Protesters Allege Misuse of Taxpayer Funds in Military Aid to Israel by Representatives Huffman and Thompson
Protesters carry a sign at yesterday’s demonstration outside Congressman Huffman’s office.[Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Converging on Congressman Huffman’s Eureka office with signs and artwork representative of lives lost in Gaza, about thirty members of the Humboldt Committee for Peace and Justice (HCPJ) gathered to denounce US funding of arms to the State of Israel. The sidewalk meeting turned tense at times, as constituents expressed their dismay with the ongoing war, and their frustration with the lack of response from Rep. Huffman to their specific questions delivered in the letter via email on January 9th.
Two staff members from Huffman’s team were available to listen to the grievances but did not take notes or respond to questions, however did offer to relay those questions and complaints offered up by demonstrators.
Livestream of yesterday’s protest
After lamenting the lack of response directly from Congressman Huffman, many of those in attendance expressed outrage to Huffman’s aides at the idea that their tax dollars were still supporting Israel’s military objectives 15 months on, asking several questions in their letter to Huffman, including asking “What information are you receiving that enables you to justify your continued position of support for Israel’s genocidal actions against Palestinian people?” and “How does continued US support of Israel’s military actions ensure the safety of Israeli citizens and Jewish people around the world?”
The letter – signed by 159 Humboldt County residents before being delivered by email, and then in person – called on Huffman to answer several questions and address several concerns outlined by the group. Huffman’s response was provided in print by his aides, and focused on the announcement of the pending cease-fire agreement which is slated to go into effect Sunday, according to the terms outlined by the parties.
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A child helps carry a banner to Congressman Huffman’s Eureka office, during HCPJ’s Friday silent vigil. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Many of those in attendance agreed that short of a meeting with their representative, their only recourse was to show up to the vigil and demonstrate their dissent in public, while others had resolved to join a growing class action lawsuit against Huffman, alleging misuse of their tax dollars.
Before taking to the streets, Gaby Cohen said in regard to the news of a pending ceasefire agreement, “We have to stay vigilant,” as she explained, “they stepped up the bombing in the last few days since the cease-fire was announced.” Cohen added, “We hope that [Israel can] stand up to their word.” And as the silent vigil and march to Huffman’s office was getting underway, Cohen said, “[A]nd we have to really call on Congressman Huffman to still insist that we don’t send any more arms or money to Israel to keep bombing people.”
Taxpayers Pile On, Despite Ceasefire News
Humboldt’s anti-war advocates – many of them who protested the Vietnam War decades ago – are not alone among Northern California’s pro-Palestine contingent, and they are not deterred by the possibility of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
“Stop funding war crimes” a sign at yesterday’s protest proclaims. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
The organization, Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) on Instagram, have expanded the class action lawsuit against Congressmen Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman to include Bay Area representatives, including some power players in California politics, including former Speaker of The House, Nanci Pelosi.
Asserting that taxpayer monies are being spent inappropriately as it relates to spending on military supports for the State of Israel, the Taxpayers Against Genocide class action group has grown to include over 900 individual plaintiffs as class members.
According to the legal complaint brought by Szeto-Wong Law, “The U.S. State Department has refused to carry out the vetting process required by the Leahy Law with respect to military aid to Israel.” One of the alleged violations described in the complaint states in part, that “Defendants’ April 20, 2024 votes also violated of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961… and Arms Export Control Act… which prohibit assistance to any country in which the government engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, and require the advancement of U.S. foreign policy interests consistent with internationally-recognized human rights. The votes to allocate U.S. taxpayer dollars as military aid to Israel included arms sales that are directly tied to tens of thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza.”
Protesters march in yesterday’s demonstration. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Notably, the lawsuit does not include representatives that voted against allocating that money to Israel, clarifying that, “Congress members John Garamendi (D8), Mark DeSaulnier (D10), Barbara Lee (D12) and Ro Khanna (D17) voted against funding genocide and are not being sued.” But reminded taxpayers in those districts, “It is still important for those living in their districts to sign up as class members as we are suing Senators Alex Padilla and Senator Laphonza Butler for supporting genocide.”
In a recent press release, the group behind the class action lawsuit charges that Representatives Huffman and Thompson have “illegally abused their Tax and Spend authority”. The lawsuit asserts that in April of 2024, the two voted “to allocate $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel” despite knowing that scholars and experts in the field of genocide studies, such as at Amnesty International, had alleged genocide.
The TAG press release states, “They did this in the face of overwhelming evidence of genocide in Gaza and overwhelming opposition by their own constituents, “further stating that “[b]y doing so, the lawsuit alleges, [Rep. Huffman and Rep. Thompson] …violated the U.S. Constitution, the United Nations’ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, and U.S. federal laws such as the Leahy Law.”
Congressman Huffman’s office did not respond to our email request for comment regarding the Ceasefire, or in regard to the TAG lawsuit.
For people who are interested in getting involved or learning more, there is an upcoming informational webinar slated for Saturday, January 25th, at 10 AM PT, organized by TAG.
