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Can the Secret Service Tell You To Shut Up?
Townhall.com ^ | March 15, 2012 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

Posted on 03/15/2012 11:57:06 AM PDT by America_Right

Last week, President Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. This law permits Secret Service agents to designate any place they wish as a place where free speech, association and petition of the government are prohibited. And it permits the Secret Service to make these determinations based on the content of speech.

Thus, federal agents whose work is to protect public officials and their friends may prohibit the speech and the gatherings of folks who disagree with those officials or permit the speech and the gatherings of those who would praise them, even though the First Amendment condemns content-based speech discrimination by the government. The new law also provides that anyone who gathers in a "restricted" area may be prosecuted. And because the statute does not require the government to prove intent, a person accidentally in a restricted area can be charged and prosecuted, as well.

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I took the main thrust of the article and posted it here. However, I strongly encourage you to go read the whole thing. Scary stuff. Even Republicans are wiping their butts with the Constitution!
1 posted on 03/15/2012 11:57:16 AM PDT by America_Right
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To: America_Right

They are not the “SS” for nothing.


2 posted on 03/15/2012 12:00:03 PM PDT by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: America_Right

So...the Contitutuon is the supreme law of all land OTHER than that designated by the Secret Service, right?

That seems logical.

What if the Secret Service fancies MY HOUSE? I could not then speak about things I wished in my own house, right?

THIS SOUNDS VERRRRY KENYAN.


3 posted on 03/15/2012 12:00:47 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: America_Right
If I ever get close enough I will proudly yell...

F U B O !!

4 posted on 03/15/2012 12:00:47 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: unixfox

Obama - just shredding one Bill of Rights at a time.

FUBO


5 posted on 03/15/2012 12:03:14 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: America_Right


6 posted on 03/15/2012 12:06:14 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas gerit ;-{)
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To: America_Right
The 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida might be a pretty boring affair if the Secret Service decides that the content of the speech is in anyway threatening to Obama's future job prespects.

"Shut up!", they explained.

7 posted on 03/15/2012 12:06:48 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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To: America_Right
As usual Mr Jefferson was correct:

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government..."

8 posted on 03/15/2012 12:06:56 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Brass, copper, lead. The new precious metals.)
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"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government..."

Not just a right, but a responsibility. I wonder what it is gonna take to get the ball rolling?

9 posted on 03/15/2012 12:08:42 PM PDT by America_Right (Getting off the Cain Train... Mr. Newt is the last hope this time around!)
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Obama signed into law the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act

Amazing...I watched over the past 20 years, government building/facilities become fortress like, complete with CCTV cameras, armed guards, bullet resistant glass, scanners, card locks, metal detector, dogs, searches, pat downs, automated vehicle barriers...Costing hundreds of billions in tax dollars.

Now government designated areas prohibiting free speech?

Was all this for terrorist?

Or something else?

10 posted on 03/15/2012 12:08:53 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: No Socialist

And who controls the house where this was passed???


11 posted on 03/15/2012 12:09:13 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: America_Right

The use of ‘secret service’ is just lpart of the smoke of this bill.

I won’t be the SS who arrests you. It will be some local cop or state trooper assigned to some event ‘of national importance’.

This law will keep you from raising your voice at a state convention or primary event. It will make it a felony to protest anywhere near a national convention or the white house.

Standing peacefully with a sign anywhere along the presidential motorcade’s route is now a felony.

Standing on the elipse, turning your backside to the white house and ‘mooning’ the south lawn is cause to send you to a FEMA camp.


12 posted on 03/15/2012 12:11:20 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: America_Right

Lets remember gang that Barry’s part is only a 1/3 of the equation. The GOP lead House and Dem lead Senate is the other 2/3s. So, it seems the GOP is lock step w/ the liberals on this one....just like the Patriot Act et al.


13 posted on 03/15/2012 12:11:41 PM PDT by 556x45
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I wonder what it is gonna take to get the ball rolling?

I'm guessing it will come with the economic crash, 5 to 10 years is my best guesstimate.

14 posted on 03/15/2012 12:16:29 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Brass, copper, lead. The new precious metals.)
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To: America_Right

” If peaceful public assembly and public expression of political demands on the government can be restricted to places where government officials cannot be confronted, then those rights, too, have been neutered.”

Now O has the tools necessary to run a “Putin style” election. All this with the willing assistance of the Republicans. Is there any doubt this is aimed directly at the Tea Party? No doubt in my mind.


15 posted on 03/15/2012 12:16:34 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: 556x45

You only have to obey this if you are a slave to the Federal Corporation called “The United States of America”...


16 posted on 03/15/2012 12:17:15 PM PDT by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: America_Right

He’s a bisexual Muslim who HATES America —a man from Kenya WOULD sign this type of law.

Who really thinks he was born here? I used to consider those people crazy, lo and behold it’s all the OTHERS who are the crazy ones, apparently.

UnAmericans laws signed by an UNamerican.


17 posted on 03/15/2012 12:18:41 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: maine yankee
Standing on the elipse, turning your backside to the white house and ‘mooning’ the south lawn is cause to send you to a FEMA camp.

How about if you do it from Lafayette Park instead? Point your south side to the WH's north side.
18 posted on 03/15/2012 12:20:48 PM PDT by crosshairs
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To: Drill Thrawl
I'm guessing it will come with the economic crash, 5 to 10 years is my best guesstimate.

Well, its gotta happen while Reid and Pelosi are still there, so they can be dragged out and well you know.
19 posted on 03/15/2012 12:22:17 PM PDT by crosshairs
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To: America_Right

Emperors New Clothes Act


20 posted on 03/15/2012 12:22:50 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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