Dem planning bill that would outlaw threats to lawmakers

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  • dig72
    Gold Gabber
    • Nov 2004
    • 882
    #1

    Dem planning bill that would outlaw threats to lawmakers

    The Rep. Robert Brady wants to make the use of language and symbols 'percieved' as threatening or inciting violence, against a federal official or member of congress a federal crime,

    410 Gone
    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/09/shooting-prompts-legislation-to-protect-lawmakers-officials/


    Will a picture of a lamp post being held up by a protester have him/her thrown in prison?

    "We must march to the white house and remove the traitors from within." Is this the type of language that will land you in the slammer?

    Who decides?

    It appears that the signature of the treasonous Rep. Robert Brady was also included, in a congressional letter sent to President Obama, urging clemency for Jonathan Pollard.

    "These traitors should be hung." In before it becomes a crime.
    Last edited by dig72; January 12, 2011, 01:12:36 AM.
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
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    • toasty
      Sir Toastiness
      • Jun 2004
      • 6585
      #2
      Re: Dem planning bill that would outlaw threats to lawmakers

      Isn't it already illegal to threaten a federal official with violence? First Amendment notwithstanding, the use of speech to incite violence is not protected speech.

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        • dig72
          Gold Gabber
          • Nov 2004
          • 882
          #3
          Re: Dem planning bill that would outlaw threats to lawmakers

          Yes it is.

          This new law is the 'perceived' threat of language and symbols, that may incite violence against federal officials or members of congress.

          Political prisoners galore.
          “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
          ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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            • Highsteppa
              Gold Gabber
              • Feb 2005
              • 735
              #4
              Re: Dem planning bill that would outlaw threats to lawmakers

              Knee jerk legislation in reaction to the rather inflamed political rhetoric that's been considered somewhat acceptable over the last few years. It's well intentioned, but legislation like this becomes nearly impossible to enforce when the idea is so open ended and vague.

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                • 88Mariner
                  My dick is smaller
                  • Nov 2006
                  • 7128
                  #5
                  Re: Dem planning bill that would outlaw threats to lawmakers

                  Toasty is right. I've read the law anyways. It was up on volokh or some other blawg. forget which.

                  Anyways, consider that if Loughner's threats against Gifford were counted as felonies, he would have been denied the purchase of a gun.

                  I'm not suggesting he wouldn't have otherwise found a way to get his hands on one, but it would have been more difficult.
                  you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky

                  it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles

                  Am I somewhere....in the corners of your mind....

                  ----PEACE-----

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