This is one of the few times that you will hear me agree with new laws coming out of Olympia Washington. This state has been known to lean way to the left and the law makers do as they please and not how the people vote.
Having said that, this new law protecting veterans families from protesters is on the mark. These families have been through enough and don't need people yelling and screaming at them while they say their last goodbye to a loved one.
Don't these protesters understand that the soldier doesn't choose how they are used? Don't they know that the family is suffering or is it that they just don't care?
Since returning from Iraq I have been a part of the Honor Guard that provides services at a National Cemetery and I for one will protect the family of any soldier, sailor, airman or marine that I am providing final honors for.
Here is the section of the law covering funerals:
13 (d)(i) Intentionally engages in fighting or in tumultuous conduct
14 or makes unreasonable noise, within five hundred feet of:
15 (A) The location where a funeral or burial is being performed;
16 (B) A funeral home during the viewing of a deceased person;
17 (C) A funeral procession, if the person described in this
18 subsection (1)(d) knows that the funeral procession is taking place; or
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1 (D) A building in which a funeral or memorial service is being
2 conducted; and
3 (ii) Knows that the activity adversely affects the funeral, burial,
4 viewing, funeral procession, or memorial service.
5 (2) Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor.
6 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate
7 preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the
8 state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect
9 immediately.
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