Having repeatedly used his money in attempts to deprive citizens of a constitutionally guaranteed right, isn’t Bloomberg guilty of sedition at the very least? “Conspiracy to deprive rights”, as defined in 18 USC 241, would be another crime which he commits openly and often. If our justice system refuses to enforce laws protecting our basic rights, they too are out of line.
Eventually, Americans are going to understand these basic facts, and if the political system doesn’t act responsibly the citizens will have to take matters into their own hands.
So I ask you anti constitutionalist politicians; which would you rather? Do you want to be tried in the justice system, or do you prefer to receive justice at the hands of a mob?
@ Lyle, well said!
And in answer to your question, “Do you want to be tried in the justice system, or do you prefer to receive justice at the hands of a mob?”, here are a couple of excellent quotes:
“… the act of a private citizen in striking down a criminal, who, by
raising himself above the law, has placed himself beyond the reach of legal punishment or control, has been accounted by whole nations, and by some of the best and wisest men, not a crime, but an act of exalted virtue.” –John Stuart Mill
“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like the cold blue steel in the the hands of their last intended victim.” –W. Emerson Wright
“If two or more persons 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, or because of his having so exercised the same; or”
Bloomberg’s advocacy does not injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate (in the legal meaning of those words in context) in the free exercise of their rights.
“Lobbying to restrict the Second Amendment” is a bad idea, but it simply isn’t illegal; it’s not sedition, either.
The First Amendment protects lobbying and advocacy of ideas, period. Even when the lobbying is for laws that are unconstitutional.
We can’t toss out the First for possible temporary protection of the Second.
September 15th, 2016 at 10:51 pm
You meant $300 more…
September 16th, 2016 at 4:25 pm
Bloomberg – single-handedly funding the “gun control” movement since… basically ever.
September 16th, 2016 at 7:05 pm
Having repeatedly used his money in attempts to deprive citizens of a constitutionally guaranteed right, isn’t Bloomberg guilty of sedition at the very least? “Conspiracy to deprive rights”, as defined in 18 USC 241, would be another crime which he commits openly and often. If our justice system refuses to enforce laws protecting our basic rights, they too are out of line.
Eventually, Americans are going to understand these basic facts, and if the political system doesn’t act responsibly the citizens will have to take matters into their own hands.
So I ask you anti constitutionalist politicians; which would you rather? Do you want to be tried in the justice system, or do you prefer to receive justice at the hands of a mob?
September 17th, 2016 at 8:29 am
@ Lyle, well said!
And in answer to your question, “Do you want to be tried in the justice system, or do you prefer to receive justice at the hands of a mob?”, here are a couple of excellent quotes:
“… the act of a private citizen in striking down a criminal, who, by
raising himself above the law, has placed himself beyond the reach of legal punishment or control, has been accounted by whole nations, and by some of the best and wisest men, not a crime, but an act of exalted virtue.” –John Stuart Mill
“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like the cold blue steel in the the hands of their last intended victim.” –W. Emerson Wright
September 17th, 2016 at 8:58 am
Bloomberg, the cowardly hypocrite, as shown here, wants to take from others what he keeps for himself:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RCC-rEx81PE
September 19th, 2016 at 2:15 pm
No, Lyle.
“If two or more persons 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, or because of his having so exercised the same; or”
Bloomberg’s advocacy does not injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate (in the legal meaning of those words in context) in the free exercise of their rights.
“Lobbying to restrict the Second Amendment” is a bad idea, but it simply isn’t illegal; it’s not sedition, either.
The First Amendment protects lobbying and advocacy of ideas, period. Even when the lobbying is for laws that are unconstitutional.
We can’t toss out the First for possible temporary protection of the Second.