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gigag04 wrote:Harassment of a public servant in tx is a felony 3.

Example would be spitting on a police officer.

Is annoying them a felony?

RX8er wrote:Does this work both ways?

The New York State Senate today passed a bill that creates the crime of aggravated harassment of a police or peace officer. The bill (S.2402), sponsored by Senator Joe Griffo (R-C-I, Rome) would make it a felony to harass, annoy, or threaten a police officer while on duty.

http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/s ... icer-crime" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Emphasis is mine.

I want to see how they define "annoy". I know a bunch of 1%ers that did not annoy the police but the Tea Party did. This cannot be a good thing to have something so vague.

That's scary.

It seems like at some point we should start suing, for violating our rights, the legislators who author, sponsor, or vote for such blantently unconstitutional laws. And I mean them specifically and personally, not some vague notion of the state where the taxpayers would end up footing the bill in the unlikely event that such a suit would be won. Yes, I know they aren't the ones personally violating rights, but they're still responsible, in the same way that someone who hires a hitman is responsible.