Today in the State House, the Homeland Security and Private Property Committee heard HB 2286. If you're not familiar with HB 2286 it was titled "Domestic Terrorism". Basically it would have made Neighborhood Watch and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp or any person that carried a weapon while patrolling to seek out crimes in progress. This bill was very flawed in words and in concept. Besides limiting our right to bear arms and right of free assembly this bill would have made your neighborhood watch programs illegal. The bill did not define a weapon. So if you even carried a stick, crane or any object that may cause bodily harm you would be committing Domestic Terrorism while patrolling your neighborhood or even your own property. Forget about the fact that this bill would have made private security guards "Domestic Terrorist".
What I was really disappointed with was the matter that the Republicans on this committee let the liberals (Sinema, Garrado, Prezelski) almost wiggle out of this really bad bill. First of all when Rep. Sinema spoke about this bill, she brought news footage of Chris Simcox and the MCDC. Beside this footage being manipulated by the media to portray these men and women that donate their time and energy to watch our border and notify the authorities as "crazy vigilantes", showing this footage demonstrated that Rep. Sinema was directly going after MCDC. Then the liberals side step the actual wording of this bill saying that it's not actually Chris Simcox's group we're trying to stop, it's white supremacy groups or people that promote hate. Mind you that no where in this bill does it deal with hate speech or hate crimes. No Republican called them on the carpet on that point. The Republican today heard this bill just to prove a point and no one actually made the point. There was no way that this bill would have ever passed and to just vote it down twice and to listen to the testimony was a waste. Next time a committee wants to make an example out of a really bad bill actually make an example out of it.
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