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it's not about reading your bible in front of the dmv.. it's about loitering and creating a ruckus where people are trying to buy tags for their car on their lunch break...
take your bible reading somewhere else more practical...
outside the dmv here in boise it has signs that say NO SKATEBOARDING and NO LOITERING..
if you're not there to take care of something.. you need to go
Then how come those Black Panther guys weren't arrested for "loitering" when they stood outside the voting place dressed in commando gear and banishing sticks ?
A church in Riverside County, California, is suing the state’s highway patrol after some of its members were arrested during a public Bible reading incident at the entrance to a local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office.
As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, “Attorneys for Hemet Calvary Chapel say the church’s First Amendments rights were violated by the arrests on Feb. 2 that were captured on video and posted on YouTube.”
Man Arrested for Reading Bible in Public (http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/969-faith-and-morals/7317-man-arrested-for-reading-bible-in-public - broken link)
Does this mean I can go into a Public library and start singing verses from Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club?
He seems to be annoying people. I hear laughing. Kind of a dick move to corner people into a preachfest while waiting at the DMV, a place which no one wants to be at in the first place.
They should have carried clubs like those balkck muslims at the polling place. The justice dept has already clear acting like that.
So public street are now free speech free zones because the obnoxious DMV employees just can't work as fast at 11:30 as they do at 4:45?
The cop has no legal authority to arrest a street preacher.
He was not on a public street. He was in a parking lot about 400 feet from the nearest street... but claims "he drives by every day" & sees the line up.
I find it amazing that righties want to ban people from carrying clubs, but have no problem with people carrying guns.
Because with a gun, the law says you have to conceal it when you are walking around with one. Seeing a weapon in one's hands plus conveniently in front of a polling station when those people are not in a cop uniform is highly suspect. It's called intimidation. I would achieve the same effect if I stood in front of a polling station in a black neighborhood while holding a noose in my hands
"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."
Nope. Not seeing the "annoying" part either.
Could you show me the bit about not yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater?
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