What’s Next?

Black outfit $49.95, helmet $19.50, skateboard $67.39, color coordinated black bandana $4.95, getting your ass whooped by the police- Priceless!

ANTIFA is suing in Seattle because the cost of riot gear is so expensive. Rioters are priced out of the market. They either have to resort to no protection, backyard fixes or inferior products. I guess the idea of leaving a peaceful demonstration as it evolves into a riot never occurred to them. Hey, this is an idea whose time has come!

A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Seattle alleges that would-be protesters are prevented from demonstrating by the cost of protecting themselves from police.

Jessica Benton, Shelby Bryant, Anne Marie Cavanaugh, Alyssa Garrison, and Clare Thomas are suing the city of Seattle, claiming they were victims of “indiscriminate” police violence during June 25 protests on Capitol Hill. According to the suit, such response necessitates protective gear while demonstrating — items such as “helmets, gas masks, protective clothing, goggles, gloves, boots, umbrellas and other gear” they claim are prohibitively expensive.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/04/lawsuit-claims-cost-of-protest-gear-violates-seattle-protesters-civil-rights/

I hate to sound like a sixties rerun. In the bad old days the cops would surround a protest and then tell the protesters to leave. Anybody who attempted to leave was confronted with a wall of cops. Trying to push through the wall, in an attempt to comply, was construed as an attack by the police. This caused peaceful protesters to become rioters.

Things have changed. Nowadays a police cordon typically surrounds the object of attack. Protesters are not restrained from retreating. In fact Texas law requires that protesters be given the opportunity to retreat. https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-42-02.htmlhttps://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-42-03.html

The police make an announcement and the next step is logical. It doesn’t matter if the protesters agree with the police. If a person stays after being ordered to disperse, then they have stopped being peaceful.

I can see it now. The left is good at chasing free money. Why work when one can apply for grants? Ah the irony, ANTIFA applying to George Soros, an identified Nazi collaborator, to supply riot gear. What to do when your anti-fascist patron is a self admitted fascist?

I can see other lawsuits sprouting up using the same type of argument. Some potential suits:

Felons For Guns

A lawsuit against the ATF for requiring background checks and banning felons from possessing and using firearms. This is a public health issue. Felons, unable to use a firearm to victimize folks are forced to use knives, clubs or fists to assault people. Such close contact is a violation of “social distancing rules” and exposes felons to the Chinese flu.

Drunks Against MADD

The nationwide standard of .08 as a standard for intoxication is an arbitrary number that fails to take into consideration individual achievement. Field sobriety and chemical tests are akin to poll taxes, literacy tests and requirements for valid photo identification. All of these methods interfere with an individual’s right be intoxicated and make it home.

Perverts Against Decency

As a condition of probation or parole many sex offenders are banned from accessing Internet porn sites, must report their address, or resort to chemical castration. Each of these requirements interfere with the efforts of perverts to reach their highest potential. Compliance can incur undue costs. The right to freely associate with potential victims is impinged.

I am sure if you give it some thought other causes for action will come to mind.