Posted on 07/22/2020 1:19:40 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers
My bill would hold officials accountable for failing to protect their constituents.
The area radicals took over in Portland last week is the second autonomous zone lawless criminals have set up in the city during the eight weeks of riots since the death of George Floyd. Fringe progressives have also set up autonomous protest zones in six other cities in the past few weeksin Asheville, N.C.; New York; Philadelphia; Richmond, Va.; Seattle and Washington.
These radicals hate the police, reject the rule of law, and are intent on terrorizing their communities. In Seattle, police were forced to abandon the precinct building in CHAZ and city officials told the police they could respond to calls for help only in the event of mass casualties. Families and business owners were left to fend for themselves.
This is not the American way. Local leaders who allow rioters to destroy lives and businesses need to be held accountable. Thats why Im introducing the Restitution for Economic losses Caused by Leaders who Allow Insurrection and Mayhem ActReclaim for short. The bill would hold state and local officials liable when they abdicate their legal duty to protect the public in cases where death, serious bodily harm or significant property damage have occurred.
Specifically, my bill would allow for treble damages, meaning a plaintiff could be awarded triple the amount of the damage done to his property. It would also establish a federal cause of action, which would empower victims of violence in autonomous zones to take legal action against senior local or state lawmakers who have tolerated or encouraged radicals to take over the area. Finally, when politicians refuse to defend innocent Americans, this bill would remove or limit federal funding under grant programs that supply important law-enforcement and crime-prevention programs for local governments.
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They’re not just allowing it, they are part of it.
If it doesn’t involve A-10 Warthogs, it’s not gonna work.
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Sorry; but it is unneeded.
There are such things called ELECTIONS, and if the citizens of a certain area wants to change the status quo; they can do it.
Leave the Portlanders ALONE!
Like in Howard Hawk?
They should aim slighly higher reduce the likelihood of breeding.
You got that right. I don't see how they are going to find enough Portland area residents to even indict a domestic terrorist. Same reason there is no justice for either the evil or the innocent in the DC area.
I don’t know why people are anti-Cruz. He’s not a RINO at all. It seems they think he wasn’t nice enough to Trump in 2016.
You men the Cruz that wanted to up the annual H-1B visa quota to 300,000. That Cruz?
Portland doesn’t need to be taken back. It, along with all the other West Coast Dem Run Sh*tholes, need to be encouraged to form their own country and secede from the US. They’re all so smart and perfect, let them prove it to the world. Pull every cop out of all of them and let them eat each other.
But doesn’t anyone find it interesting where all the chaos and violence takes place? It never seems to creep into the White, Rich, Hipster, Liberal neighborhoods that dot every city in the USA. Interesting to me.
Of course, there was a hint of that in Seattle, where the Mayor lives and she quickly had the cops come in and get rid of everyone. Imagine that.
I agree with SteelPSUGOP - we already have the laws that allow us to crush the anarchists - new blah-blah-blah laws are useless if you don’t have the stones to enforce the current ones - reminds me of our “reps” wanting to pass a Bill saying they would enforce the laws...pure insanity to take that approach.
I’ve about forgiven Cruz for his anti-Trumperism during the campaign season back then but this is just more posturing.
More laws? No thanks Ted. Use the million or so that already exist.
No, the leaders are responsible for not enforcing the laws by placating to the BLM and Antifa rioters. Elections have consequences.
The people RESPONSIBLE are the rioters and nefarious people that fund them, Partner.
Hmmm. Thats a very good question.
Who’s talking about nation building? Give them what they want. Their Utopian, Socialist paradise. Let them fend for themselves when they have nothing. No food, water, fuel, cops, nothing. Let them form a government and negotiate deals with whoever will help them.
Lots of folks say the Chinese would swoop in and get a foothold in the US. They already have one. They’ve been stealing our research and tech for decades. They’re buying up farmland all over the west and midwest. They’ve been and continue to buy up American businesses. Only person saying anything is the President. And look what they’ve been doing to him since Day 1.
While CHAZ/CHOP should have been squashed in the first 10 minutes, they could have ended it in a day, at the most. The moment they declared it a free and independent state, cut everything off. Hell, if they had shut down cell service to the area, it would have been over without doing anything but that. Let them negotiate a trade deal with the US government for any services. Set up a legitimate border checkpoint and declare anyone living there foreign nationals. Those college kids would have been gone in no time.
10 dogs and a fire hose for the rest of these candy asses!
“Although Cruz does seem to exist in some sort of sleep state that is often displayed by the symptom best described as “clueless”...”
Check out his biography and if that is clueless, I don’t know what your own state of mind is.
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