North Carolina Republican wants to make it illegal to shout hurtful things at delicate lawmakers

One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is that you're obviously not allowed to publicly criticize your government; such speech would be wrong and bad and laws are quickly made to dispense with such potentially naughty things. Anyhoo, apropos of nothing let's see what's going on in the increasingly despotic realm of North Carolina.

After a video was posted on Facebook Friday showing a group of people following [Former Gov. Pat McCrory] during a trip to Washington, D.C., for inaugural weekend, chanting “Shame!” and calling him a bigot, Sen. Dan Bishop of Charlotte says he’ll introduce legislation to protect public officials. The proposed legislation would “make it a crime to threaten, intimidate, or retaliate against a present or former North Carolina official in the course of, or on account of, the performance of his or her duties,” Bishop said....
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