Posted on 03/13/2016 12:49:36 PM PDT by usconservative
According to H.R. 347 (signed into law by Barack Hussein Obama in February, 2012) it is ILLEGAL under CURRENT FEDERAL to protest of any type, in an area under protection by the U.S. Secret Service.
Because Donald Trump is under Secret Service Protection (as is Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders) and has been since November of 2015, it is a FEDERAL CRIME to protest at campaign rallies, and is in fact, punishable by imprisonment.
Free Speech isn't covered at ANY Trump, Clinton, Sanders (or Cruz, Rubio, Kasich) rally because protests are considered to be "knowingly impeding or disrupting the orderly conduct of an official Federal function."
Until Donald Trump's Secret Service protection is revoked, Trump can legally kick protesters out of his rallies no matter what they do.
Link to H.R. 347 As Signed by President Barack Hussein Obama: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr347/text
Read it and weep, libs. Your "President" signed it. He did it to protect himself at his own rallies in 2012. Now it comes back to haunt the Democrats and they don't like it.
So PLEASE help it go viral!
ROFL! Well played.
Can Trump get a restraining order against eg MoveOn?
Laws do not apply to Leftists. DOJ/FBI have made that abundantly clear.
-post the link to your FB page .... I did
I just sent it to Trump
Even more useful would be a demand to prosecute on conspiracy to violate this law. Hello Twitter.
PERFECT!
"Judge, why aren't any of the BLM protesters who were arrested in Chicago, St. Louis and Ohio being prosecuted and isn't this an unequal application of the law?"
Can't wait to see the answer to that question!
A University is not private property. What are you talking about?!
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Private or public is irrelevant if the grounds are where persons protected by the SS will be visiting.
Note: misdemeanor if no dangerous or deadly weapon or firearm involved or significant bodily injury occurs
While they cleaned up the Facebook site they used to plan it and removed all the incindiary posts before and after the "protest" Facebook DOES have archival functionality and a subpoena for those posts could easily be served with demand for the posts and identity of those posters.
Just sayin'.....
Should I hold my breath until Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, Sanders, and hillary demand that the protestors be charged?
Corrected.
This is gonna get interesting...
Hitlery and the Commie Sanders only agree with free speech as long as it agrees with them (but you already knew that.)
Really? Then why did that crap stain get charged with misdemeanors and released on $300 bail yesterday?
You raise an excellent point: there ought to be a well orchestrated, PUBLIC PHONE CAMPAIGN to the relevant Police Department to ARREST and properly CHARGE that douchebag.
Sucks to cite a bill - here we go - with the annotations.
18 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2011 Edition
Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 84 - PRESIDENTIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL STAFF ASSASSINATION, KIDNAPPING, AND ASSAULT
Sec. 1752 - Restricted building or grounds
From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov
§1752. Restricted building or grounds
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or group of persons
(1) willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting;
(2) willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance;
(3) willfully, knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, to engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any building or grounds described in paragraph (1) or (2) when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;
(4) willfully and knowingly to obstruct or impede ingress or egress to or from any building, grounds, or area described in paragraph (1) or (2); or
(5) willfully and knowingly to engage in any act of physical violence against any person or property in any building, grounds, or area described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(b) Violation of this section, and attempts or conspiracies to commit such violations, shall be punishable by
(1) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, if
(A) the person, during and in relation to the offense, uses or carries a deadly or dangerous weapon or firearm; or
(B) the offense results in significant bodily injury as defined by section 2118(e)(3); and
(2) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in any other case.
(c) Violation of this section, and attempts or conspiracies to commit such violations, shall be prosecuted by the United States attorney in the Federal district court having jurisdiction of the place where the offense occurred.
(d) None of the laws of the United States or of the several States and the District of Columbia shall be superseded by this section.
(e) As used in this section, the term other person protected by the Secret Service means any person whom the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect under section 3056 of this title when such person has not declined such protection.
(Added Pub. L. 91644, title V, §18, Jan. 2, 1971, 84 Stat. 1891; amended Pub. L. 97308, §1, Oct. 14, 1982, 96 Stat. 1451; Pub. L. 98587, §3(b), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3112; Pub. L. 103322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 109177, title VI, §602(a), (b)(1), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 252.)
Amendments
2006Pub. L. 109177, §602(b)(1), substituted Restricted building or grounds for Temporary residences and offices of the President and others in section catchline.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 109177, §602(a)(1)(A), amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: willfully and knowingly to enter or remain in
(i) any building or grounds designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as temporary residences of the President or other person protected by the Secret Service or as temporary offices of the President and his staff or of any other person protected by the Secret Service, or
(ii) any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting,
in violation of the regulations governing ingress or egress thereto:
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 109177, §602(a)(1)(C), added par. (2). Former par. (2) redesignated (3).
Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 109177, §602(a)(1)(B), (D), redesignated par. (2) as (3), inserted willfully, knowingly, and before with intent to impede or disrupt, and substituted described in paragraph (1) or (2) for designated in paragraph (1). Former par. (3) redesignated (4).
Subsec. (a)(4), (5). Pub. L. 109177, §602(a)(1)(B), (E), (F), redesignated pars. (3) and (4) as (4) and (5), respectively, and substituted described in paragraph (1) or (2) for designated or enumerated in paragraph (1) in each par.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109177, §602(a)(2), amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: Violation of this section, and attempts or conspiracies to commit such violations, shall be punishable by a fine under this title or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both.
Subsecs. (d) to (f). Pub. L. 109177, §602(a)(3), redesignated subsecs. (e) and (f) as (d) and (e), respectively, and struck out former subsec. (d) which read as follows: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized
(1) to designate by regulations the buildings and grounds which constitute the temporary residences of the President or other person protected by the Secret Service and the temporary offices of the President and his staff or of any other person protected by the Secret Service, and
(2) to prescribe regulations governing ingress or egress to such buildings and grounds and to posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted areas where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting.
1994Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103322, which directed the amendment of this section by substituting under this title for not more than $500, was executed in subsec. (b) by substituting under this title for not exceeding $500 to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
1984Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 98587 amended subsec. (f) generally, substituting any person whom the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect under section 3056 of this title when such person has not declined such protection for any person authorized by section 3056 of this title or by Public Law 90331, as amended, to receive the protection of the United States Secret Service when such person has not declined such protection pursuant to section 3056 of this title or pursuant to Public Law 90331, as amended.
1982Pub. L. 97308, §1(a), substituted Temporary residences and offices of the President and others for Temporary residence of the President in section catchline.
Subsec. (a)(1)(i). Pub. L. 97308, §1(b), made one’s presence unlawful at designated temporary residences and temporary offices of any other person protected by the Secret Service.
Subsec. (a)(1)(ii). Pub. L. 97308, §1(c), inserted or other person protected by the Secret Service after President.
Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 97308, §1(d), authorized regulations for designation of the temporary residences and the temporary offices of any other person protected by the Secret Service.
Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 97308, §1(e), inserted or other person protected by the Secret Service after President.
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 97308, §1(f), added subsec. (f).
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of the functions, personnel, assets, and obligations of the United States Secret Service, including the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 381, 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
I posted this as a reply a day or so ago on this site. Glad you have it posted a main topic.
1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I never noticed what appears to be somewhat contradictory clauses in 1st Amendment before. More specifically, although Congress is prohibited from making laws abridging the freedom of speech, the people also have the right to peacefully assemble.
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