Posted on 08/28/2009 11:41:33 AM PDT by blueyon
"During the Jim Moran Townhall, protesters were outside gathering to go in. A citizen reporter was being harassed by a local Police officer about his Obamacare sign. "
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I really wish youtube wasn’t firewalled around here.
I didn’t understand one thing you said.
“It ain’t [America] no more, OK?” (video)
PING!
https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/contact/MailForm.aspx?agId=100742
Remember this video from Baton Rouge: another officer interpreting the constitution and making up his own laws:
http://soitgoesinshreveport.blogspot.com/2009/07/acorn-at-obamacare-protest-in-baton.html
My wife today was lamenting the things that are happening and wondering why lightning doesn’t strike some of the cretins at the head of our government and turn them into cinders.
The only thing I could think of to tell her was that all this decay and corruption has been prophesied for “The Last Days” and it must come to pass.....including the crumbling and destruction of the good old U. S. of A. The only way we are going to get the NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH that have been promised is for this current corrupt Babylonian System, which has come down to us from the Tower of Babel, to be destroyed:
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.
There are some Bible Scholars who I trust and respect, who say that there will be one more “Great Awakening unto God”, similar to the ones which occurred just prior to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the Great Welsh Revival which spread around the world. What is confusing is that OTHER good scholars say that everything is going to go over the proverbial cliff and the end will come suddenly, Period! Finis! So the only way to be safe is to be sure you know the Lord, stay “prayed-up” and listen for the trumpet.
Please forgive this long-winded reply. But it’s a VERY serious subject. Thanks.
Trust me when I write the Fairfax County cops probably condone this. They are now gaining power over their bosses (us) and will, via the politicians be able to run roughshod over everyone.
I know one Fairfax cop who, when off duty, would try to get into an argument with me. He would only do it while in uniform and would tap his right hand on his holster/weapon while trying to goad me. I would just walk away.
A neighbor saw it once and turned him in. The reply was that his act was not intimidating and his actions were fine by Fairfax Police standards. Some standards.
Officer Does Not Like anti-Obama Poster: "It ain't [America] no more, OK?" (video)
Check out the video, link at #2.
Something about the SCOTUS saying that the 1st amendment rights don’t apply to school board property.
This needs to be reported to this man.
http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/faq.aspx?id=12807
Does the First Amendment apply to public schools?
Yes. The First Amendment applies to all levels of government, including public schools. Although the courts have permitted school officials to limit the rights of students under some circumstances, the courts have also recognized that students — like all citizens — are guaranteed the rights protected by the First Amendment.
Earlier in our history, however, the First Amendment did not apply to the states — and thus not to public schools. When adopted in 1791, the First Amendment applied only to Congress and the federal government (”Congress shall make no law . . .”). This meant that when public schools were founded in the mid-19th century, students could not make First Amendment claims against the actions of school officials.
The restrictions on student speech lasted into the 20th century. In 1908, for example, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that school officials could suspend two students for writing a poem ridiculing their teachers that was published in a local newspaper.1 The Wisconsin court reasoned, “such power is essential to the preservation of order, decency, decorum, and good government in the public schools.” And in 1915, the California Court of Appeals ruled that school officials could suspend a student for criticizing and “slamming” school officials in a student assembly speech.2
In fact, despite the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1868, which provides that “no state shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law . . . “, it was not until 1925, by way of the Supreme Court case of Gitlow v. New York, that the Supreme Court held that the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment is one of the “liberties” incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
In subsequent cases, the Court has applied all of the freedoms of the First Amendment to the states — and thus to public schools — through the 14th Amendment. But not until 1943, in the flag-salute case of West Virginia v. Barnette,3 did the U.S. Supreme Court explicitly extend First Amendment protection to students attending public schools.
The Barnette case began when several students who were Jehovah’s Witnesses refused to salute the flag for religious reasons. School officials punished the students and their parents. The students then sued, claiming a violation of their First Amendment rights.
At the time that the students sued, Supreme Court precedent painted a bleak picture for their chances. Just a few years earlier, the Court had ruled in favor of a similar compulsory flag-salute law in Minersville School District v. Gobitis.4 As the Court stated in that ruling, “national unity is the basis of national security.”
However, the high court reversed itself in Barnette, holding that the free speech and free exercise of religion provisions of the First Amendment guarantee the right of students to be excused from the flag salute on grounds of conscience.
Writing for the majority, Justice Robert Jackson said that the Supreme Court must ensure “scrupulous protection of constitutional freedoms of the individual, if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and teach youth to discount important principles of our government as mere platitudes.”5 The Court then warned of the dangers of coercion by government in oft-cited, eloquent language:
If there is any fixed star in our Constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.6
The police department can be shamed into doing something, by making sure this video get out.
I’ve just emailed it to about 30 of my friends along with the Baton Rouge video
If you put the socialist sign he can charge you with whatever he wants?? Racist! This needs to go to FOX and Rush.
Pray for America
veromi.com has a Wesley Cheeks in Alexandria and Spotsylvania. I wonder if he was off-duty working security for the school.
mookbark
If he was not an on duty cop or out of his jurisdiction, perhaps he should be charged with impersonating a police officer. He clearly implied that he had the power to arrest and charge the man, for “anything he wanted”.
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