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Losers and miscreants with nothing better to do. Hamas and Hezbollah are receiving Karma. This will end very soon.
Agreed.
So you appreciate Huffman’s vote in this case? How do you feel about sending military aid to Ukraine?
How do you feel about sending military aid to Ukraine? I’m 100% behind sending military aid to Ukraine along with the aid from other members of NATO.
So you are one of those neocons who want to spend us into oblivion with endless war? That’s how the Soviet Union fell.
You misuse the term and are delusional as well. Your analogy is skewed.
We could say the same about you…
You could say that about me but you’d be completely wrong. America gave President Trump a mandate and he’s up for the challenge.
1% is no mandate.
Trump’s mandate is closer to 70%…
Ha, ha!
Are all MAGAs bad at math?
How do you figure 70%?
It’s easy when reality isn’t filtered through chronic TDS.
You’re entitled to your bigoted opinion. It doesn’t make me wrong though.
You’re just a completely misinformed liberal. Anyone that doesn’t agree with you is a racist or bigot… It’s not your fault. You’ve been listening to our biased and corrupt lame stream media that is the propaganda arm of the democrat party. America just voted and is tired of leftist rhetoric.
You nailed that one Country Joe!
About 3.1 Million dead in Vietnam, between 1955 and 1975.
Another waste on the part of our government, and we lost around 50,000 Soldiers.
Don’t start a war with Israel.
Don’t start WW3 please.
Were you in Vietnam, if not you have no place on here to comment about all the soldiers, we lost which is way more than 50,000. I could care less about Israel and have no intentions on starting WWIII. I stand with all of our soldiers, both fallen and alive. Have you heard the term “Stand for the Brave and Kneel for the Fallen.” Have you ever put a military combat rifle and bayonet in the ground and placed a helmet on top to honor that fallen soldier? I have and it is something I shall never forget as long as I live.
58,220, is the official figure, and does not include deaths from PTSD, drug addiction and suicide.
The toll on our military was immense, the cost was horrible, and Lyndon Johnson’s wife got rich… We never should have been there in the first place.
I protested the war, but did what I could to avoid it, while being too young to be drafted at the time…
I am the child of a WWII Veteran, and so is my spouse. I would not care to comment on this subject any further.
I hate war, and this Israel/Hamas thing could explode at any time, since it’s really been going on for 2000 years.
I hope you live to resolve the trauma you experienced.
Once again you dodged Martin’s question. Did you serve in Vietnam?
Were you a dupe of the Deep State?
Are you Permanently on Monitoring? Did you serve in Vietnam?
No reply except to strawman Martin’s post.
Soooo. Those ~18,000 children and 30-40,000 murdered adults were Hamas?
One thing is for sure. Terrorist volunteers will swell soon as these young who have survived seek vengeance!
Their numbers already appear to be swelling. There’s a bunch of them in front of Huffmans office right now.
This is the result of accepting figures from Hamas. Palestinians have realized the terrible mistake they made by allowing Hamas to run and ruing them. Now it’s time for peace and stability. The murders were committed by Hamas on Oct. 7th. Israel was forced into war.
You realize Hamas is fully reconstituted already? They will have plenty of volunteers now too. Israel fought that war like it was trying to lose it.
That’s a delusional number. Why don’t you go and join them and help out.
If you read my comments you would be able to see that I’m not fond of either Hamas or Israel. Israel won in Gaza in the same way we won in Afghanistan
Disagree
Israel has done more damage to this nation than Hamas or Hezbollah ever has. Sooner we cut ties with Israel the better. Tired of the money and the control they exert over our politicians.
You’re very misinformed.
Israel is known for its highly effective US political and propaganda machine.
Apparently, you are proof of this fact.
Our nation’s biased and corrupt lame stream media is the propaganda arm of the democrat party. You drank their Kool Aid.
Neocon, that’s what you are starting to appear to be. Bet you love Lindsey graham.
Neoconservatism (colloquially neocon) is a political movement which began in the United States during the 1960s among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist Democratic Party along with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s…Wikipedia…
Blah blah blah wiki this wiki that. A neocon is someone who claims to be conservative ie small government/limited spending but really is in favor of spending unlimited amounts of money on endless war.
I thought a neocon was a liberal who got mugged by reality.
You seem to be dazed and confused.
I gave you facts and you give me BS.
Israel has already broken the cease fire agreement, 32 Palestinians died when Israel dropped a bomb. Thank you protesters!
Please re-read history on this subject. It goes back longer than we were alive.
The history is the modern state of Israel was created in 1948 through a deliberate campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing.
absolutely correct
Modern State of Israel was the result of November 29, 1947 UN General Assembly Vote. You may not have liked that … but your “campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing” is propaganda.
Unlike every other UN mandated territory, there was no self-determination for the people living in Palestine and therefore no legitimacy to the UN vote.
Nor did the UN vote establish the borders of Israel which were set by armed conquest due to a calculated campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing carried out by terrorist militias which are the direct moral and historic predecessors of the IDF.
Keep parroting the talking points in support of the state of Israel creation myth but it won’t change the facts.
