HR867: Josh Gottheimer Wants You to Die in Prison for Buying Arab Hummus! ADC Action Link Added – Bill Pulled Due to Lack of Support
In at least a temporary victory this bill has been pulled from the House floor for tomorrow 5/5. There was significant opposition even from the MAGA side – so stay tuned – more horrors to come but for now we stood this threat down!
The headline over simplifies – but Rep. Josh Gottheimer NJ CD-5 Democrat , a candidate for governor in NJ’s June 10 primary and the foremost advocate of using lawfare to bring legal harm to people who disagree with his extremist pro-Israel views would put you in prison for 20 years for making private purchasing decisions with your own money if you decide you do not want to buy Israel products!
H.R.867 – IGO Anti-Boycott Act would provide prison terms up to 20 years and up to $1M in fines for private purchasing decisions that avoid purchase of Israel products.
The law has been advanced by the most extreme fascist elements in Congress – mostly republicans but fascist Gottheimer is jumping on board.
The law is likely to be voted upon this week in congress and it will likely pass in the House. There are 10 democrats – Gottheimer currently the only one from NJ, who are co-sponsors. That would make a filibuster in the US Senate the likely only way to stop it and it is unlikely that the Democrats would pick this as the fight to play its filibuster card.
The law is more specific in that it specifically precludes boycotts that are aligned with boycott calls of the United Nations, the European Union or International Governing Agencies. That definition is loose enough that it can probably be applied to any purchasing decision and specious Kafkaesque legal lawfare can be used to falsely accuse the association with such boycott efforts.
The law is clearly unconstitutional . It is even difficult to imagine how it will be enforced. Will police now be able to monitor everyone’s purchases to determine if there is unusual avoidance of Israeli products? Will police be at the supermarkets seeing which hummus you pick? Will you be forced to justify why you decided not to select an Israel connected product?
The law is bad enough but to imagine that Gottheimer – a Democrat seeking nomination for governor is a co-sponosor should awaken NJ to where we stand with our elected democrats – they all make secret little steps across the aisle to support Trump: Booker voting for Rollins, Rubio and stumping for Israel, Kim voting for Noem and Gottheimer doing everything possible to bring legal harm to anyone that disagrees with his Ben Gvir views on Israel
It will not be too surprising if Pallone and Norcross also jump on this fascist bill. How many NJ elected officials want you to die in prison over your private purchasing decisions with your own money?
Let Gottheimer know that you are watching and see that he is a fascist who wants to bring war to NJ streets against his political opponents but we are not having it by retweeting:
