🏛 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Congressman Thomas Massie on X:
Today the House will vote on a bill to define antisemitism with the intent to increase prosecutions of activity on campuses.
The bill has a problem beyond violating the 1st Amdt:
The definition of antisemitism appears no where in the bill!
To find the legally adopted definition of antisemitism, one must go to this website below.
Not only is the definition listed there, but one also finds specific examples of antisemitic speech.
Are those examples made part of the law as well?
Do you agree with all of these examples of antisemitism? Should people in America be prosecuted for saying these things in all contexts? I think not. This is a poorly conceived unconstitutional bill and I will vote no.
📎 Thomas Massie
🇺🇸⚡️- Robert O’Neill, the US Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden during Operation Neptune Spear, comments on Sneako’s rant about making the entire world Muslim.
📝 🇺🇸 📖 During the American revolutionary period, one of the most common practices among patriots, activists, and revolutionaries was wearing disguises or covering faces to prevent themselves from being identified. This wasn't because they were cowardly; it was because during moments of heated political action, one must prioritize self-preservation.
1. The Boston Tea Party: Roughly 100-150 activists from the Sons of Liberty—led by Sam Adams, dressed up their faces to look like Mohawk Indians and dump tens of thousands of pounds of tea into the Boston harbor.
2. Stamp Act Protests (1765): In Boston and other ports, Sons of Liberty members blackened their faces with charcoal or wore masks while hanging effigies of tax collectors (e.g., Andrew Oliver) and destroying stamped paper.
3. Boston Non-Importation Agreement Enforcement (1768–1770): Patriots disguised themselves to intimidate merchants violating boycotts of British goods. Nighttime raids often involved face paint or masks to ...