The Federal 'Anti-Lynching' Bill Sacrifices Justice for Symbolism. In the name of fighting lynching, the bipartisan bill authorizes 10-year sentences for minor crimes like vandalism.

Reason ^ | June 25, 2020 | Jacob Sullum

[karpov]

A few days ago, someone spray-painted "BHAZ" (for "Black House Autonomous Zone") on the pillars of St. John's Episcopal Church, the site of President Donald Trump's notorious June 1 photo op during protests against police brutality in Washington, D.C. Under the D.C. Code, that act of vandalism, assuming the damage costs less than $1,000, is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000 and up to six months in jail. But under an "anti-lynching" bill that is part of the police reform packages backed by House Democrats and Senate Republicans, the same act could qualify as a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) uses that example to illustrate the potential unintended consequences of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, a.k.a. the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which covers any conspiracy to violate various federal civil rights laws. If more than one person was involved in the church graffiti—if one bought the spray paint and another wrote the letters, for example—that would amount to a conspiracy. And Paul notes that the church had earlier been targeted by arsonists who spray-painted "Matthew 19:24" and "God is still watching" on the building. That context, he argues, suggests that the church was targeted because of its religious character, which violates 18 USC 247, one of the provisions cited in the anti-lynching bill.

"Had the Emmett Till Antilynching Act been federal law, those who conspired to deface St. John's Church could be prosecuted for lynching and potentially lose their liberty for up to a decade," Paul wrote in a letter to his Senate colleagues yesterday. "Those who argue that the government will not prosecute such acts as a lynching are willfully blind to the flaws within our criminal justice system"

[caww]

[piasa]

I don’t think he was The Grand Wizard... thought he was one of many recruiters or Kliegles or whatever...

[Roccus]

DEMOCRATS?!?!?!

Wholebunchalotta scumbag Republicans in on this too.

Notice the vote on this amendment to Harris’ bill. It brought muslims into the fold of the “protected”

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll108.xml

LEARN.......The GOP is NOT our friend.

[Morpheus2009]

There was the Texas dragging death where a man was dragged behind a truck and ripped apart. However, the perps were sentenced to death by an all-white jury. They got the worst sentence possible, unless there’s a double death penalty sentence I don’t know about.

[Boogieman]

“unless there’s a double death penalty sentence I don’t know about”

Not yet, but if the left has their way, they’ll probably exhume the opposition and desecrate their corpses. Heck, they are already trying to deface monuments like some Egyptian pharoah who is mad that his older brother got more glory.