"Running over protesters on roadways could soon be legal in North Dakota
Protesters may want to think twice about blocking roads in North Dakota.
Republican lawmakers in the state introduced a bill last week in the legislature that would not hold motorists liable for negligently running over someone obstructing a roadway. The bill was introduced in response to a year of protests over a proposed pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
"A driver of a motor vehicle who negligently causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway may not be held liable for any damages," the bill reads. "A driver of a motor vehicle who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway is not guilty of an offense."
Lawmakers told the Bismarck Tribune that the bill is needed after protesters blocked traffic during oil pipeline protests.
"It’s shifting the burden of proof from the motor vehicle driver to the pedestrian,” Rep. Keith Kempenich told the paper. "(Roads) are not there for the protesters. They’re intentionally putting themselves in danger."
The bill will be heard by the North Dakota's House Transportation Committee on Friday."
No, survivors will be backed over.
Yeah. Worked in Nice.
You're OK with people holding other people hostage?
That's domestic terrorism, is it not?
You equate a terrorist ramming a truck into innocent people who are simple going about their business to a person taking action against an illegal mob and refusing to be held hostage?
Really?
All tongue in cheek (for the most part). You've got to lighten up dude...
Yes. It's mass murder either way. It's not "the person's" job. It's a job for the police.
But the police are mostly for cleaning up the mess after the fact.
If someone breaks into your home in the middle of the night and your choice is simply to call the police instead of defending yourself, when the police finally arrive, their first call is likely to be to the coroner.
And if you try to hold me hostage, you are engaging in a form of kidnapping. I will do my best to stop that "By any means necessary."
It would only have to happen a couple of times and the word would get around,
Okay, okay, bravado aside, fine. In your house, at night.
>>>And if you try to hold me hostage, you are engaging in a form of kidnapping. I will do my best to stop that "By any means necessary."<<<
Don't be ridiculous. Turn around and drive the other way. Run them over and you'll be spending a long time in jail.
1. How do you turn around when you've got a hundred or more cars behind you?
2. What possible right do these azzholes have to keep you from going to your destination, which might be the emergency room at the hospital, your job, the airport, etc. ?
Do I get out of my vehicle and confront them, at which point they will smash my windows, maybe beat me up and turn over my vehicle?
What if my wife is in labor or I have a very sick child in the back seat, hoping to get to the ER before he/she dies? Am I supposed to acquiesce to their folly?
They have a right to protest and I will defend that right with my life.
But they have NO right to take away my rights to go where I want, when I want and why I want.
Your position is whether they are right or wrong, I have to let them do what they please with MY rights.
LIKE HELL I DO!
Kyle, I'm in agreement with you, but neither you or I (or anyone else here) would ever take a life in that manner unless our lives, or that of our family, were in mortal danger. The people standing in the road are idiots, no question, and no, they have no right to impinge on the rights of others. We can do the "but, what if?" thing till hell freezes over, however in reality the odds of such a scenario are incalculably low. I get it, but the thing is we don't kill people because they're idiots. We might want to, but we wouldn't do it.
The good guys just don't do that sort of thing.