I’m thinking you missed history class. Like, all of them.
Ha, ha! No, not at all but I’ve gone beyond the superficial talking points that support and justify the Israel creation myths – like: “A land without people for a people without land.”
The ethnic cleaning of what became Israel had been contemplated and planned for by Ben Gurion and other settler leaders for years if not decades – you might read up on “Plan Dalet” for starters.
The Haganah, Irgun and Levi were all Zionist terrorist militias and several of their leaders became future Prime Minister’s of Israel.
Just the facts.
You seem like all the others, cherry picking what you want. Just come out and say it already: you don’t think Israel should exist.
I’ll accept your failure to challenge a single fact presented as proof you’ve lost the argument.
But nice deflection attempting to put words in my mouth! ?
Just selected facts. Arab Palestinian leaders came from the same place at the same time and with the same goals- keeping control by eliminating jews. “Zionist leaders and advocates followed conditions in the land of Israel closely and travelled there regularly. Their concern, however, was entirely with the future of Jewish settlement. The future of the land’s Arab inhabitants concerned them as little as the welfare of the Jews concerned Arab leaders.” And that’s overstating it. Arab leaders were violent too. The earliest attacks were that of Arabs against small Jewish settlements near Galilee around 1900.
There are no clean hands anywhere in Palestine. And such assertions as in your comments assure there will never be accommodation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercommunal_conflict_in_Mandatory_Palestine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Nebi_Musa_riots
Have you always been an antisemite or a recent convert?
Have you always made idiotic specious accusations with no basis in truth or did you just start?
But I’ll accept your feeble name calling as confirmation you’re unable to refute a single fact I’ve cited.
I call foul , his statement was not against the Jews, but against the actions with which were taken to create the state of israel and the actions that the government of israel has taken since .
There is a huge problem there where if one speaks not in favor of the state of israel for its actions they get labeled as if they made a statement against the jewish people , i find it morally wrong to attempt this course of thinking and find it appalling . It has not gone unnoticed that the muslim faith has been attempting to create the same sort of unspeakable statue as israel in resent years where you can bot mention anything negative about the muslim religion without being labeled a racist as well . We are speaking about states and religions not about ethnic status .
That’s your take however the fact is the UN General Assembly voted in 1947. The only fact changed was yours to de- legitimize the UN vote. Propaganda! You are not good at it!
No, those are the facts – Israel was not established by the UN vote but by armed conflict and a premeditated campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing – see “Plan Dalet” for confirmation – you’re the one spewing propaganda and you’re clearly not good at it.
Jewish terrorists sprang into existence as a reaction to Arab terrorists. Or visa versa. Really it’s very hard to tell who started it. The Arab terrorists were very successful until the Ottoman empire picked the losing side in WWI but it’s really hard to tell who was the worst. Unless you just pick a side for the reasons of conducting a proxy war according to your own prejudices.
The Arab equivalent of Zionism was Pan Arabism. “The roots of the conflict can be traced to the late 19th century, with the rise of national movements, including Zionism and Arab nationalism. Though the Jewish aspiration to return to Zion had been part of Jewish religious thought for more than a millennium, the Jewish population of Europe and to some degree Middle East began to more actively discuss immigration back to the Land of Israel, and the re-establishment of the Jewish Nation, only between 1859 and the 1880s, largely as a solution to the widespread persecution of Jews, and antisemitism in Russia and Europe.”
Look to your allies in choosing sides if you insist on choosing. There is plenty of propaganda there too. Why the need to be so blind?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
Bring back the Ottoman Empire!
One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter.
Except that it really happened.
Leading up to the creation of the State of Israel, Yishuv (Israeli) soldiers killed hundreds of civilians. Afterwards, a continuing campaign destroyed Arab villages, crops, and cut off water supplies.
Over the course of just a couple years, the Arab population in the area that would make up the original State of Israel was reduced by over 90%. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/110670/TheRefugeesOf1948.pdf?sequence=1
Per usual Jebs, you portray events in a vacuum to accentuate your one-sided views. I’d be wary of providing citations from something called deepblue.lib. Just trying to help. Once again, after listening to Schmuck out himself and the rest of the liars. You have no credibility
Did your grade school teacher not teach you the difference between opinion, belief, and fact?
That Israeli militias killed hundreds of Palestinians in the leadup to the creation of the State of Israel is a verifiable fact.
Whether they were justified in doing this would be where opinions come in, and I have no problem stating that it is my opinion that they were not.
The Israeli version of, “Get off my lawn!”
Plenty of other Arab places for those Arabs to continue being Arabs. Buh-bye, now!
Tell that to the Palestinian people!!!
Thanks for brings facts to the conversation.
What, the Romans and a thousand other groups didn’t have anything to do with it? I mean that is how the Philistines got their name way before 1948. How many times has Jerusalem burned to the ground in your crusades, yet keeps getting rebuilt? How about you both knock it off?
We were discussing the founding of the modern state of Israel and the underlying causes of the ongoing conflict which are not rooted in ancient history.
