Lysistrata
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A six-year-sentence, a felony conviction and loss of the right to vote for camping??? This is just plain nuts. The people who passed this bill are totally off their rockers.
Furthermore, this bill seems to be aimed at preventing the people of Tennessee from exercise their First Amendment right to seek redress of grievances. A ban on protests has to be unconstitutional. This is not to say that an individual person who actually is seen committing a crime should not be arrested. A late friend of mine was arrested during a protest over the Vietnam war. She was a marshal and medic who had not committed any crime, but she got hauled off to RFK Stadium. As a result of a subsequently-filed class action, of which she had no knowledge, the DC government had to cut her a nice check.
Sounds to me like you missed the story of Mayor Lori Lighthead of Chicago and how she ordered the police to keep peaceful protesters off of her street. Even her neighbors were pissed off about having to enter and exit that street with police barricades. Go ahead and burn downtown, but don't you dare go near my house!!!
Riots start out as "peaceful" protests. How long has this been going on now and WTF do they want? You're always going to get bad police officers like you'll always have bad CEO's, bad Catholic priests, bad store owners, bad real estate agents. And I'd be willing to bet if you asked those jobless losers who George Floyd is, half of them would say they never heard of the guy.
So what we really have here are people looking for any excuse to act out in public and perhaps get away with destroying stores, public buildings, police cars, and massive theft. I don't have to worry about being charged with a felony or spending six years in prison, because for one, I'm not from that state, and two, I redress and resolve my grievances at the voting booth like other civilized people.
A six-year-sentence, a felony conviction and loss of the right to vote for camping??? This is just plain nuts. The people who passed this bill are totally off their rockers.
Furthermore, this bill seems to be aimed at preventing the people of Tennessee from exercise their First Amendment right to seek redress of grievances. A ban on protests has to be unconstitutional. This is not to say that an individual person who actually is seen committing a crime should not be arrested. A late friend of mine was arrested during a protest over the Vietnam war. She was a marshal and medic who had not committed any crime, but she got hauled off to RFK Stadium. As a result of a subsequently-filed class action, of which she had no knowledge, the DC government had to cut her a nice check.
Sounds to me like you missed the story of Mayor Lori Lighthead of Chicago and how she ordered the police to keep peaceful protesters off of her street. Even her neighbors were pissed off about having to enter and exit that street with police barricades. Go ahead and burn downtown, but don't you dare go near my house!!!
Riots start out as "peaceful" protests. How long has this been going on now and WTF do they want? You're always going to get bad police officers like you'll always have bad CEO's, bad Catholic priests, bad store owners, bad real estate agents. And I'd be willing to bet if you asked those jobless losers who George Floyd is, half of them would say they never heard of the guy.
So what we really have here are people looking for any excuse to act out in public and perhaps get away with destroying stores, public buildings, police cars, and massive theft. I don't have to worry about being charged with a felony or spending six years in prison, because for one, I'm not from that state, and two, I redress and resolve my grievances at the voting booth like other civilized people.
Please distinguish between protesters and rioters. You are talking about a very small group among the thousands who have marched in protests in proper exercise of their First Amendment rights. Stop exaggerating. What you want is a fascist police state with wholesale roundups of protesters regardless of whether each individual committed a crime. Can't we agree that everything has to be done according to the U.S. Constitution?
You don't know and you can't know who has a job, who is looking for a job, and who is intentionally jobless, all of which has to be considered with regard to present circumstances caused by the pandemic.
Of course we will always have bad cops. But what has been missing has been a serious effort by public officials to route them out and get rid of them. Some public officials themselves seem to support bad cops. Protests occur to prod government officials into action. The House and Senate MUST hold hearings and get to the bottom of what is happening in policing. To what extent do we have the unqualified wearing badges and exercising authority over Americans?
The case that got to me, especially, was the case of Ahmaud Aubrey. Did any local cop do any investigation? How about the police chief? The local prosecutor? No one seemed to do anything about the Aubrey shooting, except to buy into the McMichaels' story wholesale, until the video showing that Aubrey ran into an ambush surfaced, and the GBI was forced to investigate. If I were a local, particularly a minority person, I would not have any faith in law enforcement in these circumstances.