BREAKING : Politicians Push “Anti-Protesting Laws” Protecting Public from Leftist Violence and Obstruction
The right to assemble and protest is the cornerstone of this country’s greatness.
However, lately, anti-American leftist organizations, like Black Lives Matter and others, led by Communist George Soros, have used this right to hold innocent Americans hostage on highways and freeways and wreaked economic havoc in cities and towns across America with violence and intimidation tactics.
Politicians are working hard to pass laws to protect American citizens from these anti-American anarchists.
From Zero Hedge:
Indiana passed a bill on Wednesday that authorizes police officers to shut down highway protesting “by any means necessary.” S.B. 285, as it is known, obliges a public official to dispatch all available officers within 15 minutes of discovering any assembly of 10 or more people who are obstructing vehicle traffic.
The bill then authorizes the responding officers to clear roads “by any means necessary.”
Critics are calling it the “Block Traffic and You Die” bill, an apt name for a bill that has co-opted the phrase “any means necessary,” used famously in speech delivered by Malcolm X during the Civil Rights movement, turning it into a threat against government dissent (with no apparent awareness of the irony).
S.B. 285 is among a collection of increasingly hostile ‘anti-obstruction’ laws that have been quietly submitted in states around the nation over the past few months. A report by The Intercept published Wednesday tracked five such anti-protest laws introduced by Republican lawmakers in different states, four of which are currently pending.
One of the most disturbing among them is House Bill N. 1203, a bill introduced earlier this month by North Dakota lawmaker Keith Kempenich in response to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests. The bill would exempt motorists who hit demonstrators with their cars from any liability in cases where the victims were “obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway.” This twisted take on protest criminalization comes short of condoning manslaughter as a viable means of crowd control.
Also this month, Minnesota State Representative Kathy Lohmer led the effort on submitting H.F. 322, a bill that would re-classify obstructing highway traffic from a misdemeanor to a “gross misdemeanor” and would authorize government units to sue protesters for “public safety response costs related to unlawful assemblies.”
The proposed legislation is strikingly reminiscent of Washington State Senator Eric Ericksen’s proposal to punish protesters as ‘economic terrorists,’ which Anti-Media first reported on in November.
All of the proposed laws share a common trait in that they were all adopted in response to a major protest event in that state. H.F. 322 was submitted shortly after a judge dismissed the riot charges against protesters who took to the St. Paul Interstate last July in a demonstration against the police shooting of Philando Castille. Ericksen’s “economic terrorism” bill announcement came just days after anti-fracking protesters blocked railroad tracks in Olympia, Washington. DAPL protests inspired both the Indiana and North Dakota bills.
These retroactive responses on behalf of Republican state lawmakers are also seen as preemptive strikes against the threat of increased protests during the Trump presidency.
As ACLU staff attorney Lee Rowland expressed in an interview with The Intercept, these so-called ‘obstruction bills’ are but thinly disguised efforts to squash any government dissent.
“A law that would allow the state to charge a protester $10,000 for stepping in the wrong place, or encourage a driver to get away with manslaughter because the victim was protesting, is about one thing: chilling protest,” Rowland said.
Growing tension between government officials and protesters is expected to come to a culmination on Inauguration Day in D.C., where there will already be many barriers in place to limit demonstrations.
First and foremost is the Federal Grounds and Buildings Improvement Act of 2011, known as H.R 347.
H.R.-347 is a revision of a 1971 federal trespassing law that made it a crime to “willfully and knowingly” remain in an area under Secret Security protection. H.R. 347 removes the word “willingly,” a legal technicality that effectively lowers the bar on the mental state required to be found guilty under the law.
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Good pass the law and then arrest soros and send him to putin sohe can kill that nazi rat bastard .
This is how you make America great again by cleaning up all the liberal protestor fascists craziness. Stand on a street corner with your signs, don’t block up the highways. Screw George Soros.
what rioters are doing is already illegal. it is illegal to block roads and highways. it is illegal to vandalize and loot private property (businesses). it is Illegal to assault another person. the problem is this country has become a lawless country. for 8 years law enforcement and border patrol officers have been told to stand down. this is what happens when crimes are allowed to grow and fester.
Exactly!
We need a federal law that applies in all 50 states that follows the money and holds those who hire and fund violent activists responsible for the actions of the people they fund and hire. This should include jail time, fines, and restitution for any property destroyed and/or harm to citizens. These anti American organizations are almost literally getting away with murder. They hire the homeless and mentally ill who have no money to pay fines and restitution when they are arrested and nothing happens to those who fund and organize them. …no one should be allowed to hire people to destroy property, threaten and cause physical harm, and disrupt traffic without being held accountable.
Not only I agree with your idea, but also think passing such a Law should be considered a top priority, by our lawmakers.
Also, one discussed idea—not too long ago—was to cut off any public assistance (such as welfare) to those recipients, who participate in damaging and destroying properties—during a protest.
You mean in all 57 states ;}>
The protestors only have the right to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. If there is no petition stating the grievance, signed by the required number of registered voters, and if the assembly is anything but peaceful, arrest them. They are not above the law and there are already laws covering their actions so just enforce those laws. It’s in the Constitution, to call forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, supress Insurrections, and repel Invasions. Also, the government needs to act on lawful petitions, when the people do have grievances and do petition the government, the government needs to respond at that time to the people’s concerns. The government has a tendency to ignore any grievances that don’t utimately end in bloodshed.
Immediately put law and order to stop obstructionist.
Lets’ go pass it Everywhere Fuck this ignorant bullshit that is being allowed to display itself and make this country look like a bunch of pussies!
yeah im all for the right to protest… yelling and screaming whatever… however you dont have the right to hault commerce by blocking roads without a permit and you dont have the right to loot and pillage. trying to get in our gate at the inauguration was next to impossible for some time because protesters blocked the entrance. your right to protest is all protected unless you violate my rights.
This os a Trick. An easier wat to do this is Pass Regulations on funding NGOs of who financing them and what are there motives.
The people who are passing laws regarding Protestes would Exployte tthat also like they exploit Moveon . Org. Control the Dark Money goinh into those NGOs. Place Regulations on them and make them responsible for damages to life and property.
Oh hell yea, pass legislation in America severely limiting protest! Fantastic idea and, so patriotic! Y’all might be kinda short on brains and foresight but hell, you’re still alright by me…yawn…
No Any American can Protest… However a Fascist or Billionare cant Hire Fske GrassRoots protesters or Hire them for a Political Agenda. I seen situations were protesters are there just for thr Money or Drugs.
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Anarchy will not be tolerated.
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If the laws already on the books are enforced, it should shut the violent protesters down. But liberals are thick in the head, and it takes duplicity to get through to them. And it also helps to protect innocent citizens from their vengeance.
When people in Europe protest against the EU cultist banking elite in Brussels, they are arrested, therefore, it punishment should be reciprocal, meaning put these spoilt, leftie, aggressive snowflakes in prison if they damage property and harm other people.
Maybe one day when a decent man like Pres. Trump figures out how to censor and criminalize all the brainwashing these kids receive from the corrupt mass media, and the fake press out there, media that is pushed down everyone’s throats solely for the major corporations shareholders to benefit from, we can all begin to live together in peace.
Ok…so you are all saying if anyone peacefully protests (compete with all the permits, etc ) that this should also be illegal? I believe that anyone breaking the long standing laws of this country should be prosecuted to the fullest extent, but if you are supporting gag-orders, media blackouts, and basically the suppression of free speech, that’s heading the USA toward a communistic government. More snowflakes will be exercising their second ammendment rights if their first ammendment rights are violated. Thick headed or not.