Posted on 03/13/2012 4:31:47 AM PDT by Doogle
ast week the United States Congress passed dangerous legislation that would make free speech a felony and seriously restrict political protest. The legislation will give federal agents sweeping powers to arrest and bring felony criminal charges against citizens engaged in political protests anywhere in the U.S.
H.R. 347, The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, threatens the right to protest and assemble in government buildings or on public or private grounds where events of “national significance” are taking place.
Critics claim the legislation is aimed at curbing forms of protest associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement, as well as deterring any future protests at the G-8 Summit scheduled for this spring.
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Then they are all guilty.
signed last week, first I heard about it was this AM.
Our Freedoms & Liberties are being eroded, slowly, one-step-at-a-time, just as the nazis and commies did to their peoples, until complete and total slavery to the state, becomes the “new norm”. No one even notices until we’re *there*, bound and chained to servitude and poverty, and grateful to the new “nanny state”, socialist society.
4 more years under Obummer and America is gone forever. We’re almost halfway there, now.
So only three voted against it. (sigh) :(
Where were these power grabbers last spring when the unions were protesting (with damage) at the Wisconsin state capital?
I can see the “job creation” now.......Hundreds if not thousands of teachers and other union thugs being arrested. (You need cops to arrest them, thus job creation). You then will need more prosecuters and legal types to handle all the paperwork, transporters to cart them to jail, more jailers, etc. Prisons too small, more construction workers. Then there are those vacant teacher and union positions that will need to be refilled.............Good grief, the list goes on and on. BUT, it does create jobs doesn’t it?
Maybe the new law isn’t as bad as we think? (SARC!)
“Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011”.
Typical.
Everything the Feds do is the opposite of what a bill is titled. “Grounds improvement” makes it sound like they’re talking about mowing the grass or pruning trees.
The reality is they just threw the 1st Amendment into the chipper. You know; that pesky amendment which includes the phrase “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”.
It's going to take a civil war to undo the mess the two political parties have left this country in.
Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) have launched a bi-partisan investigation into “taxpayer-funded spin” by the Obama Administration. A March 01, 2012 Fox News article references a 2010 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report which explores the nature and lawfulness of undercover activities by the Obama Administration, and includes these revelations:
“The Obama Administration frequently used federal resources to promote the President’s agenda.”
“…using the resources of the federal government to activate a sophisticated propaganda and lobbying campaign is an abuse of office and a betrayal of the President’s pledge to create “an unprecedented level of openness in Government.”
“Many of the Obama Administration’s propaganda activities are unlawful because they are covert. Furthermore, several programs closely resemble those decried by Democrats and ruled unlawful by GAO during the Bush Administration.”
Certainly, the President can, and may assert in a signing statement that accompanies H.R. 347, that he will not abuse this newly acquired authority, just as he did in his NDAA signing statement in regard to the “indefinite detention” of U.S. citizens. That would likely satisfy many trusting individuals, but it begs the following questions:
If we entrust our current President with extraordinary and extra-constitutional powers, would we trust those same powers in the hands of his successor?
Should the President have these powers in the first place, regardless of his intent to use them?
Perhaps we would be better served by listening to the wisdoms of our Founding Fathers instead of being so trusting of our leaders. The blind trust in men has led to the eventual downfall of every great nation in world history.
The author of the Declaration of Independence said the following:
“In matters of power, let no more be heard of the confidence in man, but bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution.”
- Thomas Jefferson
the elders and America are THE last hope this world has
lets not blow it
the elders and America are THE last hope this world has
lets not blow it
“Hundreds if not thousands of teachers and other union thugs arrested...”
Why would they be arrested? Aren’t they are part of Obummer’s “protected donors” class? Just curious.
I think it’s already “blown”. We’re well on the way down the slope.
Sounds like we’re back to the John Adams period with his Sedition Act. But like the Volstead Act of 1919, no jury will convict so unless the government sends people directly to Gitmo or somesuch, there will be no damage done here. But still, this is a disgrace - and from a repub congress no less. Something is not kosher.
I don’t think we can lay this one on Barry. This was a House bill and the House of Repesentatves is controlled by the GOP. So we can all thank our freedom loving GOP reps for this newest restriction on freedom.
No, we have idiots who would convict.
They are the ones who were surprised that it was okay to protest Obama prior to this.
We have lots of juries these days who would convict, because they know nothing about this country and how it works.
I just e-mailed my Congressperson asking why he would do such a thing.
No doubt about the idiots but all it takes is 1 right thinker. Not that I’d like to take the chance in finding that person. This is really sad, isn’t it?
Extremely sad, actually.
Worse still that people as a wole do not know how this country works.
They never learned in school about our nation, and that creates what we’re looking at, a nation of muddle headed morons who would go, “Yeah, that sounds logical. Guilty!” over this.
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