[Salon] Sen. Tom Cotton introduces bill to block anti-Israel protesters from getting Biden student loan bailouts



Here’s why Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, the Israeli Fascists, et al., know they have nothing to fear from Joe Biden, even if he wasn’t a full-fledged Goldwater Democrat, and actually was sincere about meaningfully cutting off their access to US munitions. Like Lauren Boebert would say, “The Republicans have your six” (acting the right-wing “warrior” that she is), but yes, all the ammo Israel wants, they will get, even if over campus protester's dead bodies! 

May 1, 2024
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I’ve been railing here now since 2015, ever since Trump arrived on the political scene as a POTUS candidate, in league with Michael Ledeen’s (Faster, please!, and Universal Fascism promoter) co-author, Mike Flynn, that Trump "did not intend to end the endless wars.” Contrary to what Trump promoters at Quincy Institute and The American Conservative were telling us. As if they were part of a super-advanced “Cognitive Campaign,” as a continuation of the Adelson, Thiel, Koch, Cognitive Campaign designed to alter our consciousness by way of “planting false memories” of “Right-Wing Peaceniks,” in getting Trump elected, by placing Trump in that “Tradition!” As they both continue to do today, with the latest sanitizing of William Buckley by the former serving as “deep-consciousness conditioning” to promote contemporary Conservatism, such as the “anti-NeoCon” Trump." As promoted by the likes of these favorites below of The American Conservative magazine. As the supreme "art” of Cognitive Warfare aims for, to displace one’s own thinking mind, with an “alternate reality.”   Buckley, as never having seen a U.S. war he didn’t love, and promote, is now being resurrected as a “Right-wing Peacenik,” to go along with the false narrative of Trump. Though in light of the debacle of the Iraq War, and always with an eye to how he would look to “history,” as has been noted with the records he kept, he had to do some post hoc “sanitizing” of himself to “revise” his actual history, now fully joined in that by Trumpites. 

And by the right-wing historical revisionists fabricating false “memories” of Right-wing Peaceniks, as I began to learn of how easily that could be done on an individual basis, as explained here as one aspect it, as I’d studied at Law School with a Lawyer/Psychiatrist who specialized in this field:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3402138/
BLUF: "The reconstructive nature of memory is believed to provide greater cognitive flexibility (Schacter and Addis, ), underlie mental time travel (Schacter et al., ; Szpunar, ), and support the construction and maintenance of self-identity and life-stories (Greenwald, ; Markus and Nurius, ; Bruner, ; Baerger and McAdams, ; Conway and Pleydell-Pearce, ; Wilson and Ross, ). We argue here that memory's malleability benefits more than just the self – the same attitudes, schemata, and social and physical environments that render an individual's memory unique can also transform initially disparate memories into shared recollections. It is our proposition that autobiographical memories are simultaneously reconstructed to be distinct from that of another person and converge with it as a result of social interactions. Through this convergence, emerges collective memory that will in turn establish a collective identity and promote sociality. Our aim here is to bridge the gap between individual and collective memory by discussing several lines of research elucidating the processes by which the malleability of memory promotes the formation of shared memories.
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"Through acts of social remembering individuals become vulnerable to incorporating details about the past that they did not actually experience. That is, conversations can serve as a mechanism enabling the spread of a memory from one person to another. This process is often referred to as social contagion. Social contagion can be traced back to the classic work of Loftus and colleagues (Echterhoff et al., ; Loftus, ). Although Loftus did not frame her work in terms of social contagion research, these experiments and others (Loftus, ) have consistently demonstrated that social interactions (e.g., what an experimenter says to a participant) can be an effective means for implanting false memories."

This precisely describes the Oligarch funded campaign against is to implant false memories of “Right-wing Peaceniks.” Like declared of extreme right-wing, “Straussian” student of Harvey Mansfield, and the Claremont Institute, Josh Hawley, a virtual worshiper of Republican ultra-militarist Theodore Roosevelt. With the  “Right-wing Peaceniks” a conglomeration of Israeli Settler Yoram Hazony’s fascist National Conservatives (outbidding each other for war against Russia, Palestinians, and Iran), "Traditional Conservatives” as “early adopters” of Trumpism, and then DeSantism, (for war against China, Iran, with war against Russia inevitably included, as the Heritage Foundation makes clear is its Project 2025 Common Plan! With Traditional Conservatives who switched to DeSantis, presumably back to Trump again, all the while waging a “Cognitive Campaign” against us to displace a “reality-based” memory,” with “false memories” substituted for that to create a false persona for the hyper militaristic “New Right” as Right-wing Peaceniks, to get, most immediately, Trump elected as POTUS again. And as Israel’s Fascist’s closest ally/co-belligerent! 


"Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called on the Department of Justice to investigate the third-party funding behind the antisemitic protests that have taken college campuses by storm in recent weeks.

"The Missouri Republican sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday, demanding he open a probe into the funding."

"Hawley has been keen to align himself with the wing of his party, the GOP, that wants change: America should rebalance, away from the Middle East and towards China. On this score, he did not disappoint.
“China’s bid for domination is the greatest security threat to this country in this century,” Hawley told those gathered. “And our foreign policy around the globe must be oriented to this challenge and focused principally on this threat.”

Or, until Israel calls for opening a “New Front” in their Cognitive War Operation!


"Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley called on President Joe Biden to send the National Guard to Columbia University as pro-Palestinian demonstrations that saw over 100 people arrested last week roil the campus.”

So much for “local control,” as what they’re calling for is to “federalize” the National Guard, strictly under “Federal Control. As Cotton always calls for. 


BLUF: "A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so. 

In a terse, one-page letter obtained exclusively by Zeteo, and signed by 12 GOP senators, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz of Texas, Khan is informed that any attempt by the ICC to hold Netanyahu and his colleagues to account for their actions in Gaza will be interpreted “not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States.”

“Target Israel and we will target you,” the senators tell Khan, adding that they will “sanction your employees and associates, and bar you and your families from the United States.”

"Rather ominously, the letter concludes: “You have been warned.”

. . . 

"In their letter, the dozen Republican senators remind Khan that the U.S. “demonstrated in the American Service-Members’ Protection Act the lengths to which we will go to protect [its] sovereignty.”

The ASPA, signed into law by George W. Bush in 2002, has since become widely known as “The Hague Invasion Act” because it authorizes the U.S. president “to use all means necessary and appropriate” to bring about the release not just of U.S. persons but also allies who are imprisoned or detained by the ICC.

"In their letter, the dozen Republican senators remind Khan that the U.S. “demonstrated in the American Service-Members’ Protection Act the lengths to which we will go to protect [its] sovereignty.”

"The ASPA, signed into law by George W. Bush in 2002, has since become widely known as “The Hague Invasion Act” because it authorizes the U.S. president “to use all means necessary and appropriate” to bring about the release not just of U.S. persons but also allies who are imprisoned or detained by the ICC.



Sen. Tom Cotton introduces bill to block anti-Israel protesters from getting Biden student loan bailouts

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced legislation on Friday that would prevent anti-Israel protesters from receiving student loan forgiveness if they are convicted of a crime stemming from campus demonstrations.

The Arkansas Republican’s No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act, which is co-sponsored by 18 other GOP senators, would make any individual convicted of a state or federal offense in connection with a campus protest ineligible for any federal student loan relief.

“Americans who never went to college or responsibly paid off their debts shouldn’t have to pay off other people’s student loans,” Cotton said in a statement. 

Tom Cotton
Cotton has previously called for foreign students supporting Hamas to have their visas revoked. Getty Images

“They especially shouldn’t have to pay off the loans of Hamas sympathizers shutting down and defacing campuses,” he added. 

The legislation was introduced in response to a wave of anti-Israel, antisemitic, and pro-terror protests that have swept college campuses across the country. 

Some 200 anti-Israel protesters have been arrested since mid-April at Columbia University’s Manhattan campus. 

The activists first set up a tent encampment on one of the main lawns at the Ivy League school before storming and occupying one the university’s historic buildings, forcing final exams to be postponed and students to take classes online.   

“Hamas sympathizers engaging in criminal behavior on college campuses should be ineligible for student loan bailouts,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), one the bill’s co-sponsors, said in a statement. 

“We must hold these criminals accountable and ensure taxpayer dollars do not go toward paying off their debt,” she added. 

Anti-Israel protest
Anti-israel protests have led to hundreds of arrests at college campuses across the country. Getty Images

Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) is leading companion legislation in the House of Representatives. 

“Violent campus protestors laughably demand respect, amnesty, and even takeout food. Our bicameral bill ensures that not one student protestor convicted of criminal offenses is bailed out by student loan forgiveness. Not one dime of taxpayer money will fund these criminals,” Williams said in a statement. 

President Biden has approved about $160 billion in student debt forgiveness for nearly 4.6 million borrowers through various executive actions in his first term. 

The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model estimates that the 81-year-old president’s student loan cancellations plans will cost taxpayers a whopping $559 billion over 10 years. 



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