I-1639 unconstitutional

TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law.: “Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

This section of the U.S.C. is intended to keep people from doing exactly what the backers of Initiative 1639 are doing. I-1639 will do nothing to make schools or communities safer as the misleading title of the initiative reads. I-1639 is intended to deprive citizens of their Constitutional rights nothing more, nothing less.

If a person chooses not to exercise their constitutional rights, that is their right, but to have a mob tell citizens they cannot exercise their constitutional rights is unjustifiable. One thing that I-1639 reveals is that instead the backers of I-1639 being charged under Title 18, U.S.C. Section 242 our kangaroo Washington state Supreme Court has allowed I-1639 on the ballot. Since I am being forced to vote on an initiative that violates citizens’ rights, I will vote no.

Daniel Day

Spokane