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On Nov. 8, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Sticks and Stones) was elected to her fifteenth term in the House of Representatives with nearly 71% of the vote. That means that, come Jan. 2025, she will have served no less than thirty years in the House. Clearly, her constituents have an immense amount of confidence in her, and it’s no wonder. During her long and illustrious career in the House, Jackson Lee has consistently been a champion of the looniest ideas of the far Left, but on Friday she broke new ground. The respected congresswoman took the Left’s claim that speech dissenting from its agenda amounts to violence and ran with it all the way into full-on absurdity.
It all happened on (where else?) MSNBC. The hijinks began when Al Sharpton said to Jackson Lee: “I recall what you said about these other members of Congress that had used threatening and all kind of vile and really dangerous accusations against other members of Congress. I don’t remember Kevin McCarthy denouncing them, either. Not only did he not try to remove them; I don’t even remember his denouncing them. Did he?”
Yes, Al Sharpton, who trumpeted the Tawana Brawley hoax for years, falsely accusing an innocent man of rape, is now tut-tutting about “vile and dangerous accusations” that conservative members of Congress supposedly made and that Kevin McCarthy supposedly didn’t denounce.
Instead of saying something about people who live in glass houses being unwise to throw stones, however, Jackson Lee zeroed in on a different child’s adage, taking issue with the age-old dictum that “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” Jackson Lee complained that while McCarthy “was trying to defend them in the public manner, he alleges that he spoke to them quietly in private. But that did nothing to the potential threat. And let me just say this, Reverend Sharpton, it is very well-documented that words nowadays can actually break your bones.”
We live in such an age of absurdity that “Reverend Sharpton” didn’t burst out laughing at that point. He didn’t ask Jackson Lee where all the victims are. Where are the hospitals filled with people who suffered serious injuries for being called a “Communist,” a “groomer,” or a “Biden supporter”? Sharpton likewise didn’t ask Jackson Lee if the bone-breaking words were solely in the possession of patriots, such that Leftists have no access to them. Has no one had his or her bones broken by being called an “insurrectionist,” an “election denier,” or a “white supremacist extremist”?
Jackson Lee tried to bring her claim back to earth a bit by referring to a February 2016 incident in which Donald Trump jokingly told his supporters to rough up Leftist protesters at one of his campaign rallies. Jackson Lee said: “Words have generated violence.”
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Golem2 says
Dumb as a stone.
wpm says
Term limits are in order at least rotate new idiots in every 8 to 12 years.
Keith O says
+1
We have a similar problem here in Australia.
Keith O says
Al Sharpton really needs to be held to account for all of his lies and racial hatred.
It’s turds lie him that are doing their utmost to divide America.
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
Al Sharpton has become very rich with his divisive race baiting.
He *does not* want everyone to be treated fairly – and “just get along”…
Keith O says
Yeah, we have a term for people like that.
He’s a real bastard.
gravenimage says
Keith, I think that word just broke his patella–or maybe the humerus… sarc/off
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
libertyORdeath says
This is a foreshadowing of events to come if we don’t right the ship RIGHT NOW.
The left and their globalist allies have been working on this attempt to destroy the First Amendment for DECADES, but it has really picked up the pace since Trump’s election (which this lady claimed was stolen by Russia lol.)
Read up on “stochastic terrorism” and you will understand the playbook.
They hate our right to free speech so the new tactic is to claim that –
1. Words are weapons that cause as much harm as any other
2. If someone publicly disagrees with “The Narrative” they can be held accountable for ANYONE committing violence that could even possibly be said to be linked to your unapproved speech.
3. “Hate Speech” (which only they and their leftist allies in law enforcement or academia can define) is not protected by the First Amendment.
4. Policing so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation”…but only on one side.
5. Catagorizing any speech critical of government officials or policy as unlawful.
Our 240+ year old right to free speech and expression is in the most danger it has EVER been. Even if you don’t agree with the people who are being censored, you should support their right to say it. Once they destroy the First Amendment, the rest would fall like dominos.
libertyORdeath says
I gotta thank Mr. Spencer and the Jihadwatch/Left Column crew for their tireless efforts to expose this assault on our rights. You have been warning us of the pending battle over free speech for years when few others realized it was even happening.
You like Jihadwatch?
Then you should support free speech because if they get their way, Jihadwatch would be one of the first sites to go.
You hate Jihadwatch?
You should still support their right to say what they believe. If they can take it away from Mr. Spencer, what’s gonna stop them from doing it to you?
gravenimage says
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Words Can Do That, Too, Says Sheila Jackson Lee
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This just shows how low hard left Democrats have sunk. Just laughable.
tgusa says
Have you noticed how many black leftists are quick to site that they support and idolize the past march for equal rights and the right to be included in white culture and civilization? Today blacks on the left are stating, wait a minute, now that we are included, we don’t like this white culture and civilization thing so lets get together and dump it. The left eventually gets around to stabbing everything in the back. No that is wrong, the left will stab you in the chest while many on the the right are stabbing you in the back.