Shades of Reagan: Bill Barr vows to employ 1960s anti-riot law on loot-and-riot thugs

[mystery-ak]

May 31, 2020
Shades of Reagan: Bill Barr vows to employ 1960s anti-riot law on loot-and-riot thugs
By Monica Showalter

I'm already seeing it on Twitter: "Thank goodness we have Bill Barr."

Which makes sense. Here's his plan of action on the beasts overtaking our cities under color of civil rights protests, according to the New York Post:

    Attorney General Bill Barr will go after violent demonstrators with a 1968 law meant to quell rioting.

    “We must have law and order on our streets and in our communities,” Barr said Saturday at DOJ headquarters in Washington, DC.

    “It is a federal crime to cross state lines or to use interstate facilities to incite or participate in violent rioting,” he said. “We will enforce these laws.”

    Barr accused “anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics” for the unrest that has spread to cities throughout the nation since Monday, in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police.

    “Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda,” he said.

    The federal Anti-Riot Act, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, carries penalties of up to five years in prison.

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[EdinVA]

So, why did we wait???  Never mind..

[libertybele]

May 31, 2020
Shades of Reagan: Bill Barr vows to employ 1960s anti-riot law on loot-and-riot thugs
By Monica Showalter

I'm already seeing it on Twitter: "Thank goodness we have Bill Barr."

Which makes sense. Here's his plan of action on the beasts overtaking our cities under color of civil rights protests, according to the New York Post:

    Attorney General Bill Barr will go after violent demonstrators with a 1968 law meant to quell rioting.

    “We must have law and order on our streets and in our communities,” Barr said Saturday at DOJ headquarters in Washington, DC.

    “It is a federal crime to cross state lines or to use interstate facilities to incite or participate in violent rioting,” he said. “We will enforce these laws.”

    Barr accused “anarchistic and far-left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics” for the unrest that has spread to cities throughout the nation since Monday, in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police.

    “Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda,” he said.

    The federal Anti-Riot Act, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, carries penalties of up to five years in prison.

more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/shades_of_reagan_bill_barr_vows_to_employ_1960s_antiriot_law_on_lootandriot_thugs.html

Not buying what he's selling.  So far Barr has proven over and over again, he's all hot air and no action.

[goatprairie]

So what is Trump and Barr waiting for? We're seeing images of punk rioters vandalizing cop cars and burning down buildings.
A tough guy stance is one thing....how about starting cracking down on these useless oxygen thieves.

[libertybele]

So what is Trump and Barr waiting for? We're seeing images of punk rioters vandalizing cop cars and burning down buildings.
A tough guy stance is one thing....how about starting cracking down on these useless oxygen thieves.

That's just it.  Barr continues to make declarations and announcements and not a darn thing gets done.   

[truth_seeker]

In two separate civil unrest situations, I listened for the LE explanation.

1. Downtown Huntington Beach suffered from more, and more trouble in the late 1980s. Mobs of young drinkers, fireworks hooligans went from house, to house. Each year authoorities would dial up measures.

Eventually the young rioters were setting fires at intersections, dancing around. On woman was threatened. CNN feattures the mayhem.

A friend/neighbor served on police duty that night. I asked him why it took so long?

He explained Police must first assemble adequate resources, instead of rush in undprepared.

In 1992 LAPD chief Brad Gates was questioned why he waited, to use more force after the Rodney King verdict riots

His answer the same; n that LE must first assemble, organize adequate force, before deploying it.

In Scot Adams' bestselling latest book, "Loserthink," he identifies "Why didn't you do the right thing sooner, as a universal criticism.  It gets an entire chapter.