Left Funds Hate Coalition Aimed at Choking Americans’ Political Speech

Left Funds Hate Coalition Aimed at Choking Americans’ Political Speech

by Lee Stranahan 30 Dec 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/30/left-funds-hate-coalition-aimed-at-choking-americans-political-speech/

A coalition of institutional left, anti-Trump groups will attempt to choke Americans’ free-speech rights, using the excuse they’re opposing “hate speech.”

The assortment of far-left and establishment groups in the “Coalition Against Hate” includes two groups associated with Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief operative John Podesta, plus pro-illegal immigration groups, such as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) plus the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was an unindicted co-conspirator in an anti-Semitic, jihad-funding operation.

MALDEF, which was formed in 1967 with funding almost exclusively by The Ford Foundation, has been called by author David Horowitz a group which “no longer draws a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.”

Other members of the 55-member hate coalition include the Brennan Center for Justice, CHIRLA, Color of Change, Common Cause, GLAAD, Matthew Shepard Foundation, National Immigration Law Center, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). These groups are suppressing their own rivalries — such as Islam’s hatred of gays — to unite against Americans.

The coalition plans to use legal action and government pressure to stop what it calls “hate speech.”

As Breitbart News recently reported, the SPLC has published a list of what they call “Terror from the Right” that categorizes two Islamic terror attacks as “radical-right terrorist plots.”

The group lays out their “mission” on their website, under the guise of stopping what they refer to as “hate speech.” That “hate speech” term helps them stigmatize rival opinions and ideas that the left rejects, even as the group ignores the hatred by fellow progressives towards President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters.

Our mission is to #breakhate by elevating the voices of the impacted and hold purveyors of hate speech accountable. As the Coalition Against Hate, we will encourage media platforms to abandon hate speech as a profit model and bring civil discourse back to the public square. We will expose purveyors of hate speech and those that use multiple media platforms to amplify their hateful rhetoric. We have a responsibility to speak out against hate speech and demonstrate to our communities and our children that words have meaning. We will also promote positive portrayals to illustrate that our diversity is what makes communities flourish.

This trend is fortified by media outlets such as the New York Times, which has a new, regular section by the Editorial Board called This Week in Hate, where it says, “The editorial board tracks hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump.”

The Times had no such column regularly tracking the crimes and harassment spread by Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and various college groups during the Obama administration.

One approving article about the new group makes it clear that President-elect Trump and Breitbart News will be targets for the Coalition Against Hate, writing:

The coalition said it will warn of the dangers of using the “alt-right” label to describe what it said is actually white supremacy, and that it will take issue with Trump appointees and staffers.

The candidate himself has broad-brushed Mexican immigrants as rapists and Muslims as potential terrorists and his tapping of Stephen Bannon of the Breitbart News site drew a firestorm of criticism from those who see that site, and Bannon, as facilitating hate speech

On the group’s website, they urge fellow progressives to seek legal help from lawyers working for CAIR.

The Civil Rights Department of the Council on American-Islamic Relations works to protect and extend the civil liberties guaranteed primarily by the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. We take requests for legal help for civil rights matters.

The irony of the Coalition’s positions against “hate” is made clear by a tweet supporting #BreakHate from Hussam Ayloush, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR and part of CAIR nationally.

In December, Ayloush had been quoted by the Coalition Against Hate’s Twitter account:

The Coalition has not commented on Ayloush’s statement.

Breitbart has frequently noted that the CAIR group is so closely entwined with Islamists and with jihadis that court documents and news reports show that at least five of its people — either board members, employees, or former employees — have been jailed or repatriated for various financial and terror-related offenses.

Breitbart has also published evidence highlighted by critics showing that CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Texas-based criminal effort to deliver $12 million to the Jew-hating HAMAS jihad group, that CAIR was founded with $490,000 from HAMAS, and that the FBI bans top-level meetings with CAIR officials. “The FBI policy restricting a formal relationship with CAIR remains … [but] does not preclude communication regarding investigative activity or allegations of civil rights violations,” said an Oct. 2015 email from FBI spokesman Christopher Allen.

In 2009, a federal judge concluded that “the government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR… with Hamas.”

The CAIR group defends itself here.

