Posted on 07/09/2019 8:55:30 AM PDT by John Semmens
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla) is demanding that persons who mock members of Congress be prosecuted. "The Constitution says that members of Congress shall not be questioned in any other place," Wilson asserted. "Yet, even the shallowest dive into the Internet bumps into numerous criticisms, insults and threats. Not a day goes by when someone isn't calling for voters to oust me from office. This has got to stop."
"We're going to shut them down and work with whoever it is to shut them down and they should be prosecuted," the Congresswoman promised. "Freedom of speech does not protect 'hate speech.' The mockery exhibited online is an unacceptable threat to our constitutional right to rule."
Wilson was undaunted by the difficulty of getting the Trump Administration Department of Justice to carry out the desired prosecutions, saying that "Congress has the right to impeach anyone, including the President himself, who fails to obey the will of Congress."
In related news, Border Patrol agents are now under investigation for laughing at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) when she staged a "crying photo op" next to a vacant parking lot, falsely characterized a common combo toilet and sink configuration as forcing detainees to drink out of a toilet, and demanded that guards "stop looking at me" during her visit to the El Paso, Texas border facility.
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Too close to reality for satire.
What’s next? Sarcasm?
She’s all hat with lots of prattle.
Well stop wearing those ridiculous outfits
Well azzHAT, you can crap in one hand and wish in the other and see what gets full first.......you do stupid things (besides looking stupid) you set yourself up for mockery and ridicule.......
“Not a day goes by when someone isn’t calling for voters to oust me from office. This has got to stop.”
According to USLegal.com, stating a voter should be arrested for questioning and wishing a voted in political office holder removed for cause is manure.
Congress people have a few immunities but none for this. A Congress member is exempted from arrest while attending a session of the body to which the member belongs, excluding an arrest for treason, breach of the peace, or a felony. Or they are exempted from arrest or interrogation for any speech or debate entered into during a legislative session.
But no where does it say they can stifle free speech, protected under the first amendment, of the people they are hired by. She ought to be censured for that one. But it does live up to the arrogant, unintelligent procedure displayed by many of the liberals in congress these days.
rwood
Satire or not, Frederica needs to understand that if she dresses like a clown and talks like a clown, she should expect to be treated like a clown.
Sadly; this is only on the fringe of satire. The sick twisted mind of Wilson actually believes these things.
The first thing she needs to come to terms with is free speech includes hate speech. Actually; I’m not sure hate speech even exists in this context. What she really means is speech she doesn’t like or agree with which is of course covered in free speech rights. Free speech is a human right. Our Bill of Rights simply confirms this natural and God given right just like it does for self protection (2A). The government cannot take away natural rights; they can only attempt to discourage them through the abuse of law. When they do that; it’s every citizens responsibility to dutifully ignore those bad laws that go against God and nature.
In New Zealand they are having a less than 1% compliance with their gun buy back program. They people are telling the tyrants to shove it where the sun don’t shine as they should. The government can’t actually “buy back” guns they never sold in the first place anyway.
Free speech and the right to self protection against all antagonists (the villains), even the government, are intertwined. You can’t have one without the other.
Camouflage ? LOL
Because the people keep electing clowns, mockery will ensue.
Be fun to throw bananas at her during a speech to see her reaction.
Maybe 6 or 8 folks all at the same time.
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