Posted on 02/17/2023 2:19:15 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge. Over 100 straight days of racial justice protests that turned downtown Portland into a battleground. A violent breach of the state Capitol. Clashes between gun-toting right-wingers and leftist militants.
The state Legislature is considering a bill that, experts say, would create the nation’s most comprehensive law against paramilitary activity.
It would provide citizens and the state attorney general with civil remedies in court if armed members of a private paramilitary group interfere with, or intimidate, another person who is engaging in an activity they have a legal right to do, such as voting. A court could block paramilitary members from pursuing an activity if the state attorney general believed it would be illegal conduct.
Opponents say the law would infringe on rights to freely associate and to bear arms.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Dacia Grayber, a Democrat from suburban Portland, said the proposed reforms “would make it harder for private paramilitaries to operate with impunity throughout Oregon, regardless of their ideology.”
But dozens of conservative Oregonians, in written testimony, have expressed suspicion that the Democrat-controlled Legislature aims to pass a bill restricting the right to assemble and that the legislation would target right-wing armed groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, but not black-clad anarchists who have vandalized downtown Portland and battled police.
“This bill would clearly put restrictions on who could gather in a group and for what reasons they chose to,” wrote Matthew Holman, a resident of Coos Bay, a town on Oregon’s southwest coast.
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*sigh*
𝘈𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘨𝘦.
What happened at the Malheur Refuge in January of 2016 was very different than what happened/happens in places like Portland with antifa. The refuge building occupied was maybe the size of the average rest stop most people drive by on the freeway, and the only casualty of that whole deal was Levoy Finicum was was shot at an FBI roadblock after allegedly drawing a gun on agents.
” interfere with, or intimidate, another person who is engaging in an activity they have a legal right to do”
Yes, like the right to bear arms and freedom of association.
This could be used to go after folks who throw tantrums when they see someone carrying.
ANOTHER reason why 7++ counties of Oregon wish to join Idaho.
There going to have a hell of a fight on their hands trying to wipe out their fascist Nazi Aunt Teefers.
When leftists riot, loot and commit arson it is a “mostly peaceful protest.”
When conservatives peacefully protest, it is an “insurrection.”
Welcome to clown world.
regardless of their ideology.” bullsh## this is for the white supremacists
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