This was my first thought as well, still can't believe how everyone in my social circle was just okay with that oppression because it was "deplorables" doing it
It is really disgusting. Imagine laws requiring the firing teachers because they choose not buy Israeli shampoo or whatever at home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in...
By all means, do not imagine laws in this case.
Read about a law, a lawsuit, and an amended law that have already been recorded in our history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Koontz_v._Watson
Kansas lawmakers amended the law so that it no longer applied to individuals like the plaintiff, rendering the case moot, but leaving the underlying constitutional issues unresolved.
> (1) contract-focused laws that condition the receipt of government contracts on an entity certifying that it is not boycotting and will not boycott Israel; and (2) investment-focused laws that mandate public investment funds to divest from entities involved in boycotts of Israel.
Neither of these are bans on "personal boycotts". They are penalizing corporations which boycott Israel.
Politics or deplorable status isn't the problem, it's that out government turned tyrannical.
My sibling worked daily at the vaccination clinic.
I 180º disagreed with the content of the trucker's argument (less so these days). But I fully supported their right to protest, loudly and irritatingly, because someday I'll need to protest loudly and irritatingly for something I care about.
But of course now I won't protest, because I don't want my bank account arbitrarily frozen with no legal basis "voluntarily" by my bank.
And that's just my bank account, not the basic income I rely on for food.
Obviously in the interest of protest you can do something annoying, even at 3am, but you can't do something criminal.
A train horn goes up to 110dB.
If you do something illegal, like blast a train horn enough to potentially cause damage of one kind or another, then you can be arrested.
You have to be careful about the actual charge though, because arresting someone vaguely "for public disturbance on Parliament Hill" eventually gets you arresting people for holding up blank pieces of paper while standing in silence too.
Freezing the bank account of people who hold signs on parliament hill or people who donate to people who hold signs on parliament hill isn't a part of arresting them for doing something illegal.