July 2020 Newsletter

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Worst Bill that Passed this Session
Hate Crimes Law means Lifestyle
determines Penalty for Crime

For more than twenty years, the majority of Georgia legislators refused to provide civil rights protection based on sexual behavior, although such bills and resolutions were introduced, repeatedly, in both House and Senate. Past legislators, who were aware that sexual orientation and gender identity are not biological terms that identify males and females, declined to elevate sexual behavior into the strata of civil rights.

But that changed when H.B. 426 passed the House March 7, 2019. The next day it went into the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it languished until June 23, 2020, when the Senate passed it 47 – 61 and the House passed it 127 – 382. When the governor signed it June 26, 2020, it became Act 329. Senate Democrats praised Lt. Governor Duncan for raising it from the dead.

All crimes are hate crimes, as suggested by the language of LC 28 9829S, the Senate Judiciary Committee substitute. But that version was discarded quickly and replaced by the bill’s previous text which provides civil rights status for “sexual orientation” and “gender,” that, by definition, include behaviors previously deemed illegal in the U.S. and other countries

Identical crimes should require identical punishment. When penalties for identical crimes are unequal, certain victims are deemed more valuable than other victims. Since crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity now require greater punishment, the new law uses lifestyle to discriminate against biological identity, although The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Georgia mandate equal treatment under the law.

The New Hate Crimes Law:

  • H.B. 426 provides enhanced penalties for crimes based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, mental disability or physical disability.
  • Misdemeanor sentences will have at least six months but as much as 12 months added to imprisonment, plus a fine not to exceed $5,000.
    Felony penalties will be enhanced by at least two additional years in prison, plus a fine not to exceed $5,000.
  • Investigating officers report annual bias crime incidents (with/without arrest) to the GBI.
  • To read a recap of the 2020 Georgia Legislative Session, please click here.

June 2020 Newsletter – Hate Crimes

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News Flash! Open Letter to Governor Kemp
and the General Assembly

—“No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws.”
Constitution of the State of Georgia, Article I, Section I, Paragraph II
—“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge … nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
– The Constitution of the United States, Article XIV, Section 1

Governor Brian Kemp
Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan
Speaker of the House David Ralston

Re: Hate Crimes Law, O.C.G.A. 17-10-17

Gentlemen:
Laws providing enhanced penalties for crimes against select members of society discriminate against the remaining members of society, and blatantly defy the Constitution of the State of Georgia and The Constitution of the United States.

Please do not allow passage of bills – including hate crimes bills – that violate the equal protection clauses of our constitutions, both state and federal.

Question: Does the 2004 opinion of Georgia’s seven-member (now nine-member) Supreme Court (judicial branch of government) override/eradicate/repeal the law introduced in 2000 as S.B. 390, which passed the 236-member General Assembly (legislative branch of government) and became Act No. 486, O.C.G.A. 17-10-17?

Fact: O.C.G.A. 17-10-17 introduced in 2000 as S.B. 390 is an equal protection, non-discriminatory law that, regardless of criminal/victim identity, authorizes enhanced penalties for crimes proven to be based on bias or prejudice.

Question: Can or will the Georgia General Assembly retain/reiterate/affirm/regard O.C.G.A. 17-10-17 as a valid constitutionally-compliant law?

Sincerely,
Sue Ella Deadwyler

Note: The above letter was mailed to the three officials on June 5, 2020.
The Georgia General Assembly reconvenes June 15, 2020!

Read more concerning the proposed hate crimes bill here.

June 2020 Newsletter

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News Flash! Georgia General Assembly Expects to
Reconvene in Mid-June
Six Democrats Cosponsor Global Health Policies for Schools

Q. Why didn’t Senate Republicans stop S.B. 102?
“The health sector needs to seek integration within the education system – not education’s adoption of health priorities. The health sector must find its cultural anchor within education and integrate its processes and outcomes…. In short, health must find its cultural anchor within the education system.”
– Global School Health Symposium, Pattaya, Thailand, 2013

S.B. 102 Unlocking the Promise Community Schools Act by Senator Emanuel Jones passed the Senate 50 – 0 on March 12th and is poised to pass this session. It must be defeated. It requires community organizations, community partners, the Department of Education, public schools/charter schools, and the State Board of Education to implement the global strategy for “a sustainable whole child school plan of wraparound services and supports.”

