"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."
Picking out the action verbs here, in the statute about interfering with the feds:
“....conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat...
...or to injure him in his person or property....
....or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him...”
This flies in the face of the constitutional right to petition for redress of grievances.
The feds could only find the above quoted statute to throw at them...
Ant that statute applies when the fed is doing “lawful duties”....
So if the feds are breaking a law (taking someone’s land) they aren’t doing their lawful duties.
And in the charge sheet, the feds only mention
“...conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat,...”
a fed from doing their duties.
If the folks charged didn’t force, intimidate or threaten, then this statute doesn’t apply.
(As I mentioned on another thread, this is why they bring in the feds, so that if someone does threaten intimidate or force, then the feds can charge them with this).
Question: what did the occupy and /or blacklivesmatter people get charged with? (If anything).
As a Fed employee, my supervisor and his supervisor (two) could ‘threaten’ me, lock my office, etc. to stop what I believe are my duties.
They never got charged or locked up.
What is the statute of limitations?