Traveling Interstate or Using Interstate means of Communications For The Purpose of Causing a Riot

 In 1968, Congress passed a law that makes it a federal crime to travel interstate or to use any means of interstate commerce (like the mail, or the telephone, or the internet) with intent to incite a riot.  Section 2101(a) of Title 18 of the United States Code reads:

(a)Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent—

(1)

to incite a riot; or

(2)

to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or

(3)

to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or

(4)

to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot;

and who either during the course of any such travel or use or thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for any purpose specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this paragraph— [1]

Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Think about that.  The BLM and Antifa thugs who have been organizing the riots in many cities are all using their phones to communicate.  They are all posting video to social media on the internet to incite others to riot.  Many of them are traveling from city to city -- over state lines-- to get to the next site chosen for a riot.  That's a whole string of federal crimes.  

Why isn't the Department of Justice gathering evidence on people who post some of the videos like those of the guy getting shot in Kenosha.  If the videos came from a cell phone and if they were taken by a leader of the violence, then that person used a facility of interstate commerce with intent to incite or further a riot.  The feds can arrest that person and the far left local prosecutors can't do anything about it.

I particularly like this law as a remedy for the violence plaguing our country because it was passed by a Congress totally controlled by the Democrats and then signed into law by Lyndon Johnson, another Democrat.

Things have gone far enough.  The violence has to end.