I read a recent article about a proposed transportation bill that would criminalize protests that obstruct traffic.
Am I missing something? I read about a lawmaker talking about people locking arms to block the Glenn Highway. I scanned the internet for articles: ‘Alaska protest Glenn Highway’ — nothing. Car crashes, snow piled up...
I don’t recall any sort of event fitting this description. I don’t recall many (if any) protests happening in or around the Municipality of Anchorage at all. A few people gathered in the park strip for Palestine, but I saw fewer than 50 people, standing in a circle on the grass.
The most you see from people in Anchorage is a gaggle of Donald Trump supporters here or there on occasion.
The problem I have with this proposed bill, as with so much else, is that it is entirely the baby of an overactive imagination and paranoia of politicians who are out of touch with reality. I think that if people were marching down the roads en masse carrying banners, I would hear about it. The fact is that they aren’t, and they haven’t been. Nobody has time off from work these days to address the real and present danger of political insanity from elected officials who think we’re all out to get them.
— Sam Bair
Anchorage
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