

Clinton portrayed the nation's airwaves as being filled with a "constant, unremitting drumbeat of negativism and cynicism." "I think there is too much cynicism and too much intolerance," he said. "But if you look at the information they get, if you look at how much more negative the news reports are, how much more editorial they are and how much less direct they are, if you look at how much of talk radio is just a constant, unremitting drumbeat of negativism and cynicism, you can't - I don't think the American people are cynical, but you can't blame them for responding that way."

Clinton and his liberal comrades have their sights on conservatives when they use the word "hate." Dateline NBC reported that the White House routinely refers to conservative and/or Christian talk shows as "hate-talk radio." (Washington Watch, January 1998)

VILIFICATION
A free and Christian America is the single greatest obstacle to Satan's establishment of a one-world government. Is it any wonder, then, that at a time when the occult is receiving public acceptance in the corporate, political and educational arenas, the new dirty word in American society has become "right-wing fundamentalists?

U.S. Representative Pat Williams of Montana said at a public hearing, "To paraphrase an old saying, there are lies, damn lies, and right-wing religious zealots..." [Breaking Counterfeit Religion, Charisma, September 1990]

One part of the political agenda of the homosexual movement is the strategy to paint themselves as disadvantaged in need of protection and the target of extremist Christian "hate" groups. Anyone who disagrees with liberals and sodomites today are labeled "hate mongers" and their speech is labeled "hate speech."

It's not fighting or violence they are necessarily trying to stop... it's ALL opposition to their sinful lifestyle they want to stop. Despite the fact that the Jeremiah Project has never called for or condoned violence toward sodomites or any group, I regularly receive hateful tirades from homosexuals calling my writing, "hateful." Read it yourself.

In opposition to everything America has stood for, politicans and judges today are defining new inequities in the law. All crimes are hate crimes. But, hate crimes legislation being proposed suggests unequal protection under the law.

Are not ALL crimes somehow motivated by hate? To allow sodomites in Washington to delineate various levels of hate with some crimes carrying stiffer penalties than others is to diminish the ultimate power of the law. The entire "hate crimes" debate rings of Naziism and reminds me of George Orwell's book, "Animal Farm."

In fact, the hate crimes bills debated in Congress really have nothing at all to do with "hate." They are all designed to advance the pro-homosexual agenda of Bill Clinton, Edward Kennedy, and Barny Frank. Hate crime legislation does not and will not eliminate hate, but will in effect intensify the hatred that is present within people. To advance the cause of something God calls an abomination (Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:18-32) is to risk the punishment of God - "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." (Isaiah 5:20)

As heinous as Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard's murder was, the murder of an 8-year-old Wyoming girl, Christian Lamb, was at least as horrific. It would be a travesty if we allowed the government to treat the little girl's murder as less serious than the 'gay' college student's." But, that's exactly what the Hate Crimes legislation does.

CRIMINALIZATION
President Clinton signed the Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act in 1994 which requires stiffer sentences for so-called hate crimes.

In May, 1998, President Clinton bypassed Congress and the American people by signing an Executive Order that placed homosexuals, bisexuals, and the "transgendered" in a specially protected category for consideration in federal government jobs and promotions. This was basically an alternative way for the president to implement, without congressional approval, the so-called Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

President Clinton directed the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to vigorously prosecute those who discriminate against people with AIDS, prosecuting cases against health care providers and facilities violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Congress has been trying to pass a Hate Crimes Prevention Act for years that includes sexual orientation, disability and gender to existing federal "hate crimes" laws expanding federal intervention and establish unequal justice under the law.

HCPA would add "sexual orientation," gender and disability to the existing federal hate crimes law, which enhances penalties for crimes committed against a person because of his race, religion, ethnicity, or color. HCPA would also expand federal authority to include more cases. Currently, the law extends only to crimes committed during government- protected activities such as voting or attending school.

The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005, passed in the House on Sept. 14, 2005 as an amendment to H.R. 3132, the Children's Safety Act of 2005, expands the definition of hate crimes to include offenses involving actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

Homosexual activists are making progress for their agenda in nearly every state of the nation. They are competing to see who can make inroads in their territory first. Cities and counties are competing to determine who can beat Congress in passing their own hate crimes laws.

In conjunction with the hate crimes bill, is the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA). If passed, ENDA will immediately evoke thousands of lawsuits by homosexuals and lesbians against present and former employers. Recently a San Francisco law firm filed a $5 million suit against family friendly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., alleging discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination of a homosexual employee. The suit seeks compensation for "emotional distress, lost wages, statutory penalties, attorney's fees and punitive damages."

