Felony for trespassing.
5 year prison sentence......but no word on closing the border.
This country is finished.
News from The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- A U.S. senator who says terror threats are up proposed a federal law Monday that carries up to five years of prison time for scaling prominent national structures such as the World Trade Center, Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said his state is the nation's top terror target. His proposed maximum sentence of five years is a considerable jump from the one year in New York City's trespassing law.
Recent incidents include a Russian tourist who climbed the Brooklyn Bridge, two German artists who claimed responsibility for replacing American flags with mysterious white ones atop the famed span that links Manhattan and Brooklyn, and three extreme-skydiving daredevils who leaped off 1 World Trade Center.
"With terror threats at a high, it must be made loud and clear to any would-be trespassers, adrenaline junkies or potential criminals that the federal government and the New York Police Department take trespassing on critical infrastructure and national monuments very seriously," the Democratic senator said, standing near the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge with the city's deputy police commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, John Miller.
In New York, the maximum federal sentence of five years also would apply to the Statue of Liberty, various tunnels and the suburban Indian Point nuclear power plant north of the city - all considered critical infrastructures.
They're defined as physical systems and assets so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on physical and economic security, or on public health.
5 year prison sentence......but no word on closing the border.
This country is finished.
News from The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- A U.S. senator who says terror threats are up proposed a federal law Monday that carries up to five years of prison time for scaling prominent national structures such as the World Trade Center, Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said his state is the nation's top terror target. His proposed maximum sentence of five years is a considerable jump from the one year in New York City's trespassing law.
Recent incidents include a Russian tourist who climbed the Brooklyn Bridge, two German artists who claimed responsibility for replacing American flags with mysterious white ones atop the famed span that links Manhattan and Brooklyn, and three extreme-skydiving daredevils who leaped off 1 World Trade Center.
"With terror threats at a high, it must be made loud and clear to any would-be trespassers, adrenaline junkies or potential criminals that the federal government and the New York Police Department take trespassing on critical infrastructure and national monuments very seriously," the Democratic senator said, standing near the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge with the city's deputy police commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, John Miller.
In New York, the maximum federal sentence of five years also would apply to the Statue of Liberty, various tunnels and the suburban Indian Point nuclear power plant north of the city - all considered critical infrastructures.
They're defined as physical systems and assets so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on physical and economic security, or on public health.
