Posted on 09/16/2020 10:50:32 AM PDT by karpov
Attorney General William Barr told the nation’s federal prosecutors to be aggressive when charging violent demonstrators with crimes, including potentially prosecuting protesters for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government, people familiar with the conversation said.
In a conference call with U.S. attorneys across the country last week, Mr. Barr warned that sometimes violent demonstrations across the U.S. could worsen as the November presidential election approaches. He encouraged the prosecutors to seek a number federal charges, including under a rarely used sedition law, even when state charges could apply, the people said.
The call underscores the priority Mr. Barr has given to prosecuting crimes connected to months of protests against racial injustice that have at times become violent and led to major property damage, as President Trump has made a broader crackdown on demonstrations a key campaign issue. U.S. attorneys have broad discretion in what charges they bring.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 200 people with violent crimes related to the protests, most of whom face counts of arson, assaulting federal officers, or gun crimes. FBI officials earlier this year described the perpetrators as largely opportunistic individuals taking advantage of the protests. In more recent months, police officials say they are alarmed by the presence of armed fringe groups from both sides of the political spectrum.
In the call last week, Mr. Barr urged prosecutors to seek federal charges whenever possible, two of the people said. He listed a number of additional statutes they could potentially use, including one addressing conspiracies or plots to overthrow the government. Legal experts say the rarely used statute could be difficult to prove in court and potentially run up against First Amendment protections.
To bring a sedition case, prosecutors would have to prove there was a conspiracy to attack government agents or officials
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Re “legal experts”. They can shove their legal books up their dumb asses. Sedition laws (the old Alien & Seditions laws of WW1, plus the early ones during the post-independence ear ( the various farmers revolts/Whisky Rebellion, etc - minor insurrections) were used, with force in some cases.
The “legal experts” these WSJ dumkoffs refer to, as well as “civil rights/constitutional rights” organizations are the usual Marxist suspects and their parallel liberal stooges are - the ACLU; Center for Constitutional Rights (a CPUSA front, National Lawyers Guild split-off creation - very Marxist) as well as the still existant and active NLG, esp. their chapters in law schools; the old CPUSA legal front the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC); La Raza’s Legal Defense arm; the same for the BLM movement’s legal arm; the Castroite/old Soviet affiliated front, the National Conference of Black Lawyers/International Association of Democratic Lawyers - KGB/CPSU creation, often based in Cuba, along with the Marxist Association of American Jurists).
Barr’s people are in action all over the country, using federal charges to over-ride leftist State’s Attorney Generals and their Marxist more local DAs/Circuit Attorneys including the Soros-funded red bastards in Washington, D.C., Arlington and Fairfax, Va, and possibly the southern Virginia cities of Hampton, Portsmouth, Va. Beach, those in Wisconsin, Oregon, Seattle, California (Foxx in Chicago), and Krasner in Philadelphia.
As a former FBI undercover asset, I can tell the difference between bullshit and action, and Barr is ACTION. I also worked on an Organized Crime Task Force that the Clintons and AG Reno crippled to prevent their ties to the Mafia from being made public.
I’ve seen good evidence and good Task Force work. Even today, if you know how to read the DOJ anti-drug/human smuggling and terrorist task force press releases, you can see that Bar’s DOJ is doing what the Clinton and Obama regimes DOJs refused to do.
Thank Pres. Trump for not only nominating Barr to become our AG, but also to authorizing him to get the job done.
Trust me. There will be a lot more indictments of individual terrorists and terrorist organizations coming down the pike like an 18 wheeler on nitro fuel.
#34. You are referring to the federal “Anti-Riot Act” and Conspiracy to Cross State Lines to commit acts of riot, and other planned criminal actions.
Still alive, in part, but once you’ve established the conspiracy plan, and the planners cross state lines, they are eligible to be arrested then and there or later when they try to put their plans into action (i.e., Caught in the Act).
*** I’ll believe it when I see it. So far Barr’s role seems to talk tough to make the base all get excited while business as usual goes on unchanged. ***
And we get all hungry for justice to be served, but a shit sandwich is the only thing on the menu.
Perhaps it would be better to charge the prosecutors with sedition and shoot the looters.
Thanks for the details. I’m writing a letter to the editor and your post couldn’t have come at a better time. I will include the more specific information.
Thanks for the details. I’m writing a letter to the editor and your post couldn’t have come at a better time. I will include the more specific information.
Will that be before we lose the Republic or after when it won't matter?
So what are citizens to do when a government becomes tyrannical?
Yeah. Consider it. The citizenry, well, there just extemporaneous but consider if you will charging these thugs.
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