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Blocking a street for many days is typically considered illegal. I'm not saying that they should be prevented from protesting (and I strongly disagree with tha
by jeromegv 5y ago
Blocking a street for many days is typically considered illegal.
I'm not saying that they should be prevented from protesting (and I strongly disagree with that protest), just answering the question as to why this might be illegal.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoWhat law is it typically considered to violate? Does blocking the street for an hour break that law, or does it have to be "many days"?
- favorited 5y agoDo you not think there are laws everywhere about blocking traffic? When you reach a destination in your car, do you just park in the middle of the street?
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI'm asking you since you brought it up. And the question was not a hypothetical about someone parking in the middle of the street but specifics about what laws have specific people broken here.
- vba616 5y agoI don't, but I think of it as normal, because commercial vehicles including delivery trucks do it all day every day in the area that I live in. They do it in the right lane of city streets that have two lanes each way, and they do it on streets where you have to cross over a double yellow to get around. Aside from that, I have lived in the approximate center of a moderate sized city (metro area of ~1 million) and noticed that there are occasional, authorized events that take over and prevent any and all traffic. Bicycle races for instance. Assuming one isn't vehemently against a protest in the first place, debating blocking traffic boils down to the technical requirements for permits and coordination with authorities. It's only a shocking breakdown of public order if people strongly oppose the underlying cause.
- laughingpine 5y agoWhile this is just one part of the protest, but what is happening in Coutts is illegal. Alberta passed an act recently (2020) restricting where you can protest - https://www.alberta.ca/protecting-critical-infrastructure.aspx https://www.alberta.ca/protecting-critical-infrastructure.as... The Coutts border crossing and highway is currently blocked. This is in contravention of the Critical Infrastructure Act as highways are included.
- klyrs 5y agoIIRC, bill C-51 defined this as an act of terrorism. Wonder how that's going to play out. When it's indigenous people blocking a pipeline, the SWAT teams come out.
- meragrin_ 5y ago> When it's indigenous people blocking a pipeline, the SWAT teams come out. After how many court proceedings?
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