Florida Republicans file bill to make anti-Semitic speech a felony

[BrianDaMan]

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/lo...isemitic-acts/

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida lawmakers are announcing a bill Thursday that aims to make certain antisemitic acts a hate crime.

Florida Rep. Mike Caruso filed House Bill 269, an anti-hate crime bill, which would also increase penalties for hate crimes to a felony. Caruso spoke alongside state Reps. Randy Fine and Vicky Lopez at the Florida Capitol.

During the news conference, Caruso said the bill would make the following a third-degree felony: flyer distributions of antisemitic material; stalking or harassing based on religious or ethnic heritages; damaging a religious cemetery, a memorial, religious school or community/public/private property; projecting an image of antisemitic messages without permission of a property owner.

“Today, we are called to stand for the 672,000 Jews that live in Florida. If we don’t do something now, then soon we just may have 1933 Nazi Germany here all over again, and I will not stand here and do nothing. I will not be complacent and I will not sit around for with that attitude,” he said.

Florida Rep. Randy Fine said he is fairly optimistic for the prospect of this piece of legislation, detailing the next steps in the process.

“I’m the only Jewish Republican in the Florida Legislature so I take a personal interest in these bills,” he added. “The next step, the bill will be referenced to multiple committees, and it will move through the process to get it to the House floor, (a) companion bill will be filed in the Senate and the same thing will happen over there.”

Caruso said in a tweet this week the bill is in response to recent acts of antisemitism in Florida.

On New Year’s Eve, hateful words targeting the Jewish community showed up on the side of a downtown Orlando building, displaying the words “vax the Jews.”

A week later, neighbors in west Orange County said flyers filled with antisemitic statements showed up in their front yards and driveways.

Pictures of the flyers shared with News 6 show the hateful rhetoric and disinformation regarding the Jewish people, blaming them for the slave trade and COVID-19 pandemic.

And a post on social media showed antisemitic graffiti in the bathroom of an Orange County high school earlier this month.

[Zelensky]

FloriGOAT not so GOAT-ish today

[Kraken]

/facepalm

[monty097]

good luck with this one lol, hate-speech may be ignorant but it's still free speech.

[JoshSP1985]

why can't there be a bill for hate speech against white people?

Exactly, why should hate speech against one group be any more/less important than hate speech against another?

[Kraken]

why can't there be a bill for hate speech against white people?

This is one of the major problems with limiting speech; what is hate speech, and who gets to decide? This is just more of the same chit. Hypocrites.

[Roldz]

I’m the only Jewish Republican in the Florida Legislature

And he's going out of his way to swing his dick around.

I'm shocked.

[Dingerberry]

good luck with this one lol, hate-speech may be ignorant but it's still free speech.

bias intimidation is not free speech.

[Dingerberry]

ITT:

Misc Nazis upset they can't project swastikas onto buildings.


lol

[azzspankr]

Is the use of the N word included?

[BigDeeps01]

Lame

[Dingerberry]

Lame

Why? You gonna have to cut back on your hate crimes now?

[TaiMaiSchutze]

lmfao dogcrap and fellow nazi miscers on suicide watch

[Dingerberry]

lmfao dogcrap and fellow nazi miscers on suicide watch

leynidus probably already jumped

[TaiMaiSchutze]

why can't there be a bill for hate speech against white people?

Were they genocided /enslaved/raped and exploited in the last 300 years?

[Dingerberry]

why can't there be a bill for hate speech against white people?

LMFAO at this fragile white snowflake

[Cleveland33]

Were they genocided /enslaved/raped and exploited in the last 300 years?

It's another example of government overreach

[Dingerberry]

It's another example of government overreach

big mad you can't sport your swastika and intimidate Jews, eh incel?

[TaiMaiSchutze]

It's another example of government overreach

Write your congressman lmao

[Dingerberry]

Write your congressman lmao

DeAR SIr,

Im a MiScEr And FeeL i ShouLD be AblE To ProjEcts SwasTiKAs on BilDingS. Just An exAMple Of OvEreAch SLippEWRY SloPE!!!! FirST I cant prroJect SwaAStikA, nExt You Take Muh gUNS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[Cleveland33]

Write your congressman lmao

I'm not in Florida

[Dingerberry]

I'm not in Florida

Then don't worry about it

[TaiMaiSchutze]

DeAR SIr,

Im a MiScEr And FeeL i ShouLD be AblE To ProjEcts SwasTiKAs on BilDingS. Just An exAMple Of OvEreAch SLippEWRY SloPE!!!! FirST I cant prroJect SwaAStikA, nExt You Take Muh gUNS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

PS. pls support Ye 2024.

[Dingerberry]

This is the hill Cleveland wants to die on:



This is worth fighting for. This right.





LOL

[Dingerberry]

mUH rIGHTS sLIPPERy SLOPE!!!




fukkin misc nazi's think these morons have some "right" to project that onto someone else's property. JFL.

[BullittEV]

flyer distributions of antisemitic material;
stalking or harassing based on religious or ethnic heritages;
damaging a religious cemetery, a memorial, religious school or community/public/private property;
projecting an image of antisemitic messages without permission of a property owner.


Isnt this already illegal? Youre already not allowed to damage or deface property, or stalk people.

The only issue I see here is the material being handed out- really depends on what it says. If it's inciting violence then no, but if its just gathering people to discuss a topic with no violence intended, that would be a 1A violation.

[TaiMaiSchutze]

flyer distributions of antisemitic material;
stalking or harassing based on religious or ethnic heritages;
damaging a religious cemetery, a memorial, religious school or community/public/private property;
projecting an image of antisemitic messages without permission of a property owner.


Isnt this already illegal? Youre already not allowed to damage or deface property, or stalk people.

The only issue I see here is the material being handed out- really depends on what it says. If it's inciting violence then no, but if its just gathering people to discuss a topic with no violence intended, that would be a 1A violation.

Nope. Those nazis love distributing fliers in Florida. But now they can finally be arrested for it.

[Dingerberry]

Nope. Those nazis love distributing fliers in Florida. But now they can finally be arrested for it.

Didn't Jizzel say he was in Florida? LMFAO he goin' to pound town.

[Kraken]

DeAR SIr,

Im a MiScEr And FeeL i ShouLD be AblE To ProjEcts SwasTiKAs on BilDingS. Just An exAMple Of OvEreAch SLippEWRY SloPE!!!! FirST I cant prroJect SwaAStikA, nExt You Take Muh gUNS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Nope. Those nazis love distributing fliers in Florida. But now they can finally be arrested for it.

We got some snowflake ANTIFA members in here.

[TaiMaiSchutze]

We got some snowflake ANTIFA members in here.

Antifascist for life son