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Robert, the author is a friend, I have cc’d her on this email communication. She just today received a response to her letter from Tammy, please see:
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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth's vote for S.1, the "Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act," is a Constitutional disgrace.</p>
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This legislation will encourage state and local governments to restrict Americans' right to free speech, a right that all members of Congress take an oath to protect.</p>
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The time-honored sanction of boycotts was used in Montgomery, Ala., South Africa and currently in Iran, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, Syria and many places around the globe — purportedly to pressure governments to become more democratic and more humane, at least
that's what successive administrations and Congresses have told Americans.</p>
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Whether this is what our government should be doing (or actually is doing) is left for other debates.</p>
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This letter asks: Why has Duckworth hypocritically voted to restrict Americans' right to use boycotts to fight Palestinian oppression, the same boycotts the U.S. uses across the globe?</p>
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Duckworth's support of S.1 demonstrates her contempt for democratic freedoms. It violates her oath to uphold the Constitution.</p>
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How can Duckworth vote against the very freedoms at home that she presumably fought for in Iraq?</p>
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Emma Lazarus, whose sonnet "The New Colossus" is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, also wrote: "Until we are all free, we are none of us free." Duckworth's vote is insensible to understanding freedom, or she just doesn't care about some people,
which amounts to racism.</p>
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She allows liberal use of sanctions everywhere but Palestine. This makes her motives and actions suspect.</p>
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