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To: discostu
Seperating sides during protests is fairly common. Every seen KKK marches, they tend to have counter protests, those counter protests are shoved to the other side of the street at least. Why? Because: crowd control is LEGAL, and putting people with a certain type of sign in a certain area with people that have similar signs IS crowd control.

The last court to take a real crack at KKK protests - involving a Klan rally in Louisville - upheld an earlier practice/notion that crowds at such rallies could be split into two sides. In the Court's view, this was an acceptable time, place & manner restriction.

What doesn't happen at Klan rallies is that one group (but not the other) is made to give up its signs or is moved so far away as to not reach its intended audience -- both violations of the First Amendment.

That's not merely opinion. It's what courts have said.

217 posted on 05/14/2004 11:23:06 AM PDT by gdani (letting the marketplace decide = conservatism)
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To: gdani

got any court cases that say the other side can be moved only so far? Didn't think so. As you admitted it has been well established that side CAN be seperated, which is all this is doing. Thus you show how the courts agree with me.


222 posted on 05/14/2004 11:26:36 AM PDT by discostu (Brick urgently required, must be thick and well kept)
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