{"id":241934,"date":"2024-07-26T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=241934"},"modified":"2024-07-26T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:58:35","slug":"trump-the-greatest-threat-to-free-speech-just-reared-its-ugly-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=241934","title":{"rendered":"

TRUMP! THE GREATEST THREAT TO FREE SPEECH JUST REARED ITS UGLY HEAD<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW ANTI-SEMITISM BILL IS BOTH UNCONSTITUTIONAL & DANGEROUS<\/h1>\n
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SOTN<\/a> Editor’s Note:<\/strong> It simply does not get more serious than this long planned and highly organized scheme to gut the First Amendment.<\/h3>\n

It was only a matter of time before the \u2018ANTI-SEMITISM\u2019 CANARD would be deceitfully used to cancel free speech across America.<\/h3>\n

\u2018ANTI-SEMITISM\u2019 CANARD:
\nThe Most Dangerous Threat To Free Speech In U.S. History<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

However, that the perfidious perps in the U.S. Congress would actually define numerous parts of the Holy Bible as ‘antisemitic’ and, therefore, grounds for criminalized hate speech is so over the top it’s actually……<\/h3>\n

House GOP Passes Controversial Bill Labeling
\nCertain Christian Scriptures as \u2018Antisemitic,\u2019
\nSparking Fears of Criminalizing Religious Beliefs<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Now read below what a Jewish attorney and rabbi has written about this extremely dangerous ANTI-SEMITISM BILL in order to fully apprehend the sheer gravity of this legislative development.<\/h3>\n

Surely, such a nakedly seditious congressional act of treason could only take place if the barbarians are inside the gate, which they obviously are posing as Neocon Zionists.<\/h3>\n

Not only are the barbarians inside the gate, they hold the
\nkey leadership positions within the U.S. government.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

State of the Nation<\/a>
\nMay 8, 2024<\/h3>\n
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\u201cFirst They Came for the Christians But I Said Nothing Because I Was a Jew\u2026\u201d OP-ED By Rabbi and J6 Attorney CRITICIZES NEW ANTI-SEMITISM BILL<\/strong><\/h2>\n

*This Op-Ed was contributed by Rabbi Jonathan Gross, an attorney who has spent a tremendous amount of his time fighting for January 6th political prisoners.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Rabbi Jonathan Gross, Esq.
\n<\/b>GATEWAY PUNDIT<\/p>\n

Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of the new anti-antisemitism bill, which adopts a new definition of antisemitism and provides the government with a way to punish wrong think about Jews and Israel, including anyone who suggests that Jews control the government. According to our government, the way to dispel the myth that Jews control the government is for the government to pass a law that punishes anyone who suggests that Jews control the government.<\/p>\n

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Marjorie Taylor Greene believes the bill is an attack on Christians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Under the law, if the Department of Education finds \u201cantisemitism\u201d at an institution that receives federal funding \u2013 which is virtually every institution \u2013 the government can coerce the school to deal with it by whatever means necessary or else risk losing federal dollars or worse, the Department of Justice will sue the institution into oblivion. This sounds great if the awesome power of the government is directed at Hamas sympathizers threatening Jewish students and causing schools to impose COVID-style lockdowns. The Patriot Act also sounded great when they told us it was for our protection. How is that one working out?<\/p>\n

Consistent with the theme of federal criminal statutes, the new definition of \u201cantisemitism\u201d is nebulous enough to apply to nobody and broad enough to apply to everybody. This is perfect for a Department of Justice that enjoys selectively prosecuting its political enemies and turning a blind eye to its political allies. The bill is also right in line with the subtle agenda to gradually erode our free speech; the law does not criminalize speech, it merely encourages schools to destroy the lives of students and faculty who express an unpopular opinion.<\/p>\n

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As a Christian, I believe the gospel in full, every letter.<\/p>\n

The gospel says Jesus, a Jewish man \u2013 son of God \u2013 messiah, was handed over to be crucified (killed) by the chief priest, the elders, and the Jewish crowd which was prophesied in Isaiah 53.<\/p>\n

And the gospel also says,\u2026\u00a0pic.twitter.com\/DEaEGNX8Dm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG)\u00a0May 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For good measure, this latest attack on the First Amendment adds a new attack on religion also. The new definition includes \u201cUsing the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.\u201d Accordingly, a Christian Bible study group on a college campus studying a disfavored passage could violate federal law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While Jews may be cheering on the outlawing of sections of the Christian Bible, they should not be throwing stones in glass synagogues. This past week, synagogues around the world read from Leviticus 18:22 which states: \u201cYou shall not lie with a man as one lies with a woman, it is an abomination.\u201d That passage is also read on Yom Kippur. When the protestor tents are eventually cleared from the quad, how long before a new definition of \u201chomophobia\u201d is added to ban Leviticus from college campuses?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rep.\u00a0Matt Gaetz<\/strong>\u00a0(R-FL) slammed an anti-Semitism bill, claiming it has no \u201cregard for the Constitution.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With all of the multitude of federal hate crime laws already on the books, somehow the Department of Justice was powerless to prevent the radicals at UCLA from beating a Jewish woman unconscious during these recent protests. Like the BLM riots that devastated the country \u2013 coincidentally at around the same time four years ago \u2013 these campus riots are allowed to flourish by the federal government, not because of a lack of criminal statutes, but because of a lack of political will to end them. If the same federal government that is still hunting down and arresting senior citizens who peacefully walked into the Capitol over three years ago on January 6, 2021, would apply anything close to that standard to the pro-Hamas protestors, the riots would have ended on the first day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This antisemitism law is just another superfluous \u201chate crime\u201d law. At best, these laws waste federal resources like the dozens of FBI agents sent to investigate a piece of rope because NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace thought it resembled a noose. At worst, it provides a means for the federal government to arrest Eva Edl, an 82-year-old holocaust survivor, who peacefully sat in front of an abortion clinic for two hours and now faces six months in prison.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Martin Niem\u00f6ller (1892\u20131984), a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany, was best known for this statement penned during WW2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We do not need new federal laws that apply to classes of people based on immutable characteristics. That is what the Nazis did. Ironically, the new antisemitism definition includes comparing government policies to Nazi policies. But the Nazis only became a threat to the Jews when they became the government, and as Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav warned, if you cannot call out a government\u2019s Nazi tendencies in their infancy, you cannot prevent them from metastasizing. The Holocaust did not start with concentration camps. It ended with them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This antisemitism law is bad for Jews and bad for America. Those cheering on this and other new laws that can just as easily be turned against them, should remember the famous poem that applies to all government: First they came for [fill in the blank] and I did not speak out because I wasn\u2019t one of them. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Jonathan Gross is a civil rights attorney in Baltimore, MD. He is an attorney for the political prisoners of January 6th.<\/i><\/p>\n

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