The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah ceased to exist 2,500 years before the founding of Israel – there is no moral or historical justification for the massacre and forced expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were purposely limiting your time frame to fit a narrative. My bad.
Again, you fail to challenge a single fact presented – as soon as you step away from the state of Israel creation myth you’re lost.
I agree that a historical 2500 year old claim on some land should absolutely be honored. Will you also honor a historical claim on land that is 400, 200, or even 100 years old, such as that of the Wiyot, Yurok, and Karuk on lands in and around Humboldt County? Will you be the first to honor those historical claims by signing the land title on your property to one of those tribes? Or is it just easy to virtue signal and support someone’s claim on someone else’s land that’s on a different continent across an ocean, but in reality have no intention of honoring similar claims when they may directly affect you?
Israel was created by the Rothschild’s because Europe didn’t know what to do with the Jews after WW2 and rightfully didn’t want them in Europe ?, so they created Israel!
The Rothschild family donated large sums of money to support the establishment of the State of Israel. The family’s donations helped fund the First Aliyah, which was a wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine
It’s quite a bit more complicated than that.
Zionism as a political movement gained traction with the First Zionist Congress in 1897 following the publication of Theodore Herzl’s pamphlet “The Jewish State” in 1896.
The Rothschilds didn’t create Israel but did play important roles in facilitating Jewish immigration to Palestine and in advocating for what became known as the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
Mandatory Palestine was administered by the UK from 1920-1948 when the UK unilaterally washed it’s hands of Palestine and ended it’s military and administrative involvement while still providing strong political support for creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
Zionist paramilitary groups waged terror campaigns against the British, Palestinian Arabs and moderate Jews from the 1920s into the 1940s, pausing during WWII but restarting from 1944-48.
Ironically, the British were consistently active in suppressing Arab militants while at times directly supplying weapons and training and collaborating with Jewish militants.
The 1947 UN Resolution was the product of strong arm lobbying by the US and UK and ignored the right of self-determination for the people living in Palestine.
This is the Cliff Notes version but the forced expulsion of Palestinian Arabs and failure to honor a right of return or provide just compensation is at the root of today’s conflict.
Curiously, to this day the German government is making payments to holocaust survivors and is still adjudicating property claims.
Hello? Yes, it’s more complicated. It’s more complicated than you state too. Zionism did not spring fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus. It came from the rise in antisemitism in the 1800s like you spout. As one person said it’s impossible to even talk about facts between Palestinians and Israelis. Only opposite opinions about what are facts exist.
The source of your opinions is hard to fathom unless you are Arab, Palestinian or one of their proxies. Because no words about mutual destruction ever show in them. No tempering or acknowledgement of terrorism on both sides.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism_in_the_19th_century
It takes very little for this ridiculous comment battle to quickly devolve into old fashioned antisemitism. Why do you think that Zionism gained traction? Because of thinking like “rightfully didn’t want them in Europe.” Or Russia either.
Well there are a few other events you may want to include in that “history”. For instance, when Hajj Amin al-Husayni meet with Hitler and formed the 13th Waffen S.S. The 13th, a Palestinian regiment, was regarded with disdain by other S.S. units for their brutality in Serbia. When a S.S. division looks down on you because of your brutality, you have issues. The history of the Jewish people in this region goes much further back than 1948 or WW2.
And of course you’re aware that the Zionist terror group Lehi twice attempted to form an alliance with Nazi Germany?
There are always cross currents in history but the irrefutable fact is the borders of what became Israel were determined by armed conflict and a majority Jewish population was established as a result of a deliberate campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing against the civilian population.
That’s cherry picking a date. There was the State of Palestine was created even later. It didn’t even exist as an informal State until after the founding of Israel. “Among the notable outcomes of the Oslo Accords was the creation of the Palestinian National Authority, which was tasked with the responsibility of conducting limited Palestinian self-governance over parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; and the international acknowledgement of the PLO as Israel’s partner in permanent-status negotiations about any remaining issues revolving around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. «
That’s one of the most ridiculous tenets of Pro Palestinians- the arbitrary choosing of a specific date to assign ownership in an area with constant shifting powers at war for millenia because it suits their biases.
“The earliest written record referring to Palestine as a geographical region is in the Histories of Herodotus in the 5th century BCE, which calls the area Palaistine, referring to the territory previously held by Philistia, a state that existed in that area from the 12th to the 7th century BCE. The Roman Empire conquered the region and in 6 CE established the province known as Judaea, but then in 132 CE in the period of the Bar Kokhba revolt the province was expanded and renamed Syria Palaestina.”
