Posted on 09/28/2018 7:02:35 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Congress's three African-American senators introduced a bipartisan bill Friday to make lynching a federal crime.
Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Tim Scott, R-S.C., drafted the bipartisan legislation, which defines the crime as "the willful act of murder by a collection of people assembled with the intention of committing an act of violence upon any person." It also classifies lynching as a hate crime that would warrant enhanced sentences.
"It's a travesty that despite repeated attempts to do so, Congress still hasn't put anti-lynching legislation on the books," Booker said in a statement. "This bill will right historical wrongs by acknowledging our country's stained past and codifying into law our commitment to abolishing this shameful practice."
The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 notes that during the first half of the 20th century nearly 200 attempts to pass anti-lynching legislation failed to gain support from the Senate despite urging from seven sitting presidents.
It also cites statistics supported by research compiled by Tuskegee University, that more than 4,700 people were lynched between the years 1882 and 1968. About three-quarters of the victims were African-American. And according to the bill, "99 percent of all perpetrators of lynching escaped from punishment by state or local officials."
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https://www.harris.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ALB18773.pdf
Clarence Thomas will be glad to hear this.
This is apparently a desperate attempt at self-preservation. They know what they’re trajectory that we are on, there are bound to be lynchings of democrat politicians at some point. And, given yesterday, perhaps there should be.
Forgive me, but it seems like they might as well pass bipartisan legislation banning jaywalking in terms of being so obvious.
These f’ng idiots NEVER stop.
Bull****.
Too many taxes
Too many laws
Would it apply to kavanaugh?
“the willful act of murder by a collection of people assembled with the intention of committing an act of violence upon any person.”
So basically murder?
.....um, ok. Well glad to get that squared away, I guess.
This is just pre-election grandstanding. Murdering someone is already illegal. Now we’re down to methods. What about beheading, bludgeoning, poisoning? They’re all pretty awful ways to go.
This is an overreach by the Federal Government. A clear violation of the 10th Amendment.
And how many people have been lynched SINCE 1968? Since 1978? 1988? 1998? 2008? 2018?
I’ll bet, outside of the poor Bird fellow who was drugged by a chain around his neck by a couple of vile murderers in Texas, there hasn’t been any.
Will they say Trayvvon or Big Mike Brown were lynched?
Why didn’t Hillary introduce this bill when she was a Senator?
So wait... lynching people is LEGAL?
Bravo.
Murder is murder and has always been illegal. Method is not relevant.
Hate is a motive, not a crime in and of itself. Laws criminalizing thought is a slippery slope. Will someone ever be able to cobble together several indications of someone’s mind and convicted them of hate thought without an overt act? Designation of “hate crime” is simply a way to take away our free speech. I like Senator Scott, but the hate crime aspect of this is unacceptable and a threat to our God-given rights.
Will they ban the political party that invented and supported lynching?
I thought Reginald Denny’s treatment in the LA riots was an attempted lynching (he was the white truck driver who was nearly killed for being white).
Marginalized irrelevant people fill their days with inconsequential nonsense while productive people keep the trains running on time - and work to feed, clothe, and house the marginalized irrelevant people.
Now, who can be against lynching?
Lynching does not have to result in murder. Clarence Thomas was victim of a high tech lynching.
Shouldn’t this bill be expanded to include people concealing their identities in order to perpetrate mob action against lawful citizens. Doesn’t Antifa engage in lynching?
Attention seeking through the legislative process. Unless a state line is crossed in the process, what is the federal jurisdiction? There’s already civil rights legislation.
The statistics on lynching are really interesting. About 25% of the victims of lynching were white. Compare that to violent crime statistics. It doesn’t make it right, it’s doesn’t mean the lynched people guilty, but it does take it out of the realm of “bad whitey takes pleasure in murdering black children and nothing else.”
What took you so long?
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