Sen. Tom Cotton Tells Followers to 'Take Matters Into Your Own Hands' Against 'Pro-Hamas Mobs'

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Apr. 16, 2024

AIPAC-funded Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday encouraged his followers to "take matters into your own hands" against the "pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic."

"I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands," Cotton wrote initially on X. "It's time to put an end to this nonsense."

He then edited the post to say "take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way."

Various groups like the Jewish Voice for Peace and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network were leading the protest which blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday.

Both directions of the Golden Gate Bridge have been shut down due to a Pro-Palestinian protest. Demonstrators have blocked the southbound direction of Highway 101. This is the second protest causing major back-ups on Bay Area roadways, the demonstration has blocked northbound… pic.twitter.com/oO5dMCvqFD
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) April 15, 2024

The move made many question if they were trying to poison the well and turn people against the pro-Palestine movement.

The goal is a ceasefire, the strategy is mass demonstrations everywhere until our leaders realize their complacence and complicity is untenable.

We would hope NBC’s senior political reporter could understand this—it is a basic civil disobedience and protest tactic. https://t.co/NNlyGH5YU7
— Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area (@JVPBayArea) April 16, 2024

Police could be seen protecting the activist groups from the citizenry who were simply trying to go about their day.

The police are doing absolutely nothing to clear the Golden Gate Bridge. pic.twitter.com/LKn3nAW1x8
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) April 15, 2024

Is Tom Cotton going to pay the legal bills of the people he's telling to "take matters into your own hands" and get these people "out of the way?"

A lot of people want to pretend that Tom Cotton telling people to "take matters in their own hands" when anti-genocide protests block a road isn't advocating for assault. But he also went on Fox to say they should be thrown off bridges and have their skin ripped off. pic.twitter.com/ymKjKsK6JD
— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) April 16, 2024

If you laid your hands on the "wrong" person, something tells me that Cotton would be the first one to call for your arrest and demand you be charged with a hate crime.

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