Because false imprisonment has always been illegal. You wanted to roll back to street protests. Decide what you want to argue about.Lol authoritarian undemocratic laws for the only purpose to hamper climate protest, sure. We will see how long it lasts to the test of time and further challenges. But sure. The fact that they made it doesn't make it right by any chance. Interesting how libertarians become legalistic for traffic but where crying out murder for vaccines.
More importantly, this new act doesn't detail false imprisonment anywhere.
I will clarify. Impeding traffic has always been illegal. Impeding traffic for the purposes of protest is now specifically illegal as a separate and distinct crime.Emphasis on *now*, ad hominem laws.
It’s not a ridiculous scenario at all. False imprisonment is one step removed from kidnapping, and happens all the time. It’s illegal as fuck.So not at all that ridiculous scenario of yours, and by the hands of the police.
No, criminals are people who break the law. It’s actually a very clear category. Criminal law is not a “last resort”, it is used when the law is broken, always.Most people are stupid, as one shouldn't toss criminal labels around as if they were candy. That's why criminal law is meant to be a last resort in society, except in authoritarian regimes. No question about the "assholery" of the act.
If you are preventing me from leaving an area, by any means, against my will and with no legal justification, I have grounds to claim false imprisonment. You have eyeballs in your head and you can see vehicles behind my own on a highway, so I can’t reverse - you know this. By blocking me from the front, you have imprisoned me in that area. My only recourse is to leave my vehicle behind at which point I am endangering myself because I’m on a damned highway, and endangering my property, because I’m effectively parking it on a damned highway. The penalty for your behaviour should be a one-way trip to the sun on a ballistic missile.So again, your point is utterly bonkers. As you said, blocking traffic is blocking traffic, not false imprisonment.