Posted October 20, 2017 11:30 am by Comments

By Brian Seay

Protestors gather in Charlottesville, Virginia during the August 12 “Unite the Right” event. (Photo: Associated Press)
A lawsuit filed last week seeks to prevent seven militia groups, four white nationalist groups, and organizers of the Aug. 12 “Unite the Right” event from going back to Charlottesville.
Citing a section of the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, lawyers with Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection filed a 79-page complaint alleging that private militias and alt-right groups “engaged in highly coordinated and unlawful paramilitary activity that transformed the city into a virtual combat zone.”
“In all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power,” says Article I, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution, the section cited by the attorneys in their complaint.
“A section of the Virginia Code is dedicated to prohibiting ‘unlawful paramilitary activity,’ as specified therein,” the complaint says. “And another state statute forbids falsely assuming the functions of any peace officer or law-enforcement officer.”
The “Unite the Right” event was organized to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Emancipation Park, formerly Robert E. Lee Park. Organizers said the rally sought to “unify the right-wing against a

Source: Guns.com

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