Must have been a freedom beatdown from thug.gov...
Gavel...It is a symbol of the authority and right to act officially in the capacity of a chair or presiding officer.[1] It is used to call for attention or to punctuate rulings and proclamations...
...The sound of the gavel strike, being abrupt to start and stop, and clearly audible by all present, serves to sharply define an action in time in a manner clearly perceivable by all, and to endow the action with practical as well as symbolic temporal finality (what was not before striking, is after it; or what was before striking, is no more after it).
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