Lunatic. Starving women and children in Palestine while massacring them with US made and paid for weapons is your Bread and butter.
Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire
"Intimidation is the tactic,” said Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee.
Except for some aid given to Israel, all military aid must be used to purchase U.S. military equipment and training.
“Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism.
If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is.
It is a direct challenge to arms profiteering and Boeing democracy now.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/israel-gaza-ceasefire-adam-smith
'Israel has waged a war on Gaza, killing more than 34,000 people, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
"If you’re an ambulance trying to get through to hospital ....". We'll bomb you, says Rep. Smith.
This week Mr. Biden condemned demonstrations that he said veered into antisemitism, but he also expressed sympathy for the Palestinians."
“I condemn the antisemitic protests,” Mr. Biden told reporters on Monday. “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
"On October 10, 2002, Smith was among the 81 Democratic members of the House to vote to authorizing the invasion of Iraq.
In March 2012, he said that U.S. troops had done "amazing work" in Afghanistan and that it was "time to bring the troops home".
Smith also voted for the 2001 Patriot Act and to extend the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
Smith and Representative Mac Thornberry co-sponsored an amendment to the fiscal 2013 defense spending bill
reversing previous bans
on disseminating Defense and State Department propaganda
in the U.S., reversing the Smith–Mundt Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987,
designed to protect U.S. audiences
from government misinformation campaigns.
The bill passed on May 18, 2012, 299 to 120.
Smith voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time "
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Smith has talked openly about his struggles with anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. He wrote about it at length in his 2023 memoir Lost and Broken: My Journey Back from Chronic Pain and Crippling Anxiety.
in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis."
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Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont, a progressive Jewish Democrat, in a statement ahead of her vote.
"The United States cannot continue to support the extreme offensive that has caused unimaginable suffering to the Palestinian people."
The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a bill that includes more than $14 billion in military aid to Israel
Here are the 37 Democrats who voted against the bill:
Becca Balint of Vermont
Don Beyer of Virginia
Earl Blumenauer of Oregon
Jamaal Bowman of New York
Cori Bush of Missouri
Andre Carson of Indiana
Greg Casar of Texas
Joaquin Castro of Texas
Judy Chu of California
Mark DeSaulnier of California
Lloyd Doggett of Texas
Maxwell Frost of Florida
John Garamendi of California
Chuy García of Illinois
Al Green of Texas
Jonathan Jackson of Illinois
Pramila Jayapal of Washington
Hank Johnson of Georgia
Ro Khanna of California
Dan Kildee of Michigan
Barbara Lee of California
Summer Lee of Pennsylvania
Jim McGovern of Massachusetts
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York
Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
Chellie Pingree of Maine
Mark Pocan of Wisconsin
Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts
Delia Ramirez of Illinois
Jamie Raskin of Maryland
Mark Takano of California
Bennie Thompson of Mississippi
Rashida Tlaib of Michigan
Jill Tokuda of Hawaii
Nydia Velázquez of New York
Maxine Waters of California
Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey
Eighty percent of Ukraine-Israel bill will be spent in U.S. or by U.S. military
Except for some aid given to Israel, all military aid must be used to purchase U.S. military equipment and training.
Nearly $57 billion — about 60 percent — is never leaving the United States.
Instead, these funds are being invested with weapons manufacturers
located in dozens of states.
(So far, according to the Pentagon, manufacturers in all but 11 states have received Ukraine-related weapons contracts.)
"Asked what kind of protest might be appropriate, Smith cited a recent instance in an armed services hearing in which
“people came in and they didn’t say anything,
they just held up bloody hands.
And the chairman noticed that and said, ‘You can’t do that, you’re out, and they got up and left."
(Excuse me, Trying to intimidate and SILENCE the way people protest: fine Corporate example.)
"You go back to the civil rights movement, they expected to be arrested, they knew they were violating the law.
And also … you have to enforce the law.
You have to make clear … that this is about more than just the issue.
You know, they can be heard, but then other bigots and war profiteers get to be heard."
(Lunatic. )
'got two words into it and they started screaming at me again.
So this is a different thing than your standard protest.
In my view,
the solution to it
is if they are committing a crime"
Congressman Smith's Solution.
Intimidate.
"Protesting at public figures’ homes should also be subject to arrest, Smith said."
Sure, Mar a Lago is a sanctuary and bastion of innocence.
"If you’re an ambulance trying to get through to hospital ...."
Good luck in Portland.
We don't have ambulances or politics.
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