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Conspiracy to commit a crime is typically not included in protected speech. Whether you think that's happening here will depend mostly on what side you take, I
by randallsquared 9mo ago
Conspiracy to commit a crime is typically not included in protected speech. Whether you think that's happening here will depend mostly on what side you take, I suspect.
- JKCalhoun 9mo agoInteresting that there would be people on a "side" that think there was a conspiracy to commit a crime. What crime?
- PrettiGoodDead 9mo ago[flagged]
- mrtesthah 9mo agoWe already know that "doxxing" on its own is not a crime, and moreover that [non-undercover] federal agents are not entitled to keep their identities secret. We also know that legal observation and making noise does not constitute interference. So those may be their stated reasons, but they will not hold up in court.
- direwolf20 9mo agoInterference with a law enforcement investigation?
- mycodendral 9mo ago18 U.S.C. § 372 - Conspiring to impede or interfere with a federal officer
- baerrie 9mo agoThis refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech. If all info could be interpreted as impediments to federal officers then phones, the internet, the human voice, etc would be illegal
- zahlman 9mo ago> This refers to physical impediments. Spreading legal information is not an impediment, it is free speech. Yes, but physical impediments are physical impediments. The protesters have been repeatedly seen to impede, or attempt to impede, ICE physically.
- baerrie 9mo agoNo, they are organizing legally, of course there will be bad actors, but blocking an agent out of bad faith is certainly less of a crime than a bad faith ICE agent killing someone for their assumptions
- mycodendral 9mo agoIn this case conspiracy is using communication to coordinate illegal impediment.
- baerrie 9mo agoCommunicating to protest in a legal way is a civil right
- rexpop 9mo agoIt's a crime. What do you have against crime? Nonviolent political action is often criminalized.
- mindslight 9mo agoIn the fascist's mind, anything that isn't supporting Dear Leader's vision of "greatness" is a crime.
- neogodless 9mo agohttps://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ Are you pro or against this?
- mycodendral 9mo ago18 U.S.C. § 372 - Conspiring to impede or interfere with a federal officer Freedom of expression does not include freedom from prosecution for real crimes.
- nkohari 9mo agoYou keep commenting to cite this statute when you clearly have not actually read what it says. Peaceful protest is explicitly protected by the first amendment.
- mycodendral 9mo agoThe statute defines a crime that is distinguishable from peaceful protest/1A. You are free to interpret that however you like in relation to what is occurring.
- germinalphrase 9mo ago“ If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both”
- direwolf20 9mo ago