PERSECUTION
Liberals claim they want to somehow abolish prejudice, yet, they really need the power of the law to use against those who violate "politically correct thinking." The first victim of hate crimes legislation will be freedom of speech. Undoubtedly sodomites will use the law to persecute pastors who speak out from the pulpit calling homosexuality a sin. Similar laws in other nations have already resulted in the conviction of so-called "bigots."

•A Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission information officer has conceded that a broadcast that calls homosexuality an 'abomination' would be considered to have crossed the line, especially if it warned those who engaged in homosexual acts would be damned to eternal perdition."
•In Sweden, an evangelical pastor served a four-week jail sentence for violating a Swedish anti-hate statute which protects homosexuals and other groups from embarrassing "verbal violence." He had preached a sermon about Sodom, Gomorrah, and the biblical consequences for disobedience. ["Hate Literature Laws Sweep the U.S. and Other Western Democracies," The Christian World Report (April, 1989), pg.1.]
HATE CRIMES IN WACO
The revelations in the media about the governments attack on Branch Davidians in Waco Texas is not news to myself and many others. We have been saying all along that the federal government overstepped reasonable bounds when they launched an all out attack on the Branch Davidian compound resulting in the killing of eighty-six men, women and children.

What motivated the government to launch the attack in the first place? At the time, they said it was because of reports of child abuse. When that contention was disproved, they said it was because the Davidians were amassing illegal guns. Even that accusation was never proved. I would suggest they stormed the compound because they clearly had serious political and philosophical differences with David Koresh and his followers. As the events played out over the following weeks, the government brought to bear its full psychological and military weapons in a futile attempt to gain Koresh's surrender. Ultimately the decision was made by someone in the government (and Janet Reno took responsibility for it) to force the situation with an FBI led assault using grenade launchers that ended in the firey deaths of most of the occupants. If that is not a hate crime, I wonder what is?

It is becoming painstakingly clear that liberals in our government are attempting to persuade the American people that any action that conflicts with their socialist policies will be labeled a "hate crime" and punishable by the federal government. All the while, they promote the very "hate" they say they are combating. Are they being successful? Well, after the shootings at Columbine High in Colorado where 13 students were killed, there was a huge public outcry that something be done... but when 24 children were murdered in Waco, there was hardly a whimper from the public. Why is that?

Hate Crimes legislation would criminalize thoughts rather than actions. Wherever people cross the line from thought or speech to violent action, they should be prosecuted and the courts have traditionally only stepped in when someone did cross that line. Today, however, they are trying to move that line to encompass your feelings, thoughts and beliefs.

This philosophy is straight out of George Orwell's 1984. The "Thought Police" are going to determine what is in your head and heart. If you fail the test your crime becomes a "hate crime".

Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
In Oct, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that criminalizes American citizens who exercise their Constitutional right of dissent by a huge majority. The vote was held under a suspension of the rules to cut debate short and pass the bill, needing a two-thirds majority. The totals were 404 Ayes, 6 Nays, 22 Present/Not Voting.





A House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on "Terrorism and the Internet" broadcast on C-Span, featured a panel of "experts", including representatives formerly of the RAND Corporation and the Simon Wiesenthal Center who presented 9/11 truth websites sites alongside sites that celebrate the attacks and offer training in terrorist tactics. The hearing was chaired by Democratic Rep. Jane Harman, and ranking Republican, Rep. Dave Reichert. It was supposed to focus on the use of the internet by "home grown terrorist recruiters" yet in a shocking move it blatantly related the 9/11 truth movement with so called radical "jihadists".

Over recent months we have witnessed a growth in this disturbing trend to attempt to equate peaceful 9/11 researchers and truth activists with violence and extremism. The prime culprits have been establishment "news" hacks who are raising the same talking point ad infinitum, dubbing the global truth movement "anarchists" and violent individuals who may be aiding terrorists. Talking heads such as Fox News Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck over on CNN, have specifically targeted 9/11 truthers in segments designed to portray the movement as dangerous and sow the seed in the minds of what viewers they have left that peaceful truth seekers are actually in league with violent terrorists.

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 reference to how "The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens," is shocking. Remember, the bill is not aimed at "Al-Qaeda" websites or arabic forums that post alleged Bin Laden video tapes, it is aimed at American citizens using American based websites, like the very one you're reading now.

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