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Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:09 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:09 am
Mooch Obama encouraging high school students to monitor their families. Sound like North Korea or the old Soviet Union.
Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
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Last week, Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.
To one journalist, this was more than an off-hand comment made by the first lady. In the opinion of Cheryl Chumley, a reporter for The Washington Times and the author of “Police State USA,” Michelle Obama’s remark reflects a growing trend in America to target and attack individuals for committing “thought crime.”
“Michelle Obama’s push for kids around the nation to monitor their family members for perceived racist comments is just another way the government seeks to inject itself into an area it doesn’t really belong — the American home,” Chumley told The Daily Caller Monday.
“Having the first lady wag her finger at us and send America’s youth on some sort of quest to scour the homes and backyards of our nation’s families for any mention of a racist joke, slur or slight is nanny-governance run amok — something that belongs in a George Orwell novel, not the White House, Chumley said.”
Chumley sees a troubling growth of America’s most powerful political figures now singling out private individuals for their beliefs, and using government agencies and public denunciations to intimidate opponents into silence.
“Harry Reid attacking the Koch brothers for the crime of giving money to conservative causes is just as bad. President Obama, Joe Biden and the entire cast of the White House, for slamming lawful gun owners for exercising their Second Amendment rights, and for trying to drum up emotional-fueled support to ram through gun control,” Chumley listed off. “The IRS targeting of tea party and patriotic non-profits and our nation’s highest law enforcement official, Eric Holder stonewalling on a special prosecutor appointment — does it get any more police state than that?”
Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:15 am to SavageOrangeJug
Ever heard of the 'hate crime laws'?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:18 am to goatmilker
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Ever heard of the 'hate crime laws'?
That is all a 'Hate Crime' law is, thought crime.
However, we seem to be progressing violent crime to just words being illegal.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 8:19 am
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:21 am to SavageOrangeJug
What is the Matrix? Control.....
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:27 am to SavageOrangeJug
I'm still in shock that few on the left spoke against the hate crime laws.
It adds penalties to a federal crime for thought before and during the crime.
It adds penalties to a federal crime for thought before and during the crime.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:31 am to goatmilker
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I'm still in shock that few on the left spoke against the hate crime laws
You must think about who 'Hate Crime' laws target.
They could be renamed 'White People Laws'.
Out of all the people that been arrested playing the Knockout Game, only one has been prosecuted as a 'Hate Crime'.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:55 am to SavageOrangeJug
My question to Michelle would be this; so what if one of these graduates hear their parents saying racial things and reports them? Once they are reported, now what? And who or what agency are they reporting this to?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:59 am to SavageOrangeJug
Funny, we had this discussion on TD last week. Good to know Yahoo is only so far behind.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:15 am to SavageOrangeJug
How exactly do we target thoughts? Professor X and cerebro?
And yes we all know hate crimes are dumb but they have been around a while, unfortunately.
And yes we all know hate crimes are dumb but they have been around a while, unfortunately.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:17 am to onmymedicalgrind
Wasn't Tom Cruise in a movie about this?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:18 am to onmymedicalgrind
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How exactly do we target thoughts?
Illegally recording a private conversation and then forcing a person to sell their business because of their thoughts is a good start.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:19 am to GeauxLSUGeaux
Yes, and last I checked that technology is not available yet in 2014.
So again, how are thoughts "policed" or "targeted?"
Quick, who knows whose boobs I'm thinking of right now???
So again, how are thoughts "policed" or "targeted?"
Quick, who knows whose boobs I'm thinking of right now???
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:20 am to onmymedicalgrind
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And yes we all know hate crimes are dumb but they have been around a while, unfortunately.
Hate is a thought. So you kinda answered your question i think.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:20 am to Revelator
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and reports them? Once they are reported, now what? And who or what agency are they reporting this to?
She never asked the kids to report them.
We also had a long thread on this last week.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:20 am to SavageOrangeJug
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Illegally recording a private conversation
We don't know if it was illegal or not.
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then forcing a person to sell their business because of their thoughts is a good start.
Because of their thoughts? Or because of their statements? Many of you are having trouble distinguishing between those two.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:21 am to SavageOrangeJug
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Illegally recording a private conversation and then forcing a person to sell their business because of their thoughts is a good start
Was the government involved in any of that?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:22 am to boosiebadazz
I think he was just using it as a example to show the possibilities.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:22 am to goatmilker
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Hate is a thought. So you kinda answered your question i think.
No not at all. This thread is titled "...starting to target thoughts" and as I noted in my post hate crimes have been around a while. So clearly he cant be referring to that.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:23 am to goatmilker
I think he was trying really hard to make a connection that just isn't there.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 9:24 am to onmymedicalgrind
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We don't know if it was illegal or not.
Yes, it was against California law.
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