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Bob Unruh is a christian fundamentalist propagandist, using the cooperative worldnetdaily as his pulpit. These fundamentalists are opposed to "Hate Crime" investigations and laws, because their own intolerant prejudices and religious doctrine render them vulnerable to criminal investigation and prosecution for their intolerant "activities". Whether it's about homosexual rights or efforts to interdict christian fundamentalist political influence into legislation or other areas of government, you'll find the "reporting of religious activist, Bob Unruh.
This agency investigates reports of hate crime:
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/hate.htm
can you pick out the states under heavy christian fundamentalist influence that have refused to track, investigate, and report hate crime incidences to the FBI?:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2005/table12.htm
Alabama : Total number Agencies submitting incident reports= 0
Total number of incidents reported = 0
California : Total number Agencies submitting incident reports= 252
Total number of incidents reported = 1,379
Gerogia : Total number Agencies submitting incident reports= 4
Total number of incidents reported = 17
Michigan : Total number Agencies submitting incident reports= 166
Total number of incidents reported = 640
Mississippi : Total number Agencies submitting incident reports= 0
Total number of incidents reported = 0
New Jersey : Total number Agencies submitting incident reports= 216
Total number of incidents reported = 738
Quote:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=55392
WND Exclusive YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Christians in bull's-eye in new 'hate crimes' plan
Congress working to create penalties for non-PC views
Posted: April 26, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
<h2>By Bob Unruh</h2>
WorldNetDaily.com
A fast-tracked congressional plan to add special protections for homosexuals to federal law would turn "thoughts, feelings, and beliefs" into criminal offenses and put Christians in the bull's-eye, according to opponents.
"H.R. 1592 is a discriminatory measure that criminalizes thoughts, feelings, and beliefs [and] has the potential of interfering with religious liberty and freedom of speech," according to a white paper submitted by Glen Lavy, of <h3>the Alliance Defense Fund.</h3>
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...e_Defense_Fund
Alliance Defense Fund
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The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) was founded in 1994 by more than 30 Christian ministries, as a response to the American Civil Liberties Union, to defend "family values." ADF's major focus is strategizing and coordinating with hundreds of lawyers and right-wing groups to defend what they define as "Christian legal issues." Examples include anti-gay cases like Boy Scouts of America v. Dale and Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network, and a national strategy to "protect marriage," following Vermont's decision to allow same-sex civil unions. People for the American Way notes that ADF's founding groups "are influential members of the Right, they are pro-life and anti-gay and their ultimate goal is to see the law and government of the US enshrined with conservative Christian principles." In 2004, ADF's total revenue was $17,921,146 (fiscal year ended June 2004), with net assets of $20,581,560. [1]
"In 1994, ADF solicited funds on Christian radio with an ad claiming, 'Pro-life demonstrations may soon be illegal. ... Religious broadcasting may soon be censored. Hiring homosexuals in Christian schools, churches, and even as Sunday School teachers may soon become the law of the land. ... Don't let Christianity become a crime' ... In 2003, ADF President, CEO, and General Counsel Allen Sears and ADF Vice President Craig Osten "expanded on that theme" in The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, "which ties homosexuality to pedophilia and other "disordered sexual behavior," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 2005.
ADF claims a high success rate in their legal challenges: "God has granted wins in almost three out of four cases decided (John 15:5). Cases that strengthen our position in the battle for religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and traditional family values." [2]
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<h3>Is it any wonder that these christian mullahs succeeded in doing this, at DOJ?:</h3>
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/17532.html
Was campaigning against voter fraud a Republican ploy?
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
* Posted on Sunday, July 1, 2007
........Rogers, a former general counsel to the New Mexico Republican Party and a candidate to replace Iglesias, is among a number of well-connected GOP partisans whose work with the legislative fund and a sister group played a significant role in the party's effort to retain control of Congress in the 2006 election.
That strategy, which presidential adviser Karl Rove alluded to in an April 2006 speech to the Republican National Lawyers Association, sought to scrutinize voter registration records, win passage of tougher ID laws and challenge the legitimacy of voters considered likely to vote Democratic.
McClatchy Newspapers has found that this election strategy was active on at least three fronts:
* Tax-exempt groups such as the American Center and <h3>the Lawyers Association</h3> were deployed in battleground states to press for restrictive ID laws and oversee balloting.
