“We had somebody that was offended by the gestures you were making,” the officer told the preacher, “And that’s our job is to make sure that doesn’t happen,”
Cop needs to go back to cop school.
Also, it needs to be shown where in the law or the bill of rights people have a right to NOT be offended.
Full title: Preacher Hit With “Disorderly Conduct” Citation Near College Campus - It’s the Reason Officer Gives That Has the Video Going Viral (UPDATED)
Freedom of speech = You are free to say what we allow
My “But American” views have taken a real beating over the past seven years. Why would anyone want to support this?
If not even on campus, the college and university is doubly liable, in excess of the deprivation of rights under color of law issue.
Where was this? Watched the YouTube video but not Beck’s site.
Wonder if this town has such a law or if the cops just are writing him up because they think it is unlawful?
The two morons are only convincing people not to consider Jesus btw.
Is this a campus cop enforcing some campus rule near the campus?
It should be noted that the department voided the charge. Sounds like a rookie cop or at the very least, a poorly educated cop succumbing to situation pressure.
As an aside, this would be an excellent time for the ACLU to step up and show that they are truly for every citizen's civil liberties. But I won't hold my breath here.
Maybe some organization like the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) could file a whopping lawsuit against the university for violating his civil rights.
Instead of asking for money, a settlement should require the university to make a statement denouncing “offensensitivity” and political correctness, and respecting the rights of the religious faithful to practice their faith free of academic, administrative, faculty or student harassment.
It should be widely published, and reiterated to students that they have DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT to *not* be offended by the free speech of others, and that efforts to shut down the free speech of others will be seriously punished. This includes any effort to disrupt a faculty or guest lecture or speech invited to be given on campus.
If that ticket does not get thrown out by the judge then all is lost.....for every American citizen.
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
The answer is to file a FORMAL Complaint of FELONY EXTORTION against the thug.:
Extortion statutes
Virtually all extortion statutes require that a threat must be made to the person or property of the victim. Threats to harm the victim’s friends or relatives may also be included. It is not necessary for a threat to involve physical injury. It may be sufficient to threaten to accuse another person of a crime or to expose a secret that would result in public embarrassment or ridicule. The threat does not have to relate to an unlawful act.
- See more at: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/extortion.html#sthash.YxzX9H8M.dpuf
The First Amendment isn’t there to protect fluffy speech, it is there to protect speech that some may find offensive. . .especially political speech. If someone is offended and that person has the power to silence free speech, then we no longer have a First Amendment because anybody can object to anything anyone says.
The citation is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
This campus Dudley D-Right has a bad case of Mission Creep.
What kind of a brain dead campus cop would even think of doing such a thing?
He should have given the complaining student(s) the citation.
It is dangerous to have thin skinned college idiots wandering around freely without mature adult supervision.
They all (cops and students) need a remedial course in understanding the Bill Of Rights.
Remember when “1984” by George Orwell seemed like far out fiction?
What seemed impossible 25 years ago 30 years ago has now come to pass.
Pause the video at the 1 minute mark. There is a female coppette with male pattern baldness.
Time to argue that stuff is in a courtroom (and get the law overturned.) Arguing with the drones is just a method of their finding a new law for you to break.
He was absent the day they taught First Amendment rights.
If offending people was against the law, I’d be serving multiple life sentences and giggling all the while.