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Justice for Victim of Lynching Act. Senator Harris, Booker, Scott.
Kamala Harris Website ^
| Feb. 14, 2018
| Kamala D. Harris, Senator for California Wegsite
Posted on 03/30/2019 2:30:03 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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Justice for Victim of Lynching Act, DEC 2018 & FEB. 14, 2019, Senators Harris, Booker, Scott lead unanimous passage of federal anti-lynching legislation. Just because B follows A, doesn't prove that B was caused by A, but the topic and its timing and the appearance of an alleged high profile instance from stage left does give one pause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussie_Smollett
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Shouldn’t what kind of rope they were lynched with?
Maybe have five or ten anti-lynching laws depending on what kind of rope they used.
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:32:01 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
So desperate for someone to care about them in 2020 that it’s sad.
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:32:44 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
R A C E
B A I T I N G
it's essentially all they've got
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
This woman’s mother couldn’t spell “Camilla” for the birth certificate? What is it with these “phonetic” spellings, anyway.
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:36:40 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
What an absolutely imbecilic waste of time and effort.
How many bonafide “lynching’s” are there in this country in a year??? Are there not laws that already address the act of murder in the 1st degree and then tack on the aggravated stipulation of an automatic hate crime.
Nothing more than virtue posturing to gain press coverage.
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
"According to data from the Equal Justice Initiative, lynching was used as an instrument of terror and intimidation 4,084 times during the late 19th and 20th and 21st centuries.A slight edit that would make this poorly contrived legislation possibly relevant.
To: DoughtyOne
this nation will not stand for the hate and violence spread by those with evil in their hearts
Who are we talking about again--am I missing something here?
(Democratic projection at its finest--these jerks need to take a _very_ hard look in the mirror.)
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:39:00 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
How about the innocent victims of those lynched?
Absolutely no effort has been made to remember them.
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:42:07 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: traderrob6
Last official lynching in the United States was over half a century ago
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:42:21 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Lynching is not a relic of a painful pastit is a present and pernicious evil that we still have yet to confront, said Booker.”
Isn’t there anyone in public life with the stones to call this lying chunk of dog crap a lying chunk of dog crap?
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:43:28 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Today (2/14/19) U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) asked for unanimous consent on the Senate floor to pass the bipartisan Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, legislation that would criminalize lynching for the first time in American history. Murder isn't already a crime?
To: traderrob6
Answered my own question.....The last verifiable lynching in the US was perpetrated in 1981. The man responsible was put to death (electrocuted) in 1997. And he wasn’t technically “lynched” as he was beaten and killed THEN hung from a tree.
So it’s been 38 years since the last “lynching” in this country yet we need a specific law enacted 38 years later to criminalize something that has rarely happened in the last hundred years and only once in the last 50.
BRILLIANT!
To: dsc
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:49:45 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
Some two-bit Chicago actor we recently learned about wanted this legislation to be named Jussies Law.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I guess that would be military style assault rope.
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:52:39 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: DoodleDawg
Lynching was LEGAL? Who knew?
To: Seeing More Clearly Now; DoughtyOne; traderrob6; cgbg; rdcbn
This "Justice for Victims of Lynching" act is so much worse than it looks from its title (Dems are very good at misleading titles). It does not use the commonly understood definition of lynching, which every normal person is against. In this law lynching means to "willfully cause bodily injury" to someone in a protected class. Could this include pushing someone who gets a red mark on his arm?
What Kamala Harris did was to amend the language of the bill to extend the protected classes already listed to include GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, the first time that transgenders are listed in federal law as a protected class. Below is the actual wording from the law.
(1) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.
If 2 or more persons willfully cause bodily injury to any other person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person
(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY.
(A) IN GENERAL.If 2 or more persons, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully cause bodily injury to any other person because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person
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posted on
03/30/2019 2:57:41 PM PDT
by
Freee-dame
(Best election ever! 2016)
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
To: Seeing More Clearly Now
They’re saying it’s ok these days to hang someone but they want to, in the future, make it illegal?
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posted on
03/30/2019 3:00:38 PM PDT
by
bgill
(when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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