* The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division turned traditional voting rights enforcement upside down with legal policies that narrowed rather than protected the rights of minorities.
* The White House and the Justice Department encouraged selected U.S. attorneys to bring voter fraud prosecutions, despite studies showing that election fraud isn't a widespread problem.
Nowhere was the breadth of these actions more obvious than at the American Center for Voting Rights and its legislative fund.
Public records show that the two nonprofits were active in at least nine states. They hired high-priced lawyers to write court briefs, issued news releases declaring key cities "hot spots" for voter fraud and hired lobbyists in Missouri and Pennsylvania to win support for photo ID laws. In each of those states, the center released polls that it claimed found that minorities prefer tougher ID laws.
Armed with $1.5 million in combined funding, the two nonprofits attracted some powerful volunteers and a cadre of high-priced lawyers.
Of the 15 individuals affiliated with the two groups, at least seven are members of <h3>the Republican National Lawyers Association</h3>, and half a dozen have worked for either one Bush election campaign or for <h3>the Republican National Committee.</h3>
Alex Vogel, a former RNC lawyer whose consulting firm was paid $75,000 for several months' service as the center’s executive director, said the funding came from private donors, not from the Republican Party.
One target of the American Center was the liberal-leaning voter registration group called Project Vote, a GOP nemesis that registered 1.5 million voters in 2004 and 2006. The center trumpeted allegations that Project Vote's main contractor, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), submitted phony registration forms to boost Democratic voting.
In a controversial move, the interim U.S. attorney in Kansas City announced indictments against four ACORN workers five days before the 2006 election, despite the fact that Justice Department policy discourages such action close to an election. Acorn officials had notified the federal officials when they noticed the doctored forms.
<h3>"Their job was to confuse the public about voter fraud and offer bogus solutions to the problem," said Michael Slater</h3>, the deputy director of Project Vote, "And like the Tobacco Institute, they relied on deception and faulty research to advance the interests of their clients."
Mark "Thor" Hearne, a St. Louis lawyer and former national counsel for President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, is widely considered the driving force behind the organizations. Vogel described him as "clearly the one in charge."
<h3>Hearne, who also was a vice president and director of election operations for the Republican Lawyers Association</h3>, said he couldn't discuss the organizations because they're former clients.
But in an e-mail exchange, he defended the need for photo IDs. "Requiring a government-issued photo ID in order to vote as a safeguard against vote fraud and as a measure to increase public confidence in the fairness and honesty of our elections is not some Republican voter suppression effort," Hearne said.
Hearne called photo IDs "an important voice in election reform."
Hearne and Rogers appeared at separate hearings before the House Administration Committee last year in Ohio and New Mexico. They cited reports of thousands of dead people on voter registration rolls, fraudulent registrations and other election fraud schemes.
As proof, Hearne, offered a 28-page "investigative report" on Ohio events in the 2004 election, and then publicly sent a copy to the Justice Department, citing "substantial evidence to suggest potential criminal wrongdoing."
So far, no charges have been filed.
Earlier, in August 2005, the Legislative Fund issued a string of press releases naming five cities as the nation's top "hot spots" for voter fraud. Philadelphia was tagged as No. 1, followed by Milwaukee, Seattle, St. Louis and Cleveland.
With a push from the center's lobbyists, legislatures in Missouri and Pennsylvania passed photo ID laws last year. Missouri's law was thrown out by the state Supreme Court, and Democratic Gov. Edward Rendell vetoed the Pennsylvania bill.
In an interview with the federal Election Assistance Commission last year, two Pennsylvania officials said they knew of no instances of voter identity fraud or voter registration fraud in the state.
<h3>Amid the controversy, the American Center for Voting Rights shuttered its Internet site on St. Patrick's Day, and the two nonprofits appear to have vanished.
But their influence could linger.</h3>
One of the directors of the American Center, <h3>Cameron Quinn, who lists her membership in the Republican National Lawyers Association on her resume</h3>, was appointed last year as the voting counsel for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
The division <h2>is charged with policing elections and guarding against discrimination against minorities.</h2>
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...and here's an example resume:
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http://www.jamesmadisoncenter.org/Do...BoppResume.pdf
JAMES BOPP, JR., ESQ.
