Posted on 02/24/2017 11:17:18 AM PST by MaxistheBest
Claiming people are being paid to riot, Republican state senators voted Wednesday to give police new power to arrest anyone who is involved in a peaceful demonstration that may turn bad — even before anything actually happened.
SB1142 expands the state’s racketeering laws, now aimed at organized crime, to also include rioting. And it redefines what constitutes rioting to include actions that result in damage to the property of others.
But the real heart of the legislation is what Democrats say is the guilt by association — and giving the government the right to criminally prosecute and seize the assets of everyone who planned a protest and everyone who participated. And what’s worse, said Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, is that the person who may have broken a window, triggering the claim there was a riot, might actually not be a member of the group but someone from the other side. ---------------------------------------
But Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said that chilling effect is aimed at a very specific group of protesters. “You now have a situation where you have full-time, almost professional agent-provocateurs that attempt to create public disorder,’’ he said. “A lot of them are ideologues, some of them are anarchists,’’ Kavanagh continued. “But this stuff is all planned.’’ -------------------------------------
There’s something else: By including rioting in racketeering laws, it actually permits police to arrest those who are planning events. And Kavanagh, a former police officer, said if there are organized groups, “I should certainly hope that our law enforcement people have some undercover people there.’’
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The Ninth Circus will declare this unconstitutional.
Waiting with baited breath for a “black robe” to spoil the party.
How long until Dims show up at Conservative get togethers to turn them violent?
Thye want to seize the assesses of anarchists?
They are anarchists, they most likely have no assists to seize.
“Waiting with baited breath for a “black robe” to spoil the party.”
What are you using for bait?
Live bait or one of those shiny lures?
asset forfeiture.............I do not like this.
Rapala’s
Not a good thing if that happens.
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So far, the violent Dem rioters have only targeted their own communities and schools and venues, watch out if they expand their activities into other areas and other venues where people don’t have the same ideas as they do.
He must have had a BOTOX injection to the brain.....
Me too.
They already have; each of the Republican town hall meetings held in the last few days have bordered on violence to include one for Congressman Cramer in North Dakota Nice Fargo yesterday.
That was a major question asked of this legislation in our local central AZ newspaper yesterday... with no answer given.
I presume they plan on actually arresting the vandals (unlike Berkeley, etc) and drilling down on their connections first. I hope so, because I fully expect that exact thing to happen.
I came here to say the same thing.
No problem when we get a new member there that is impartial they will agree with the law. Americans are entitled to be safe in their homes and effects.
No problem when we get a new member there that is impartial they will agree with the law. Americans are entitled to be safe in their homes and effects.
Minority Report
Pyromaniacs setting fires should be shot, not arrested......
Yep, this law is ripe for misuse. It is probably also unconstitutional.
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