04-15-2018, 03:25 PM
(04-15-2018, 01:12 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(04-15-2018, 11:33 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: How is it not illegal?
The criminal code of Canada defines unlawful assembly as:
63. (1) An unlawful assembly is an assembly of three or more persons who, with intent to carry out any common purpose, assemble in such a manner or so conduct themselves when they are assembled as to cause persons in the neighbourhood of the assembly to fear, on reasonable grounds, that they
(a) will disturb the peace tumultuously; or
(b) will by that assembly needlessly and without reasonable cause provoke other persons to disturb the peace tumultuously.
Lawful assembly becoming unlawful
(2) Persons who are lawfully assembled may become an unlawful assembly if they conduct themselves with a common purpose in a manner that would have made the assembly unlawful if they had assembled in that manner for that purpose.
R.S., c. C-34, s. 64.
This event even meets the definition of riot (12 or more persons):
64. A riot is an unlawful assembly that has begun to disturb the peace tumultuously.
R.S., c. C-34, s. 65.
How?
This event fails the following parts parts:
a) Common intent.
b) Disturbing the peace.
There was no rioting, no major fighting, no broad disorderly conduct.
There were individuals who engaged in illegal acts for which they were ticketed by police present. That was not the common intent of the group.
If this was an illegal gathering the police would have shut it down. They have publicly stated they want any excuse to do so.
Can we stop making up law now?
What planet are you on?
The law is the legal test not your belief that it is not illegal.
A pig can not fly even if you said it could.
Can you stop ignoring the law now?