Pickets ousted -- who gave order?

Sacramento Bee ^ | June 29, 2002 | Denny Walsh

[Cultural Jihad]

Judge denies demanding the protesters' removal in the latest controversy in a medical marijuana case.

Questions have been raised about whether federal and local police violated the constitutional rights of protesters near the Sacramento federal courthouse by forcing them to disperse.

[steve50]

Keystone Kops trying to cover each others backside. They'll never get to the bottom of who said what to whom, just go away, shut up and let them hang the poor damned guy. When are we going to realize these drug warriors are just plain full of it.

[gcruse]

Relax. It was just Ashcroft trying to help out. Liberty was misfiled at Justice during the Clinton administration and no one knows where it is, yet.

[Illbay]

PLEASE show pictures! One look at this "activists" will tell anyone with half-a-brain just who they are. They typically look like people whose bus got lost on the way back from a Grateful Dead concert, and they've spent the last thirty years wandering in the desert, without a bath and without a change of clothes!

They're absolutlely hillarious!

The dodo-birds on this site who want you to think that the "anti-drug-warriors" are "just like you and me" have the work cut out for them.

[gcruse]

The dodo-birds on this site who want you to think that the "anti-drug-warriors"
are "just like you and me" have the work cut out
for them.

Not as long as the Constitution has
an equal protection clause, we don't.

[Illbay]

You apparently didn't read me right. I said nothing about "equal protection under the law." I'm talking about the far more important "PR war." If you are trying to get Mr. and Mrs. Average Joe to believe that those against the drug war are "just folks," you're going to have a hard time doing it.

That's why I mention posting the photos of these rallies. They typically look like a freak-show must have just laid off most of their staff.

[gcruse]

They typically look like a freak-show must have just laid off most of
their staff.

Okay.  I'll play.  So what?

[Illbay]

That you say "so, what?" tells us in such few words, exactly why your "movement" will never get anywhere.

Thank you, SO MUCH, for your myopia! It's going to save a lot of lives!

[gcruse]

That you say "so, what?" tells us in such few words,
exactly why your "movement" will never get anywhere.

  Because I refuse to deny someone their rights for
  the way they look?  Woe is I.

Thank you, SO MUCH, for your myopia! It's going to save a lot of lives!

  I don't suppose the federal government tossing aside
  a law passed by the people of California in their zeal
  to stop the abuse of a garden vegetable flashes any
  warning signs to a 'conservative,' but it should.

[steve50]

He just can't wait till they get to burn witches again. I heard one turned him into a newt once.

[philman_36]

The officer was joined by five federal police officers. One of them videotaped the demonstrators and another one -- at the direction of the judge, he said -- read a statute that he said prohibited the demonstration.
Snip...The prosecutors had earlier supplied the judge with surveillance photographs of the demonstrators taken by federal officers on foot or in cars circling the block.

PLEASE show pictures!
Yeah! Go ahead CJ...show the pictures. "Bill in Pig Latin" believes, for some unknown reason, (snicker) that you have them.
In order for you to have them you must be...
Never mind.

Nice move Bill.

[UnBlinkingEye]

Timberlake said a court security officer showed Damrell the medical marijuana pamphlet being passed out by demonstrators and the judge said they could not disseminate it.

What was that First Amendment about?

[Cultural Jihad]

Time to clean the bong, dude. Come back when you are lucid and can offer something intelligent to say.

[philman_36]

What?

[NittanyLion]

Come back when you are lucid and can offer something intelligent to say.

Your statement is a bit redundant, isn't it? When one chooses to chide another's "lucidity", shouldn't one be certain of eliminating their own grammatical errors?

[Registered]

My bong's been clean since the early 80's and I understood what he was saying ;-)

[Moby Grape]

"They typically look like a freak show just laid off its' staff"....How dare you describe a majority of the Libertarian Party voter base in such a manner!!!!

[Moby Grape]

And you REALLY believe that these dipsticks are interested in the CONSTITUTION?...These idiots would use the Constitution for ROLLING papers....Did these fine citizens have permits to be doing what they were doing?...What laws were they breaking while encouraging legalization?

[philman_36]

... I understood what he was saying
Well, to be technical, I didn't exactly "say" anything in particular. {;^)
Now "inferring" is another thing all together. I can "imply" as good as I get.

[Interesting Times]

And you REALLY believe that these dipsticks are interested in the CONSTITUTION?...

What does that have to do with their rights as citizens?

"Ah, sorry sir... we have assessed you as lacking in proper Constitutional fervor. You are therefore denied free speech, among various other things. What's that? Never you mind -- we know it when we see it."