Congress loves to pass laws. Obama loves to ignore them and create his own. Politicians from the top down always argue we need a law for this and a law for that without regard to the laws that are already on the books that are not being enforced. One of these laws is 18 U.S. Code §2101. That law states: (a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent— (1) to incite a riot; or (2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or (3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or (4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; and who either during the course of any such travel or use or thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for any purpose specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this paragraph— [1] Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (b) In any prosecution under this section, proof that a defendant engaged or attempted to engage in one or more of the overt acts described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) [2] and (1) has traveled in interstate or foreign commerce, or (2) has use of or used any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including but not limited to, mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, to communicate with or broadcast to any person or group of persons prior to such overt acts, such travel or use shall be admissible proof to establish that such defendant traveled in or used such facility of interstate or foreign commerce. (c) A judgment of conviction or acquittal on the merits under the laws of any State shall be a bar to any prosecution hereunder for the same act or acts. (d) Whenever, in the opinion of the Attorney General or of the appropriate officer of the Department of Justice charged by law or under the instructions of the Attorney General with authority to act, any person shall have violated this chapter, the Department shall proceed as speedily as possible with a prosecution of such person hereunder and with any appeal which may lie from any decision adverse to the Government resulting from such prosecution. (e) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to make it unlawful for any person to travel in, or use any facility of, interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of pursuing the legitimate objectives of organized labor, through orderly and lawful means. (f) Nothing in this section shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of Congress to prevent any State, any possession or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia, from exercising jurisdiction over any offense over which it would have jurisdiction in the absence of this section; nor shall anything in this section be construed as depriving State and local law enforcement authorities of responsibility for prosecuting acts that may be violations of this section and that are violations of State and local law. For those of you who may be confused by the legalese, let me make this simple. Everything Al Sharpton has done in connection with Ferguson is a violation of Federal law. He can be sent to prison for five years for each violation. He can be put away for life, or whatever is left of his useless, destructive, despicable life. Let me make it even clearer. We know that Eric Holder is not going to prosecute a black man, or allow his U.S. Attorneys to do so, particularly when that black man was fomenting racial hatred of white people. But thats okay. This statute allows the state government to do so. So the Attorney General of Missouri needs to start doing his job and have this clown arrested and charged with violations of this law. We have laws on the books for a reason. If we are not going to enforce them, they shouldnt have been passed in the first place and we shouldnt be passing any more until we are going to take the ones we have seriously.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:07:23 +0000
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