Erin Burnett just reported that Speaker Johnson told her pro-Palestine student protesters have no free speech rights because Hamas agrees with them. That’s . . . an interesting interpretation of the First Amendment.
This is the same Speaker Johnson who less than two weeks ago voted against a Fourth Amendment warrant requirement for FBI agents to access FISA Section 702 data on Americans. So at least he's been consistent in his public contempt for the document he swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend.
Or how many of his anti-Semitic white-supremacist Zionist supporters are also designated as terrorists by the US (not nearly enough, of course, but still)?
“Agreeing with Hamas is unacceptable unless they’re correct, like on gay rights being a trap of the devil, and on the necessary subjugation of women to the men.” Johnson continued.
I'm so glad we're finally saying that out loud.
Using religion to control the minds of their followers has always been the goal.
The laws are for others not them because they're rich af!!! Putin said so in a speech.
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The Usual Suspects, for years: “But surely, we can’t allow obviously bad speech!”
Me, for years: “Inevitably, someone you don’t like will decide what’s ‘obviously bad’. That is why all speech must be protected.”
Me, now: “Understand yet?”
TUS: “No one foresaw this!”
That's a blatant lie, of course, but even if it wasn't; does someone need to remind Speaker Johnson and the fascistic anti-Semitic Zionists he represents about "freedom of association"?
Also that, outside exceptional circumstances, rights aren't conditional? Kinda the point of the concept?
Also a manipulation of reality, for his party’s own aims. His party is trying to make the narrative: “The radical leftist protestors are with the Jew-hating terrorists. Biden’s America is in anarchy! Republicans must step in & restore order by calling for militarized/police state force!”
It’s also about the right-wing trying to win votes, support & power, by sowing chaos & portraying “Biden’s/Dem’s radical left America” as being in such anarchy that they must be the adults calling for the force of military/police to bring “order”.
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