Could be worse. I could be severely ignorant, but I haven't heard of any lives in danger with the protests near me. Thankfully, it reads like there's already some qualification happening. This senator sounds off-kilter based on those AP reports.“I respect the right to protest, but when it endangers people’s lives and property, it goes too far,” Ericksen said. “Fear, intimidation and vandalism are not a legitimate form of political expression. Those who employ it must be called to account.”
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“Let’s keep in mind that civil rights protesters who sat down at lunch counters could be seen as ‘disrupting business’ and ‘obstructing economic activity,’ and their courageous actions were opposed by segregationists as trying to ‘coerce business and government,’” Honig said.
I don't really expect the bill to go anywhere, but then it's not that much more ridiculous than free speech zones.
Ha! Doug Erickson is the nextdoor neighbor to a farm I didn't buy in Ferndale. Which means I got Google Alerts on his ass for the better part of two years. The left wing of WA - which is indisputably dominant - fuckin witch hunts Doug Ericksen. Don't get me wrong - he's a conservative asshole whose values are staunchly conservative. But this bill has about as much impact on the world at large as Doug Ericksen declaring that yellow is a shade of blue.