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Republicans move to criminalize disruptive protests in multiple states

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Sulik2

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The USA will be an authoritarian country within the next 10 years if something dramatic isn't done. We are watching an empire crumble before our eyes.
 
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EdibleKnife

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So we'll be a nation that teaches how we won our independence from Britain through protest and resistance, worship those historical figures as gods and yet outlaw it in the modern day due to its "inconvenience"?

Thank minorities, women and LGBTQ+ peoples because they've sacrificed long and hard (and no doubt will continue too) against an insidious & impossible enemy: the apathy of people who survive on an island of privilege that it allows evil like this to bloom.

Mostly I just hope all the apathetic, "both sides", people don't complain when they wake up one day to realize they let totalitarianism envelop their lives and their family's lives.

Anyway, I'm not done. If I get run over or die in the street due to shit like this, then that's how I'll go. I didn't hesitate to support a fight for someone's rights before, I won't stop now. That'd be an insult to the men & women who fought and died before me, including the founders of this country.
 
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TheOfficeMut

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Have a headache at work. All of my management supported Trump and a few coworkers have as well. They're laughing at the idea of Trump erasing everything Obama has done, particularly this one conservative coworker. Then another liberal coworker chimes in and says, with regard to protesting, that there has to be better ways to get things done. Protesting doesn't do it and that people need to stop.

I feel like I'm losing my mind.
 
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Air

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This is insane, and that there are people willing to say "I'm for protest but..." Are woefully misinformed.
 
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TheOfficeMut said:
Have a headache at work. All of my management supported Trump and a few coworkers have as well. They're laughing at the idea of Trump erasing everything Obama has done, particularly this one conservative coworker. Then another liberal coworker chimes in and says, with regard to protesting, that there has to be better ways to get things done. Protesting doesn't do it and that people need to stop.

I feel like I'm losing my mind.
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You should look for a new job. You should enjoy what you do for a living. It shouldn't be a source of anxiety.
 
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kaching

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Woohoo! Making America Great Again! Well, except that we never needed to have deep curtailments of our 1st amendment rights, giant honking walls all along our border, steep reduction of social welfare programs or any of these other alleged "Great Again" policies to be great before...
 
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nilbog21 said:
Yeah, I'm gona wait for a better source than this.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...y-run-over-protesters/?utm_term=.3c89a4d8fabd

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/01/12/minnesota-bill-freeway-protesting-serious-crime/

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...s-charging-protesters-with-economic-terrorism

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/12/07/mass-picketing/95124708/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...awmaker-targets-postelection-campus-hysteria/

Take your pick.
 
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Sweeney Tom

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Gonna continue to call these people fascists, and I'm gonna continue to tell anyone who has a problem with that to fuck off and read a history book

"It could never happen to us" - a thing nobody has ever once been proven right about
 
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Ketch

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Isn't it already illegal to just stand in the middle of high speed oncoming traffic like the interstate? Like you couldn't just go for a walk on i95, right? Like if your were driving down the highway at highway speeds and someone jumped in front of you, youncant really be held accountable for that right?

If this already exists then whatever new law they're coming up with isn't being designed to protect pedestrians or drivers, which is the only thing that I think could possibly give it any merit.
 
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ZOONAMI

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I hope most of these die and won't make it to a vote.

If not, governors should veto as this shit is an assault on freedom of speech.
 
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Shadynasty

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They shouldn't legislate against protest. They should legislate harsher punishments for acts of violence/rioting/destruction of property during protests.
 
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Siegcram

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NekoFever said:
There's also a bill in Indiana to give police the power to shut down protests "by any means necessary".
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“A responsible public official shall, not later than 15 minutes after learning of a mass traffic obstruction in the official’s jurisdiction, dispatch all available law enforcement officers … with directions to use any means necessary to clear the roads of the persons unlawfully obstructing vehicular traffic,” the bill states.
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Giving cops the green light on protesters. Well, greener I guess. Incredible.

And the law and order morons will cheer.
 
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blocking a freeway should be fucking illegal. it's extremely dangerous, first of all, and protestors have no idea where any of those people are going

criminalizing blocking a freeway is not the same as making protesting illegal. fuck outta here.
 
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We can all agree the not being allowed to block interstates is a good thing right? I don't care what you are protesting, blocking the interstates can not be allowed. The rest are bullshit.
 
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Amory said:
blocking a freeway should be fucking illegal. it's extremely dangerous, first of all, and protestors have no idea where any of those people are going

criminalizing blocking a freeway is not the same as making protesting illegal. fuck outta here.
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Yeah, lets criminalize and give the police power to destroy people who block a freeway. Because that is the appropriate solution to the issue :/

Republicans dont give a shit about safety. They know blowcking freeways works, it grabs national news and it forces people to listem. That's why they want this criminalized. Whatever argument you think you have, what i have said is the only reason republicans are doing this.

And that is why all this "blocking a freeway is bad" none sense is hilarious. Black people are dying in the streets. The police see no punishment for terrorizing black communities. When they cause a commotion lets give the police unrestrained ability to destroy these people. Yes how democratic. People were late for work. Nana ruth died in an ambulence. Enough is enough.
 
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Gotdatmoney said:
Yeah, lets criminalize and give the police power to destroy people who block a freeway. Because that is the appropriate solution to the issue :/

Republicans dont give a shit about safety. They know blowcking freeways works, it grabs national news and it forces people to listem. That's why they want this criminalized. Whatever argument you think you have, what i have said is the only reason republicans are doing this.
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Fine, but that doesn't make attempting to block a freeway a safe practice whether Republicans particularly care about that aspect or not.

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And that is why all this "blocking a freeway is bad" none sense is hilarious. Black people are dying in the streets. The police see no punishment for terrorizing black communities. When they cause a commotion lets give the police unrestrained ability to destroy these people. Yes how democratic. People were late for work. Nana ruth died in an ambulence. Enough is enough.
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Protesters have a right to protest. That shouldn't give them the right to prevent others from going about their lives, regardless of how important the chosen cause is or how badly they want/need the media attention.

And I can't tell if you're being facetious when you mention not caring about the possibility of someone dying in an ambulance because they can't get to the hospital, or whether you're saying that that won't happen, but either way it's pretty messed up.

In any case, when you block thousands of cars, you don't know where any of them are heading. Not everything is as severe as a life or death situation, not everything is as mundane as someone heading for work.
 
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nintendoman58

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Thank God there are tons of civil rights groups to fight and sue against this kind of shit.

I imagine the courts are gonna be reeeeeeally busy.
 
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RDreamer

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Amory said:
Protesters have a right to protest. That shouldn't give them the right to prevent others from going about their lives, regardless of how important the chosen cause is or how badly they want/need the media attention.

And I can't tell if you're being facetious when you mention not caring about the possibility of someone dying in an ambulance because they can't get to the hospital, or whether you're saying that that won't happen, but either way it's pretty messed up.

In any case, when you block thousands of cars, you don't know where any of them are heading. Not everything is as severe as a life or death situation, not everything is as mundane as someone heading for work.
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And when the oppressed can't protest in a way that gives their oppression attention, people die, too. That's pretty messed up as well. Perhaps if we want people out of the streets we should listen to what they're saying rather than ignore the root problem and corral them elsewhere?
 
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BajiBoxer

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Amory said:
blocking a freeway should be fucking illegal. it's extremely dangerous, first of all, and protestors have no idea where any of those people are going

criminalizing blocking a freeway is not the same as making protesting illegal. fuck outta here.
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Blocking a freeway is already fucking illegal. No need to give the green light to beat and murder protestors in the process of enforcing existing law. YOU get the fuck out of here.
 
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