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THOM HARTMANN, ALTERNET at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/02/heres-proof-republicans-are-done-with-democracy_partner-2/
(EDITED TO ADD: BILL KILLED)
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Show up for a protest, and end up losing your home, car, and retirement account? How about losing everything over just being at a meeting or on a conference call?
Confessed wife-beater and Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli (R-AZ) has introduced an amazing bit of legislation into the Arizona senate, which has already passedits in the House now. The bill would hyper-criminalize any sort of organized political dissent if any person involved with that dissent (including, presumably, agent provocateurs) were to engage in even minor violence, so long as that violence harms the property, regardless of value, of any person (including a corporation).
Theyre doing this by expanding the Arizona RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) law to include conspiracy to riot among the offenses RICO can be used against. Not unlike parts of the Patriot Act being used against wannabe terrorists, the RICO laws are a powerful blunt instrument that have been used successfully to take down mobsters who have done a very good job of insulating themselves from their crimes.
Inspired in part by the takedown of Al Capone for tax fraud and mobster Rico Little Caesar Bandello, the 1970 federal law was one of the first to, in a really big way, make it possible for prosecutors to go after an entire group of people, rather than having to target criminals one at a time. As such, it relies heavily on previous laws that had defined conspiracy to be a felony.
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asiliveandbreathe
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(118,622 posts)up for an example of GOP potential malfeasance.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)We actually had a nut wanting legislation to make everyone go to church ....
OKNancy
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(3,208 posts)I think the R's are sickening, even more so now. They have also introduced a bill that just flat out reads that the EPA will be abolished by 2018. I am writing and calling my reps about that. Just that they even think up this crap is making me angry and very discouraged. How will any progress ever be made?