MynameisMila
06/12/09, 05:24 AM
I wasn't sure if anyone had posted anything about this yet.
It's a bill that was introduced on April 28th, almost two months ago, so its kind of lost some relevance in discussion, but I read it on opencongress.org, and I didn't find anything wrong with it at all... but a lot of my friends went to protest it in D.C. when it was introduced.
their argument was that it prohibited Freedom of speech in the areas that they couldn't protest at abortion clinics without getting up to 10 years in prison, but I thought that was so overdramatic, and unrealistic, and I have no idea why anyone would protest this bill. Could they simply not just step onto the sidewalk?
the only thing I found wrong with this is that their definition of "Crime of Violence" includes anything that is a " risk of violence" which is very very vague, but that has always been the definition
Sure it makes the punishment for crimes that would already be punished harsher but I don't think thats something to protest.
I may be missing something
I'd just like to hear some opinions on this bill, because I support it, but I would like to understand the other side of this argument.
mainly because I don't really see another side. Not one thats stable anyways.
It's a bill that was introduced on April 28th, almost two months ago, so its kind of lost some relevance in discussion, but I read it on opencongress.org, and I didn't find anything wrong with it at all... but a lot of my friends went to protest it in D.C. when it was introduced.
their argument was that it prohibited Freedom of speech in the areas that they couldn't protest at abortion clinics without getting up to 10 years in prison, but I thought that was so overdramatic, and unrealistic, and I have no idea why anyone would protest this bill. Could they simply not just step onto the sidewalk?
the only thing I found wrong with this is that their definition of "Crime of Violence" includes anything that is a " risk of violence" which is very very vague, but that has always been the definition
Sure it makes the punishment for crimes that would already be punished harsher but I don't think thats something to protest.
I may be missing something
I'd just like to hear some opinions on this bill, because I support it, but I would like to understand the other side of this argument.
mainly because I don't really see another side. Not one thats stable anyways.