FYI : "inciting a riot..."

Q. What does the charge inciting a riot mean?

-- Anonymous

A. Under federal law, a riot is a public disturbance involving an act of violence by one or more persons who are assembled in a group of at least three people. The act of violence must be one that presents a clear and present danger of injury to another person or damage to another person's property. Threatening to commit a violent act in such a group situation that could injure another person or damage property is also considered a riot if one of the persons in the group has the ability at the time to carry out the threatened violence.

Inciting a riot applies to a person who organizes, encourages, or participates in a riot. It can apply to one who urges or instigates others to riot...

The federal crime of inciting a riot carries a possible penalty of up to five years in prison a fine.


http://www.lawyers.com/ask_a_lawyer/q_and_a_archive/view_archive/index.php?QID=12-MAY-03&

the TH meetings and fight back against the pubs who are disrupting the meeting. I'm really afraid there WILL be a riot, and of course you know who will be blamed for that!

No, I'm not actually.

but those same police officers don't start arresting those that have threatened to harm him...then we have a huge problem.

...cause it's most certainly not.

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http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=224167&town=&n=Congressman%20Bishop%20suspends%20town%20hall%20meetings
U.S. Representative Tim Bishop has temporarily suspended holding “town hall” style meetings after Suffolk County Police were called by residents to escort him back to his car amid a throng of rowdy protesters who turned out for a meeting in Setauket last month.

"Mr. Schneider said Mr. Bishop never felt threatened by the protesters and that none of them ever made any threatening gestures toward him or touched him physically in any way."

let`s say a 70 something wanted to find out the truth but what they experienced what was on the tapes...in my opnion i`d say they would be afraid...or really pissed off.

It was definitely intimidation, definitely thuggish behavior... but didn't seem to reach the level of violence from what I saw... that's why I asked if there was any of that happening.

the republicans will use it against the democrats...surpressing free speech. a simple solution is checking peoples id`s..if you don`t live in the district..see ya!

If these rallies start turning into riots it will generate a huge backlash against the GOP.

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