All Out for Rallies Saturday April 5
Bring Signs, Bring Yourself: Defend the First Amendment Right to Speak, Write, Assemble, and Petition!
Rallies will be held in Washington DC and in many Vermont towns starting at noon on Saturday April 5. Bring your sign with your demands.
CancelF35.substack.com will be at the rally at City Hall in Burlington Vermont at noon on Saturday, and we will be calling for an immediate end to the assault on First Amendment rights. President Trump initiated his attack on the most vulnerable—the non-citizens who were speaking out in defense of Palestine. But President Trump’s attack was in flagrant disregard of the law:
Under the US Constitution, everyone residing in this country, including citizens, green card holders, and those on student visas, enjoys exactly the same free speech rights, without distinction, as affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in Bridges v. Wixon (1945). The Court said, “Freedom of speech and of press is accorded aliens residing in this country.”
The Supreme Court further held that “the Constitution protects expression and association without regard to the race, creed, or political or religious affiliation of the members of the group which invokes its shield, or to the truth, popularity, or social utility of the ideas and beliefs which are offered,” in NAACP v. Button (1963).
The Supreme Court further held that “debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials," in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964).
President Trump is on the attack against this most fundamental democratic right. His administration used federal agents to arrest, imprison and attempt to deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian legal permanent resident, for no other reason than for exercising his free speech right to protest for Palestinian human rights, including by demanding a halt to US support for the Israeli Government’s ongoing mass murder in Gaza.
Again, using federal agents, the Trump administration arrested and imprisoned Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who co-authored a brilliant op-ed in the school’s newspaper a year ago. Her op-ed cited resolutions adopted by the undergraduate student senate calling on the school administration to “disclose its investments and divest from companies with ties to Israel.” Her op-ed noted that “credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.”
Whether you agree or disagree with the views of Khalil and Ozturk, all Americans must take advantage of every opportunity to join together with others to defend their constitutional right to express themselves—and to use our own constitutional right to express ourselves. The rallies on April 5 are expected to draw thousands of people, providing such an opportunity. Bring your sign to express yourself on any issue you care about.
CancelF35.substack.com is particularly interested in defending Khalil, Ozturk, and the people of Gaza because US-government supplied F-35 jets are used to conduct mass murder there.
As shown by the disclosure of grievous harm to the cognitive development of children from repeated exposure to the extreme noise of the 115-decibel F-35 in the US Air Force Environmental Impact Statement, the airport in the most densely populated part of Vermont, in South Burlington was knowingly, deliberately, and intentionally selected by Vermont’s political and military leaders for daily F-35 training so Air National Guard pilots could get practice conducting such vicious and illegal indiscriminate attacks on civilians.