July 12, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Left-wing activists, who have taken to putting bandanas over their faces during anti-Trump protests, are furious over a new bill that would add an additional penalty to laws against infringing on others’ Constitutional rights if done while wearing a mask.
“Americans have the natural right to speak and protest freely; it is not a right to throw Molotov cocktails and beat people who assemble peacefully while hiding behind a mask,” said Rep. Dan Donovan, R-NY, who introduced the Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018.
Americans have the natural right to speak and protest freely; it is not a right to throw Molotov cocktails and beat people who assemble peacefully while hiding behind a mask. My bill adds a penalty for doing so to the decades-old civil rights statutes
— Dan Donovan (@RepDanDonovan) July 11, 2018
Penalizing people for violently infringing on Constitutional rights while hiding behind a mask is a fairly reasonable proposal, but you wouldn’t know it reading some of these extreme defenses of violent anarchy
— Dan Donovan (@RepDanDonovan) July 11, 2018
To those predicting a doomsday totalitarian state from my Unmasking Antifa Act: please read the bill. It simply adds a penalty for wearing a mask while infringing on the Constitutional rights of others to assemble and speak freely.
— Dan Donovan (@RepDanDonovan) July 11, 2018