Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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who are trying to do similar things to self-censor, to self-silence, to be afraid that, well, if it happened to him, then it could happen to me.
So I'm not going to do it because they know that we outnumber them and they know that they can't go after all of us.
So I think I just want to say how important it is, the example that you're setting by not backing down that, you know,
you got out and the first thing you did was to start the show right back up again because what they want you to do is that they want you to take a step back they want you to be intimidated um and they did something very similar to me at the beginning of last year i started organizing know your rights seminars
for people.
And Tom Holman at the DOJ, or Tom Holman, who's now, they're bringing into Minneapolis, threatened to... Do you mind if we play that soundbite, Congresswoman?
Yeah, go for it, go for it.
And this is what they're trying to do is that they're saying, and mind you, these Know Your Rights seminars are for everybody.
Because if you are a human being in the United States of America, point blank, period, you are covered by constitutional protections.
There is a reason why the founders of our nation called it the land of the free, not free people.
We are the land of the free.
Because you step foot on American soil, you have the right to free speech.
You have the right to freedom of assembly.
You have your protection from warrantless search.
You have all of your constitutional protections.
And we were letting people know that.
And for that, they wanted to send us to the Department of Justice.
So there's a pattern here.
And after he submitted that, we called him on the bluff.
And that's what you got to do.