Goodbye 1st Amendment?

[LongTomH]

Goodbye 1st Amendment: New Bill Seizes Assets of Anyone Who Plans or Participates in Protests that ‘Disturb the Public Peace’:

Imagine having all your assets seized because you planned a peaceful protest that disturbed the peace? That could be a reality under SB1142, which just passed the Arizona state senate.

Under SB1142, Arizona’s racketeering laws are expanding to include rioting. This gives the state government the right to criminally prosecute and seize the assets of everyone who planned a protest that turned violent and everyone who participated.

The bill also redefines what constitutes a rioter as any person who “uses force or violence or threatens to use force or violence, if such threat is accompanied by immediate power of execution, which EITHER disturbs the public peace OR RESULTS IN DAMAGE TO THE PROPERTY OF ANOTHER PERSON.”

The vote was 17-13. One of the 17 that voted for this, Sen. John Kavanagh, gave the following justification for this absurd, unconstitutional new law: “You now have a situation where you have full-time, almost professional agent-provocateurs that attempt to create public disorder. A lot of them are ideologues, some of them are anarchists. But this stuff is all planned… I should certainly hope that our law enforcement people have some undercover people there. Wouldn’t you rather stop a riot before it starts?”

Who defines what is considered a ‘violent’ protest?

Who determines what ‘disturbs the public peace’? Does profanity, shouting, or loud music constitute disturbing the peace?

[C_U_L8R]

1. No more goose-stepping Tiki Torch parades??

This cuts both ways, nazi assholes.

[louis-t]

2. "Disturbing the public peace" is

whatever the dictator in charge says it is.

[FirstLight]

3. ...

On the one hand I am screaming... Hellno AYFKM!!
On the other I am speechless at watching our liberties eroded...slowly and surely

If I allow the speechless part to win, it's over.
If I keep my screaming silent inside, it's over.

[jmowreader]

4. Another thing to consider

If, say, Antifa or BLM decide to hold a demonstration and a few Trump supporters decide to go down there and smash a few windshields then haul ass before they get caught, SB1142 will allow the state to confiscate everything the Antifa/BLM people own.

Read Sinclair Lewis "It Can't Happen Here."