The origin of the name Palestine seemingly was a Roman invention for one of the State’s next to- ta da- the Kingdom of Israel. You know when they
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords
The fact you use Wikipedia as your main source for most things pretty much discredits you entirely
How do you break an agreement that takes effect tomorrow (Sunday)? Guess when the last ceasefire ended…. Ding ding ding, correct, October 7, 2023.
hello, it starts tomorrow
Israel is a terrorist state who commits genocide 20,000 Palestinians children killed by Israel so far…. GENOCIDISTS
It is obvious at this point that Israel is enjoying and is getting a kick out of muuurdering children and innocent people. Palestinians are not Hamas, the children are not Hamas. Israel is targeting Hospitals, Doctors and Journalists. Israel deserves nothing, except a war crimes tribunal in Have the Netherlands and the subsequent punishment just like the Nazis got. Those found guilty in the ICC almshouse be served immediate justice. Justice for BIBI NETANYAHU!
This is what comes of being willing to harm fellow citizen in the name of foreign causes. This has long ceased to be about objecting to the US supplying weapons to Israel in the name of peace. It has fully turned into anti Americanism slathered with anti Semititism in service to foreign causes.
You will have some audience if you can manage to lose some of your hateful rhetoric.
The US supplying anything to Israel has been the sole premise of what I care about. As signatories of the NPT it is against international law for the US to provide any sort of aid, military or otherwise, to rogue nuclear weapons states, of which there are 2: Israel and North Korea.
It was hamas who broke the agreement
Wait! How are the protesters (responsible for) Israel’s bombing in breach of the ‘cease fire’???
Never go against Israel.
Palestinian children don’t count right. Isreal is the only race that matters, God said so. God says the Jews are his people. Some jew wrote it down in a book inspired by God. Its a fact. Are you kidding with that horseshit? When people are so arrogant, to think that their race is better,usually it’s called racism. In Isreal it’s God’s will. Back in the 80s they threw rocks. Isreal shot em and ran them over with tanks. Not any different then the mentality of the earliest settlers in humboldt
Like Islam has no such religious texts. There has been an evil conflation created as propaganda equating European colonialism against native tribes and the history of racism against non whites with Israeli expansion. It is not the same and making common cause with Pro Palestinians because it excuses racism of minorities against whites is truly a pervesrion.
This is not about Islam. You can’t say, “Oh, what I’m doing isn’t so bad because some people in some other country are doing bad stuff”.
I don’t think indiscriminately killing civilians helps Israel. They’ve insured they have a new generation of enemy.
Israel was former British colony, given to Zionists to maintain a post colonial Beachhead after WW2, and get the Jews out of Europe. Jews and Palestinians lived in Jerusalem relatively peacefully until 1948.
The code word is indiscriminately… brought to you by the same people that said there was nothing wrong with Biden. After Schmuck came out and validated that they were lying through their teeth – guess what – nobody believes you. Go away!
Can somebody translate this?
I can… nobody believes you. The only indiscriminate killing was by Hamas. Like Schmuck, you are lying to cover your own ass. In this instance for supporting the indiscriminate killing by Hamas. You get to own it! Schmuck came clean because he helped burn everything down. Maybe he’s feeling guilty.
Israel has indiscriminately killed over 20,000 innocent children and mimied and injured over 200,000 Palestinian Civilians.
NETANYAHU deserves his day in Hague the Netherlands before the ICC. They will get him eventually.
Can you point to a single comment here, let alone one by Earthquake, that supports what Hamas did?
They want new generations of enemies, duh! They want the Palestinians to be treated so poorly that they rise up every generation, and give Israel an excuse to “defend themselves”.
Never be a genocide supporter.
Tell that to Russia.
Why deflect about this topic?. I didn’t qualify my statement on purpose. Genocide is wrong no matter who is doing it…Israel, Russia, the US. All of these countries have committed genocide yet y’all keep supporting it.
That can be hard for people to grasp when it’s a slow roller.
Israel is a terrorist state.
Most countries are unfortunately
Why? Your reasoning?
The photo at the top of the article is odd considering its holders most likely support the right to choose.
18,000 dead babies IS personal self defense (my body my choice) when it’s about a man or a woman’s right to choose.
its notable to see old heads out on the street raising a ruckus like it was 1965 in Berkeley.
I’m not budging though.
I refuse to be passionate about issues in other countries.
I’m only concerned about my nation, my culture, my state, my county, my community and my family.
the obligation to mess around with the world, to spread ‘democracy’ to spread big box culture, to spread american disorder, well, it doesn’t move me.
I’m only concerned about fixing america.
”from sea to shining sea”
Good reasons not to spend money on killing kids!
Which America? North, Central, or South? I believe we live in the United States of America. Look at an atlas.
This issue will not be solved here by these fools. They need to take the protest to the Holey Land and protest in gaza.
They are protesting our financial support. You’re ok we are giving billions to Israel to kill children?
You ok giving hundreds of billions to Ukraine so every last male Ukranian dies in the meat grinder? Their down to recruiting old men, children, and Nazis Azov battalion with swastika tattoos at this point. Why are we funding Nazis? They have no chance, Russia will never lose because losing 20 million men to them is par for the course. There’s always another couple hundred million left to fight. IE World War II. Israel is our ally unlike Ukraine.
Who cares if Israel are our allies? They are committing a genocide. You’re ok with children being murdered. What a deplorable take.
