It Is Time For Respect and the End of Anti-Semitic Hate

Once again, it is time for a lesson on the First Amendment. Apparently, many people were absent the day it was taught in Social Studies back in Middle and High School. Here is it again for you to review.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The parts we need to review are where it mentions the right to PEACEABLY assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It DOES NOT give us the right to trespass and violently overtake another’s property. And it DOES NOT permit any of us the right to take the rights away from others, either.

For much too long, for over seventeen months, many Americans on college campuses and people who are here as GUESTS on Student Visas, have forgotten common decency and respect for others, as they continue to spew vile hate speech against Jewish students and their supporters. Again, the Freedom  of Speech does NOT permit violent speech.

Now, as it was reported today in the New York Post, once again, people have demonstrated that they do not RESPECT our Constitution, the God-given rights we are afforded and the rights of others to which they are entitled and expect.

And for violating the rights of others by overtaking the Trump Tower in New York today, many were arrested. If they are Americans, they belong in jail; if they are here on visas, they should be, must be deported.

“Those arrests are for trespassing, obstructing government administration, and resisting arrest by virtue of us having to carry some of the people out of the escalator, which you saw,” said NYPD Chief of Department John Chell.

“We gave warnings on our pager system and once we did that warning three times, the NYPD with its professionalism, as you saw, went in and made the arrests, there were no injuries. There were no incidents. There was no damaged property.”

It is about time the anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic rhetoric and behavior has to stop. We are not that far in history, since this was condoned in Europe, where millions of people died cruelly. It was only eighty years ago that an entire group of people were almost exterminated. Forever.

And it is beyond time that each of us respect one another if you want to live like decent human beings in this country. The rights of one is guaranteed as much as the rights of all.

NEVER AGAIN can this be allowed as it once was.