The author.
Yeah, losing one’s right to vote for committing a felony- as has been the case since our Founding, and before... Shocking!
“Protester”
I don’t think that word means what the author thinks it means.
My heart is just breaking./s
Misleading headline.
Just over 420,000 Tennessee residents have been disenfranchised victimized because of a past felony conviction felons
oh, and the author should feel the full force of victimhood.
The only issue I have with the law is that penalties for assaulting first responders should not be greater than if done against the average Joe. Mayor Lightfoot is using her special status as the reason her neighborhood deserves protection while all the others do not. They work for us. My life and health are just as important as the cop who lives next door.
> As a result, more than 20 percent of Black Tennesseans are unable to vote.
If this story were about some other community, more than 20% of community members being convicted felons might indicate some sort of cultural problem within that community.
Destroying MY property or ANY property tht doesn’t belong to YOU isn’t ‘Free Speech”.
It is outright vandalism & destruction.
IF I destroyed YOUR items, you would be incensed.
One of the worst outcomes of the civil rights movement was the acceptance of an undifferentiated “right to protest”.
There is no such right.
This is confected out of two actual rights - the right to speak freely, and the right to peaceably assemble IN ORDER TO petition the government for redress of grievances.
It is perfectly obvious that showing up with helmets, face shields or gas masks, body armor, and bats does not contemplate peaceable assembly.
And there is no sense in which breaking windows and setting fires constitute petition in any rational sense.
This is open insurrection, and it will get worse until it is stopped. The fact that the insurrectionists have governmental and military support is turning insurrection into revolution - and that means, all bets are off.