A Kentucky bill would target protestors, promote cultural purity
Kentucky is the new legislative laboratory for a bigoted, extremism agenda.
Take the latest proposed law. Is it to protect our First Amendment right to protest? No, it would protect drivers who run over protesters with their cars.
This is not hyperbole — this is Kentucky.
On Tuesday — the same day two Republican U.S. senators were pleading for conservatives to push back against the nationalist, unconservative, temperamentally handicapped, Trump-Bevin faction in their party — a Kentucky state lawmaker introduced a bill targeting rights of protestors, and protecting drivers who hit protestors with their cars.
State Rep. — and stain on Kentucky’s pants — Wesley Morgan, prefiled BR 305, “An act related to public protests.” If passed, the law would prohibit protesters from “wearing a mask, hood, helmet, or other facade that hides, conceals, or covers any portion of his or her face.” Protesters will also not be allowed to wear “protective gear, including shields and armor.”
Read more: https://www.leoweekly.com/2017/10/cultural-purity-not-governing-philosophy/