S.B. 102 would embrace the World Health Organization (WHO) global initiative which calls for total integration of international health projects into school systems. If this passes, Georgia students would be inculcated with global ethics, morals, and values to replace Georgia- specific and America-specific ethics, morals, and values. Over 60 leading education, health, and school health experts from 20 countries, including the United States, concocted this scheme at the 2013 Global School Health Symposium in Pattaya, Thailand.

Seventy (70) U.S. Organizations Signed onto the Scheme. The following exemplify the 70:
American Associations of School Administrators, School Librarians, School Personnel Administrators, School Counselors, and School Health; Montessori Society; UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools; Character Education Partnership; GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian Straight Education Network); Human Rights Campaign Foundation; and Institute for Global Ethics
National Associations of Black School Educators, Gifted Children, Music Education, Elementary School Principals, School Nurses, School Psychologists, Secondary School Principals, State Boards of Education, NEA, Paideia Center, PTA, School Boards, School Social Work, Society for Public Education, and the School-Based Health Alliance

CDC Supports/Promotes WHO Strategy

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is promoting this scheme through the World Health Organization (WHO) program entitled, “Health in All Policies (HiAP).”
Online, the CDC states: “The National Prevention Strategy external icon provides a HiAP framework to guide our nation in the most effective and achievable means for improving health and well-being.” For more information about the National Prevention Strategy, CDC refers us to the Surgeon General’s website here.

ACTION – Oppose S.B. 102. It is a global scheme to infiltrate education with global health initiatives. Contact House Education Committee Representatives Jasperse, Ch., 404 656-5943; Cheokas, V-Ch., 656-0152; Benton, Sec., 656-5126; Belton, 656-3947; Cantrell, 656-0152; Carter, 656-0220; Dickerson, 656-0314; England, 463-2245; Erwin, 656-0188; Evans, 656-0109; Glanton, 657-183; Hill, 656-0325; Howard, 656-6372; Jones, J., 656-5072; Jones, T. 656-0213; LaRiccia, 651-7737; Lopez, 656-6372; Nix, 656-5146; Nguyen, 656-0314; Paris, 656-0109; Setzler.656-7857; Stovall, 656-0314; Tanner, 656-9210; and Wilson, 656-6372.

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May 2020 Newsletter

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Georgia Law Does Not Prohibit Mandatory Microchip Implantation

Are microchips relevant to COVID-19?
Yes. During the 2009 – 2010 legislative session a Georgia Public Health official suggested that microchip implants in humans could be used to identify individuals infected with H1N1 swine flu. Such implanted microchips would track, gather and store uniquely personal data, to be transmitted to a microchip reader far away. Seemingly, that never became a reality.

But consider this: Since the Georgia legislature has failed, repeatedly, to prohibit involuntary microchip implantation on or inside individuals, and since a vaccine is being researched to fight COVID-19, the idea of tracking disease by microchip implants may be suggested again.

Is a microchip small enough to implant in a human body via a vaccine?
Yes. Tiny microchips dubbed “smart dust” or “powder” are small enough to incorporate into thin paper, such as currency, to create so-called “bugged” money.

ACTION – Ask Governor Kemp’s Administrative Floor Leaders to introduce and secure passage of a bill that prohibits mandatory microchip implantation. Senate Administration Floor Leaders are Senators Brian Strickland, 404 656-7454 and Blake Tillery, 656-0089. House Administrative Floor Leaders are Representatives Bert Reeves, Jodi Lott, Terry Rogers and Dominic Lariccia. All four may be reached at 404 651-7737.

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