Snow Thwarts Anti-Israel Government Employee 'Walkout'

freebeacon ^ | 1/16/2024 | alana goodman

[bitt]

Anti-Israel government employees planning a "walkout" to protest the Biden administration's military support for Israel had their plans foiled after a snow day shut down all federal offices in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

Anonymous protest organizers claimed that "hundreds" of employees from the White House and other agencies, including the State Department, the Defense Department, and the National Security Agency, were set to skip work to participate in a "Day of Mourning" for Gaza, Al-Monitor reported last week.

But their protest was thwarted when D.C. was hit with over three inches of snow late Monday, leading the Office of Personnel Management to announce an all-office closure for the following day.

The snow day came after Republican lawmakers vowed to punish any Biden administration employees who joined the anti-Israel walkout and as legal experts warned that staffers should expect to lose their jobs if they participated in it.

Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics counsel under former president George W. Bush, said it would be "wildly inappropriate" for any political appointees—particularly White House staff—to participate in a walkout.

"It would be highly unusual if the president didn't fire you," he told the Washington Free Beacon. "I would expect President Biden would fire White House officials and political appointees for openly participating in demonstrations against the president's Middle East policy."

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Should have marched. Pneumonia needs victims and these govt employees need to be investigated, hospitalized and fired. In my dreams.

[Netz]

Gee, where were these government employees when Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974?

Where were they when Tutsis were murdered by the Rwandans?
...when the Iranians slaughtered their protestors?
...when the HAMAS slaughtered/raped and mutilated more than 1,400 Israelis?
...when HAMAS massacred their PLO brothers in Gaza?
...when Assad’s Syria massacred their people?
...when the Daish murdered hundreds of thousands?
...when the Russians murdered the Chechens?
...when the Russian invaded and murdered the Ukraine?
...when the Bosnians and Serbs slaughtered each other?
...when the Houthi Yemenites fought their brothers in Yemen?
...when Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen?
...when do these government employees, make a statement and scare us all by threatening to walk-out?
Why does and Israeli retaliatory response “force” them to respond when they were silent for EVERY OTHER CONFLICT AND DEATH IN THE WORLD UP UNTIL NOW?

Where is your morality and judgement now?

[MarineMom613]

Over THREE whole inches of snow, OH MY!

Snowflakes, my a**, all of them!

[NautiNurse]

Shut down the government for 3 inches of snow? Is that accurate?

Video of D.C. snowball fights yesterday showed the grass peeking up from the layer of snow. Not very deep.

[Freee-dame]

Maybe that snow day shut down was to prevent the country from seeing that the walkout protest would have been a fizzle. …. Or, worse yet, not a fizzle. Very convenient.

I do not ever recall a business shut down of any place near DC for 3 inches of snow.