How January 6 Is Being Used to Crush Dissent...

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How January 6 Is Being Used to Crush Dissent on the Left

...Alluding to Capitol riot, authorities in Florida prosecuted anarchist and Black Lives Matter protester Daniel Baker purely over speech and social media posts, sentencing him to nearly three years in prison, roughly the same punishment as one Capitol rioter got for punching an officer. Left-leaning activists around the country were paid visits by authorities in the days and weeks following the siege.
Clark says that this kind of harassment largely subsided after the first few weeks following January 6, but the event has had a lingering effect. In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis invoked the Capitol riot to reintroduce and pass into law a repressive anti-protest bill that had previously failed. In a video promoting the bill, his party even placed footage of the Capitol breach side by side with that of the George Floyd protesters, making the case that such out-of-control protesters need to be subdued.
Eighty-eight such anti-protest bills have been introduced around the country since the Capitol riot, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law. Thirty-three of those were introduced in January 2021 alone following the siege, with several, such as Florida’s bill, coming within the days immediately after January 6, and another 32 introduced that February. Eleven of these post-January 6 laws have so far been enacted, giving authorities wide latitude to prohibit or punish protesters, and sometimes even providing legal protection to motorists who mow them down....

https://inthesetimes.com/article/jan...i-protest-left




this article title says "Crush Dissent on the Left" however like many short sighted - red team blue team- writers he limits his concern to one sides problems.
When the problem effects EVERYONE and simply gives the gov't ---local, state and federal--- more "legal" authority to suppress speech and limit protest.
Basically piss on the our 1st amendment rights.
On Jan 6 many on the right finally started to understand the difference between some bad actors in the midst of peaceful protesters
and even the reality of FBI infiltration and instigation of illegal acts within otherwise peaceful protest.
The other side of the hammer is new laws restricting free speech and assembly/protest even more than they all ready are.
Next 2nd amendment protest, Next blm protest, everyone needs to remember
ALL citizens have rights to protest and if we want to KEEP our rights we've got to not get carried away in trying to suppressed our supposed opposition's 1st amendment rights.
Because it's binds everyone EXCEPT those in power.
Unless some of you folk like living in an authoritarian police state where the trains run on time and no one is allowed to protest and block traffic ..unless they are on your team.