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Who you calling a dupe, lady.

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:52:13 +0000

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Who you calling a dupe, lady...

This sheds a whole new light

Peter — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:42:39 +0000

In reply to Congress Is Trying to Use the Spending Bill to Criminalize Boycotts of Israel and Other Countries

This sheds a whole new light on the ACLU's defense of the KKK's right to march through Skokie Il back in the '70s!

As is so often the case, we

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 02:03:35 +0000

In reply to This is what I see as the

As is so often the case, we see different aspects of an issue to be significant.

And everyone would celebrate

ocean-kat — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:48:00 +0000

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And everyone would celebrate how great that line item veto worked when their party controlled the presidency and what a disaster it was when the other party was in control.

This is what I see as the

ocean-kat — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:44:54 +0000

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This is what I see as the purist vote over the pragmatic vote. I look at the whole of a politician's policy to choose who to vote for. If some politician with a large Jewish constituency has to make a symbolic vote on a policy I disagree with that has no real consequences I'm not overly concerned. If I eliminated every politician who I disagreed with on one or two policy matters there would be no one at all left for me to vote for.

I am reminded by the

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:24:28 +0000

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(aargh, another damn dupe!)

I am reminded by the

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:20:08 +0000

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I am reminded by the purported "sneaking" technique here: this kind of thing is why past presidents argued for line-item veto power.

Nothingburger. It's an

NCD — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:14:31 +0000

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Nothingburger. It's an amendment to the Export Administration Act, has to do with government loans. It's a reaction to some UN committee blather.

It says:

(your boycott must be proven to be) supporting:

any request by a foreign country to impose any boycott against a country that is friendly to the United States and that is not itself the object of any form of boycott pursuant to United States law or regulation, or
any boycott fostered or imposed by any international governmental organization...

If the DOJ can prove that you might not get a government loan. If you want to boycott Israel in a movement based in the US, the law exempts you.

If you are accusing the ACLU

A Guy Called LULU — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:12:50 +0000

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If you are accusing the ACLU of fear mongering by employing the tactic of purposely and needlessly arousing public fear about an issue, then I disagree. If in fact there are Congressional leaders from both sides of the isle attempting to criminalize politically motivated boycotts then that is news worth shouting from the rooftops, IMO. That holds true even if they fail to pass the bill or if they do pass it and it is ultimately found to be unconstitutional. Why they would want such a bill is worth questioning. And how would they try to justify it? Are they motivated by an ideology of unquestioned support for a particular foreign country to a degree that they would try to enforce an infringement on our own country’s ideology of free speech in the interest of that foreign country? Are they deciding how much they like carrots while they think of how scared they are of sticks? Whatever the real reason, and regardless who is handing out the carrots or who is waving sticks around, it would cost them my vote.

This just seems like fear

ocean-kat — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:26:12 +0000

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This just seems like fear mongering from the left. I doubt that the amendment will be included in the bill and even if it is I doubt that the courts will allow it. As your article pointed out similar bills on the state level have been found unconstitutional and I doubt that even this conservative Supreme Court will find them constitutional.