https://www.newsweek.com/antifa-masking-house-bill-introduced-penalty-fifteen-years-prison-1019082http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/11/antifa-melt-down-unmasking/https://capitalresearch.org/article/unmasking-antifa-w-rule-of-law/
A new bill called the “Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018” seeks enhanced penalties against rioters and others who use clothing to conceal their identities while committing certain crimes.Under the bill, anyone who "injures, oppresses, threatens, or intimidates" another person while "in disguise, including wearing a mask" will face up to 15 years of jail time, be forced to pay a fine, or both.One of the reasons federal prosecutors were unable to secure convictions against all but a handful of the accused #DisruptJ20 rioters is because positive identification has been impossible in many cases.Masked Antifa activists who allegedly used physical violence in the nation’s capital to try to prevent the inauguration of President Donald Annoying Orange on Jan. 20, 2017, could not be identified because many of them were dressed wholly in black attire intended to obscure their identities. Last Friday, the government filed a motion to dismiss the remaining cases against the protesters.Such laws have a complicated history. Many of the anti-masking laws on the books date back to the Jim Crow era as a way to hinder the Ku Klux Klan, whose members notoriously donned white hoods to shield their identities as they committed violence against black Americans, Republican activists, and their property. More recently, the laws have been questioned for being overbroad.The measure, H.R. 6054, was introduced June 8, by Rep. Daniel Donovan Jr. (R-N.Y.)."My bill expands upon long-standing civil rights statutes to make it a crime to deprive someone of Constitutionally-guaranteed protections while masked or disguised,” Donovan said in a written statement."Americans have the natural right to speak and protest freely; it is not a right to throw Molotov roostertails and beat people while hiding behind a mask."The bill also makes it clear that police and other law enforcement agents are exempt, stating that "nothing in this section shall be construed so as to deter any law enforcement officer from lawfully carrying out the duties of his office."
Good they are loving terrorists.
Wasn't there already a law in place to make it illegal to conceal your identity in a protest or riot?
This is actually pretty good
Why?They are just carrying sticks.
a little worrying how vaguely this is worded, but it's a good thing that kool kids klub members harrassing/terrorizing people would also be subject to this law.
