The Washington Post has an article on Senate Bill 720.
Dumb doesn’t cover it.
From the Congressional website, part of the summary.
The bill prohibits U.S. persons engaged in interstate or foreign commerce from:
- requesting the imposition of any boycott by a foreign country against a country which is friendly to the United States; or
- supporting any boycott fostered or imposed by an international organization, or requesting imposition of any such boycott, against Israel.
By David Cole and Faiz Shakir (who work for the ACLU)
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, legislation introduced in the Senate by Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) and in the House by Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.), would make it a crime to support or even furnish information about a boycott directed at Israel or its businesses called by the United Nations, the European Union or any other “international governmental organization.” Violations would be punishable by civil and criminal penalties of up to $1 million and 20 years in prison.
Perhaps Cardin and Roskam envision a way we could all petition the government for permission to support a boycott of Israel. Maybe the “furnish information” section could be amended to allow, if please Sirs, that we buy a stamp which would signify the information has been approved by the government.
On the other hand, there is the ballot box. We still have the right to vote stupid, overbearing Senators out of office. Sadly, this might not work with the bureaucrats who are equally dismissive of the freedoms which we enjoy.
FYI: I have no position on a boycott of Israel, except to say that those folks seem to be the least likely to slash our throats in the middle of the night, as compared to their neighbors. Maybe I got that all wrong, or I’m being too blunt.
Perhaps this information which I’m furnishing…is itself in defiance of some previous piece of legislation. I don’t fear the knock on my door.
You can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Actually, I spilled soup on this keyboard, the “n” key sticks, and need to get it replaced. So…
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I think people who boycott Israel or encourage others to do so should be boycotted. Also derided, mocked, and generally disdained, as any deliberate fool ought to be. All of that, though, should be undertaken by the citizenry, and not the government. None of the government’s business.
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Precisely. Quit trying to take away my ability to mock someone, Senators! Sheesh! Killjoys, all of them.
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They have no right, and no power, to keep me from boycotting whoever I wish.
That they do evil in a cause they think is just, does not mean they do not do evil. See also, Bill Schmalfeldt.
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“…would make it a crime to support or even furnish information about a boycott.” Are they even Americans? This is not the Turkish government? By the way, I HAD to go to the Senate site because I could NOT believe this was true. Feel free to check my source.
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