The top Democrat on the House Republicans’ select subcommittee on the weaponisation of the government excoriated her political opponents for giving a platform to presidential candidate and vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Stacey Plaskett, who represents the US Virgin Islands, said: “Why would the Republican leadership and the committee majority give a hearing and a platform to the witnesses today, specifically to Mr Kennedy, a man who has recently claimed that COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people.”
Stacey Plaskett, who represents the US Virgin Islands, said: “Why would the Republican leadership and the committee majority give a hearing and a platform to the witnesses today, specifically to Mr Kennedy, a man who has recently claimed that COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people.”
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00:00 Why would the Republican leadership and the committee majority give a hearing and a platform
00:05 to the witnesses today?
00:07 Specifically to Mr. Kennedy, a man who has recently claimed that COVID-19 is targeted
00:13 to attack Caucasians and black people.
00:15 The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
00:20 Before that, in his film, Medical Racism, the New Apartheid, that film stated that COVID-19
00:27 vaccines do not work for black children because of their "kick-ass" kind of immune system,
00:34 that hyper superhuman subhuman kind of language.
00:39 He also said, "Even in Hitler's Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland.
00:44 You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did," to imply Jews in Nazi Germany had more
00:49 freedoms than unvaccinated Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:55 Now many of my Republican colleagues across the dais will rush to cover that they have
00:59 Mr. Kennedy here because they want to protect his free speech, that they do not believe
01:04 in American censorship.
01:07 This is not the kind of free speech that I know of, the free speech that is protected
01:13 by the Constitution's First Amendment.
01:16 But free speech is not an absolute.
01:19 The Supreme Court has stated that.
01:23 When others' free speech that is allowed, hateful, abusive rhetoric, does not need to
01:30 be promoted in the halls of the people's house.
01:34 This Republican charge of free speech is being used by Republican members to promote quasi-science,
01:43 things such as the replacement theory that says that brown people are replacing good
01:50 white Americans here in this country.
01:53 Let's not remember that this country first belonged to brown Native American people.
01:58 It's a rallying cry for bigotry and hate.