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Virginia Democrats Push Legislation to Make Criticism of Government Officials a Criminal Offense
Big League Politics ^ | 22 JAN 2020 | Shane Trejo

Posted on 01/22/2020 8:30:47 AM PST by ManHunter

In the wake of the Virginia gun rights rally on Monday, Democrats in the Capitol are not slowing down their push for tyranny. They are moving a bill through the legislature that would effectively criminalize dissent against Governor Blackface Northam and other state government officials.

House Bill 1627 was introduced by Delegate Jeffrey M. Bourne last week. The legislation “provides that certain crimes relating to threats and harassment may be prosecuted in the City of Richmond if the victim is the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.”

Language in the bill explicitly criminalizes free speech, in what would constitute a blatant attack on the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: northam; rights; virginia
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Governor Nawtham is showing himself to be a true-blue, dyed-in-the-wool Stalinist...
1 posted on 01/22/2020 8:30:47 AM PST by ManHunter
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The ONLY good Commie is a dead Commie.


2 posted on 01/22/2020 8:31:48 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: ManHunter

Is it too late for him to be aborted?


3 posted on 01/22/2020 8:33:13 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: ManHunter

Gov. Blackface Babykiller Gungrabber can kiss my @$$.


4 posted on 01/22/2020 8:33:30 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Howie66
Agreed, and repeated.


5 posted on 01/22/2020 8:33:39 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: ManHunter
2A is needed to protect 1A. Case in point right here.

6 posted on 01/22/2020 8:34:11 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ManHunter
Northam is a big ol' poopy head!
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
Who's there?
Virginia State Police! You're coming with us!
7 posted on 01/22/2020 8:34:33 AM PST by real saxophonist (Everything I Play Gone Be Funky, From Now On)
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To: ManHunter
Why would he do this?


8 posted on 01/22/2020 8:34:36 AM PST by econjack
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To: ManHunter

It’s truly incredible how bad leftist project. Any time an (R) wants to do anything to get government out of people’s lives and return stolen power to the people (think gutting Ebolacare), they scream “tyranny” non-stop. As soon as THEY’RE in power somewhere, they do the stuff that actually IS tyranny. [facepalm]


9 posted on 01/22/2020 8:36:04 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Gov. Blackface Babykiller Gungrabber can kiss my @$$.

It'll leave a blackface makeup smear.

10 posted on 01/22/2020 8:36:08 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen vo'll leaveting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: ManHunter

Virginia is on pace to shatter the record for state with the most laws found unconstitutional by SCOTUS.


11 posted on 01/22/2020 8:36:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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WTF?!

Tar and feather these bums and haul them out of office immediately.

This is exactly what the EU did - where criticizing the government is tantamount to hate speech.


12 posted on 01/22/2020 8:36:33 AM PST by Skywise
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=push+democrats&ok=Search&q=quick&m=all&o=time&SX=5e2856a49d054e24529537f0f6346041743c87ab


13 posted on 01/22/2020 8:37:17 AM PST by upchuck (For muslims to freely practice Islam, others must die. ~ h/t Lurkinanloomin)
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To: ManHunter

I just shake my head. The people of Virginia want this. The indoctrination factories that our public schools have become are working as planned.


14 posted on 01/22/2020 8:38:05 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Magnum44

Che corpse picture caption:

I was born too soon. I coulda had my own guaranteed panel spot on Morning Joe by 2020.


15 posted on 01/22/2020 8:38:32 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen vo'll leaveting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: ManHunter

Governor “Coon Man” Northam wants to disarm honest black citizens.


16 posted on 01/22/2020 8:39:33 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: Magnum44

Caption for Che:

One damn bad burrito and this happens.


17 posted on 01/22/2020 8:39:43 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen vo'll leaveting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: ManHunter

They’ll double their pay and benefits next.


18 posted on 01/22/2020 8:39:56 AM PST by sasquatch
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Except for the part quoted below the law deals mainly with death threats.

“ If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act, he is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. A violation of this section may be prosecuted in the jurisdiction in which the communication was made or received or in the City of Richmond if the person subjected to the act is one of the following officials or employees of the Commonwealth: the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General, or Attorney General-elect, a member or employee of the General Assembly, a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, or a judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.”


19 posted on 01/22/2020 8:40:20 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: ManHunter

Citizens Initiative

If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, infringe or restrict Any Enumerated right named in the United States Constitution, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate or make any suggestion or proposal of an infringement or restriction in any way, Shall be Guilty of Sedition and Shall be Denied Bail in all cases, and upon Conviction , Shall be sentenced to Death.

OUR RIGHTS COME FROM GOD, NOT GOVERNMENT TYRANTS.


20 posted on 01/22/2020 8:41:11 AM PST by eyeamok
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