After Protesters Shout At McCrory, NC Lawmaker Wants To Make It A Crime

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JANUARY 24, 2017, 10:33 AM EDT

After video posted on Facebook Friday showed a group of people in Washington, D.C. shouting at former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R), a GOP state legislator introduced legislation to make shouting at a former state official a crime.

Republican state Sen. Dan Bishop, who proposed the bill, told the News and Observer that the legislation would "make it a crime to threaten, intimidate, or retaliate against a present or former North Carolina official in the course of, or on account of, the performance of his or her duties." Bishop said that offenders of his proposed statute should serve a prison sentence up to five years.

In the video posted online Friday, a group of people shouted "shame on you" at McCrory as he walked through Washington, D.C., calling him "anti-gay" and a "bigot."

Bishop, who was one of the sponsors of the anti-LGBT state law known as HB2, told the News and Observer that the crowd was a “a chanting mob” of “ubiquitous leftist rioters" and said that their actions were "dangerous."

###

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/crime-shout-down-pat-mccrory

[wordpix]

1. hey McCrory, there is freedom of speech as long as you're not inciting

Calling you what you are isn't that

[left-of-center2012]

2. Freedom of speech? n/t

[brucefan]

3. Snowflakes

[riversedge]

6. I was just going to say that he is a delicate snowflake but snowflacks are so

beautiful, I hate to call folks like Mc...a snowflake.

[Lithos]

24. Turds can be unique

You can call him that...

[Doreen]

4. In other words he wants to make free speech a crime.

[ck4829]

5. And they said that report calling NC a non-democracy was crazy talk!

[lark]

7. Ever notice how fragile these jerk repugs are?

Any pushback, no matter how trivial, and they claim they are "threatened". Poor widdle pretend people just can't take it and have to shoot the person because "they looked at me funny". BS, just more rw lies. Of course, they can end people's lives, their ability to obtain healthcare, their ability to marry, their ability to make their own reproductive choices, and that's perfectly fine and doesn't threaten anyone (since workers don't count as people).

[n2doc]

11. Such Snowflakes! n/t

[Scalded Nun]

8. If it ain't in the 2nd amendment it ain't shit to the GOP

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. the non-alternative reality really hurts, doesn't it Pat!

[n2doc]

10. Incident happened in DC

Good luck making a state crime applicable to activities in other states. Although with Republicans, one never knows....

[Solly Mack]

12. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

13. What might be

called uncouth or border on low-level harrassment kind of goes with
the territory of being a public entity

Look at what pro athletes put up with

Notice he didn't call it slander, because truth is a perfect legal defense

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. The only vaguely threatening remark I heard was "we've got you now."

Other than that, I haven't heard anything that could be construed as an attempt to "threaten, intimidate, or retaliate" against anyone.

Miss Manners would not be happy with this, but "Congress shall make no law," etc.

[yellowcanine]

15. Say what?

&p=DevEx,5092.1

[elmac]

16. Well, if the fascist criminalize the use of words

then protesters will just say, hell, what do I have to lose, and up the anti to more violet means.

[weissmam]

17. poor little sonwflake

they hurt his little feelings

[Ray Bruns]

18. Talk about being a snowflake

[Raster]

19. Heavy, heavy emphasis on the "flake" portion.

[yodermon]

20. Poor Pat needs his safe space. Aww.

and what the hell are the "duties" of a *"former"* official?

cray

[Augiedog]

21. Jeez what a pesky thing the 1st amendment is. Next thing ya know, facts will matter.

[Liberaltalker]

22. They have no problem dishing out verbal insults themselves

like that time that Rethuglacin shouted that President Obama was a liar during his State of the State address and that was an elected official. Yet they are too thin skinned to take it when we exercise our first amendment rights... The founding fathers are turning over in their graves at this one... Supreme Court will shut this down if it passes.

[raccoon]

34. That was dumbass Joe Wilson, Rep from SC. Rude SOB, isn't he?

Rethuglacin shouted that President Obama was a liar during his State of the State address and that was an elected official

[Coolest Ranger]

23. I would gladly

go to jail for shouting at an offical

[No Vested Interest]

25. Sticks and stones ....., but words? nt

[mgardener]

26. I guess he...

Didn't have his big boy pants on that day.

Republicans don't care if you are homeless, uninsured, jobless, have clean air and water to drink, but don't you, by God, yell at them.

[titaniumsalute]

27. It's already a crime to threaten or intimidate someone

These thinned skin assholes need to grow up or get out of office.

[hells]

28. and deplorable republican trash

keep on saying how them librals are so pc. Damn sjws limiting my freedom of speech.
Pretty much like their brainless supporters whining how the big bad librals are taking their freedom of speech and at the same time banning everyone from their subreddits or facebook groups who doesn't share their idiocity.

[SamKnause]

29. These fuckers will not be satisfied until everyone

who is not a millionaire or billionaire is in jail.

[cstanleytech]

30. Clearly Dan needs a copy of the US Constitution for Christmas, preferably the big print edition.

[3catwoman3]

31. Plastic surgeons need to get busy...

...giving all Republican office holders skin grafts so their skin is thick enough to deal with the trails and tribulations of being a public servant.

What a bunch of wussies.

[Angry Dragon]

32. there are sure a lot of BABIES among the repubs

[rurallib]

33. he is only reaping what he sowed

Will the next bill say that all people that a former NC official pass must bow and say 'you are so marvelous'?

[NYC Liberal]

35. This crap will get knocked down in court.

But of course, it's the taxpayers who will be footing the bill for the cost of the lawsuits and the damages awarded to the victims of this fascist law.

IMO if a law like this gets knocked down, the legislators who voted for it should be forced to pay for the lawsuit out of their pensions. Then we'd see how quick these assholes would be to pass this shit.