The country and most of the world is voicing its disapproval of Israel’s onslaught in Gaza….protests have erupted all over the US mostly lead by university students and it has begun to spill over in the general public (shades of the 60s and 70s).
Congress has taken up these protests by making it against federal statues to voice an opinion or carry out a boycott….in other words they are trying to silence the voices of dissension.
What is driving this assault on free speech?
It should be no surprise that so much of the Congress’s attention in recent months has been devoted to the alleged dangers of people saying things and reading things. The foreign policy establishment in the US has been increasingly pushing for ever more US involvement in Ukraine and the Middle East while agitating for a new Cold War with China. As war fervor spreads, freedom always fades.
Fortunately, there is growing voter opposition to US involvement in these active war zones, and regime agents have been unable to whip the taxpayers into a paranoid hysteria with the ease of decades past. The old bipartisan consensus supporting whatever new war the regime cooked up appears to be disappearing. Support for various wars is now a highly partisan issue. For example, a majority of polled Republicans say the US regime gives “too much” aid to Ukraine, and there is an active faction of Republicans in the Congress opposed to ongoing US involvement in that ten-year-old dispute. Meanwhile, support for the State of Israel’s mass-murder campaign in Gaza is in free-fall among Democrats. According to Gallup, 75 percent of Democrats oppose Tel Aviv’s current military campaign. (Notably, 60 percent of “independents” also oppose Israel’s war in Gaza.)
From the perspective of the neoconservatives and other foreign-policy “elites” in Washington, this is all awful news, and something must be done. That “something” turns out to be attacks on freedom of speech and independent media. Apparently, it is not enough that the federal government collude with social media corporations to fight “disinformation” and other opinions not approved by the regime. It is also “necessary” that the War Party insert into federal law new presidential powers over media outlets.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/war-hysteria-fuels-new-attacks-free-speech
Making it an offense to criticize Israel is just BS….the criticism can be stated without it being linked to religion….but that matters not when AIPAC is paying these slugs in DC to protect them from criticism.
I will not be silenced….you do what you like but until Israel starts acting like a responsible nation then I shall continue my writings.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Gaza….protests have erupted all over the US mostly lead by university students
This effort is huge and very well coordinated but I don’t buy into the university students contention. Now the anti Vietnam War ones were certainly students el al . If you catch glimpses of their faces covered by scarfs they seem a decade older than university students and I simply can’t believe Americans of any age or ilk would be pro HAMAS as are these creatures. They are not calling attention to the innocent Palestinian civilians caught in the destruction but actively want end of Israel and death to all Jews. In this light the free speech issue is of no consequence. I mean a republican, conservative, Christian, Trumpite, pro life person can’t speak at almost any venue without the left’s uprisings and intimidation and efforts to shut down these citizens. Where’s the outrage about free speech in this circumstance ? The left approves only their free speech no matter how threatening , absurd and ugly their ideas may be.
I have raged about the attacks on free speech…..they still have right to assemble….I know that is not the way it is viewed but civil disobedience is the American way from the vert beginning….like it or not. chuq
Agree , that’s our history but still left seeks obfuscations of free speech for republicans but wails about necessity of free speech and advocates limitations on republicans in order “to protect our democracy”. Vast difference between Constitutional democracy and left democrat style democracy. I agonize that we allow politicians and media saturate the environment with lies and half truths and claim free speech protection.
I*f the people are voting then democracy is democracy no matter what one calls it……’to protect our democracy’ is a lie spread by both sides. chuq
May democracy prevail.
We can only try our best to keep it alive. chuq