Are our.. Who cares if Israel is an ally. 1. Ahh, a whole bunch of people in this country. Ask them. 2. You wish they were. 3. Red herring, narcissism end result. 4. Like, that’s your opinion, they.
Children are being murdered with our tax dollars and you are justifying it because Israel is an ally. Wtf? You’re a pos.
We should be using the billions of dollars we have sent Israel on OUR children/people instead of sending it to Israel to kill innocent Palestinians. Why not use the money towards universal healthcare? You know something that Israel has that our government keeps telling us we can’t afford.
Their universal health care is paid for by us. So is the health care in Ukraine, as well as all of their pensions too. At this point, being $36 trillion in debt we shouldn’t be giving a dime to anybody, Israel, Ukraine, Honduras, Canada, all of them.
Don’t want your tax dollars going to blow up innocent people around the world? Then… don’t pay taxes! They will always take 60% off the top for military and justify 3rd world murders for “security” ( or corporate profits). Live frugally and do not give the government your money to kill. Or you may end up looking like these folks- silly as they beg for compassionate use of the money they willingly gave up. Resist the corporate state! Resist the military- industrial takeover of our government! Resist BOTH political parties as they enrich further the uber-wealthy! Youth of America Rise Up! If you’re not pissed off than you’re not paying attention…
Youth of America too busy pissed off about tik-tok.
You aren’t kidding there. So they jump onto Lemon8 and RedNote, which have the same Chinese owners and investors. It’s like moving to a new bedroom because you don’t want Mom yelling at you but don’t realize you’re still in the same house. But I do believe in the paperwork it’s stated ANY company or subsidiary of ByteDance is affected. So the kiddies will have to move. Again.
Mostly fine people sticking up for terror. What about Russian and Ukrainian people. Over a million slaughtered but narry a protest
The Russia and Ukraine conflict is a democrat endorsed war. Democrat wars are O.K. By the way, where’s code pinky in all this mayhem?
Democrat wars are always ok cause some of the $$$ always kicked back. Democrats: come-on man, we ain’t doing this for free!
We’re not officially at war, just a supplier because Ukraine asked. It’s in our better interests to keep a historical bully in check too. That’s how you make global friends. And keep them.
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I wonder how tha Saudi Arabian taxpayers and the Iranian taxpayers feel about subsidizing these demonstrations?
Protesters (all 12 of them) go after misuse of taxpayer funds. Lol… same folks weren’t protesting these same bums when the money was coming their way. For the most part the protestors look like the same geriatric SDS types that stand on the street corners. Must be in the blood.
Last gasp for virtue whilst living a terminally boring life.
Boomers doing Boomer things. No one paid attention to these fools in the 60’s and no one is paying attention to them now… except for other Boomers, maybe…
We don’t have an official draft anymore. That’s one thing that came out of the Vietnam War protests. Also made for a LOT of new college students and Hanoi Jane. And you also know what didn’t happen? We didn’t win that war…so….
So you’re affirming that Boomers are abject failures? What’s your point? College students… more baristas and Marxist educated fools? Jane Fonda is a POS and yeah… they couldn’t win the Vietnam war. A point could be made that boomers have got us into every war since Korea… Their win-to loss ratio in conflicts suck!
Didn’t say that at all. You’re the one making note of it.
You are kind of paying attention to them right now…
You’d hope they’d change out their wardrobe from 50-60 years ago.
It’s the same wardrobe.
All Americans should be appalled that South Carolina residents were offered 750.00 bucks a peice only if they went through a vigorous process to get aid, same with Maui victims and now L.a. as well but millionaires in L.A. will get 100% of their money from the government. It should be blatantly obvious that the Biden administration is laundering money through Ukraine and then back to themselves. Hunter Bidens laptop proved that and many other things. Billions and billions to Ukraine and thousands and thousands have been killed to line the pockets of very rich ppl who hate you. Defiantly nothing new here as this has been going on EVERY war and the ppl let it happen. If you support the war in Ukraine then you are supporting genocide for rich ppl to get richer 100%.
So you’re against the U.S. giving 5 BILLION every year to Israel and an extra 25 BILLION specifically for the genocidal assault on Gaza?
DEFINITELY!!!!
I wish that was it. The US has given an estimated 7-11 trillion dollars to Israel over the course of its existence, more than we’ve given to any other nation. Our national debt stands at $36 trillion dollars. That means that little tiny pimple of a country on the other side of the world is responsible for almost 1/3 of our national debt alone. You know, the absurd national debt that is the root cause of all the inflation that is plaguing our society and making life much more expensive and difficult to live for everybody. This is a country with undeclared nuclear and is a non-signatory to the NPT. The NPT was started by the US, Russia, China, France, and the UK, it specifically states that it is illegal to provide any sort of aid or technology transfers, military or otherwise, to rogue nuclear weapons states, of which there are 2: North Korea and Israel. So not only is Israel directly responsible for almost 1/3 of our national debt, every single cent given to them has been in gross violation of the NPT and has been straight up illegal. If the US had retained any sort of semblance of justice, we would treat Israel and North Korea in the same manner.
