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Licenses to Kill for everyone! Seriously though, can you really make murder legal, and not face any federal consequences?
They make murder legal but abortion illigal because it is murder
Once this law passes, I think you're in the clear as long as you get the abortion on your own property and claim self defense.
you just need to show they didnt pay rent for a month.
Kind of like how in the south everything is “Coke,” but there’s different flavors like “Sprite Coke” and “Orange Coke?” (I’m not from the south so I may have gotten that wrong)
Not quite. Coke is the general term, but nobody would refer to it as “sprite coke”. So the conversation would be more along the lines of:
The first line uses “coke” as a general “soda/pop/etc” term, but notice that it isn’t used again, because they’re not referring to generalized soda/pop/coke anymore, and are being specific. And if you want a Coca-Cola brand Coke, you just ask for cola.
Nah, we'd use "Coke" again in the third line and it'd be understood to mean specifically Coca-Cola because Pepsi was also mentioned to contrast with it. Otherwise, if we said “I’ve got Sprite, Dr Pepper, coke, and root beer" then that "coke" might be Pepsi. Either way, saying "cola" instead would be unusual.
"Coke" can mean any soda, any cola, or Coca-Cola Classic specifically depending on context.
I don’t even see how this changes anything. The cops kill people all day every day and never see consequences besides paid vacations. The legal system is a (dark) joke on everyone but the rich.
The more sinister aspects of the law are sections 18 and 19 which enable them to corral homeless people into basically concentration camps.
Oh no, that's just a road to the worst section. If you can get them to resist, probably by destroying their property, then you've got them on a "violent felony".
Do that three times and this law turns then into a ~~slave~~ prisoner for life, without parole.
Yup, they're pairing this with a three strikes law.
And section 17 of the bill defines camping as setting up camping equipment anywhere outside of designated areas for any reason.
So anyone could just set up a tent somewhere and be jailed or shot. Prop for a photo or movie? Shot. Shade tent in a park at your family's 4th of July barbecue? Shot. Protesters setting up tents just to piss off the cops? Believe it or not, shot.
Well no, they do except "legitimate recreational activities" later on. The thing is, no one thinking about using this law is going to bother to read the definition.
In the US the federal government can only prosecute you under specific circumstances. Generally it's going to be the state, or even your county.
Typically states are allowed to set their own criminal laws as it's considered within their powers under the 10th Amendment without federal interference. But they can't pass a law that would violate the US constitution. This one I'm sure would lead to at least a couple of constitutional arguments, one being that if the state used execution to punish illegal camping it would definitely violate the 8th Amendment, and they can't just get around that by outsourcing enforcement to individuals. Even this very Republican supreme court might now allow that.
But to answer the question, if the state wanted to just straight up legalize murder for everyone I think they'd be able to do it without issue.
Oh they've had stand your ground laws for a while now. This is just a new way to get most Americans to tune out. Police say they were homeless and aggressive.