Hate speech is defined as: "Speech not protected by the First Amendment, because it is intended to foster hatred against individuals or groups based on race, religion, gender, sexual preference, place of national origin, or other improper classification." Wikipedia adds that hate speech may incite violence against an individual or group. Certainly, the socialists and communists in America have tried to dismantle the First Amendment by adding the category of hate speech to the law. It is mainly aimed at protecting homosexuals, but can be applied to other situations. Given the violence in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict,  Attorney General Eric Holder and Rev. Al Sharpton ought to be charged with hate speech.

Holder, who is considering charging George Zimmerman with a hate crime, fanned the flames of violent protests in his speech to the NAACP. Holder said, "It's time to strengthen our collective resolve to combat gun violence but also time to combat violence involving or directed toward our children - so we can prevent future tragedies." We must ask, "What does it mean to "combat" violence?" Violent protestors seem to know his code. He said, "...it's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods." We must ask, "Since when is self defense a "concept" and how on earth does it sow dangerous conflict as when self defense is invoked, the danger is already present?

Holder said, "The list of resulting tragedies is long and-unfortunately-has victimized too many who are innocent. It is our collective obligation-we must stand our ground-to ensure that our laws reduce violence, and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent." This perceived injustice is why people are rioting. Holder's Justice Department spent your tax dollars to stir up protests against Zimmerman. Holder is a smart man. He knows that using certain words can inflame "nonviolent protests" into violence. The resulting actions prove the true meaning of his words.

The "Reverend" Al Sharpton further fanned the flames, "People all across the country will gather to show that we are not having a two- or three-day anger fit. This is a social movement for justice." Sharpton said, "We are going to fight. Saturday night with the verdict, we lost the battle. We intend to fight." Then he added that they need to do so nonviolently and peacefully.

Holder and Sharpton always add a "non violent" disclaimer, but their words inflame. Light skinned people across the country have been beaten, threatened, and fear for their lives. Holder and Sharpton could have calmed these passions, but instead inflamed them. The Constitution is solely sufficient on free speech. But these men wanted hate speech laws, so they should also be subject to them. Isaiah 59:14 says, "And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." Verse 15 says that because truth has fallen, "he that departs from evil makes himself a prey." We are prey because of these men's words and the actions they inspire.