While I can certainly see your point, I'm not sure if the arrest would be a serious enough infraction to be placed on his record.
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Voters often don't pick up on the fine points of civil disobedience theory -- they just see that he broke the law and was arrested.
The average voter doesn't understand the way the law works, anyway. It's downright frightening the way most people immediately and mindlessly comply with every mandate spewed by government. (shudder)
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Personally, I'd vote for someone who had the gumption to take a stand against the nanny state before I would some limp-wristed politico who spends their time subverting the Constitution.........
but I guess I'm just ornery that way!
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You guys are looking at this as a point of principle and law.
I read the story and envisioned the plethora of high school games I've been to. All of my sons were players on highly successful teams in a state where more people go to high school football games than go to church.
The guy was wrong. It was not the time or the place. A high school football game is a place for school colors, silly chants, marching bands, awful concession food, and leaving the world's troubles at the gate.
What he did was a political faux pas, sort of like Ford crashing the Corker press conference in TN. It has nothing to do with free speech, but rather with respectable behavior.
There is a time and a place for everything. Forgetting that generally makes one look foolish and irritates the masses, arrest or no arrest.