I highly recommend skimming through the New York Penal Law Article 240. It's surprisingly free of "legalese" and it's actually quite an interesting read.
Most prominently, consider how well sections 240.05 through 240.36 fit the actions of antifa, the BLM rioters, and other activists roaming the streets almost every day. The text of the vast majority of those sections reads like a highly accurate list of transgressions of those people. I could list examples of them here, but there are so many that fit to a T, that if I were to list them all here, I would just be replicating almost all of that page.
Most states in the US have similar laws as well.
Or consider, for example, the Federal law 18 U.S. Code §2385: Advocating overthrow of Government. Condensed quote:
Do all of these protesters get arrested and prosecuted for multiple violations of these laws (as well as many others)? Of course not. Even when in a few rare cases a couple of people (out of hundreds, even thousands) get arrested, most usually they then are let go, all charges dropped. From the thousands and thousands, even tens of thousands, of people violating multitudes of State and Federal laws every single day, only an astonishingly small handful of people ever get any legal consequences for their actions.
Because, you know... apparently breaking the law is perfectly legal if done in the name of "protesting".
Most prominently, consider how well sections 240.05 through 240.36 fit the actions of antifa, the BLM rioters, and other activists roaming the streets almost every day. The text of the vast majority of those sections reads like a highly accurate list of transgressions of those people. I could list examples of them here, but there are so many that fit to a T, that if I were to list them all here, I would just be replicating almost all of that page.
Most states in the US have similar laws as well.
Or consider, for example, the Federal law 18 U.S. Code §2385: Advocating overthrow of Government. Condensed quote:
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States [...] by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so [...]
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both [...]
Do all of these protesters get arrested and prosecuted for multiple violations of these laws (as well as many others)? Of course not. Even when in a few rare cases a couple of people (out of hundreds, even thousands) get arrested, most usually they then are let go, all charges dropped. From the thousands and thousands, even tens of thousands, of people violating multitudes of State and Federal laws every single day, only an astonishingly small handful of people ever get any legal consequences for their actions.
Because, you know... apparently breaking the law is perfectly legal if done in the name of "protesting".
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