Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Announces Legislation Increasing Penalties For Rioting

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced new legislation Monday that would increase the penalties for anyone involved in a “violent or disorderly assembly.” The bill would also prohibit state funding for any local government that cuts their police budget. “Recently in our country we have seen attacks on law enforcement, we have seen disorder and tumult in many cities and across the country,” the governor said during a Monday press conference. “And I think that this has been a really really sad chapter in American history.” “I think we need to do more in terms of having a strong legislative response so that we do not always have to play whack-a-mole any time you have situations like this develop,” DeSantis continued. Under the new law, called the Combatting Violence, Disorder and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection Act, anyone involved in an assembly of 7 or more people where property is destroyed or someone is injured would face felony charges. It also makes it a felony to block roadways and destroy public property, including toppling monuments.

The bill makes it a misdemeanor to “harass or intimidate a person at a public accommodation, such as a restaurant.” If a person is charged with a crime related to rioting they would not get bail until their first appearance in court, and anyone who is convicted of participating in a riot would be ineligible for government benefits or employment by the government. Hitting a law enforcement officer, including with a projectile, would carry a mandatory minimum of 6 months in jail under the new legislation. Any local government that cuts their police budget would lose any state grants or aid. The legislation comes in response to over 3 months of nationwide protests and riots that erupted after George Floyd’s death May 25. During the riots, people destroyed property, burned buildings down, and clashed with police.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/21/florida-governor-ron-desantis-announces-legislation-increasing-penalties-for-rioting/

https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1308095991183220736

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>I take the Bar exam in 13 days

Ben Garrison, needs no explanation!

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Baker Cap

Swisher asked Pelosi how much she holds Facebook accountable for QAnon content appearing on the site, to which Pelosi responded, "I hold them very accountable." "In 2016, when the Russians interfered in our election and rubles were coming in and they had to know that these were not on the level of American sites, they said, well, we never thought to look at that. So they played that role in that election," Pelosi said. "I don't know how the Facebook board of directors or their top employees can look themselves in the mirror," she continued. "They have clearly chosen. Their business plan is to make money off of poison, and that's the path they have chosen to go."

>https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-facebook-criticism-qanon-posts-kara-swisher-2020-9

Hmm, in 2016 Qanon didn't exist..but the Russians did, kek..

Pelosi Stonewalls Bill That Would Crack Down on Chinese Influence in U.S.

House Dems block bill to crack down on regime-sponsored Confucius Institutes

House Democrats are blocking a bill that will curtail the influence of the Chinese-government-funded Confucius Institute, stymying bipartisan legislation that unanimously passed in the Senate. Despite bipartisan support in the upper chamber, House Democrats—including a cosponsor for the bill—voted against placing the CONFUCIUS Act on the agenda in late July, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has yet to announce plans to place the bill on the floor. If passed, the legislation would require all federally funded universities with Confucius Institutes to assume "full managerial control" of the institutes, a move that would limit the Chinese government's influence over the program. Frustrated by the lack of action, congressional Republicans are blaming Pelosi for blocking debate for the bill, criticizing the House speaker for putting politics over national security. "I regret that Speaker Pelosi has still not scheduled the CONFUCIUS Act for a vote," said Rules Committee Ranking Member Tom Cole, who introduced the July vote. "This isn’t about politics. It’s about holding China accountable, and Speaker Pelosi clearly hasn’t made that a priority." This is not the first time Democrats have opposed bipartisan legislation that sought to hold China accountable. In March, House Democrats railed against a bill that demanded Beijing disavow its conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus originated in a U.S. military lab, labeling the bill racist against Asian Americans. House Democrats also dropped out of the then-bipartisan China task force in an unexplained, last minute decision in February. Pelosi's office did not respond to a request for comment.

At its peak in 2017, Confucius Institute had branches in more than 100 universities across the country, allowing Beijing to teach Mandarin to thousands of U.S. college students. The government-vetted teachers are not allowed to discuss topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government, such as human-rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet. A bipartisan group of legislators have long worried that the program gives the Chinese government undue influence over campuses, prompting legislative action. The CONFUCIUS Act—which stands for Concerns Over Nations Funding University Campus Institutes in the United States—required universities to uphold academic freedom and prevent the exercise of foreign law on American campuses—a key provision, since Beijing often required Confucius Institute teachers to abide by Chinese laws. The bill, introduced by Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.), unanimously passed the Senate in June. The House companion bill initially received bipartisan support, recruiting Florida Democratic Rep. Donna Shalala as one of its sponsors. "The CONFUCIUS Act will support important cultural exchange with China while strongly protecting the values of American public higher education," the Democrat said in a July statement. House Democrats, however, refused to put the bipartisan legislation on the agenda. On July 29, Republicans introduced a motion to approve consideration for the CONFUCIUS Act, but Democrats including Shalala voted against the motion. The bill is currently stuck in committee. Rachelle Peterson, a Confucius Institute expert and senior research fellow at the National Association of Scholars, said it is "truly astonishing" that Democrats will not advance the widely supported bill, which asks for "basic assurances of good faith from Confucius Institutes."

Republican supporters of the bill accuse Pelosi of ignoring China's growing influence in academia. "If Speaker Pelosi is blocking the CONFUCIUS Act in the House after every single Senate Democrat supported its passage, it's worth asking why," Kennedy told the Washington Free Beacon. "Do House Democrats and the speaker want to give Xi Jinping more influence over what gets taught on American campuses? Does academic freedom annoy just their caucus in general?"

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/pelosi-stonewalls-china-bill-senate-dems-unanimously-supported/

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll168.xml

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/939/all-info

https://shalala.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2523

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>>10741291 Pelosi Stonewalls Bill That Would Crack Down on Chinese Influence in U.S.