The spate of cancellations of Americans who support Hamas has been unsettling. Calls by CEOs to form blacklists of Americans supporting Hamas to assure they’re not hired by anyone are chilling. This writer has no love, no support for the bloodthirsty death cult that is Hamas. There is nothing redemptive about it. Any injustice the Israelis have done to the Palestinians fails to justify the murderous death cult and its own stated aims, to wipe the Israelis, the Jews off the face of the planet.
It should be noted that probably MOST of the people who support Hamas believe the worst rumors about Israel and none of the horrible truths about Hamas. Their enemy is more likely than not God himself, so any group that threatens what for them is a symbol of Judeo-Christianity (Israel), a value system that kills the leftist cult, they tend to look at through idealized lenses. They wouldn’t support Hamas if they actually believed they wanted to wipe the Jews off the face of “Palestine,” though a small minority probably do.
God will deal with the rebellion against him, not us. We do not burn the chaff.
Seeing “conservatives” and “libertarians” now openly supporting the perpetuation of corporate power to cut people off from making a living for having unsavory views is discouraging and chilling, to say the least.
If we are to be a nation that respects the free speech rights, the free expression rights of our citizens, then we must tolerate the unsavory along with the savory. The very logic being used to cancel Americans is/was being used to cancel conservatives and libertarians for daring to believe unorthodox views (unorthodox as defined by the corporate and state elites).
There are unsubstantiated rumors going around of banks scouring the internet to assure their customers don’t have the audacity to not just support Hamas, but even to see if they dare criticize Israel in any way. And the conservatives are largely in support of these actions, removing the teeth of their argument against such actions being taken against them.
If you don’t support Israel, if you question Israel, the whole elitist world wants you silenced and your ability to make a living for you and your family cancelled.
I support Israel’s right to exist, its right to defend itself, and I hope and pray the nation is able to beat back the killers that want every Jew in the land dead. I find it reprehensible that Americans support Hamas, but they have a RIGHT to do so. If you want to help cement the myth that “freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences,” and consequences are more than just deciding not to listen to someone, not to associate with someone privately, but includes being cancelled from the marketplace, then you have been indoctrinated in another death cult, the one that dominates America today, the leftist death cult.
I grant you that most of these people supporting Hamas are in that leftist death cult, that most of them cheer when an American is cancelled for opposing murdering unborn children, but they have a right to be wrong. The rights violations are coming from those who, with the means to enforce those terrible ideas, decide to do so. The corporate and state leaders that use their power to cancel Americans for rejecting leftism are the ones in violation of our rights, not the rank-and-file leftists whose power disappears when the elites stop indulging them, even propagandizing to them to lead them into more hatred of their fellow Americans.
You are, in the end, helping those same rank-and-file leftists establish their terrible standard of “freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.” You are every bit the enemy of the American republic as they are.
I don’t stand with the left’s insane hatred of Israel and its delusional support of Hamas, but I stand with their right to do so without fear of having their market lives destroyed, for that precedent we are enabling will be (and has been) most assuredly used aggressively against people like me who dare pronounce the sins of the left, who dare call our President a seditionist who won office through a Mass Mailer election coup.
To the left, my statements are every bit as reprehensible as theirs in support of Hamas are to me. I’d rather not help them establish their culture of fear, hate, and fake hope by supporting what has happened to spiritual Americans (people who value the sacredness of the individual and their right to steward their own preferences and beliefs) also happening to them.
In the end, such actions undermine any resistance to the corpostate’s assault on the freedom of ANYONE to be “wrong” according to the preferred orthodoxy of the most powerful in the land.
I don’t stand with these delusional leftists, but I stand for their right to publicly express their wrong ideas without fear of being removed from society for doing so.
