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Free speech or harassment in a ladies’ restroom?
American Thinker.com ^ | October 7, 2021 | M.E. Boyd

Posted on 10/07/2021 3:43:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

A female activist (along with a college, who is filming) approaches a female United States Senator teaching a class at a public university in Arizona and follows her into the ladies’ restroom to lecture the Senator about federal legislation the Senator will be voting on. Is this an issue of “free speech” on public policy protected under the 1st Amendment or is this a case of improper harassment and filming, contravening Arizona criminal statutes?

In an article entitled The Puzzling Oversight Hearings Regarding the Withdrawal From Afghanistan, I posited that, “By design, 1,000 puzzle pieces of our national puzzle are now being thrown out to the public in the form of one disaster after another in order to encourage citizens to throw up their hands and give up on determining causality and accountability.”

The ladies’ restroom incident is one of those 1,000 pieces being thrown out there. It is worth examining closely.

For such a prized political right, the 1st Amendment’s “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech” is difficult for many Americans to understand. Commentators struggle too.

The Supreme Court has endless rulings about this phrase in the Constitution and jealously guards the right to free political speech. If speech on public policy is curtailed, the reason for its restriction must be compelling. Does this protection extend to public policy speech in the ladies’ restroom at Arizona State University?

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: constitutionalyyes; plainandsimple; stupid
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1 posted on 10/07/2021 3:43:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
A female activist (along with a college, who is filming)...

They save money by not hiring editors.

2 posted on 10/07/2021 3:45:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: Kaslin
If anyone tried this with protected elites like Nancy Pelosi, they'd be eating jail food for a long time to come.

The two-tier 'justice' system in full effect.

3 posted on 10/07/2021 3:49:00 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Kaslin

It’s neither free speech nor harassment. It’s criminal activity — a felony, IIRC, especially if a camera is involved.


4 posted on 10/07/2021 3:52:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Kaslin

Free speech has been bastardized.......


5 posted on 10/07/2021 3:52:46 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: Kaslin
I cannot wait for the time when someone being harassed by these jerks fills some of them up with holes. What bothers me is we have an AG who is worried about individuals vocalizing their beliefs before school boards that are destroying the education system with CRT and cancel culture nonsense. I've been saying the country is lost already but I still cling to hope it can turn around. Alas that will not happen on our current path.
6 posted on 10/07/2021 3:53:35 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Kaslin

Sinema is Deep State.

Still think she was in on it.


7 posted on 10/07/2021 3:54:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ClearCase_guy
They save money by not hiring editors.

Correct. There isn't enough money in most Internet publications for dedicated editors who carefully overlook the publication of each article.

The sheer volume of articles and the low profit margins do not allow it.

8 posted on 10/07/2021 3:54:33 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: mewzilla

I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t there. Was you?


9 posted on 10/07/2021 3:58:50 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin

I assume Garland’s FBLie is all over this intimidation of a public official, right? Right?


10 posted on 10/07/2021 4:00:46 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: Kaslin

Free speech is vital.
Social norms, sanity, decorum are all necessary in c civilized society

To film people inside a women’s washroom is creepy, weird and perverted. That speaks volumnes about communists with zero morals.

Reminds me of Manager meeting early in my career.
Many issues were discussed and I my frustration level increased by the minute.

One issue. Union stewards demanding frequent cleaning of Union washrooms, as they were never clean and horrible.
Second issue. Doctors prescribing light duties to a large number on Union members.

Sarcastically, I proferred we assign a light duty employee to sit in the washroom to write a report every time someone left a mess.
Rightfully, the Plant Manager shot me a face, and the idea died.


11 posted on 10/07/2021 4:01:33 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Kaslin

I see it as nothing more than stalking and a criminal act.


12 posted on 10/07/2021 4:05:19 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: marktwain

American Thinker apparently does have an editor, though. Silvio Canto, Jr., in an article posted on FR this morning under the headline “My mother the terrorist”, writes, “Like many of you, I love the fact that there is an editor who reads my drafts.”

Of course, you specified “dedicated editors who carefully overlook the publication of each article”, which may not apply to the editor(s) at AT.


13 posted on 10/07/2021 4:13:18 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Dusty Road

Brilliant idea, otoh been there done that, learned a long time ago, management asks for the truth/ Ideas.... because they want someone to blame/ ride, and 99% of the time open your mouth you become their scapegoat/ cannon fodder
Management wasnt going to rock the boat with the union for fear of losing their jobs.


14 posted on 10/07/2021 4:23:25 AM PDT by Ikeon (You are nothing more than a bounty to your neighbors. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

...”A female activist (along with a college,.....”

hmmmmmm....wonder which institution of higher education was there as well.... it probably made total sense to the half-wit who wrote this piece....


15 posted on 10/07/2021 4:40:10 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: ClearCase_guy

“save money by not hiring editors”

Spelchuk is free and doesn’t want a raise.


16 posted on 10/07/2021 5:57:11 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Kaslin

Well, at least she knows which bathroom to use. More than can be said for some of the freaks on the left these days.


17 posted on 10/07/2021 6:00:38 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: ClearCase_guy

Even American Thinker. It’s pathetic.

L


18 posted on 10/07/2021 6:01:41 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Of course, you specified “dedicated editors who carefully overlook the publication of each article”, which may not apply to the editor(s) at AT.

Yes, I have editors at AmmoLand as well. Punctuation, grammar, and obvious spell-checker mistakes don't appear to have a high priority.

The editors simply do not have time to carefully edit each article for such things. They mostly rely on automated systems to do so.

Having to be my own editor for most things has made me a much better writer.

Many, if not most, Internet editors are primarily concerned with ad placement, image displays, popular search terms and such. Those seem to have a priority over punctuation, grammar, spelling.

This is simple economics. There isn't enough profit margin for most Internet publications to pay for that sort of editing.

If there is, there often isn't the demand for it.

19 posted on 10/07/2021 6:03:24 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: Kaslin

The bigger problems here is that there were other ladies in the restroom.

What of their privacy and security?


20 posted on 10/07/2021 6:07:15 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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