Representative Jamie Raskin blasted House Republicans for refusing to protect school children’s lives from the horror of assault weapons, and instead banning books like The Handmaid’s Tale and George Orwell’s 1984.
Passing the H.R. 5, also known as the “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” and assaulting educators appears to be their only legislative principle.
Using children to do their dirty work is similarly despicable.
Well, it’s about book banning, of course.
Two years ago, more than 1,600 books were banned in the United States of America.
Here are three of the key books that the right-wingers have been going after.
Khaled Hosseini’s, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, about the dangerous fanaticism, authoritarianism, and abuse of the Taliban. A right-wing religious fundamentalist movement all about censorship and repressing women’s control over their own bodies and their own fertility.
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s extraordinary dystopian novel about a right-wing misogynist movement which uses high technology and depraved religious ideology to control not only the minds of their followers, but their private and public lives and the fertility of women.
And of course, George Orwell’s 1984, because they have no sense of irony.
They’re always trying to censor this one.
Mr. Chairman, we need more politicians reading books in America and fewer politicians trying to censor books in America.
And it is amazing to me, thank you, Mr. Chairman, it’s amazing to me to see politicians who oppose a universal violent criminal background check and who defend assault weapons after the massacres at Columbine, after Parkland, Florida, after Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, after Uvalde, after Santa Fe, Texas, that they are now going to keep America’s children safe by banning The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984.
We can do better for the children of America.
CNN reports, “Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said the Republican bill “will not see the light of day” in the Senate and has called the legislation “Orwellian to the core.”
Jamie Raskin is amazing on the House floor, and gets to the heart of the matter instantly.