Part of the thing with insurance is they’re required to have it even if they can pay cash for 10 more homes themselves. Or sell off a burnt lot. They don’t have to file a claim though, but I imagine many will. I am annoyed that people like Spencer Pratt makes waves on social media about his and Heidi Montag’s plight and need financial help, yet two days later he takes out a large video billboard ad to promote her next album. Yeah, not so downtrodden as he wants people to believe.
I 100% agree with you!!!
Are you kidding? Y’all vote for Huffman’s brand of grift at every election.
He’s also laundering your tax dollars through Ukraine.
The prostitut3s aka 535 memebers of congress are the world’s finest grifters and the fact that anyone doesn’t believe that they are two wings of the same corrupt bird is incredible. Sure “orange man bad” but equally bad are the likes of Huffman, Pelosi, AOC, Schumer, Schiff, Johnson, McConnell, Cruz and etc – all the way down the line. I can count on one hand the members that are actually for the American people … they’re the ones being shouted down at every turn.
This is what you get when you allow lawyers to become politicians
Career politicians.
#termlimitsnow
Term limits are a two edged sword at best. It seems an easy fix but like most of those it has a lot of problems. It automatically gets rid of bad actors but it equally gets rid of good ones too. It also creates a body of inexperienced legislators who are easily manipulated by staff and lobbyists because they simply have no experience. The candidate has to owe outside unelected bodies because the rapid turnover means he can’t campaign from a place of incumbent power. These groups run candidates like dog shows.
These constant newbies push laws through as fast as they can despite flaws because they know they only have a couple of terms before their influence is gone. California has term limits. Has that made the legislature better?
And finally sending a Congressman back repeatedly benefits rural districts because senority rules gives them more influence in committees as they are more likely to be reelected. And it’s the only power they have. It’s just too bad for Humboldt that it was cobbled together by the legislature with Marin County.
Yes, HumCo is a far cry from Marin – absolutely ridiculous that we’re lumped in with them.
Remnants of the Class of ‘68’s failed wet dream, unite!
If these people put as much effort into a job as they do protesting every liberal cause that came.down the line they would be better off funacially.and much happier.
and give thanks to Subaru! Coming soon…Subaru mobility scooters with protest flags and bumper stickers
Lol! They dumped Volkswagen once they figured out that Volkswagen was producing materiel for Nazi Germany. Took them awhile, though. Probably realized it once they stopped smoking dope sometime in the 80’s.
Toyota Hilux is the standard mobile APV for terrorist groups and militias.
Protestors are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! BUT THERES MORE!!
This is Andy Duong, who is facing 105 years in prison due to an FBI criminal indictment along with Former Oakland California Mayor Sheng Thao for bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and corruption…
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-17/ex-oakland-mayor-boyfriend-waste-company-execs-indicted
What do you notice?
Only way the blatant political corruption ends is to take away the political money game.
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Israel now controls the congress.
Controls the media.
Controls the movies.
Controls the schools.
Controls the courts.
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However… the political money game won’t allow that.
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You should read the Wikipedia article about Helen Thomas. Only takes a few minutes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas
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Go figure.
You left out that Israel controls the Space Lasers that just caused the LA conflagration which was a warning to DC not to cut support. <snicker>
Eh ? The Space Lasers are a figment of somebodies imagination.
The rest of it is reality.
Did you read the article on Helen Thomas ? Probably not.
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Go figure.
You seem to be giving Israel a little too much credit…
Not a peep about Hamas’ use of civilians to cover their activities. But look at them, those are professional protestors, they have nothing else in their life, so they stand around with signs, handpainted jackets. Pathetic.
That’s just bullshit Israeli Propaganda to justify the murderous slaughter of doctors and children. Think for yourself and don’t be gullible
“Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207:3-5&version=KJV
The only reason the Zionist state exists is because of the billions of dollars the United States gives to their military every year.
Without those billions Israel would be financially insolvent almost immediately and the genocide would end.
They’ve been in the area a while, far longer than Europeans in the Americas.
You are so naive. Then hezbollah and hamas and the houthis, isis and al queda would do the same thing because they are subsidized by iran. They must be kept in check. It’s important not just for israel but the civilized world. The jihadists show no mercy, why should anyone tolerate them. They dead baby rant is not factually supported. Israel does everything it can to avoid civilian casualties. These protesters are ignorant. And the lawsuit will go nowhere.
Sorry i have to call bullshit on israel does everything it can to avoid killing babies . There used to be shirts sold by the IDF that had a image of a muslim woman that was pregnant and on this woman’s belly was a sight picture of a rifle with the saying 2 kills one shot . While the very fact that they were selling them can be hard to find anymore it is impossible to find a picture of the shits , having largely to do with israel’s attempt to protect itself from war crime charges in regards to them not only supporting but encouraging the killing of women and children . The government of israel is not a friendly government to anyone but itself and there is nothing that they are unwilling to do to get exactly what they want there is no line they will not cross . Their policy is one based almost entirely upon revenge When it comes to any other nation. They mosad encourages outright assignations and they believe it is their right to destroy any and all that does not support them to the fullest .
