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To: BenLurkin
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According to Operation Rescue, in February, 1998, both were charged with violating the "focused picketing" ordinance even though neither had signs and both incidents lasted only a minute each.

They violated a focused picketing ordinance, but they did not carry signs, they simply spoke to the abortionist, which I consider okay under the First Amendment...

There is no mention of a restraining order -- at least by Operation Rescue...

Maybe this should earn National Attention -- as the March for Life is a few weeks away...

9 posted on 01/04/2008 4:49:12 PM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: topher; generalissimoduane

I’m no professor of Constitutional law but doesn’t an ordinance which creates a prior restraint on speech violate the First Amendment?


13 posted on 01/04/2008 5:00:51 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: topher

what other spaces/towns etc only allow “focused picketing”’?

So much for making laws “content neutral” on a public sidewalk no less!

Why can’t Brittany et al just go to court and get “focused picketing” and harrassment laws passed against those creeps with cameras that won’t leave them ?


55 posted on 01/13/2008 12:02:54 PM PST by victim soul
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