“This is not peaceful protesting. … This is rioting, this is looting, this is criminal behavior, and in some instances … [it] is being done for purposes of undermining civil order. It is almost treasonous if you look at it that way. … This is gonna cascade. Rights are being abrogated and it’s basically all being done not for enhancement of rights, but actually to take away rights and burn down the system of government that we have built, the economic system and the societal system that makes us Americans.”
Biggs said President Trump was entirely justified in sending in federal law enforcement to protect the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens, summing it up this way: “In order to fully implement and enjoy liberty, you have to be able to exercise your rights. These people who live in these cities are not able to exercise their rights.”
Bingo — and depriving people of their civil rights has been a federal crime for well over a century, at least since the 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868. Moreover, Section 241 of U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 13, makes it a crime for “two or more persons [to] conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
It is about time for the Justice Department to recognize that the coordination of thousands of antifa and BLM rioters across multiple cities is indeed just such a conspiracy. One could also make the case that city councils and mayors who refuse to put down violence for any reason are conspiring to “oppress” citizens who wish to enjoy their right to conduct lawful business, to assemble and to speak freely. If Chicago’s leadership permits gun violence to take the lives of dozens of people every month, for instance, then the president has an obligation to step in to protect civil rights.
ConservativeChick
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