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
March 22, 2007
Page 7
Indiana Coordinator:
Citizen Review Committee, International Women’s Year
Indiana Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 16, 1977
National Conference, Houston, Texas, November 18, 1977
National Pro-family Coalition on the White House Conference on Families, 1980
Member:
National Institute of Family & Life Advocates, National Advisory Board, 1993 - Present
<h2>Council for National Policy</h2>
March 22, 2007
Page 9
Other Positions:
<h3>Republican National Lawyers Association
Board of Governors, 2002 - present</h3>
Advisory Council, 2004 - present
Republican Victory Committee, Chairman, 2000
National Republican Pro-life Committee, Inc.
Board of Directors, 1983 - 1991
Vice Chairman, 1984 - 1991
1984 National Republican Convention Committee
1980 National Republican Convention Committee
Presenter:
Republican National Lawyers Association, 2004 National Summer Election Law Seminar &
School, Milwaukee, Wisc., July 16-17, 2004
Indiana Republican State Committee, Congress of Counties, Indianapolis, IN, February 27, 2004
Indiana Chapter, Republican National Lawyers Association, Indianapolis, IN, February 19, 2004
Republican National Lawyers Association, National Summer Election School, Irvine, California,
August 8-9, 2003
Republican National Lawyers Association, 2003 National Conference, Washington, D.C., March
21, 2003
Republican National Lawyers Association, 2002 National Election Law School, San Antonio,
Texas, August 16-17, 2002
Republican National Committee, Midwest Leadership Conference, Springfield, Mo., September
11, 1993
Indiana Republican State Committee, Congress of Counties, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 10,
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...and here is James Bopp ranting away in a column at townhall.com:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/J...ngold-thompson
townhall.com is owned by Salem Comm. The two top officers of Salem Comm. are CNP members
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Stuart Epperson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stuart W. Epperson is co-founder and chairman of Salem Communications, and a member of the conservative Council for National Policy ("CNP"). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Epperson
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In our example, James Bopp is a CNP member and "Republican National Lawyers Association
Board of Governors, 2002 - present"....he is a Republican national committee official:
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GOP.com | Republican National Committee :: State Details - IN
Mr. James Bopp Jr. Present. National Committeeman, Indiana Republican State ... Republican National Convention, 2000; RNC Standing Committee on Rules, 1997- ...
www.gop.com/States/LinkRedirect.aspx?state=IN
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James Bopp, until recently was also general counsel of the NRLC:
Quote:
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...%3D48509&cid=0
National Right to Life Committee Defends Brownback's Talks With ...
Kaiser network.org, DC - Oct 30, 2007
The letter was sent after James Bopp -- general counsel for NRLC and a prominent legal advocate for conservative antiabortion groups -- criticized Brownback
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The point????? The point is that it is impossible to tell where the christian fundamentalist propaganda machine ends, and the republican party begins.
James Bopp is on the board of governors of the republican lawyers assoc. that McClatchey News reported was behind an elaborate plot to disinform about voter fraud in order to take the DOJ civil rights enforcement division out of the business of protecting minority voting rights.
Bopp is also a member of the secretive CNP, the group that candidate GW Bush gave a secret speech to, in the same series of Oct., 1999 meetings that "FIRE" founder Kors spoke at, with his gushing praise of CNP members documented on CNP's own site.
<h3>"FIRE" and "reporter" Unruh, are part of a christian fundamentalist propaganda campaign. The republican party has fallen under the control of christian mullahs powerful enough to neutralize the DOJ. It is impossible to tell the secular republican political party from the christian fundamentalized party, as the same operators, James Bopp and the Tim LeHaye/Paul Weyrich founded CNP's members seem to wield a huge amount of power and influence. There is no "problem" in the residence halls at U. of Delaware. The problem is the religious fundamentalism that has overtaken one of the two political parties in our two party system. As in Iran, it is impossible to tell the mullahs from the secular political operatives, or actual issues, from propaganda. Hate crimes and malicious prosecution to discourage voting, are REAL problems, bullshit spewed by "FIRE". via Bob Unruh and worldnetdaily, and contrived accusations of pervasive voting fraud by minorities, are not.</h3>
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