Just about the only good thing about israel is that a growing large part of its citizens are publicly starting to voice their disagreement of the way their country treats its neighbors however not enough and acts like what occurred on oct 7 regardless of the role the israeli government played into it so that bibi could attempt to have standing with the rest of the world for his planned war against his neighbors do not help. That entire region has been in a state of revenge wars for a very long time and the only way it will ever truly end would be for a enemy that was so powerful that both sides hated so much that they would have to unite together in order to survive it , and even then the hate still might be to great for that to happen .
You may get your wish. Israel is exhausted by war, its economy isn’t doing that great, it’s a small country that doesn’t have many people, and it looks like Israel traded its enemy in Syria for a much more powerful and determined enemy in Syria. Enter Erdogan and Turkey, he has his sights set on much of the levant and has been making speeches about how “Turkey is much greater than Turkey itself.” Erdogan also isn’t the biggest fan of Shia islamists, so the enemy that is so powerful and both sides hate so much has indeed entered the arena.
Zionism existed before the US invested a dime in Israel. It’s the same nature of thinking that happens when people long for a “safe space.” “The term safe space refers to places “intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations”, according to Merriam-Webster. It is a place where marginalized groups can discuss issues pertinent to them without having to address questions or remarks that might be directed at them from majority groups in society who are not familiar with certain issues. The term originated in LGBTQ culture, but has since expanded to include any place where a marginalized minority (e.g., gender, racial, religious, ethnic) can come together to communicate regarding their shared experiences. Safe spaces are most commonly located on university campuses in the western world…” So Zionist Israel is the international “safe space” for Jews. And Jews funded it long before the US got heavily involved.
Unfortunately any group that sees itself as abused by majorities elsewhere and wants a “safe space” , which certainly has been the case for millenia for Jews, has the nasty side effect exclusion of problematic “others.” The islamic Palestinians are just as intent on removing such “others” with even more violence than Israelis. They want and have always wanted Jews gone from their midst long before Zionism existed. And they succeeded for the last thousand years.
They have the support of some very violent and rich countries too like Iran, UAE, Saudia Arabia, etc. Isn’t it typical of the politics of division that alliances that otherwise have little incommon form around them like dirt sticks to honey? A never ending cycle of proxy wars based on the ridiculous aphorism of “The enemy of my enemy is my friend?” What makes this ridiculous is the blaming of the US funding weaponry to Israel when the US also funds weapons to half of the Islamic Stated too.
So quit being so blinded by propaganda that it’s all the fault of Zionism. That’s just a more euphemistic word than antisemetic because , as the one version of the Bible puts it, “Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
Nutcases. Israel has every right to retaliate. And the figures are straight from Hamas, who uses its own women and children as shields to hide behind.
It isn’t wise to believe casualty figures that originate from Hamas cowards that hide behind women and children.
The lawsuit will go nowhere
On this we agree.
The lawsuit is a pr stunt intended to gain attention – anyone who thinks it’s going anywhere is delusional.
Might as well get their little tantrum… errr! protest… in now. The coming Administration isn’t gonna tolerate the candy aisle kids throwing a fit every time they don’t get their way.
MAGA 2025!
Why are they worried about dead kids now and not when they were marching for the right of women to get abortions? Why were they not worried about dead kids at that protest.
So many fingers tapping out messages and so few good points getting landed. How about this: “it’s complicated”
Humboldt isn’t going to solve the problem. Give it a rest, there are bigger more local fish to fry.
Spot on.
The conflict between Jews and Arabs has deep historical roots, dating back over a century. The modern conflict began in the early 20th century, with tensions escalating during the British Mandate of Palestine. The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and subsequent wars between Israel and Arab nations further intensified the conflict. The issues at the heart of the conflict include land, borders, and rights, and these disputes continue to have significant consequences today.
It’s a complex and deeply rooted issue, but at its core, it’s about two groups of people with historical and emotional ties to the same land.
A complex and deeply rooted issue that should be none of our business and none of our money should be sent anywhere near either of those places
But it is our business as Israel has been our closest ally in the Middle East for decades.
Bullshit. We’re broke. Your either for continuing to spend money we don’t have or your not. Israel and every other parasite that is leaching our hard earned money can go kick rocks. Can you name 1 thing Israel, our “greatest ally in the ME,” has done for us?
Your post is BS…
Haha, so you can’t name a single thing Israel has done for us can you? You think $36 trillion in debt isn’t broke? You don’t think we have any inflation right? Because our inflation is tied to our debt. In fact, you can’t refute a single thing I have posted. Name 1 thing Israel has done for us bud or stfu. I’m tired of neocon closet liberals like you, even President Trump posted a video of Jeffery Sacchs calling Netanyahu a “deep, dark, son of a bitch.” Shortly after a ceasefire was called and Netanyahu canceled his trip to the inauguration because Pres. Trump told that idiot to wrap the war up.
What has Israel done for the US?
Let’s start with the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War which killed 34 and wounded 171 while the ship was in international waters. Some ally!