Ohio AG warns masked anti-Israel protesters they are facing jail time under state law

I’m concerned about the degeneration of our ability to protect all citizens. We need to protect that right to protest. We need to protect the rights of the other students who are not protesting but are actually trying to study and learn. We need to protect the rights of the communities around the universities, and the failure to take firm, fair action to enforce the laws that are designed to protect all of us is really concerning. It’s part of the lawlessness. It’s starting to sweep the land from things like the border and failure to enforce that, to the lawless acts of the Biden administration to usurp Congress and write laws by Fiat. Well, the law is an old law. It goes back to the 20th century, and it was originally designed to make sure that people like Ku Klux Klan were held accountable. That of course, the reason that the Ku Klux Klan wore hoods and masks over their faces is so that they couldn’t be identified because they were committing crimes. So the General Assembly in Ohio said, OK, you can wear a mask, you can wear a hood, that’s fine. But if you commit a crime with two or more other people while you are masking yourself, we’re going to see that as a heightened kind of crime, a worse kind of thing, because you’re consciously doing this and trying to hide your identity because you know you’re doing something wrong. I’ve seen it on on numerous reports. They’re afraid of, quote UN quote, reprisals. Well, reprisals from what? The university administrations are all in on this woke anti Israel pro Palestine rhetoric. They don’t have to worry about being thrown out of school for expressing their views. Reprisals from whom? Well, reprisals from the criminal justice authorities who enforce laws like arson laws like trespass. And that’s exactly what this heightened scrutiny is all about. The 1st Amendment protects you and saying whatever it is you have to say, even even hateful things protected by the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment, though, was always designed to be a shield against the government. It’s not a sword against your fellow students, and they have rights too. Your First Amendment rights are limited by their right to be able to go to school, use the library, get the value of their education and the tuition that they paid for. I think they protest too much. All the letter does is say, hey, don’t become an accidental felon. Ohio has a law here, and incidentally, it’s not even implicated unless you’re committing a criminal act. Another criminal act with two or more people while you’re wearing a mask. I I don’t understand how advising somebody about how to be a law abiding citizen is intimidating or disgusting. I think that Bill Timora protests too much. But then he’s Democratic operative, a member of the DNC Central committee, and everything’s a political game to him. We have a society here that needs to run according to the rules and to allow freedom to everybody. I tell him your heroes from the 1960s didn’t wear masks. Martin Luther King Junior and John Lewis weren’t masked when they walked in Selma. Own Your expression only dictates of your conscience and don’t break the law.