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There’s a report in today’s Washington Post that describes a bill introduced this week in the Arizona legislature that “would open up protests to anti-racketeering legislation, targeting protesters with the same laws used to combat organized crime syndicates. It would also allow police to seize the assets of anyone involved in a protest that at some point becomes violent. It recently passed the state Senate on a party-line vote and is now before the House.”

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the impact this type of legislation could have, if enacted, on our Constitutionally guaranteed rights of free speech and free assembly. We must be vigilant, lest the enemies of truth succeed in their efforts to stifle discourse and obliterate reason.