Judge Says Feds Can’t ‘Selectively’ Prosecute Right-Wing Rioters While Ignoring Antifa [More]
So they can’t just treat it as professional courtesy?
[Via Michael G]
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The government charged the men under a rarely-used law called the Anti-Riot Act. […] The law makes it a federal offense when interstate commerce or communication, including telephones, is used to plan what later becomes a riot.
Any telephone, or just one in which the wires or connection crosses state lines?
That said, we don’t live in that world anymore; when it was passed in the 1960s there weren’t the nation-wide or global telecommunication corporations we have now. A call made locally was truly local. Now, everything gets routed through “data centers” — which could be located anywhere — and even a “local” call may bounce all around the nation or world before the recipient’s phone rings.
So is there ANY communication that’s not “interstate” anymore?
This is humorous. The Radio Act of 1927 stipulated that because the minimum power required (at that time) for radio communication inevitably radiated beyond state boundaries, licensing and spectrum allocation would now be a matter for federal control. Since that time, technology has invented many useful forms of radio communication that barely cross a street (WiFi), and sometimes a single room (Bluetooth), but the federal hands in the pie will never be removed. Meanwhile, telephone technology has done just the inverse.