Posted on 09/02/2010 7:55:00 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
VIDEO at link is "LaRouche supporter assaulted by Alaska State Fair Security"
This first day of the 2010 Alaska State Fair starts with sunny skies and a brutal assault by security personnel on a LaRouche supporter.
At about 5pm Alaska Time, Thursday, August 26, 2010, security personnel approach Sidney Hill, a lone man peacefully displaying an impeach Obama sign near Pioneer Plaza on the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer. Minutes later, a crowd assembles, additional security forces arrive, and they physically assault the man holding the sign. He’s taken to the ground with force and detained.
An unidentified Alaska State Trooper arrives to physically disperse the crowd, and at several points during the conflict, crowd members yell in support of the demonstrator’s right to speak his message. The demonstrator’s personal firearm is confiscated by fair security, and he is held captive until Palmer police arrive to escort the man away in cuffs.
Sidney Hill was in jail awaiting a pre-trial at 1:00 pm on August 27, 2010 at the Palmer Courthouse. He has been charged with Assault 4-Cause Fear Of Injury, Disorderly Conduct-Challenge To Fight, and Criminal Trespass 2- Upon Premises. However, according to the Valley Frontiersman newspaper, “Assistant District Attorney Trina Sears said her office decided not to prosecute Hill on the assault charge.”
Different law comes into play. That would then be a trespass if you asked him to leave and he didn’t. If he’s carrying something you personally object to, you can ask him to leave. Or you can ask him to leave whether he’s carrying anything or not. But private property that’s open to the public is a completely different matter and the SCOTUS has ruled on that, too. People can indeed exercise their 1A rights on private property open to the public (shopping malls being the most common example).
The SCOTUS has also ruled a bazillion times that political speech is protected, although limitations may apply when the speech has been paid for as a function of a campaign (Campaign Finance Reform vestigial regulations). “Impeach Obama” and an unpaid for boost for Larouche would be completely protected under the 1A on private property open to the public.
Private property open to the public is treated much differently under the law than your own private residential property.
Think shopping malls.
“Funny how no liberal was ever arrested for holding a “Bush is a Nazi” sign..”
I remember when people along Bush parade routes were told they had to move to designated “free speech zones” if they were wearing protest shirts or holding protest signs. It caused quite a lot of controversy, with one member of Congress saying that in his opinion, all of America was a “free speech zone.” As I understand it, the directive did not come from Bush or his people, but from the Selective Service who felt these people might be a security risk. It’s a crazy country we live in these days. The imperial presidency, eh?
“The Imperial presidency” indeed.....replete with gold spray-painted Greek columns.
“OMG! I haven’t heard/read that term “the fuzz” since the 1960’s. WOW!”
Think about it: They are the Establishment; they are “the Man;” they are the pigs.
We are the Flower Children.
They alleged THEY were fighting “Establishment authority”, but WE are fighting IDIOTS.
You have a good point. Thanks for your comment.
Well it is a LaRouche supporter...
I have very little sympathy for them...
No wait...There went the last of it...
I qactually like to rattle these people...It would give me all the excuse in the world if they reacted in a negative and threatening way...
As you can see, I do not like these idiots...
We actually have a very brave one, or a stupid one that likes to setup their booth outside the local gunshows here in Houston...
Wonder if he realizes how precarious his situation is, or not...
Yep, I just don’t like them...
quite true actually.
Americans for the most part today are cowards, they have been shutting up too long due to either ignorance or PC.
PC has been used to shut us up and many fell for it.
The left plays the word game like saying gay, public option, immigration reform etc and many play their game
To hell with that, they’re homosexuals, it is Govt take over and it is amnesty.
How many of us have heard others say I don’t vote or I only vote for president .
Ever tried to explain to a stranger in the waiting room at the Docs etc about what is going on only for them to say I never knew that why was it not on the news last night or who is ACORN.
Most in the country do not know about the Govt going after AZ, the sheriff, the college there, state dept saying civil right violations by AZ.
Most have no clue who Soros is.
Have no clue who move on is .
How the Dems steal elections and let the dead vote, vote often etc.
Black panthers case.
Bomber of the USS Cole not charged yet.
How the Gitmo terrorists are playing playstation and getting great free health care, dental care etc.
How the Justice dept takes off the flag to be more of a world order crap.
Homosexuals getting their agenda in the schools and talk to little kids about it the sick f$$$$
illegals being set free.
Govt take over of their heath care
How the president lies and says he is a Christian but always appeals and appeases muslims.
The list is endless and the point is most people are just plain lazy and ignorant.
Course that is how the elitist lefty likes it.
If this country had everyone switch on , smart etc then the Dems would never get into power.
I will be honest though, the GOP are a bunch of cowards as is most talk show hosts on TV and radio.
The likes of Hannity will not talk about social issues, like Abortion, the homosexuals agenda etc.
long rant sorry
I really don’t care if somebody wants to follow a nutty felon but... When I read a news story that says they got in a scuffle with security or law enforcement, my bias is in favor of anyone but the Larouche nutbag.
I’ll have to see some definitive proof that the Larouche nutbag didn’t bring this on himself before I’ll badmouth the LEO or security people.
I live in Lyndon Larouche’s hometown.
What is the source for your information?
“As I grow older, I seem to shake my head a lot more at where this country is headed.”
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I shake mine less, more than forty years ago I was trying to warn people and nobody took the threat seriously. Now I am just watching the fulfillment of what I saw coming long ago.
I am LESS AND LESS amazed with every passing day. If the nation should manage to turn around and restore some semblance of freedom I WILL be amazed again. No more than three of four years ago I was roasted on FR for daring to say that America is no longer a free country. Such a short time later and that seems to be an accepted fact now.
A theater is a more appropriate example.
Nothing gives you the right to enter a theater and disrupt the show for paying customers, violating the terms of entrance.
I am dismayed, thus my action. You are correct in it has been changed over the last few decades, I agree. In the last few years it has picked up momentum. Come November I hope ‘we the people’ can stop its advance at decimating America.
I looked up several state fairs on wikipedia.
Just in case you don’t know, the Larouche people are not in it for the free speech aspect. They are in for the money. They will support any position no matter how silly, (example: A few years back they were holding signs in downtown DC accusing the Queen of England of being a drug smuggler). Once they have your interest, they present you with a magazine that is nothing but a way to get money out of your pocket.
I believe Larouche was found guilty of credit card fraud some years back. Think of the Larouche bunch as the Westwood Babtist Church.
I’ve seen the IMPEACH OBAMA set up a few times in my area.
A month or so ago, in a neighboring town (suburban Bergen County NJ) and just a week ago, in my own town of Allendale,
an upscale town with a pretty and well kept business district. I was surprised to see the IMPEACH OBAMA sign
(featuring a pic of Obama with a Hitler moustache) and the table set up, and this time I was determined to see what the material on the table was and who was sponsoring this.
I got as far as seeing the words Lyndon LaRouche and saw that these were people I couldn’t engage in a conversation.
I turned around and walked away, noticing a local woman taking a picture with her cellphone.
Surprisingly, the LaRouche table was setup right in front of the POST OFFICE!
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