John Podesta

John D. Podesta was a temporary CEO for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the campaign chairman for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, is the founder of the Center for American Progress, and the founder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Note: Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.

Washington Center for Equitable Growth is an affiliate of the Center for American Progress.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Center for American Progress.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and a contributor for MoveOn.org.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the People for the American Way.

Maria Echaveste was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a

 U.S. ambassador nominee for Mexico.

Danielle C. Gray is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a director at the Brennan Center for Justice.

Peter B. Lewis was a director at the Center for American Progress, and a contributor for MoveOn.org.

Herbert Sandler was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and a funder for MoveOn.org.

Van Jones was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a co-founder for the ColorOfChange.org.

James Rucker is a co-founder for the ColorOfChange.org, a director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and was a director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org.  

Melanne Verveer was a field manager for Common Cause, the EVP for the People for the American Way, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief of staff.

Norman Lear is a director at the People for the American Way, and the president of the Lear Family Foundation.

Lear Family Foundation was a funder for the People for the American Way, and a donor for the Movement Resource Group.

Movement Resource Group was a funder for the Occupy Movement.

Occupy Wall Street was the initial protest for the Occupy Movement.

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief of staff was Melanne Verveer, was a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.

Carlos Slim Helu was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the vice president for the Mexican Stock Exchange, is a stockholder in the New York Times Co., the owner of Inmobiliaria Carso, and principal owner for Telefonos de Mexico.

Inmobiliaria Carso was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

John D. Podesta was a temporary CEO for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the campaign chairman for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, is the founder of the Center for American Progress, and the founder of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.

Washington Center for Equitable Growth is an affiliate of the Center for American Progress.

Maria Echaveste was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a

 U.S. ambassador nominee for Mexico.

Researcher Note: When it comes to taking away freedoms it’s a very small world. We have the same people controlling guns in the U.S. and the E.U.!

European Parliament and Council Reach Agreement on EU Firearms Directive

Friday, December 23, 2016

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20161223/european-parliament-and-council-reach-agreement-on-eu-firearms-directive

At the same time Europeans are exhibiting a renewed interest in exercising their right to self-defense, the European Parliament and European Council have come to an agreement to place new restrictions on civilian access to firearms. On December 20, the European Commission and European Council confirmed that a compromise on significant changes to the European Firearms Directive was reached. The new agreement pares down the European Commission’s initial proposal to severely restrict civilian ownership of semi-automatic firearms, however, other oppressive measures remain.

As we’ve reported previously, following the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, the EU expedited plans for new gun restrictions when on November 18, 2015 the European Commission adopted plans to change the European Firearms Directive. The changes would set a new minimum gun control threshold that EU member states would be required to meet by enacting domestic legislation. Among the worst changes, the wide-ranging initial draft of the new directive threatened a broad ban semi-automatic firearms and included onerous new licensing requirements.

The initial proposal, particularly the provisions restricting civilian ownership of semi-automatic rifles, was met with significant hostility from several EU Member States. States such as Finland and Switzerland (not an EU member, but subject to certain EU legislation), that have a strong tradition of citizen participation in their national defense strategies, expressed concern about the implications that restrictions would have for their defense capabilities, or in the case of Switzerland, that the new measures could disarm veterans of their service rifles. Other member states with vibrant shooting cultures and robust firearms manufacturing, such as Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Poland, also resisted the proposed legislation’s most onerous provisions.

The most significant change between the European Parliament and European Council agreement and the initial European Commission proposal is how the directive treats semi-automatic firearms. Initially, the European Commission proposed to reclassify Category B7 firearms, which are “Semi-automatic firearms for civilian use which resemble' weapons with automatic mechanisms,” as Category A firearms, which would have made them subject to the same controls as fully-automatic firearms and prohibited them from civilian ownership. The European Commission also expressed a desire to ban magazines with a capacity greater than 10 rounds.

While the exact language of the European Parliament and European Council compromise has not been made public, the European Commission has released a summary of the agreement’s provisions on semi-automatic firearms. Rather than placing all Category B7 firearms into Category A, the directive will now ban the following types of semi-automatic firearms for civilian ownership:

·        automatic firearms which have been converted into semi-automatic firearms;
 

·        short firearms which allow the firing of more than 21 rounds without reloading, if a loading device with a capacity exceeding 20 rounds is part of the firearm or a detachable loading device with a capacity exceeding 20 rounds is inserted into it;
 

·        long firearms which allow the firing of more than 11 rounds without reloading, if a loading device with a capacity exceeding 10 rounds is part of the firearm or a detachable loading device with a capacity exceeding 10 rounds is inserted into it;
 

·        semi-automatic long firearms (i.e. firearms that are originally intended to be fired from the shoulder) that can be reduced to a length of less than 60cm without losing functionality by means of a folding or telescoping stock or by a stock that can be removed without using tools;

In a press release that accompanied announcement of the agreement, the European Commission lamented that the revised directive does not restrict semi-automatic firearms as they had originally proposed. The European Commission noted,

the Commission regrets that some parts of the original proposal were not supported by the Parliament and the Council. The Commission had proposed a greater level of ambition with a complete ban of the most dangerous semi-automatic firearms, including all semi-automatic firearms of the AK47 or AR15 families and a ban of assault weapons for private collectors. The Commission also regrets that the magazine size was not limited to 10 rounds for all semi-automatic firearms.

This is a welcome departure from how the European Commission’s proposed changes to the European Firearms Directive treated semi-automatic firearms, however, other alarming portions of the initial draft of the changes to the directive appear to be intact.

Among the most onerous of these provisions is one requiring EU states to require firearm license holders to submit to a medical examination as a condition of licensure. Making clear that this provision survived the new compromise, in their summary of the agreement, the European Commission noted that, “In the future, all Member States will have to put in place a system of medical check for the authorisation to acquire firearms.” Other restrictions involving the online acquisition of firearms and ammunition, and information sharing provisions that implicate the privacy rights of European gun owners also remain intact.

Now that a compromise has been reached between the European Parliament and the European Council the next step in the convoluted EU legislative process for the proposed changes to the European Firearms Directive will occur when the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection formally approves the text of the legislation, which is set for January. Following this action, the entire European Parliament is set to vote on the legislation in March.

European Union

European Council is the council of heads of state for the European Union.

Note: European Parliament is the elected parliamentary institution for the European Union.

Wim van Velzen was a member of the European Parliament, and is the senior European policy adviser for Covington & Burling LLP.

Covington & Burling LLP was the lobby firm for Americans for Responsible Solutions, and is the lobby firm for the National Football League (NFL).

Americans for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.

Eric H. Holder Jr. is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, was the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack Obama administration, a board member for the American Constitution Society, and an intern at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” Bureau for guns.

B. Todd Jones was a director at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and is the chief disciplinary officer for the National Football League (NFL).

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society, and Human Rights Watch.

George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a benefactor at the Human Rights Watch. 

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, the Harlem Children's Zone, the Human Rights Watch, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Michael R. Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.

Americans for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.

Covington & Burling LLP was the lobby firm for Americans for Responsible Solutions, and is the lobby firm for the National Football League (NFL).

Wim van Velzen is the senior European policy adviser for Covington & Burling LLP, and was a member of the European Parliament.

European Parliament is the elected parliamentary institution for the European Union.

European Council is the council of heads of state for the European Union.

Jean De Ruyt was a European Union representative of Belgium, and is a senior public policy adviser for Covington & Burling LLP.

Stuart E. Eizenstat was a U.S. ambassador for the European Union, and is a senior counsel at Covington & Burling LLP.

Covington & Burling LLP was the lobby firm for Americans for Responsible Solutions, and is the lobby firm for the National Football League (NFL).

Javier Solana was a high representative for common foreign & security policy for the European Union, is a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the Human Rights Watch, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Bloomberg Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).

Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, and a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.

Americans for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.

Covington & Burling LLP was the lobby firm for Americans for Responsible Solutions, and is the lobby firm for the National Football League (NFL).

Wim van Velzen is the senior European policy adviser for Covington & Burling LLP, and was a member of the European Parliament.

European Parliament is the elected parliamentary institution for the European Union.

European Council is the council of heads of state for the European Union

Jean De Ruyt was a European Union representative of Belgium, and is a senior public policy adviser for Covington & Burling LLP.

Stuart E. Eizenstat was a U.S. ambassador for the European Union, and is a senior counsel at Covington & Burling LLP.