Posted on 08/28/2009 5:28:07 PM PDT by blueyon
Lots of outrageously outraged e-mails flowing in about this, although it’s interesting to me mainly as a First Amendment curio. The footage comes from Jim Moran’s health-care town hall on Tuesday night. The question: Can a congressman bar signs, or certain types of signs, from an event at which he’s speaking? The answer (and the ambiguity) turns, I assume, on whether the event is “public” or “private.” It’s a public school and Moran is very much a public official, but recall that Claire McCaskill evidently got away with imposing a “no signs” policy at her own town hall where the incident with the Rosa Parks poster happened. That makes me think either there’s some sort of public/private wrinkle to these meetings that we’re missing or that banning signs is valid as a “time, place, or manner” restriction on certain forms of speech. But if that’s so, why does the guard here seem to distinguish between signs with images on them and signs that are text-only? Help me, constitutional scholars and law-school grads, you’re my only hope!
Time to email the local police chief and demand an answer.
https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/contact/MailForm.aspx?agId=2065
Dayum! That video ought to REALLY GO VIRAL NATIONWIDE AND WORLDWIDE.
I’m sorry, I’m a little slow today ;-)
FOLKS< SEE THE VIDEO HERE!!
working on it, facebooked, lots of folks sending to Drudge, Beck etc. Please keep sending to EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!! And keep sending to Drudge!!! If we all work together we can get this out there!
If this was done at a public school; etc, the taxpayers pay for those and should be entitled to bring their signs.
Guy: This is America
Cop: It ain’t no more Okay
Unbelievable. That’s one cop the needs to be off the streets.
They took down their website?
So, one more LEO now id’d as a member of the Obambi thugocracy, no doubt hoping to advance to JBT status.
no, it is still up as far as I can see.
Awesome - keep this one going...
need to get this on becks show before its pulled
Gen-u-ine Legal Translation (really):
Protestor: “This is [the] America [of the original Constitution].”
Cop: “It ain’t no more [since 14th Amendment administrative jurisdictional limitation of privileges to your corporate person are now being presumed against you by my corporate police powers]. Okay?”
Wesley Cheeks is out of control. Contrary to his belief, we are not living in czarist Amerika. That thought is way over his head.
The black “cop” is a RACIST and chose to support obozo over the Constitution. This is wahr!!!!
So, was the cop justified, by law, to do what he did, or not?
I would like to know for future events.
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