Other State Virginia Democrats push bill to criminalize criticism of state government

[User 1234]

Virginia Democrats Push Legislation to Make Criticism of Government Officials a Criminal Offense - Big League Politics

This is naked tyranny.

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[E4mafia]

Wow dude...

 

[User 1234]

Socialism: Ideas so good they have to be enforced at gunpoint.

 

[Xrperry]

Lmao Virginia dem politicians are a bunch of crap for brains come and get me a- holes.

 

[Unka-Boo]

So much for the 1st amendment

 

[SUPER X]

Unbelievable, This sounds more like it would come out of California.

 

[P7M13]

Let them go full retard. Makes a good example for the rest of the nation as to why they cannot be trusted. If only the sheep will pay attention.

 

[nwslopoke]

Can't believe it took so long. Waiting to hear the unwitting communist try to defend the idea. Well, no one should speak ill of government unless it's Trump.

 

[notazombie]

Wait a minute. One could almost infer from this lesson that the 2nd protects the 1st.

 

[AMT]

Yup, me thinks the 2nd Revolution just might start in Virginia.....

 

[Superglide]

There is no better example of how 2A protects the first ammendment.

 

[Xaevian]

The problem, of course, is in the wording. This is intentional, no doubt. As far as I know, most states have laws against threatening government officials acting in their official duties. For reference, WA current law is here: RCW 9A.76.180: Intimidating a public servant.

 

[Cavedweller]

This headline and the article are misleading. This is not new legislation. It merely amends existing legislation related to bomb threats or threats of death or bodily harm against anyone (not just government officials). The amendments allow prosecution of such threats in the City of Richmond, as opposed to the jurisdiction where the threat was made, if the target of the threat is certain elected officials.

It does not creat new crimes. It does not outlaw criticism of government. No need to get all spun up.

Bill Tracking - 2020 session > Legislation

lis.virginia.gov

 

[User 1234]

So the unconstitutional language was already present, and now the Democrats want to be able to file charges under it in Richmond, where the jury will be more sympathetic to the politicians than the defendant. The Democrats must have known that after 100 cities and counties told the state government that no new gun control would be enforced, that a jury of the defendant's peers would not convict for 18.2-152:7.1 so they want to bring conservative defendants out of conservative jury pools and try them in Democrat controlled districts.

This is tyranny. Charge someone under a statute for using a computer to "coerce" a government official with "immoral" language and then bring them 200 miles to Richmond to a jury pool loyal to the governor and prosecution.

 

[leadcounsel]

When will the Feds step in and start arresting these state tyrants (not just in VA) for blatant violation of federal rights?

This is a total plain violation of the federally protected 1st Amendment rights, among other things, including long precedent supporting the rights to express grievances against government.

On top of these assaults on the 2A, it's ripping our Constitutional rights and our nation apart.

 

[bbbass]

So the unconstitutional language was already present, and now the Democrats want to be able to file charges under it in Richmond, where the jury will be more sympathetic to the politicians than the defendant. The Democrats must have known that after 100 cities and counties told the state government that no new gun control would be enforced, that a jury of the defendant's peers would not convict for 18.2-152:7.1 so they want to bring conservative defendants out of conservative jury pools and try them in Democrat controlled districts.

This is tyranny. Charge someone under a statute for using a computer to "coerce" a government official with "immoral" language and then bring them 200 miles to Richmond to a jury pool loyal to the governor and prosecution.

Now don't get all spun up!!!

 

[bbbass]

So much for the 1st amendment

Knew this was going to happen!!!

Unbelievable

Not so much!!!

Let them go full retard. Makes a good example for the rest of the nation as to why they cannot be trusted. If only the sheep will pay attention.

They are sleeping thru the Senate trial.

The problem, of course, is in the wording. This is intentional, no doubt. As far as I know, most states have laws against threatening government officials acting in their official duties. For reference, WA current law is here: RCW 9A.76.180: Intimidating a public servant.

Are they using Bill Clinton's interpretation of "intimidating"?

 

[Xaevian]

Are they using Bill Clinton's interpretation of "intimidating"?

No, WA.gov is pretty sensible regarding this staute. Now, Seattle is another story and different kind of crazy, as they tried to prosecute Amazon with a felony for "threatening" to leave Seattle after the head tax proposal they were considering...