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How can you say one thing and then be SO naive in the rest of your comment?
Trump is NOT responsible for someone else's actions. He is not responsible for violence unless he is paying someone to be violent. Even if he suggests violence, he is not responsible.
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How can you be so naïve about the law? There are laws against inciting violence, calling for the overthrow of the government and many other forms of speech. It has absolutely nothing to do with payment or non-payment. If I tell you to beat someone up and I will pay your legal bills, that is potentially a criminal act.
Under federal law, a riot is a public disturbance involving an act of violence by one or more persons assembled in a group of at least three people. 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. According to 18 USCS § 2102 "to incite a riot", or "to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot", includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.”
If Trump's language is not criminal it is completely against any idea of civilization or discourse. The right to protest is central to our nation.
See Tea Party protests as an example. And no one was punched and no candidate or elected official suggested it as a strategy. But here was on tea party group's memo
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tea partiers should "pack the hall... spread out" to make their numbers seem more significant, and to "rock-the-boat early in the Rep's presentation...to yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early.... to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda...stand up and shout and sit right back down."
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So do you care to revise your opinion about payment being an element of the crime? Do you wish to revise your opinion about this being a left wing tactic? Of course not.