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Virginia Democrats Push Legislation to Make Criticism of Government Officials a Criminal Offense
BLP ^ | Jan 22, 2020 | Shane Trejo

Posted on 01/22/2020 12:30:21 AM PST by Farcesensitive

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigleaguepolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 1sta; 2ndamendment; banglist; censorship; evil; fascism; freedomofspeech; housebill1627; jeffreymbourne; justinfairfax; metoo; nra; politicians; ralphnortham; secondamendment; tyranny; virginia
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To: Chickensoup

communism and fascism are ideologies but they are both oligarchies.(Rule by a few people.)


21 posted on 01/22/2020 2:11:44 AM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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To: Farcesensitive

This is where our gratitude towards President Trump should grow even deeper.

By flipping the courts back to Constitutionalism, he is creating backstops against the total devastation these people would visit upon us.


22 posted on 01/22/2020 2:11:45 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Farcesensitive

So THIS is how they leverage the soon-to-be passed “red flag” law. Criticize His Royal Eminence, the Lord Governor, and find your firearms confiscated.


23 posted on 01/22/2020 2:14:17 AM PST by ScottinVA (Out of Virginia in 2021.)
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To: Farcesensitive

The royalty bill.

Thou shall not insult Democrats, or thus be imprisoned.


24 posted on 01/22/2020 2:17:10 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: Farcesensitive

Communists will commie.


25 posted on 01/22/2020 2:29:51 AM PST by rockwell torrey
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To: Chickensoup

communists are fascists.

I know we have been taught that they are opposites on a continuum

But they are joined at their extremes, it is a circle, instead.


You learned wrong. There is no continuum. The goal of socialism is communism - V.I. Lenin. Communists hate fascists, or have you not been paying attention to Dem talking points which usually call someone a Fascist?

Do they both murder people? Yes, but the Communists murder so many more that the Fascist murder-number becomes a rounding error.


26 posted on 01/22/2020 2:48:12 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DoughtyOne

Fascism is a tricky term ... The term has pretty well come to stand for totalitarian oppression in today’s perceptions.


And the reason is you have been educated by communists who want you to look the other way while they infest the body politic. If you keep looking for Fascists under every rug, you will never notice the Communists telling you which rug to look under ...


27 posted on 01/22/2020 2:51:52 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Farcesensitive

Little Nazi’s just can’t take the heat.Its time to hit them harder with criticism that is.


28 posted on 01/22/2020 2:52:24 AM PST by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

There is an old movie you may not have watched for a long time. I recommend watching it again because this time it’s like an entirely different movie. You get to root for the helicopters now. It stars the guy from Odd Couple who goes to CHile to find his son.


29 posted on 01/22/2020 2:55:26 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: PIF

I disagree.

Communism is now a form of fascism. Both work with the means of production, both are philosophically about ruling through force and intimidation, both are oligarchs,

the essentially are the same, in the end. And calling a communist a fascist, is not only true, but it riles them.


30 posted on 01/22/2020 2:58:25 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: wastoute

What’s the name of the movie???


31 posted on 01/22/2020 3:03:15 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

I am blocking it right now. Walter Matthau was the “other guy” in the Odd Couple. I can’t remember the name of the guy either.

OK, I searched. Jack Lemmon was the star.

“Missing” is the name of the movie.


32 posted on 01/22/2020 3:06:27 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Farcesensitive; SaveFerris; metmom; Roman_War_Criminal; The Ignorant Fisherman; Lera; firebrand
It seems we are sprinting towards tyranny each and every day. Trump (thank God) is still President, and yet the march towards the end of the Constitution quickens it's pace. "Gun control" and "Red Flag" laws in many states, persecution of Christians nationwide, and the full assault on the Bill of Rights.

Trump has (at most) 5 more years as President. Even he seems only to have been able to slow the pace of tyranny, and the guilty walk the streets free even today.

Imagine what will happen when the Democrats control the White House and have the full power of the Deep State bent on revenge?

The Bible tells us that the entire world will be under the thumb of the Antichrist. I used to wonder how that could be possible, because of the United States.

I don't wonder that anymore.


33 posted on 01/22/2020 3:08:19 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: All; Farcesensitive

I looked at the title of the article and said to myself another “Babylon Bee” article, but no, VA lefties are just that deranged!


34 posted on 01/22/2020 3:08:25 AM PST by Drago
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Indeed


35 posted on 01/22/2020 3:13:55 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Farcesensitive


36 posted on 01/22/2020 3:15:13 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: PIF

150 million? Ha, they’re chasing the record.

VOTE DEMOCRAT. KILL BABIES.


37 posted on 01/22/2020 3:19:31 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Farcesensitive

I’m trying to understand the phrase “prosecuted in the city of Richmond”. Does it mean that if I’m in Richmond proper I could get imprisoned for saying not so nice things on computer networks about our state officials or am I trouble if I say these things anywhere else in the state(and or then being transported to said Richmond for said trial if I say these things in Chesterfield)?


38 posted on 01/22/2020 3:29:37 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“...home of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison...”
Yeah, also the home of Woodrow Wilson.


39 posted on 01/22/2020 3:33:03 AM PST by KingLudd
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To: Chickensoup; PIF

I agree, chickensoup.


40 posted on 01/22/2020 3:41:20 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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