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Another Capitol Insurrection? That’s What MTG Says.
Here’s the best. Well, almost the best. Marjorie Tits Greene gets up on the House floor asks the House to censure Rashia Tlaib for the speech she gave at an ‘insurrection’ against the government which consisted of 300 totally unarmed and peaceful kids sitting down on the floor of the Capitol rotunda to protest the Israeli demolition of Gaza City last week.
Then, when the ‘insurrectionists’ refused an order from the Capitol police to disperse, they were arrested in a quiet and orderly process which meant that each of them wore a pair of handcuffs for about five minutes, gave their names and addresses to the cops, received a slip od paper telling them when to show up at the District Court to pay some small fine and then quietly dispersed and went home.
Although Tits said something about how these protestors who represent a serious threat to our government were members of some far-Left, radical group, what she failed to say was that for the most part, these folks who don’t like the way in which Israel is responding to the Hamas terror attack against Jews, also happen to be Jewish themselves.
In fact (note the use of the word ‘fact’) the insurrection was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, a ‘leftist’ group operating in the United States and elsewhere, which has been a public advocacy effort whose basic…