New Hate Crime Bill to Protect Police Passes House Vote with 89% Majority

The Protect and Serve Act is a new hate crime bill aimed at protecting police and law enforemcent. It was passed by the House of Representatives yesterday, May 16th 2018, with bi-partisan majority support. 200 Republicans and 162 Democrats voted in favor, with 11 Republicans and 24 Democrats being against it. That's 94% of Republicans and 83% of Democrats in favor, with an 89% majority overall. Talk about a united boot-licking effort from the rulers in government to make it harder for the rest of us to deal with police abuses.

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This bill portrayed as being a way to protect police as a group that can be the target of hate crimes. But it's a monumental failure to protect citizens and the Constitution of the U.S.A. If you injure a police officer, it's now a federal crime, whether intentional or not. On top of that, if you don't injure them but "attempt to injure" them, then it's also a federal crime.

Think about that. Police can already make false claims against people for resisting arrest, as there are plenty of videos online that show this. Claims of assault on police can be used to prevent people from filing legitimate claims of police brutality and abuse of power. But police could make even more false claims against people they are trying to dominate and control. Even if they aren't injured, they can claim someone "attempted" to injure them and charge them with a federal crime. It's their word against yours.

In the Constitution, the 10th Amendment allows for the prosecution of offenses against state and local police to the states themselves, not within the larger federal criminal law. The FBI, Homeland Security and immigration as federal agencies can now be involved with federally prosecuting crimes against citizens for perceived attempts or intent to harm the "identity group" called police.

The clever rulers and manipulators are justifying this "law" through the Commerce Clause to magically overcome the Constitution. The Liberty Caucus had this to say:

A tenuous connection to economic activity cannot transform a criminal law that has nothing to do with economic activity—and that is is explicitly for the purpose of public safety—into a regulation of interstate commerce. If it could, the Commerce Clause would destroy the Constitution's design for a very limited federal role in criminal law enforcement, covering only a few crimes that are clearly federal in nature.

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A previous ruling by the Supreme Court in 2000 stated that the Constitution doesn't give the federal government authority to criminalize local violent crime. It was being applied to gender group bias at the time, but still applies to cases of bias directed towards police officers. The same arguments involving the Commerce Clause were used, but it was rejected as it "would allow Congress to regulate any crime as long as the nationwide, aggregated impact of that crime has substantial effects on employment, production, transit, or consumption. Indeed, if Congress may regulate gender-motivated violence, it would be able to regulate murder or any other type of violence since gender-motivated violence, as a subset of all violent crime, is certain to have lesser economic impacts than the larger class of which it is a part."

This act is unnecessary and only adds further prosecution, as violence against police officers is at record lows:

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Both Republican and Democrats are selling out to gain favor with all the police-loving order-following supporters for the upcoming 2018 election. Proponents of the bill pull statistics about how a certain number of police were killed, but fail to recognize how many police are killing people by contrast. House Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) argued for the bill saying 21 officers were killed in the first 17 weeks of 2018, but there were 356 people killed by police, of which 17 were unarmed and 10 with toy weapons.

How's that for a stark contrast? 27 unarmed people killed by armed police. It would seem the rest of us non-police also need a bill to be protected from the group of authoritarian controllers known as police. They again get to have special rights the rest of us don't, by being essentially a new "minority" group protected under the veil of "law" akin to "hate crimes".

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References:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/house-of-representatives-passed-controversial-protect-and-serve-act
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/14/coalition-letter-urging-us-congress-oppose-hr-5698/s-2794-protect-and-serve-act-2018
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/05/the-protect-and-serve-act-could-make-the-fight-aga.html
https://www.theroot.com/protect-and-serve-act-makes-police-a-protected-class-1825871459
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/05/11/the-protect-and-serve-act-is-political-grandstanding-over-a-nonexistent-problem-and-it-could-cause-real-harm/?utm_term=.89cfbc8ea001
https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/17/new-hate-crime-bill-passes-house
https://reason.com/volokh/2018/05/12/the-protect-and-serve-act-is-both-unnece
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2794?r=59

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