Congress wants to felonize free speech — that is directed against Israel's oppressive treatment of Palestinians

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© 2017 Peter Free

 

28 July 2017

 

 

The Age of Militant Nitwits continues

 

Nine days ago, Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Grim alerted us to the following lunatic example of the American Dream's self-destruction:

 

 

[A] group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine.

 

Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison.

 

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports that the bill “was drafted with the assistance of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.”

 

A similar measure was introduced in the House on the same date by two Republicans and one Democrat. It has already amassed 234 co-sponsors: 63 Democrats and 174 Republicans.

 

Thus far, not a single member of Congress has joined the ACLU in denouncing this bill.

 

© 2017 Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Grim, U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel, The Intercept (19 July 2017) (excerpts)

 

 

One has to wonder what these dopes — which include some of the most prominent members in Congress — think happened to the First Amendment

 

Lawlessness like this allows tyranny to gain momentum.

 

I guess to American eyes imperialistic oppression (American and Israeli) — and the Gestapo-like suppression of opposition — are okay because we're the ones doing them.

 

 

The moral? — The United States evidently does not stand for very much anymore — except profound hypocrisy, greedy malevolence and sheer stupidity

 

Islamic terrorists are not alone among humanity's enemies.

 

It is ironic that Israeli Zionism, arguably a perverse recreation of the Third Reich's own expansionist ethos, is being supported by the United States, which for decades has been implementing an equally hypocritical economic emulation of Hitler's pan-cultural ambition. Of course, one has to know History to recognize these (comparatively obvious) parallels.

 

Israel may have a survival excuse for its too frequently reprehensible behavior. We do not.

 

Talk about becoming what we profess to hate, even in spite of the constraints presumably placed on such behavior by our own Constitution. The fact that so many members of Congress claim to be lawyers makes this Constitution-trampling episode even more ludicrously offensive.