okay?Slimshandy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:52 pm Kennedy introduces Stop Blocking Hospitals Act to protect life-saving medical services from criminal rioting
Sep 16 2020
“First responders are on the front lines of protecting communities and saving lives. Protestors who block these heroes from the people who need them may think their actions are political, but, in reality, they’re criminal.”
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today introduced the Stop Blocking Hospitals Act to make obstructing emergency vehicles and personnel a federal crime. Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are original cosponsors of the bill.
“First responders are on the front lines of protecting communities and saving lives. Protestors who block these heroes from the people who need them may think their actions are political, but, in reality, they’re criminal. Ideally, local politicians wouldn’t stand by like knots on a log when protestors stop emergency care from getting to private citizens and community law enforcement. Unfortunately, though, it’s fallen to federal authorities to fill this leadership void through the Stop Blocking Hospitals Act,” said Kennedy.
“Like millions of Americans, I was outraged to learn last weekend that protestors in Los Angeles had blocked the entrance to the emergency room and chanted ‘we hope they die’ as first responders transported two sheriff deputies who were ambushed and shot. I never would have imagined we would have to introduce legislation making it a federal penalty to block access to emergency rooms, but it must be made clear that actions like these will be punished.
I believe that people have a finite number of things that they can be outraged about and right now, my outrage meter is pegged. Personally, I'm more outraged by what the protestors on the bridge were protesting rather than how they were protesting. I also understand that everyone's meter is calibrated differently. So:
Protestors should obtain permits
Protestors should never block emergency vehicles
Withholding food as a weapon of war is abhorrent
Bombing of civilian infrastructure including religious, educational, medical facilities is abhorrent
Killing and burying of victims of war in mass graves is abhorrent
Intentional killing of journalists is abhorrent
Intentional killing of relief workers is abhorrent
Bombing embassies or consulates is abhorrent
Settler violence is abhorrent
Killing children is abhorrent
Please forgive me if I don't find the targeting of protestors of the above justified even if they didn't have a permit. I'm sorry that people were delayed on the freeway.
I understand that others feel differently and that's okay, I guess.