Friday, February 24, 2017

In Further News

  • The ACLU posts a map with the 100-mile (!) zone considered "border" for the Border Patrol.  Via my reading list at Dreamwidth.)  We'll be in real trouble when Godzilla decides to fly to Florida by way of Portland, OR, no?  And meanwhile we'll devolve into a "Papers, please" state.  
  • Department of The Winter Palace Was Propaganda:  Criminalizing demonstrations and protests in Arizona.  Although somebody noticed such a law would also bite them in the butt:
    Farley, however, said the legislation does far more than simply going after those who might incite people to riot, something which actually already is a crime. And he warned Republicans that such a broad law could end up being used against some of their allies.
    For example, he said, a “Tea Party’’ group wanting to protest a property tax hike might get permits, publicize the event and have a peaceful demonstration.
    “And one person, possibly from the other side, starts breaking the windows of a car,’’ Farley said.
    “And all of a sudden the organizers of that march, the local Tea Party, are going to be under indictment from the county attorney in the county that raised those property taxes,’’ he said. “That will have a chilling effect on anybody, right or left, who wants to protest something the government has done.’’

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