NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee now leads the nation in criminalizing common protest tactics, with penalties including the denial of voting rights for pitching a tent on the Capitol grounds. But outrage over racial injustice isn’t going away, and civil rights advocates say the law was pulled from an age-old playbook that hasn’t stood up to history.
There is another set of penalties in the mountains of NE TN. FANFO.
ReplyDeleteI tell you what, any attempt at protecting property and maintaining order is immediately labeled segregationist and racist. The very idea that "common protest tactics" can be termed illegal. RAAACCIIST! And pitching a tent can lead to suspension of voting rights. What a POS writing. But, it is from Associated Press.
ReplyDeleteThe commies want to destroy the Idea about PRIVATE PROPERTY. So, if you haven't figured it out, we are at war and them sumbitches are winning hearts and minds of the clueless.
DeleteCarry on and keep ignoring the NOW, and you will die under the hands of morons
SQUEEL LIKE A PIG BOY !
ReplyDelete"outrage over racial injustice"
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, there's LOADS of racial and ethnic injustice in the US. But it's not the usual sainted victim groups that are suffering under it. The most disadvantaged group in the US is regular working-class whites. The less successful nonwhites have affirmative action, the more successful nonwhites have nepotism to lesser (East Asians) or greater (South Asians) degrees. Which other highly successful group is high in nepotism is left as an exercise for the reader, since I'm sure I can't think of one.
"...from marching in the street to encouraging what police call riots..."
ReplyDeleteWhat police call riots? Brought to you by the same thinking that wrote 'Fiery but mostly peaceful protests...'
It's not a complex definition, they actively push to blur the line between 'protests' and 'riots', and then wonder why no one believes them.
Any non-hard left activity is a riot, regardless of how non-violent. Any hard left activity is a protest, regardless of how violent.
DeleteI was talking to a cop the other day who was involved in policing a demonstration in a university town in TN. This was before George Floyd, but there was some thing that everybody was all worked up about. A bunch of the Antifa types showed up.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago, TN passed a law that was aimed at stopping the KKK. It makes it illegal to wear a "mask or disguise" while interefering with someone's rights. The local cops enforce that as including stopping people from driving down the street, going to work, etc.
So, when the Antifa types came, the cops said "You can demonstrate all you want, but you can't do it wearing a mask." Most of them wouldn't do it, and the rest did a very sedate walking march.
This was before the Covid thing. I suspect that enforcement would be more of a problem now.
Glad you made it here from Californification. You are pretty damn safe from the craziness in that lil bity town.
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