• jaselle@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    I don’t know why you would think that would help the problem. That kind of sass is just going to galvanize their supporters. What the church members did – calmly ask the disruptor to leave – is probably the best thing they could do in this circumstance.

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      8 days ago

      Perhaps it doesn’t help now that these people have become so emboldened as to become a mainstream party, should have been done some time ago.

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        8 days ago

        Yeah, agreed. But we live in the present. Sadly this is a post Punch-a-Nazi world.

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        8 days ago

        She obviously was not trespassing. Slander would definitely be an escalation.

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            8 days ago

            She left when asked. The church was presumably open to people to come join in.

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            8 days ago

            Technically depending on where you are staying on property after you have been asked to leave counts as different types of crime. In America it’s a tresspass misdemeanor with fines usually a couple of hundred dollars so it’s not uncommon for folks to just pay the fee to be a nuisance. In Canada it’s called “Assault by Tresspass” and is considered for criminal purposes a form of assault and the fines are about 10 grand.

            Generally speaking if you want cops to enforce a law with enthusiasm you have to make it worth the systems while.