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  • 2016-11-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Law Charges Protesters With Terrorism? (en)
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  • On 17 November 2016, the disreputable web site Conservative Daily Post published an article reporting that people protesting Donald Trump's presidency were now being charged with terrorism under a new law: The Conservative Daily Post has a history of severely misrepresenting real events. For instance, they claimed that Donald Trump's first act as president would be to make flag burning a treasonous act (he merely said he thought it should be illegal), and that Loretta Lynch ordered for all confederate flag tattoos to be immediately removed (this claim was based on a 2016 report about a hate crime which mentioned a Confederate flag tattoo). In this case, the real event is that Republican Senator Doug Ericksen said in a news release in November 2016 that he planned on proposing a bill that would classify some forms of protesting as economic terrorism. Ericksen said that the bill would target protests that disrupt businesses or shut down streets: The Conservative Daily Post reported that a new law was now charging all protesters with terrorism. In reality, however, a lawmaker announced that he was planning to propose a bill that would classify some forms of protest as economic terrorism. While Ericksen's proposed bill is a long way away from becoming a law, the American Civil Liberties Union is still worried about its implications: While it is true that a Republican senator announced that he was planning to propose a bill which would classify some forms of protest as economic terrorism, no new laws were passed in November 2016 to begin charging people protesting Trump's presidency with terrorism. (en)
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